Space Ace – Can You Save Kimberly? Arcade Breakdown
1🕹 Game Name: Space Ace
📛 Alternate Names: Space Ace: The Laserdisc Adventure
📅 Release Date: 1984
🔫 Genre: Sci-Fi / Interactive Movie
👨 🏻 💻 Developers: Advanced Microcomputer Systems
👨 🏻 💻 Publishers: Cinematronics
🔢 Max Players: 1
⁉ Cooperative: No
🕹 Game Introduction:
From the creators of Dragon’s Lair comes Space Ace, a zany outer-space animated shooter that lets you play as Ace — a muscle-bound hero — or Dexter, his dweeby alter ego.
🕹 Game Description:
Evil Commander Borf has kidnapped Kimberly and plans to use his Infanto Ray to take over Earth. You must battle through space perils, transforming from Dexter to Ace to save the day.
🎴 Game Play:
👉 🏻 Press the right directional inputs or action at the right moment.
👉 🏻 Some scenes give you the choice to play as Dexter or Ace.
👉 🏻 You’ll navigate space stations, alien worlds, and death traps.
👉 🏻 Hilarious fail animations reward your mistakes.
👉 🏻 Requires perfect timing and rapid decision-making.
📕 Background & History:
Space Ace was designed to capitalize on the Dragon’s Lair phenomenon with a sci-fi theme. It was groundbreaking with selectable paths and difficulty levels, making it more replayable.
🐣 Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs:
👉 🏻 Service mode allowed infinite lives during testing.
👉 🏻 Scenes had alternate animations rarely seen in regular play.
👉 🏻 Debug ROMs gave access to every animated sequence.
🐱 💻 Hacks:
👉 🏻 Emulators allow scene skipping or practice runs.
👉 🏻 Mods let players control which version of Ace appears in each scene.
🎉 Trivia:
👉 🏻 One of the first arcade games to feature a difficulty selector.
👉 🏻 Ace/Dexter was voiced by Jeff Etter, a rare early game voiceover role.
👉 🏻 Kimberly’s design was inspired by 80s sci-fi heroines.
👓 Lonster's Review:
This game is chaotic in the best way. The choice between Ace or Dexter is hilarious and adds some strategy. It’s unforgiving but unforgettable.
🌟 Legacy:
Space Ace kept the laserdisc craze alive for a bit longer and became a cult classic with fans of retro arcade storytelling.
✨ Cultural Impact:
It helped define the sci-fi comedy aesthetic in games and was referenced in several pop culture outlets, from cartoons to fan parodies.
💭 Lonster's Final Thoughts:
It’s like playing a Saturday morning cartoon on fast-forward. Totally bonkers and totally awesome.
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