So while checking out the array of games over at Coolbuddy, I discovered Star Defender, an interesting adaptation of the old eighties shooter games.

Basically, it’s just like any other shooter, where you press the left mouse button to fire, the control button to fire your secondary gun, and your movement is controlled by the mouse. If there’s a plot, I really can’t tell what it is, so feel free to insert your own.  I favor the contrarian view on this one–you’re a genocidal space pilot heading for the Planet of the Peace-Loving Insectoids, and they’ve massed their fleet in one last effort to keep you off the planet, where you’ll promptly loot it, squash their women, and eat their children.

They taste like raspberry flavored jellybeans.

Anyway, if you were seriously into Galaga at any point then Star Defender is the game you’ve been waiting for.  Otherwise, it’s yet another Galaga knockoff that you can safely sail on past.  Unless, of course, you really like the thought of raspberry jellybeans.