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Kimmy's been kidnapped by Borf and his alien minions.

Kimberly: Essentially, she's the redheaded version of Daphne, the damsel-in-distress from Dragon's Lair.

But when struck by the Infanto Ray, we see that he was just a regular geeky teen like anybody that was playing the game.

Dexter/Ace: Defender of earth, Dexter is a musclebound lug with a breezy ego.

And in doing so, I started to see that Space Ace is, in many ways, a superior game.

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The new 1080p transfer is incredible.) I ended up staying awake until 3AM to beat the game. But yesterday, I sat down with the Blu Ray edition of the game, published by Digital Leisure. I fell in love with the game in 1983, begged for quarters in order to play it, and have bought it on multiple formats over the years, such as the Sega CD and DVD.

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And it has a full soundtrack instead of audio flourishes, which helps create a more cinematic experience. There is a three-act structure to the game. Dragon's Lair was a series of vignettes that you had to survive, loosely tied together as exploring Singe's castle.

While it would be easy to write off Space Ace as "Dragon's Lair in space" - as I purposefully did in the title of the article - a few minutes with the game reveals developer Cinematronics's expanded vision. Space Ace was the follow-up to the incredibly successful Dragon's Lair, the interactive cartoon that swept through arcades in 1983 and introduced America to Dirk the Daring.

If the player presses the fire button at the right moment, Dexter transforms temporarily into Ace and can fight them, whereas if the player chooses to stay as Dexter the robots' drill attacks must be dodged instead.Game: Space Ace Platform(s): Arcade, PC, Blu Ray, DVD, Amiga, 3DO, Sega CD, SNES, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Jaguar CD, CD-i Release Date: 1984 Favorite Line: "Struggle with Dexter to regain his manhood." Favorite Moments: Rocket skates sequence, fighting with giant evil Dexter, and motorbike race. An example can be seen in the first scene of the game, when Dexter is escaping from Borf's robot drones. Dexter usually progresses through scenes by avoiding obstacles and enemies, but Ace goes on the offensive, attacking enemies rather than running away although Dexter does occasionally have to use his pistol on enemies when it is necessary to advance. Most scenes also have separate reverse versions of each other.

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A number of the scenes had "multiple choice" moments when the player could choose how to act, sometimes by choosing which way to turn in a passageway, or by choosing whether or not to react to the on-screen "Energize!" message and transform back into Ace. At the start of the game the player could select one of three skill levels "Cadet", "Captain" or "Ace" for easy, medium and hard respectively - only by choosing the toughest skill level could the player see all the sequences in the game (only around half the scenes are played on the easiest setting). Space Ace introduced a few gameplay enhancements, most notably selectable skill levels and multiple paths through several of the scenes. Like Dragon's Lair, the gameplay of Space Ace requires the player to move the joystick in the right direction or press the fire button at the right moment to avoid the various hazards Dexter/Ace faces.