[1] In the year 3000 Earth has become a toxic dump ravaged by careless humans, leaving an uninhabitable, polluted wasteland.

The powerful alien space pirates Gulfer, led by the evil Queen ZZ Badnusty, plan to harvest the pollution to create weapons of mass destruction.

Most horizontal shooters require the player's ship to come in contact with a capsule to gain weapons.

MegaTech opined it was "an excellent looking game, but by far the toughest horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up available on the Mega Drive".

"[3] A 2008 retrospective review by IGN called it "an excellent shooter that has aged quite well since the sunset of the Genesis.