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Battle Bakraid

Battle Bakraid
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Title screen of Battle Bakraid
Developer(s) 8ing/Raizing
Publisher(s) 8ing/Raizing
Designer(s) Shinobu Yagawa
Composer(s) Atsuhiro Motoyama
Platform(s) Arcade
Release
  • JP: April 7, 1999
  • JP: June 8, 1999 (Unlimited ver.)
Genre(s) Scrolling shooter
Mode(s) Single player, 2 player Co-op
Cabinet Vertical
CPU 68000, Z80
Sound Yamaha YMZ280B
Display Raster, 240 x 320 pixels, 2048 colors

Battle Bakraid (バトルバクレイド Batoru Bakureido?) is a vertical scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game by Eighting released in 1999. It is the sequel to the 1996 arcade game Battle Garegga. Players control one of nine fighter jets and shoot enemies, collect power-ups, and defeat bosses to advance through the game.

This version adds 5 extra fighters and special course, unlockable by using following codes:

There exists 64,000,000 score upper limit in the initial version and has been removed in the unlimited version.

The capitalist nation of Randa has long had a history of excellence in the creation of aircraft, attracting the best of engineers in aerodynamics, artillery, and structuring from the world over. Once, even this interest had waned, until the creation of the air show Bakraid, in which the capabilities of the fighters could be demonstrated outside of simulations for all to see.

Around the time of the seventh Bakraid, a nearby nation, Deneb, had attained an expansionist attitude, forcibly subjugating and annexing several of its neighbors with the assistance of the Shtarterra Security Council. Recently, Deneb has asked to participate in Bakraid. Randa's defense council, perfectly aware that this is just a pretext for Deneb to get its and the SSC's engines of war into Randan borders and more easily prosecute their war from there, give their blessing. However, the council secretly contacts the other Bakraid participants, offering even more prize money than normal if they will perform in a special version of Bakraid—genuine war conditions. In other words, use their own top-of-the-line planes to shatter Deneb's schemes. In all, nine pilots accept this plan, and begin Bakraid two weeks early to catch Deneb unaware...


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