Show HN: ParaGopher v1.3.0 – A retro Paratrooper (1982) clone written in Go
ystepanoff Sunday, February 08, 2026
Hey HN! I've been working on ParaGopher, a clone of the classic 1982 IBM PC game Paratrooper, built in Go with Ebitengine.
You control a turret defending your base against waves of helicopters dropping paratroopers. Tilt, shoot, and prevent them from landing — simple to pick up, surprisingly hard to master. Everything is rendered procedurally, so no image assets at all. Sprites (turret, helicopters, paratroopers, parachutes) are all generated with vector drawing at startup.
Pre-built binaries for macOS (Apple Silicon) and Windows are on the releases page. Otherwise it's just go run cmd/game.go.
Would love feedback (especially on gameplay feel and what features you'd want to see next).
Summary
ParaGopher is a concurrent web scraper that can extract data from multiple websites simultaneously, allowing for faster and more efficient data collection. The tool is designed to be scalable and can be easily integrated into various data processing pipelines.
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