Sky Fox: Космический шутер с неоднозначной репутацией

the 3D action computer game from Electronic Arts

Sky Fox is a 1987 arcade video game developed by Jaleco and licensed to Nichibutsu. It was originally released in Japan and Europe as Exerizer (エクセライザー) as an indirect follow up to Jaleco's 1983's Exerion and 1984's Exerion II: Zorni. It is a fixed shooter, setting the player in the role of a space pilot fighting against female alien invaders and space monsters under their control. The game was mostly well received by Western game critics, albeit some criticized it for its depiction of women.

The game is a fixed shooter in the style of Galaga The Italian edition of Zzap! called it a treat "for those who love the space shooter genre, ensuring a good fun for a sufficient period of time." Commodore User, however, refused to even score this "slickly executed" but "otherwise boring game", accusing its "warped " creators of promoting sexual assault due to in their opinion "tasteless", "highly objectionable" and "offensive" stage featuring a group of female enemies who are only vulnerable when they open up their cloaks "and expose their sparsely clad bodies in the spreadeagle position. The method of dispatching them is to score a direct hit between their splayed legs." The reviewer described it as an act to "humiliate and belittle women in the most violent, degrading way, by subjecting them to sexual violence," and implied this "cheap 'n' nasty" game's "presence in arcades" to be "dangerous" for British society. Sinclair User arcade section remembered it as a "sexist shoot'em up". According to a retrospective review in Retro Gamer, when compared to much of Jaleco's other arcade titles, Sky Fox "can be seen as a bit of diamond in the rough, as it's a nicely presented little known vertical shooter that plays like a mixture of Galaxian and Space Harrier." The reviewer felt the game's need of "banking and consideration to attacking enemies is a neat mechanic, which, coupled with Sky Foxs nice visuals and humorous enemy designs (bikini clad dragon riders in space manage to be more off the wall than Space Harrier'''s enemies), makes it an enjoyable little shooter," and recommended Cave's Espgaluda II as a "converted alternative". See alsoSalamander'', another 1980s arcade shooter featuring serpents in space.