Well, well, well. I’d not heard of this snappy little arcade indie game until earlier today, but as soon as I saw that teaser above, I had a nice flashback to the days of dropping too many quarters into a bunch of cabinets in a few too many places week after week. From watching this craziness once, I got a nice blend of Toaplan’s ancient classic Fire Mustang, a few Cave shooters galore, bits of Asteroids, Galaga and so forth and so on now rolling around in my head. I think I need to review this now. PlayStation 3, PS Vita, PC, Mac, and Linux users will all be grinning like maniacal monkeys with twitchy hands soon, as the game has a March 18 release date. Vlambeer’s got another sneaky little hit on their hands here and I’d expect it will hit all the right notes with shump fans looking for a highly customizable and crazy, challenging ride…

And in case you’re now drooling and throwing money at your monitor, well… Vlambeer has you covered on that front too. If you have a hundred friends you’d love to turn onto this game, you can drop $749 on the AIR RAID PACK that features one DRM-free download and an extra hundred (!) Steam keys you can give away to anyone you like. Yikes. I don’t think I know 100 people I’d want to give the same thing to (and they’d want money first anyway), but this is kind of… cool in a very weird way. Now, I don’t have that type of money laying around (hey, my life isn’t like a loot-dropping RPG, kids!), but if I did, I might turn into Santy Claus right about now. Hmmmmm, perhaps I can hold a telethon or something?