Just about every generation of consoles sees vast amounts of rereleases of old games as the publishers seek to bolster their revenues with catalogue sales. In fact, I reckon that if Nintendo were to stop making new games today, they would still make profits till kingdom come. The reason for this is clear: people new to video games, those who missed out the first time round, and those who remember the games of their youth with fondness. Add to this the fact that platforms become obsolete and formats change, and what once was easily available becomes hard to find.

Space Ace, a game first released on Laserdisc format in video arcades, shortly after Dragon’s Lair, has seen its share of formats, but hasn’t been officially released on a mainstream console in the last two generations (although it was released on DVD). The advent of HD and Bluray has made this a sensible time to rerelease it since the animation was originally done in film quality and scales perfectly to HD resolutions. This means the Bluray release of Space Ace is the best version of the game there has been simply due to the restoration work done on the film originals and the 1080P transfer.

Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Space Ace.