johnnyz

OK, I know this this message thread is over 5 years old, but I found this doing an internet search and had to respond :-) I'm pretty certain that the game you're referring to it is indeed Chopper Command - and I do remember the commercial the way you described it, however, I remember that it was a radio ad and not a TV commercial. When the drill sergeant barges in on the kids he says something like " I'm the chopper commander and these are my chopper commandos <marching sound FX>. Put away that namby pamby space cartridge and plug THIS into your Atari home video computer system: CHOPPER COMMAND by ACTIVISION!! " I've been looking for years to find this commercial but without success. I'm guessing that it probably aired around the time that Activision released the game which was in June of 1982. At that time I was living in Southern California and listened mostly to a local radio station called KROQ (which played alternative/new wave music) so that is probably where I heard the commercial, I've been trying to find old archived KROQ broadcasts from that particular time to see if by chance the commercial is in there. Haven't found it yet but I recently heard an archived KROQ broadcast from July of 1982 and it did have an Atari commercial in it advertising Berzerk for the 2600, so maybe I'm getting close.