As I play this game, I think about a lot. About how in 1984, this was considered impressive. About what the purpose of it all is. Score? It's a home console game, to have any real competition you'd need friends. It certainly isn't the agonizing 32 levels of mostly the same thing, the only differences showing up near the very end and even then it's just 1 new BG and more homing shots fired at once. It's the same throughout all the levels. What is the point of it all? That is what this game has left me to think. I think the game realizes this too, as it feels like the seemingly random beeps from what is supposed to be BGM that gets drowned out by your shot feels to me like morse code of the game itself crying out for help, for someone to save it from itself.