Burai Fighter Deluxe ROM

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Burai Fighter Deluxe is a shoot ’em up video game developed by KID for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The game was ported to the Game Boy and was released in Japan on June 27, 1990, in North America in January 1991 and in Europe in 1991. Burai Fighter is a singleplayer two-dimensional automatic sidescroller. It has three difficulty levels to choose from.

At the start, the screen moves from left to right, but it can move in any cardinal direction and change directions in the same level. The player is expected to keep up, as getting stuck on the edge means the player character dies. The player starts out with a basic gun that can fire in all eight directions. Holding down the fire button locks the player’s firing direction. The player floats through space to destroy robots.

At the end of a level they must defeat a boss to continue to the next level. At times the player may find a gap at the side of the screen. When the player moves into the gap with correct timing, the orientation of the screen changes and takes them into a secret room with some power-ups. Higher difficulty levels have fewer secret rooms and more precise timing is required.

The game is fairly linear, but there are some forks in the path where the player can either travel on the left side or the right side of the screen for a little while. Some sides are more challenging than their counterparts. The Burai are an intelligent race bent on complete domination of the entire universe. They have seven facilities across the galaxy that produce their troops that are half-robot, half-animal. Only the unnamed protagonist can save the universe with his proton suit and laser gun.