Nebulasray/Gameplay

Controls

 * Joystick: Use the 8-way joystick to direct your Fighting Rays around the screen; they are always moving forward, but you can direct them anywhere.
 * Firing Button: Use this button to make your Fighting Ray fire shots at the enemies; you have to press this every time you want to fire a shot at them.
 * Bomb Button: Use this button to make your Fighting Ray launch a bomb at the enemies; if it doesn't have any bombs, this button will have no effect.
 * 1 or 2 Player Buttons: Push these buttons to begin the game as player 1 (red), or player 2 (blue); if only one player was present, it will say the other player score was 7650 (Namco's goroawase number) on game-over, and it will also say that both players' scores were that value in the attract mode.

Fighting Rays
These two ships are the protagonists of the game; Player 1 controls the red one on the left, while Player 2 controls the blue one on the right. Unless they are shielded, they will lose one life whenever they take a hit from an enemy (or anything that is fired at them by one).

Capsules
When one of these is destroyed it shall leave a powerup behind; there are nine different types of powerups and all but one of them have a letter on them to indicate what they do. Three of them can be collected until their letters change to the word "FULL" (but will wear off if you are killed), while four of the others shall cause a counter that starts at 999 but decreases very quickly to appear under your score (and will wear off once it reaches 000, or if you are killed while it is decreasing), the eighth one gives you a bomb (up to a maximum of seven), and the ninth one (which is the only one in the game to not have a letter upon it, but if it did have, it would likely be "P") only seems to be worth extra points.