History VideoGame / SpaceAce

Before the game itself, Ace is zapped with said ray, which transforms him into his previous geeky teenage self. The rub is that, due to some apparent malfunction or his own body chemistry, the effects turned out somewhat wonky, and he switches between his adult, musclebound self and his younger self at the least opportune times. The game itself took care of this by utilizing one button that served as both the weapons button and the "energize button", and when Ace's wrist weapon flashed you had the option of transforming into Ace or simply remaining as Dexter to carry out the mission... and thankfully, [[DevelopersForesight Bluth animated two separate scenes for each of these instances]] seeing as how Ace could dispatch enemies quickly and Dexter had to use his smarts to get past them. Note that turning into Ace was selecting to play the hard version of the level, which would be longer and more action-packed to challenge the seasoned hero version of the character, but which had the reward of receiving more points.

* ClarkKenting: In the ''Supercade'' segments, only Kimberly and Borf can tell that Ace and Dexter are actually the same person.

* DoNotCallMePaul: Almost every time Kimberly says "Dexter", he interjects, "Call me Ace!"

* EatenAlive: ''Way'' more common than in Dragon's Lair. After the intial station stages, you get ''at least one'' and often multiple things trying to devour you. [[spoiler:Including your own Titan-sized dark doppleganger. That includes his ''disembodied head.'']]

* LikesClarkKentHatesSuperman: In the ''WesternAnimation/SaturdaySupercade'' segments, whenever Ace is zapped by the Infanto Ray and reverts to his geeky alter ego of Dexter, Kimberly gets annoyed with Dexter as a scrawny, gawky, whiny, childish wimp.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Will Finn seems to be doing his best Creator/EddieDeezen impression as Dexter.

Instead of a {{knight|InShiningArmor}} and a princess, the characters were Dexter, [[TheAce a pulp space hero]], and Kimberly, his buxom, short-skirted, sarcastic girlfriend. Their mission was to locate the evil Commander Borf, a blue behemoth of an alien who had taken it upon himself to create something called the Infanto Ray, that he would use to transform the inhabitants of Earth and any other planet he wished into babies or children.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Even in the future, machismo alone only goes so far.]]

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Kimberly shares as much fail scenes as Dexter/Ace when they are together.

The SpiritualSuccessor to Creator/DonBluth's popular ''VideoGame/DragonsLair'' laserdisc arcade game, ''Space Ace'' was similar, but with a totally different genre.

* SheIsAllGrownUp: Male version, with Ace.

* TheLancer: Ace.

* BigBad: Borf.

** Played straight in the poorly received SNES port, where Borf only taunts you once you lose your last life.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Dragon's Lair''.

* TransformationRay: The Infanto Ray.

* TheChick: Kimberly. To be fair, she actually does some fairly impressive things over the course of the ten-minute game.

* DistressedDamsel: Kimberly, a few times

** This happens in the game's "miss" sequences, although it's usually with Ace/Dexter getting shot (as mentioned in "Deadpan Snarker").

Before the game itself, Ace is zapped with said ray, which transforms him into his previous geeky teenage self. The rub is that, due to some apparent malfunction or his own body chemistry, the effects turned out somewhat wonky, and he switches between his adult, musclebound self and his younger self at the least opportune times. The game itself took care of this by utilizing one button that served as both the weapons button and the "energize button", and when Ace's wrist weapon flashed you had the option of transforming into Ace or simply remaining as Dexter to carry out the mission... and thankfully, [[DevelopersForesight Bluth animated two separate scenes for each of these instances]] seeing as how Ace could dispatch enemies quickly and Dexter had to use his smarts to get past them. Note that turning into Ace was selecting to play the hard version of the level, which would be longer and more action-packed to challenge the seasoned hero version of the character.

* GaleForceSound: Kimberly does this ''[[UpToEleven over videophone]]''.

* TheUnintelligible: It's really tough to make out what Borf is saying, as the game goes UpToEleven on EvilSoundsDeep. [[invoked]]

* FountainOfYouth: The Infanto Ray, which turns people into infants, and which turned Space Ace into a weak teenager. The Infanto Ray also makes a cameo in some of the episodes of the ''Saturday Supercade'' cartoon version. It appears they have yet to work all the bugs out, hence it only turning Ace into a scrawny runt, and changing back to his normal self at random.
* GaleForceSound: Kimberly does this ''[[UpToEleven over videophone]]''. Amazingly, in the show it even works on ''robots'', turning them into...little baby robots.

Before the game itself, Ace is zapped with said ray, which transforms him into his previous geeky teenage self. The rub is that, due to some apparent malfunction or his own body chemistry, the effects turned out somewhat wonky, and he switches between his adult, musclebound self and his younger self at the least opportune times. The game itself took care of this by utilizing one button that served as both the weapons button and the "energize button", and when Ace's wrist weapon flashed you had the option of transforming into Ace or simply remaining as Dexter to carry out the mission... and thankfully, [[DevelopersForesight Bluth animated two separate scenes for each of these instances]] seeing as how Ace could dispatch enemies quickly and Dexter had to use his smarts to get past them. Note that turning into Ace was actually selecting to play the hard version of the level, which would be longer and more action-packed to challenge the seasoned hero version of the character.