Interesting as perhaps one of the first games Shigeru Miyamoto worked on, though it's unclear in what capacity. It is not bad, despite my rating, but after playing it for a few minutes, I didn't have any desire to continue. It's a twin stick shooter essentially with understandably antiquated feeling controls.

The motif of saving a woman, only to have to do it all over again, though certainly not a unique concept does reoccur in Donkey Kong, which makes you wonder if it was Miyamoto's idea.

Check out the Gameography episode on Miyamoto's early arcade games for more: https://gameographypod.com/podcast/season-1-episode-1-miyamotos-arcade-beginnings/

Reviewed on Jul 22, 2021


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