I wrote this little helicopter game when I was bored during Eater holidays and just dug it out again... Writtin on Windows with nothing but a standard python.org package and tested on (and made compatible to) Linux.
in the game you fly a helicopter around rocks (hitting them follows in death) and the only control you have is moving the helicopter up. It's a side scroller. :banana:
http://zombiehq.xyzplanet.net/rockopter.tar.gz
my sister was fascinated by it and designed most of the levels despite the totally non intuitive interface of the level designer