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If you were still in nursery school when Thrust was released, I will give you a quick refresher on the finer points of the game Fly Harder. The idea of the game is to pick up shiny silver balls and drop them on a large reactor, found somewhere else on the same level. Your ship has a single jet engine, which it can fire in any direction to combat the ever present gravity (hence 'thrust' for the lower IQ levelled readers).
There are more than enough things to crash into, including other ships, and plenty of ground material. The clever thing here is that you have an energy bar on the top of the screen that goes down as you pass through other object like some sort of shield.
Thankfully, you have a gun to disperse the enemy with, but don't get too carried away flying around the screen as you also have a limited supply of fuel, indicated by another bat on top of the screen. To help you out in the game, you must find fuel pods and energy pods to replenish your spent stocks and, albeit slowly, energy does replenish itself.

The first thing you notice about the game is how hard it is. Your ship flies all over the screen crashing into everything, as you try to get the thruster firing in the right direction and gain some sort of 'it goes where you want it to go' control. After a while though, you begin to get proper movement and in no time at all you realise how good Fly Harder is, as long as you don't get too frustrated.

Fly Harder is a very addictive game. Once you've made it through a few levels all you want is more – even if gravity is coming from all directions and a very annoying laser beam tends to use up your 4 lives before you can say "hang on a second, I was past that extremely nasty looking laser beam".
Fly Harder is a fine title once you get past the initial control problems. Worth a look.
Stephen Enstone

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