After you accomplished some missions, you had enough money to buy a docking computer. From then on when you got close you just pressed a button and it would dock automatically, playing The Blue Danube waltz just like in 2001.

I think we could say that of any of the games back then. Love/hate relationship because they were so great and yet so unfair.

The Angry Video Game Nerd's video on Ghosts N' Goblins sums it up well.

I've only just realized how wrong the physics was on that. If your ship is already rotating at the same angular velocity as the space station, then it doesn't make sense that you have to keep tapping left to maintain it.

It also would have been nice if it either counted you docked before the window filled the whole screen, or at least provided some sort of inner line/box so you could see what the rotation was doing in the final half second...