Odd but effective home port of a classic arcade space shooter
Still, having the ability to play this awesome classic in your home with friends or relatives was incredible!
The control was very tight, and the conversion from the arcade unit's spin-knob and multiple buttons made a decent translation onto the 2600's meager single joystick and button - once you got used to it.
During this period in time, games didn't have an end, typically. Instead, your reward came in the form of being the points king for the respective game title, which was somewhat hard to follow considering you had to take a snapshot of your high score and send it in to some publication that cared enough to track and report this data. Points have long gone the way of the dinosaur [thankfully], but still it's fun sometimes to just fire up an oldie like this and hammer away at it, seeing if you can still muster the huge scores you remember. I've found that I'm better now at old-school games than I was when I was a kid. I guess nearly 30 years of extensive "eye-hand coordination" paid off for something. :)