Action Fighter

The Good
The arcade game was a clever design, with a good variety in the gameplay as well as a good difficulty curve, well thought-out level layouts, good power-ups in both sections, and plenty of excitement. Darting between cars on your bike as you try to shoot them out, while ducking across into the Sega vans for bonuses and collecting the upgrade tokens made for good gameplay in the first section, while the second was an adequate 1942-style blaster.

Technically it wasn't a particularly complicated game, and Core Design were well up to the job of converting it. Graphics are crisp and sharp, the handling is precise, with a noticable difference between vehicles, and the road scrolls smoothly, at just the right pace

The Bad
The second section suffers a little bit from colour clash, and bullets are sometimes hard to see in the heat of the moment as a result.

Also, there seem to be a few graphical glitches at the top of the screen, which are occasionally enough to be a distraction.

The Bottom Line
A rather belated conversion of an arcade game in which you must rescue the President from terrorists. The game is split into two distinct sections, both vertically-scrolling - the first involves travelling down a road which occasionally splits across into junctions, while trying to destroy as many of the inhabiting vehicles as possible, and the second involves flying through the sky over the sea shooting down enemy air ordinance. You have 1000 seconds in which to complete all this, and are given 5 lives to progress through six levels with.

It makes for an enjoyable little game, which will take a while to get through.