> I got to play the game (briefly) while it was installed at the El Capitan theatre in > Hollywood. While I wouldn't go so far as to say that the game sucks, it's definitely > a triumph of feel over actual gameplay - and what I mean by this is that while it > plays like a classic arcade game, it plays like one that was always just ever so > slightly a B-list game.
How different is the arcade game from the Flash/iOS/Android versions? Based on playing those I'd say they did better at nailing the technical limitations of the time and working around them in a period-accurate way than any of the current plague of "I can't afford an artist so I'm going to front like my shitty programmer art is retro" games that infest Steam/XBLA/PSN.
Further, I'd agree (again, from those versions) that if it were actually a 1982 game it'd likely be well known and have some big fans but still definitely be B-list.
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