He is on a set path, so you must memorize the path of the lasers and then move Dexter around them. Borf flies around the edge of the screen, firing lasers.
Hey, that's an accurate representation of the first scene in the arcade game - so what's not to like? How about everything? In fact, this single sequence encapsulates everything that it wrong with the remainder of Space Ace on the SNES. Then you flee from robots that shoot lasers and pound the ground with spiky arms. The game starts on the same rocky outpost as the arcade game, for example. With only five lives, you are shuffled through auto-scrolling levels that show zero mercy. Space Ace on the SNES did not retain the trial-and-error mechanics - it amplified them. What remained when Absolute finally released the game in 1994 was a platformer loosely based on the sequences of Space Ace that retained all of the trial-and-error mechanics. And the full-screen animation of Dexter running down corridors or blasting space cats would also be sacrificed.
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I knew full well that the SNES was completely incapable of handling a straight port of the game - all of the lengthy narrative sequences would be jettisoned. So when I saw it was being ported to the SNES, my curiosity was immediately piqued. Many years after the laser craze died, I still held Space Ace in great affection. It's a terrible-looking plate, but I ate tater tots off it with pride. I even made a plate out of a drawing of Dexter in his space ship. And when Space Ace came out not too long after, I had no problem folding Dexter's sci-fi adventures into my obsession. I had a Dragon's Lair lunchbox, I taped the Saturday morning cartoon show, begged my folks for the arcade hint book, and practiced drawing Giddy Goons in my spare time.
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