Reviews

This reminded me of the old arcade game Moon Alert and that's why I like this game. The old Activision games were really good and this one is up there among the best, nice little game.

by Software Conversions Ltd, Software Farm (Julian Chappell)
Greatly playable, but not at all addictive. You're at the bottom of a grid in perspective, and you can shoot along its segments, and you must destroy 15 white nasties, coming to get you, for each section, before shooting a bigger red spacecraft at the other side with a special missile, and of course it gets more and more complicated as you proceed, with indestructible red debris, and green "shurikens" or little stars, and whatever. Graphics reminding a bit a blocky Atari 2600 game. [For which was probably conceived the original version, I think]. No more than 3/5.

Activision's earlier games resembled 2600 games as if they were straight ports, and some of them were attrocious while a few of them had a certain amount of charm in them, this being one of them.

This was converted from the Atari 2600 and Activision didn't bother to upgrade the graphics. Still, who needs great graphics when you've got an enjoyable blaster like this?