Yeah, the game's old challenges would be mostly gone, no doubt. But you would have a hard time avoiding crashing into the walls. Gradius fighters lack inertia, and the level designers relied on this.
First image: I know from a reliable source that this is what the Windows XP Beta loading screen looked like. Second image - that's for you, Elvish. You said you wish that every corporate leader dangles from chains.
well this is the only star control photoshop I've ever done sorry it's in ping format, but I'm too lazy to convert it. that shouldn't be surprising when you see how lazy the photoshopping was LOL