Fantastic reliving of the original with one caveat.
Fri Dec 31 2010 bFrancoSpace Ace is a wonderful throwback to the Laserdisc original game from the 80s and in that sense it's absolutely fantastic. It continues to be beautiful and highly entertaining. The dynamic is as simple as the original: You watch a clip of film which provides a visual clue and you interact to continue to the next clip or fail and see an alternative clip. For those who are not familiar with this kind of "game", it's more like a highly enjoyable and beautifully animated, interactive movie.
The one caveat is that unlike the original, you have to actually look at the controls in order to use them, as they are not physical controllers but virtual. This does not necessarily detract much from one's enjoyment and actually makes it a bit easier to get through some of those tough parts (at times too easy), particularly those I had more trouble with in the original, but it does keep you from being fully engrossed in the wonderful artwork and animation of the movie itself as your attention is elsewhere.
Still, it continues to be a beautiful and highly enjoyable experience. Enjoy!!!
NO SOUND
Tue Dec 25 2018 NorthWinterholdThe game is identical to the original laser disc game. However, there is NO SOUND to the game. No options for sound/music like all others games on App Store. Also, the control arrows make it difficult to play.
If you enjoy games with no sound, this one is for you. I WOULD NOT have bought it for $4.99 if I knew there was no sound available on this game. So I give it “1” star because of that.
The best game EVER
Sun Jun 27 2021 Ce24685So this really helped me with finding one of my childhood games, ITS SO COOL and I really want others to play it. It takes practice to play this game but I played it for 3 years and its SO MUCH FUN
No problems!
Sat May 16 2020 2112cnSound works great! Arcade controls are nice. Wii console sell a great version of these games also for play on your big screen. So much fun to play this again!
Still no sound
Sat Mar 14 2020 Rob MayetteThis awesome game used to work beautifully on my iPhone 5s. Now on my iPhone 11 Pro there is STILL no sound even though that problem was reported over a year ago. This game should be fixed or removed from the App Store.
Cool Retro
Fri Mar 09 2018 Nate H FroggyAwesome game from an ex imagineer at Disney Don Bluth — so cool Disney style all over it — dropped a lot of quarters on the real one back in the day
No Sound
Tue Feb 12 2019 bsteinexThere is no sound and no way to enable sound. Not worth the $ until resolved.
Space ace
Sun May 15 2022 water 3-7-9Need to wrk with backbone controller
Unbelieveable!!!
Tue Jun 30 2009 KyPa71Ok, shocked to see this as an app. And was worried about how bad it was going to be. Great job with the port!!! True to the arcade original on all skill levels. Yes I wasted thousands of quarters when this game was in the arcades, and loved it when you had a very large group of people standing just watching you play. The ones who say it is a stupid or bad game, that's ok, we old-school arcade gamers understand that you were just the jealous ones in the crowd because you couldn't do it yourself. For those that say there isn't enough control, true, but the game was never meant to be anything more than it is. You interact with the movie at key points to progress. You have to remember.. This game was a pioneer in the video game industry along with the dragon's lair series, they showed how video could be manipulated thru a users decisions. It paved the way! This game was out at a time when other arcade games were still using blocky sprites (q-Bert) as an example. If you can't appreciate how far ahead of it's time this game was, then those of us that do feel bad for you. Again, great port of the arcade, bring on dragon's lair and princess Daphne (move over princess toadstool.. Marios girl ain't got nothing on you!)
Rip off
Sun Jul 12 2009 MachsterI have loved Don Bluth's animation so I was eager to try this. But play through this I did. I sure am disappointed. First from start to finish this game lasts maybe 10 minutes. The idea is you have to press on-screen buttons to move the character up, down, left or right and energize. So basically all this game does for the whole 10 minutes is test if you can hit the right button at the right time. There are a couple problems with this. First, you can't at first actually pay attention to what's happening on the screen because instead you have to watch where you press the buttons. Unlike real ones you can't feel them to find where they are; you have to look for them. Second when the buttons are hit or when in the easy mode for hints they turn yellow. But in several scenes the color is also yellow making it hard to tell if the buttons are lit. Third, if you miss pressing a button you die and an animated movie appears indicating this. But this scene is repeated over and over until it really gets annoying. So I rate this thus: good animation, good sound, terrible controls, unbelievably short, no story, little or no replay value. Avoid this title.
