Game of the Day - Gyruss

I usually try to choose games a little less popular as my games of the day.  (It'd be stupid to have my GOTD be Pac-Man and Donkey Kong all the time).  I know lots of you have played Gyruss, but recently I've talked to several guys who haven't, so...

KLOV describes Gyruss as Tempest meets Galaga and that couldn't be more accurate.  Gyruss is a great game from '83 that stays challenging today.  You command a ship that travels in a circle around the screen, firing shots inside the circle towards the middle of the screen - just like Tempest, but without the tubes to define the pathways.  Meanwhile, enemies materialize near the middle and take their positions inside the middle of the screen while you try to blast them.  They appear on the screen like Galaga and then fly in formation towards you (like Galaga and Tempest).  You move around the perimeter of the circle you are melded to, blasting everything.  There is even a way to get a double shot (like Galaga) and after every few stages there is a benign "Challenge Stage" (like Galaga).

If you haven't played it, and this doesn't exactly make sense, it will as soon as you begin.  Lots of action and lots of fun.  Play it.