Chopper Hunt is a side-view shoot 'em up written by Tom Hudson and published by Imagic in 1984 for Atari 8-bit computers and Commodore 64.

[2] Chopper Hunt is an enhanced version of the Atari 8-bit game Buried Bucks released by ANALOG Software in 1982.

Programmer Tom Hudson documented the expanding explosion effect used in the game as an article in ANALOG Computing, including the assembly language source code.

"[7] Electronic Fun with Computers & Games also reviewed the original release, concluding, "This is a cute premise with no promise.

It goes too quickly from ridiculously easy to impossible, and along the way It completely fails to capture your attention or provide excitement for any prolonged gameplay".