Played a game, it worked pretty well! I'm awful at these style of games anyway, so I didn't last super long. Did get the high score though! :D
One thing I noticed was the backer names got to be 9 characters and the high score names are limited to 8? Weird.
While I played, since controlling your ship was so hard, I just mashed myself into a corner and shot as much as I could... it worked OK, but probably not as much for later levels.