Man this game is really hard. I have to hold down C the whole time while I'm watching the Simpsons in another window. My finger is getting tired. I must have a roll of pennies around here somewhere.
Since there's pretty much nothing I can do about getting stars/avoiding birds this is just another launch game where I leave a roll of quarters on the space bar and come back in 5 minutes to see what I've won.
In real life, when a rocket brushes against my top hat I usually regard that as a "near miss". The exacting standards of this game only serves as an example of these critters' courage and resolve in their mission to... um... what was the goal of this game supposed to be?
I really like how survival mode simulates what it's like to play video games as a blind person. I survived for almost 20,000 meters without throwing my computer at a wall.