Look: 8/10 Love the colors and particularly the background. It had an ahead-of-its-time-for-microcomputer Look, giving me the NES-era and beyond feel (as well as the contemporaneous arcade feel)

Technically the character and enemy sprites are just meh, but the background and the colors in general made it stand out amidst the million other shoot em ups from this era.

Sound: 6/10 Essentially just annoying, but not super bad.

Play: 7/10 Great, tight, responsive controls. Cool addition of having 2 forms, otherwise just another shoot em up so it was nice they added that (when you are the robot, you go slower which can screw you with the time limit, but can shoot faster/nonstop; when you are the ship, you move faster but slower shooting). Very well-made for a microcomputer shoot em up: even if it's not a genre I seek out regularly, this is among the better ones. I'm glad Sega SG-1000 is so readily emulated.

Feel: 7/10 Shoot em ups definitely aren't a favorite genre, and they really need to stand out in the crowd. Parts of this helped--the 2 different modes you can switch between, the background, the tight controls--but the game as a whole still felt quite redundant. That being said, I felt transported back to my arcade shoot em up days at the beginning of this project and felt quite hooked to finish a couple rounds and possibly even set a Score goal (been a while since I did that). I'm sure this could be a particularly striking/nostalgic game if I knew the show it's based on! Haha.

Attachment: 8/10 Once you get to the end of each Round, you will see the big machine. (This was Paused, so that's why the colors are dimmer.) You will be forced into Robot mode. Shoot the machine a couple times and you're done with the Round! As good as this was, amid the many shoot em ups, I only felt motivated to reach 10,000 Score and finish Round 1, which I did pretty quickly. The fact my husband got home and it's time to start out night probly contributed, but it's mostly just that it's another shoot em up. That being said, play this one out of all the ones I've come across so far in '84! Good Look, some nice features in the gameplay, and very responsive/tight controls. I felt accomplished for getting through it, and surprisingly eager to try Round 2 when I get more time! (Unfortunately, I am working the next day.) Despite being a straightforward shoot em up with just some cool features, I could see this as a pick-up-and-play game with others and probly my go-to non-arcade shoot em up for '84.