Jake, you are a LEGEND!!! That's exactly it!!! Now I need to do some googling and find out how to finish the first level! As a kid I managed to destroy all the robots on the first ship but then couldn't figure out what I had to do to finish the level... I'd basically spin circles until my energy ran...

As a kid I had an Atari 520 ST game where you were a robot on a spaceship - you had a top down view of the ship and its rooms... you went around the ship either shooting at the other robots on board or connecting with other robots to steal their bodies (your old body blew up and you took over theirs...