A vertical shoot'em up, part of the bunch of good coin op conversions that Elite made between 1985 and 1986.
Once you master it and you learn how to use the loop, to avoid bullets and the other planes, it's quite playable.
The sprites are nice and well animated, as is well drawn the aicraft carrier at the start and at the end of each level.
The background, however, is rather blank, and in the early levels is constituted almost entirely of a cyan screen, which, anyway, makes it easier to see the bullets.
From the fourth or fifth level the background changes, and you fly over green and yellow islands. There's a big colour clash problem in these levels: at the beginning and at the end of the islands, where the new colour begins and ends, there is a band of pixels where everything disappears, merging with the background, and in which you can crash against aircrafts and bullets without being able too see them.
Aside that, the lack of variety and the lack of changes in the pace of the game, it's quite good.
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