Moon Cresta

The Good
This game looks great- for a Dragon at least. A fine conversion of a favourite arcade game, it seems churlish to criticise one of the few official conversions for the platform. Great detection, mainly decent sound, good use of the hi-res BW mode, and super smooth game play plus professional presentation of both inlay and loading screen. Most of the tiny faults it has are also in the original arcade game, such as the predictable patterns of alien attack making the early stages a bit too easy.

The Bad
Other games on the Dragon did more in terms of sound. A couple of years earlier and the sound would have been considered to be great. As it was by the time the game was released several games had pushed the boundaries to give pseudo multi-channel sound and rather more impressive explosion sounds than we get here. Whilst it holds up it is certainly not exceptional. The docking procedure collision detection sometimes seems slightly unfair.

The Bottom Line
A faithful conversion done at the right speed that holds up reasonably well to those produced on other 8 bit contemporary machines.