[4] According to the story provided by the game's original cabinet, long ago the evil Vaxxian Empire overran the galaxy.

At the current moment (according to the timeline of the game), the Empire has since collapsed, but numerous Vaxxian space stations, all blindly controlled and defended by robots, still remain in the galaxy, mindlessly pursuing their original orders.

The small band of scientists who initially escaped managed to clone the great human hero Major Havoc, in order to fly his Catastrofighter through a wormhole in space, so that he may lead a clone army against the dreaded Vaxxian robots, and to liberate the remnants of humanity by destroying the enemy space stations.

In the next phase, the player lands on the robot space station by centering the Catastrofighter in between the moving white line and Major Havoc would exit his ship and enter the space-station.

Gene Lewin of Play Meter magazine reviewed the arcade game in January 1984, scoring it 2 out of 10 for initially being an expensive dedicated cabinet rather than a more affordable conversion kit.

According to Twin Galaxies, Ettore Ciaffi, of New York, NY, scored a world record 1,940,078 points on June 28, 1985, at the Broadway Arcade during the Video Game Masters Tournament.