Reviews

Very tricky shmup, it has nice colourful graphics but quite unforgiving gameplay, espically the asteroid field which is murder.

It's quite nice but I wish I can manage to get a lot further than I normally do. It's difficulty may put you off in the long run.

This shooter is rather poor for its time : 1987 .

Gunstar does not add anything new to the world of shooters so my valoration cannot be too positive this time , I´m afraid .

1,5 out of 5 .

A colourful and taxing budget shoot-em-up which is well above average for this kind of game and price range. I would assign this a 6.5 rather than a 7 - nice but nothing particularly original or impressive. Good for a quick blast though.

Simple vertical shoot'em up with nice graphics, animation and use of colour.
2,75/5

Gunstar! Oooooh It's actually not bad!

A decent vertical shooter for just under 2 quid, at the time not bad at all. There's a lot of other games from 1987 that cost a lot more than £1.99, that weren't as good as this. This is a good budget title that surpasses the £1.99 mark. I'd not have been upset if I'd paid £3.99 for it.

The game looks good, sounds OK, has a decent challenge for the player. Of course once you go round it once, you've pretty much seen it all and it becomes a high score challenge basically, there's no ending, round and round you go. This game however is great for a quick go.

You have a lives count, but really, you may as well only have 1 life, as when you die you start again from the first phase. I do very much like the fact that every time you start you get a new pilot, with new stats, but the problem with that is also pointing to the right from the start every time you die.

Defeats the purpose of having lives.

Anyway flaws aside great game, and perfect for a quick go.

3.5/5