Run, fly and dodge those obstacles, but return fire on wave after wave of attacking aliens. Armed with a really big gun, you have to defend yourself against the alien hordes using your wits to navigate around the screen. But watch out for those end of level bosses!

Space Harrier is set in the "Fantasy Zone", a surreal world composed of bright colors and a checkerboard-styled ground. The enemies are also unique, featuring prehistoric animals, Chinese dragons, and alien pods. The player is forced along the levels, running or flying around enemy fire, while shooting back with fireballs via the character's under-arm cannon (which doubles as a rocket-esque device allowing the character to fly). The character graphics are sprite-based, though the level backgrounds are pseudo-3D.

You are Harrier, the resourceful extra-terrestrial warrior. And space is your battlefield.

Your mission is to save the Land of the Dragons from vicious creatures led by the vile and crafty One-eyed Mammoth.

Aided by your friends, the Dragons, you find yourself attacked again and again. You fight off one heavily-armed alien after another.

You must use every trick in the book. Every skill at your command. The clashes are thrilling and demanding. The combat scenes are powerful.

Can you survive the intense fighting? For your sake. for the sake of the Land of the Dragons. You must!

There's no way of restarting or continuing on any of the 18 levels - even arcade players will be tested here.

Space Harrier is a 3D/forward shooter developed by Dempa and published by Nec Avenue, and conversion of Sega's popular arcade game originally released in 1985. The peaceful world of Dragon Land is under attack by swarms of evil creatures. A fighter with extraordinary powers decides to challenge the invaders, and to save the doomed planet and its inhabitants. Space Harrier features eighteen levels and a fairly simple gameplay mechanics - the players takes control of a warrior armed with a large laser-cannon who can run on the ground or fly across the screen. However, the game is played from a 3D perspective and the player must dodge trees, pillars and enemy bullets while flying at considerable speeds through the strange landscapes of Dragon Land. Space Harrier relies on split second reflexes, and although obstacles can be destroyed in the first stage, most of them can't be later in the game, and the player must constantly move around the screen while shooting at countless enemies in order to stay alive. Two bonus levels are also scattered throughout the game, in which the player rides a large floating dragon and must smash into elements of the background in order to score as many points as possible.

Space Harrier is a sprite-scaling 3D shoot-em-up set in the 'Fantasy Zone'; a surreal world composed of abstract structures and a checkerboard landscape. The game's enemies are as abstract as its setting; with creatures including prehistoric Mammoths, alien pods, giant mushrooms and, at the end of most stages, a huge, fireball-spitting Chinese Dragon.

The player's on-screen counterpart carries a portable jetpack under his arm which allows him to fly. The player can also run along the ground to avoid overhead structures and enemies.

In addition to its flight capability, the jetpack is also equipped with a laser, used to destroy both the game's many enemies as well as some (but not all) obstructions, such as the trees and floating rocks on the first stage.

Space Harrier has a total of 18 stages, each with a boss fight at the end. Three exceptions are the bonus stages (5th and 12th) and the 18th stage, which is a 'boss rush' featuring some of the bosses encountered up to that point.

Deep Space... The last blast! You pick up a frantic distress call from deep space. You teleport to the Land of the Dragons which is swarming with incredible monsters. You must laser blast your way by giant snakes and robotic monsters. Blast through rings of fire, blazing dragons, dreaded orbs and mutant space heads!

Laser blast and dodge your way through a frantic fantasy land swarming with unbelievable monsters and mutoids constantly coming at you. Accelerate through this arcade classic and answer the distress call... or pay the ultimate penalty!

Sequel to Sega's hit first-person arcade shoot 'em up.

A slight reworking of the original arcade classic with some new enemies, but otherwise the same old game. The scaling of enemies is pretty choppy...but the checkerboard effect on the ground is cool. Fairly playable, but it doesn't offer much else.

Space Harrier II is an Action game, developed and published by Grandslam, which was released in Europe in 1990.