Anyhoo, the game is great fun. It is a 1986 vert shooter in the vein of Astro Blaster with some Galaga thrown-in and some other crap. You fire from your ship at all kinds of strange things coming your way. You collect some of the stuff flying at you to power-up your weapon. Pretty traditional stuff. You actually have two buttons - one is the normal fire, the other is rapid fire. Use of the rapid fire diminishes your energy (there's a gauge on the bottom of the screen), and when you are out of energy, you can't use the rapid fire until it builds up again. Strangely, this is one of the first games I've ever looked up in KLOV that had an error in the control info on KLOV - it says that there is only one button.
The fun here is in the variety and craziness of the enemies. They all look good or funny or goofy and there are MANY different patterns/ways they come at you. Some of the enemies fly and I mean FLY right at you, and you only have a split second to react. The variety of the attacks and the cute graphics make this game a cut above the hordes that play like it.
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