When some gamer's see the name Earth Defense Force, some will say, what the hell is that? Some will then say, OH MAN I LOVE THOSE GAMES ON THE XBOX 360 AND PS3! Well those games are fun and all, but did you know there was another game with the same title in Arcades and ported later on to the Super Nintendo? I am sure some did, but many probably didn't. So I figure I would review the Arcade version of the game.

Earth Defense Force in the arcade was developed and published by Jaleco, it was released on the Arcade in 1991. It was released on the Super Nintendo the same year. Earth Defense Force is a side scrolling shoot em up, where you must take down the evil organization AGYMA as they are threatening 200 years of peace in the galaxy. You will work for the Earth Defense Force piloting a special craft known as the XA-1. There are 6 levels in Earth Defense Force with 8 state of the art weapons which you will use to kick some enemy ass, and take down AGYMA's plot to destroy earth and the galaxy. Back in the day you had a lot of side scrolling shoot em ups, ranging from Gradius, U.N Squadron, R-Type and more, these games were so much fun, and even to this day kicks a lot of ass.

The graphics for Earth Defense Force are damn nice, the animations are great, there is a lot of action on screen, there are some bullet hell like moments that you will have to deal with, the ships and enemies are nice, the explosions are great, the game is very colorful, the backgrounds are really well done, there is no slowdowns or glitching. Jaleco did a bad ass job with this game. The music and sound effects are great, the music kicks ass, and Jaleco to me always did a great job on music. I like how well composed the music is, it shows a lot of effort went to it. The sound effects are nice as well, with the shooting, explosions and so on. The difficulty is tough, especially when you have a lot of stuff going on around you, and bullets flying everywhere, that's typical with shoot em ups, but it makes it action packed and keeps you moving all over the place. The controls are very well done, responsive, and not slow at all. Playing this on MAME, and using my PlayStation 3 controller I had really no issues at all, the controller layout is nice as well, and very simple to understand.

Earth Defense Force is great. The game is a very action packed, side scrolling shoot em up. The game play is awesome, the difficulty is nice, the graphics are really good, the music is awesome, the sound effects are great, and the controls work very well. The only thing I wish and I count this as a flaw, the game is too short. I can playthrough it in about 45 minutes. Maybe 3 to 6 more levels would of been very nice, but then again if you are playing this in the arcade, it's tough enough where some will just play it here and there and not spend all the credits like I did to beat the game, unless they are really good. If you love shoot em ups, especially ones that can be tough, and you love arcade gaming, definitely check out Earth Defense Force either playing it on MAME or the Super Nintendo port, the game was released on the Wii and Wii U Virtual Console so you can also pick it up there.

While you gave a good overview of the game, reading it wasn't very user-friendly. Next time consider dividing your review into more paragraphs - people usually divide them according to the metrics (graphics, music, story) they evaluate. Also how would the game compare to other similar games on the SNES? Your description of the graphics was too succinct for us to actually know how they stand, by themselves and compared to others.