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Burai Fighter

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Also known as
Burai Senshi ブライ・ファイター 無頼戦士

A multi-directional shooter where you battle alien robo-mutants across scrolling and top-down stages.

Burai Fighter was released for the NES in North America in March 1990 and in Japan on July 20, 1990; no earlier commercial release of this exact NES version exists.


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Released
1990
Genre
Perspective
Side view, Top-down
Visual
2D scrolling
Size
64.14 KB
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About Burai Fighter

Burai Fighter is an arcade shooter where the player opposes an alien race known as the Burai. This enemy faction employs hybrid organic-robot soldiers called robo-mutants in its campaign for universal domination.

The game operates with a control scheme allowing shots to be aimed in eight directions. A sustained press of the fire button continues the attack in the selected direction without requiring repeated input.

Level designs primarily consist of side-scrolling and vertical-scrolling stages with fixed layouts. A secondary mode features a top-down perspective with environments that are procedurally generated, introducing variety. The player's arsenal includes multiple gun types, such as laser, missile, and ring weapons, alongside a screen-clearing cobalt bomb.

Burai Fighter Screenshots

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Title screen
Japan Title screen
Set the game difficulty.
Your mission starts here!
Shooting some giant flies.
It’s getting serious now…