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The concept of this game is to battle your way across the Universe from the far away Neptune to the safe haven of earth.

You have to fend off waves of spiralling, swirling alien ships by piloting your spacecraft in a circular flight pattern, blasting the intruders with your rapid-fire lasers before they blast you.

Killer meteors and deadly satellites are also after you. Once you reach one planet, you have a few seconds to rest before you take off to destroy the next wave of attackers.

Although the concept of Gyruss is very basic, it does have some good 3D effects. But, the best feature of the game is its music. Throughout the game Toccata and Fugue by Bach can be heard, and it is the best music I have heard on a video game.

This music makes the game much more dramatic and exciting than it actually is - it is almost worth buying the cartridge just to listen to the music!