the cutting room mirror

Burai Fighter

Burai Fighter is a side-scrolling shooter which allows you to shoot in eight directions, released in 1990 with gratuitous Japanese on the box and title screen. The horror!

Despite the very limited CHR ROM space, the developers still managed to sneak the company's logo in. The way it's stored suggests it was meant to appear on-screen somehow, but no code to display it has been found.

Regional Differences#

US

Japan/Europe/Australia

The Taxan logo present on the intro screen in the US version was removed from all other versions, as each one had a different publisher.

US/Japan

Europe/Australia

For the password system, the PAL version removes the vowels but adds some consonants.

Stage Intro Transition#

Careful, you'll lose an eye.

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In the US version, a split effect occurs between the stage number screen and the stage itself.

References#


  1. Mean Machines - Issue 8↩︎