Some of the sprite work on this game was absolutely sensational. For 1983, I feel like this was a couple of years ahead of its time compared to what most people were doing with an 8bit colour palette at the time.
I never saw this in the arcade back in the day. But man SEGA really went all out with that isometric perspective. This, Zaxxon, Future Spy. They really got their money’s worth.
While our fathers were trying to beat this hardcore game with its crappy control back in the 80s, nowadays kids are struggling to learn how to play animal crossing with a single button properly in the arcade.