Space Ace

The HD restoration is excellent. The video quality is beautiful and the animation has never looked better. Unfortunately, the gameplay is **not** arcade accurate. Every re-release by Digital Laisure is advertised as the "authentic arcade experience," but anyone familiar with the original cabinet will immediately notice that the move prompts, scene logic, and branching are different. Some sequences that were...

2 found this helpful, 2026-08-05

Space Ace is one of my top three favorite arcade games of the 1980s. Don Bluth is a master of animation like no other. I had hoped this game would do better than emulators. And in some ways, it did. The remastering of video and sound is superb. A lot of gameplay options make it easier to play casually. However, the actual gameplay, which is what made the original game exciting, is crap. It's one of the...

3 found this helpful, 2026-03-31

When anyone under the age of 30 waxes* romantically about games of yore being free of greed and microtransactions reminds them that games like Space Ace exist. This game stresses the line between childhood nostalgia and the dawning realization that it was a greedy follow-up to the successful Dragon's Lair. I only played this a handful of times back in the day and never got far; it was too hard for most kids and too...

0 found this helpful, 2026-02-24