I remember this game as an excruciating exercise in repetition. I rented it with some friends on whatever Nintendo platform it was on when I was in high school. People say this game is "challenging" and "hard." Well they're right, but not in any good way. For what little of the game we went through, we discovered that it was absolutely unforgiving of any player error whatsoever, including errors such as "not hitting an alien with every shot, so your ammunition runs out and the surviving aliens kill you." Any failure to intuit exactly what the designers had in mind would kill you, or worse, trap you in "no outlet" zones of the game, and in either case, the only answer was to quit and start from the beginning. I still remember this as one of the worst experiences ever.
