Turn ‘n Burn

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs

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GAME DEVELOPER:Flair
GAME PUBLISHER:Flair
Copyright 1990, Flair

Turn ‘n Burn is a lackluster 2D top-down shoot ’em up from Flair. The gameplay is nothing you haven’t seen before: blast all the baddies on each level, then move on to the next. It’s a bit reminiscent of Emerald Software’s If It Moves, Shoot It!, except not even half as fun as that classic. All levels look more or less the same, and enemy ships look either dull or incongruous – seeing rows of flying ‘smileys’ in a deep space background makes me unsure of whether Flair wants this game to be funny, serious, or just plain confusing. Boring, boring, boring. Take my word for it: just forget about this lifeless, very marginal underdog, and go play Atari’s classic Asteroids instead.