Nebulasray/Walkthrough

Namco's 1994 vertical scrolling shooter arcade game Nebulasray is divided into six stages: Exeo Area, Evergrenes Area, Lost Marinarc Area, Sandvurn Area, Stream Drive Area, and Master Fortress Area; one player can play it alone with either Fighting Ray (red for 1P and blue for 2P) or two players can play simultaneously with both of them. Both Fighting Rays start out with three bombs (indicated by the "B"s at the bottom of the screen), and can amass up to five more by collection of Bomber ("B") powerups, that some of the Capsules will leave behind when killed - and they will also receive 10 points for every hit they register on an enemy (in addition to the point value the enemy is worth if the hit kills it), as well as an extra life at 150000 points by default (but this can be changed to 150000 and 500000 points, 300000 points or even disabled altogether). Therefore, if you are using MAME to play the game you may wish to set the "EXTEND" option in the game's options menu to "150000 & 500000 PTS" in order to increase the chances of survival; but once you have defeated Teki Zensen Kichi (the "Master Fortress") at the end of the sixth stage, and seen the ending sequence, an extra stage (known as the "Challenging Area") will start (it's similar to the "The Bosses Strike Back" and "You Ain't Leavin' This Town Alive" stages in Konami's Crime Fighters and Vendetta except you do not have to fight all the bosses over again). If you are playing the game alone, another player will not be able to join in and help you at this point - and if either player loses their last life on this stage they will not be able to continue so all their hard work would have been for nothing.