* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The soundtrack of ''Space Ace'' is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY9d8zm8ON8 heroic and bombastic]], with plenty of horns. Standouts within the score itself that aren't Ace's ThemeMusicPowerUp are "[[https://youtu.be/FYKzlKZzGZc?t=192 the music that plays while Dexter is on the alien world]], [[https://youtu.be/FYKzlKZzGZc?t=244 the speed bike scene]],
* MemeticMutation: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn-YlUd1RbA Hmm-hmm!]]", and "[[https://youtu.be/DfGSBgJpShM?t=156 the space battle]]".
** "[[WebVideo/{{JonTron}} Hmm-hmm]]...''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B09eIgzIjs HMM-HMM?!?!]]''"
* {{Narm}}: The two times near the end where Ace yells "Take That!" at Borf and one of his minions with little enthusiasm.
* NightmareFuel:
** With the same music played in different scenes, the many deaths of Dexter/Ace, the low-res animation, and ''those sounds'', the cutscenes from the ports can be just plain creepy.
** The EvilKnockoff of Dexter. It ''commits suicide'' to try to kill him. And once it starts, it laughs. And laughs. ''[[LaughingMad And laughs.]]'' Even as nothing more than a head rolling away.
* PortingDisaster:
** The SNES could not handle FMV, so the entire game was remade into an action game where Dexter is a OneHitPointWonder who is hard to control.
** The Atari Jaguar CD version only displays the cues when it's too late to press them, completely destroying the purpose of a game whose entire gameplay consists of pressing the right button when prompted.
* SequelDifficultySpike: Zig zagged. On the one hand, compared to Dragon's Lair the game is ''extremely'' frenetic and chaotic, and sometimes doesn't do the Dragon's Lair standby of leaving obvious ways out for the player to follow. On the other hand, the timing does allow you to do things like wait to input until Dexter is already doing the thing he needs to do, making those movements more obvious, and also unlike Dragon's Lair often allows multiple ways out of screens (even without becoming Ace) rather than having one obtuse solution.

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