Often, you don't hit the aircraft unless you put it in the center of your sights. I was also disappointed that the movement of the simulated guns is sloppy. They are sometimes difficult to point at the attacking aircraft. Unreal attacks Also, in each of the areas of the harbor where you are set up to shoot waves of attacking planes more waves than actually attacked the island you see a panorama of ships at anchor, the ships that you are trying to protect from the swarming planes. Well and good, but the ships are poorly rendered and you never realistically see the aircrafts attack them.
Planes fly around, ships glow and smoke, and then they sink.
It's all very muddy. Only rarely does one of the Japanese planes try to attack your ship, and none of them appears to do much damage when they do. Pearl Harbor is a decent arcade game for the price, but it also has many of the earmarks of a game that was slapped together to reach the store shelves at about the same time the well-publicized movie hit the screens. It is not the game it could have been, judging from its predecessor, Beachhead.