I played this on an "Apco" apple IIc clone... The joystick was this horrible beige brick with two mushy red push buttons and a sloppy poorly centered joystick.
I blame that controller for never letting me get this far.
Whenever I meet a woman, it takes every ounce of my will to fight the reflex to drop into a Tae Kwon Do defensive posture. This game taught me that there was another way.