#SPACE ACE DEXTER TURNS FREE#
It’s an interesting idea, and for an arcade goer with limited quarters, it allows novices a better chance to see the ending (provided they can complete the viciously difficult final scenes), but on modern versions that allow you free continues, it really doesn’t matter much.
#SPACE ACE DEXTER TURNS FULL#
Finally, “Ace” gives you the full experience. “Captain” is a bit longer and more involved. “Cadet” is basically easy mode, skipping over much of the game. First of all, there are three difficulty options available to the player. While the gameplay is almost exactly the same as Dragon’s Lair, there are a few twists. The final confrontation between him and Ace at the end of the game is both extremely difficult and incredibly satisfying if you finally win. He also doesn’t have much of a personality beyond being maniacally evil. He has a somewhat cool design, but you don’t see much of him outside of him taunting you whenever you lose a life, which gets annoying very quickly. The villain who wishes to conquer Earth with the Infanto Ray. It isn’t until after you do so late in the game that she even begins to get slightly interesting through her bantering with Ace, before getting kidnapped yet again. While more interesting in concept than Daphne, she unfortunately spends most of the game kidnapped and annoyingly begging Dexter to rescue her. She doesn’t seem to see much in him, refusing to call him by his nickname and always countering his romantic advances. Unfortunately, you spend a good percentage of the game playing as his incredibly annoying teenage form, but at least it makes the parts where you do get to play as Adult Ace and feel like a total badass action hero even more satisfying, especially since you get a break from young Dexter’s Jerry Lewis-esque voice.ĭexter’s love interest and sidekick. Despite being incredibly smug and full of himself, he actually is quite competent as a hero (and with a laser pistol) when he’s in his adult form, that is. The hero, with a very different personality from Dirk of Dragon’s Lair. Why he is only made a preteen and not an infant like everyone else shot with the Infanto Ray is never addressed or explained. Dexter must then track down Borf, rescue Kimmy, and put a stop to Borf’s maniacal plan. However, Ace gets shot by the ray, temporarily turning him into a dorky preteen (voiced by writer/animator Will Finn), and Kimberly is captured. Borf plans to use his invention to take over Earth, and only Ace and Kimmy stand in his way. The plot follows the adventures of Dexter, an intergalactic hero who much prefers to be called by his nickname “Ace” (voiced by Jeff Etter from Bluth’s animation department), and his girlfriend Kimberly (voiced by Lorna Pomeroy, another animator and producer John Pomeroy’s wife), as they attempt to stop the evil plans of the nefarious Borf (played by Don Bluth himself), who has invented a device known as the Infanto Ray, a laser cannon that turns whoever it shoots into a toddler. Whereas Dragon’s Lair was based more or less on medieval fantasy, Space Ace took on the appearance of a science fiction B-movie serial. While not a direct sequel, Space Ace played almost exactly the same as its predecessor, with a few twists.
With Dragon’s Lair being a monumental success, it was obvious that a follow-up was in order.
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