Eco-system was giving mankind clear signs. Too many things were changing: slowly and inexorably, climate wasn't the one of before, it was turning rebel with violent symptoms and causing enormous disasters. But men kept on trying to hit their target: making money, destroying forests, pollute the whole planet... living in the sea, land and air became extremely dangerous. In most continents, rivers were just a remembrance of ancient times. Vast areas, once flourishing, then became sad deserts.

Population grew enormously in number, and the state of the planet couldn't guarantee the human species to survive on such a hostile place. It was the time of developing spacecraft technologies, discovering and using of extraterrestrial resources.

Lots of people, mostly coming from the United States of America, migrated to a new world. It was very similar to the Earth both in eco-system and climate, and it was given the name Gloria (7th developing star). The planet was chosen because of huge amounts of gold were discovered in it.

Pioneers had to fit themselves to the new lifestyle: they spent decades without any technology. People built up villages using nothing but the strenght in their hands. The result was quite good: living there was acceptable but... the lack of technology made this all look similar to the North-American pioneers era of the 19th century! That was a way to try to forget all the mistakes of the recent disasters in Earth's history. Gloria's inhabitants not just lived in wooden houses, they also dressed and and behaved as North-American pioneers. It was a sort of paradise but... the enormous amount of gold attracted lots of people, who afforded big expences in order to reach Gloria in order to mine gold. That was not a problem: there was gold for everybody but... voices scattered so even modern pirates, named Wild Lizards, came from some lost side of the universe.

It was a carnage: most pioneers were killed. Survivors were taken to slavery. Their only hope was finding someone capable in driving the Flying Gun, an old war airplane having the odd shape of an old gun (a Smith & Wessons?), and setting them all free.

We'll take off on the airplane and try to take the pirate army by surprise. Shooting unarmed targets looks easy at first, but the battling area will soon become a true mess of bullets coming from enemy tanks and planes.

Each time we destroy land units (hangars, fuel depots, tanks, trains, etc.) gold ingots appear. We can collect them by flying over them: they're worth 10 score points and a piece of smart bomb (each made of twelve ingots).

We can make our plane's fire power increase by collecting 1-cent coins. You can get them by just destroying a certain type of pirate plane, moving in formation with four more planes and moving quickly from the top to the bottom of the screen.

War is composed of six battles. We'll have to defeat a huge enemy war machine at the end of each stage. A bonus score is awarded depending on remaining available smart bombs and ingots: the former worth 10.000 points each, the latter 200.

Phase one takes place in the skies over a dry desert. Pirates fight with tanks, planes and anti-aircraft artillery. The final boss is a really huge, slow tank covered with turrets. Its gun has an old-style barrel making it look like a Colt.

The second battle begins with a flight over a thick forest, where tanks are well-hidden and shoot at our Flying Gun as soon as it gets near them. They're also supported by a big airplane with short-range guns. It's an ambush and it's easy to be caught by bullets in a while.
After a quick rest, it's time to get fun and destroy large airships coming from any directions, then an enemy base hidden inside of a small abandoned village awaits for our bullets! A hot party begins: lots of enemies shooting from all directions. Then finally the area boss: an airplane with a double old-style gun, supported my lots of smaller airplanes.

Phase three reminds much as Capcom's videogame, 1941. Varying sized aircrafts and warships are our enemies. Destroying an enemy fortress, pretected by many counter-air turrets - the largest of which has impressive size - is our mission.

Level four, another village defended by the usual pirate tanks and airplanes. Hey don't forget to destroy the cinema where soldier are watching a... western movie of course!
Desert becomes the scenario where the second part of this battle is held: wrecked starships lay abandoned on the dunes. Attacks come in the form of furious storms of airplanes and formations of tanks. Then a flying fortress appears in the middle of a sand storm: that's the area boss.

The fifth battle looks quite peaceful at first sight. It's a flight at high altitude and we can notice enemy squadrons taking off the land and getting ready to hunt our plane. Few huge tanks take place in the left and right side of the screen, getting ready to crossfire.
Then we fly lower. We're now ready to attack a train fortress of Wild Lizard's chief. He's defended by a wide number of extremely dangerous -aircraft artillery. The chief will then escape and get ready for the final chapter.

Phase six is a tribute to those "Spaghetti Western" stories we watched at the cinema. It's a duel against the Wild Lizard's chief, and our Flying Gun has six available bullets in the barrel. The boss flies on an odd airship, shaped as a couple of golden guns with butt made with bone, and rolling barriers around it. We have to let five bullets cross the barriers in order to win the duel.

If we fail, Gloria will be property of the Wild Lizards tribe. In case of success, our name will be famous forever and peace will be brought back to the land.