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It is difficult for me as well. The idea is that it is shooting in "3D" like a real On Rails Shooter, but since there is no scaling and no real 3D, it is difficult to see. I also thought about coloring the sprites to represent the depth, but then I realized that couldn't be done on the Intellivision.

As far as shooting the enemies goes, I would only go for shooting enemy ships when you are in a good position to shoot and get away. Shooting asteroids is less dangerous. I usually get up close because it is easiest to hit them when they are on the final level of depth and are right in front of you. I got the mass majority of my points by using bombs once a large number of enemies appeared.

Now I updated it to have an option to turn on 3D cues to help with shooting. Player speed has also been increased. Hopefully this will make it easier to hit enemies and survive.