I have one and love it! Yes its a horz scroller/shooter...but it has great little things that make it great. Like being a Eugene Jarvis machine (Williams), being able to blow up drug dealers with rockets and see body parts flying all over the place, driving over them with a porche with machines gun blazing, etc., etc. The real issue is the replay....well its not a long game..but it is fun and unique. If there is no nostalgia involved..then maybe its not for you.