Blue Lightning, a launch title for the Lynx, is an arcade flight game heavily based on After Burner. The player controls the prototype Blue Lightning jet in combat against the enemy. The game consists of nine missions with varied objectives. These range from shooting down enemy planes to taking out tanks and ships or radar installations. In a courier mission, documents must be delivered by landing on a certain airfield. Upon successfully completing a mission, a password is given.
The action is seen from behind the Blue Lightning. With the heavy arcade focus, there is no danger of stalling or even crashing into the ground. Crashing into air or ground targets is possible, however. The Blue Lightning is armed with a cannon with unlimited ammunition and 40 missiles. The on-board computer automatically seeks missile lock for enemy targets while the cannon must of course be aimed manually. The Blue Lightning is also equipped with an afterburner: activating it puts the plane to maximum speed...
Blue Lightning developed but Epyx, Inc. and published by Pixel Games UK is one of several games I had my Atari Lynx and I personally agree with the singular review prior to mine, it is slow, but considering what we had a the time, was quite impressive, especially that it was all on a handheld gaming unit, which at that time the only thing that could...
I suppose if you have played the original version, you might get some sense of nostalgia out of this, but for me, it's a painfully slow game. There is no sense of speed whatsoever, and the aircraft movement is just plain weird.
Trying to make sense of what is oncoming is nigh on impossible as it'll be just a black rectangle to start with.
At least it's...
