Aerial Assault for the SEGA Master System is an average horizontal shooter by Sanritsu. The graphics and music is spot on while the gameplay offers limited excitement. You can pickup (+) upgrades for better weapons or (-) to downgrade them again, and these are harder to avoid than some enemies and sometimes you have no choice but to lose a few levels of firepower.

There's five levels and each of them has a few enemy varieties either flying at you, coming from behind you, or attacking you from the ground. The enemies and levels are varied and fun, and each stage end with a simple enough boss fight. If I had paid full price for this back in 1990 I would've been kinda sad for it to be over so fast, even if there's three difficulties to try you with.

Aerial Assault is a well made shooter with catchy tunes, tight action and controls that feel good and easy to grasp. You can beat it in 35 minutes but then go again on Hard, see where that takes ya'. I played this on the Master System but it also came out for the Game Gear. I'd say check it out if you come across it!