And when you started the game your Captain counted down in real speech from three to one. So far so good. It reminded me immediately of Rainbow Islands. It is a vertical scoller where you have to collect diamonds and reach the top where you are beamed up to the next level. You don't need to collect all the diamonds but when finished each diamond is worth 1000 points.
Timing is important.
You will see this on the first level where the beams are. But nevertheless collecting the diamonds isn't that difficult. There are 12 caverns with diamonds and some baddies. I encountered in the first 2 caverns gigantic worms and spiders. They are easily killed by jumping on their head but they return when you fall back too far.