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''500 points.'' (''850 points if Box containing Power Chip is rammed'')  Boxes will typically appear on the screen for every 16 enemies destroyed (2 enemies need to be destroyed to make them appear for the first time).  They typically occur in threes, but it is not uncommon for them to appear alone as well.  Boxes can have three different contents.  Either they are empty, or they contain a Power Chip, or they contain two bullets that will fly forward when the box is destroyed.  Boxes take five shots to completely destroy.  However, you can determine the contents of the box after shooting it only three times.  The box will begin to blink after taking three shots.  If it flashes white, it contains bullets and if it flashes red, it's empty.  The Zanac ship will only survive a collision with a box if it contains a Power Chip. Boxes that come in sets of three usually arrive every time certain amount of enemies are destroyed.

''500 points.''  Sart crafts dive halfway down the opposite side of the screen that the Zanac currently occupies.  They stop for a brief moment before traveling back up to the top of the screen.  If you destroy them,  the power level of the enemy will decrease slightly.  The effect isn't noticeable until several Sarts are missed.  Additionally, if you have more than 10 power chips, Sarts will be replaced with Cargos.  Occasionally, they will tranform into Blue Landers under the right conditions when you shoot it. If you shoot the very first Sart at the beginning of the game with your special weapon without ever firing your standard gun, it will transform into a Blue Lander. Note that Zart is also an aerial target and therefore crashing into it isn't a good option.

''The conditions to make a Blue Lander appear are technically simple, but complicated to explain.  The formula, for those who wish to know, is if the number of standard shots fired since the beginning of the game modulo 64 (i.e. divide by 64 and take the remainder), is equal to the 1000's digit of the score.  This means you only have a 10 in 64 chance of this even being possible, since the 1000's digit can only ever be 0 through 9.''

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''No points.'' When you collect these, Zanac will equip the [[Zanac/Special Weapons|Special Weapon]] corresponding to the number in the tile. Additionally, the ship will become temporarily invincible for roughly five seconds.  If you collect a tile that corresponds to your current weapon, the level of that weapon will increase (up to a maximum level), and the amount of ammunition or time permitted will be set to maximum.

Once per level (except in Area 7), you will encounter a Type 2 icon, which has a a big grin. If you shoot it, it too will release an Enemy Eraser.  If you immediately come into contact with this Enemy Eraser, it will act as a normal Eraser. However, if you wait a few seconds, the center of the Eraser will disappear. When you touch the remaining outside shell, you will instead be warped to another level and be invulnerable during the warping process.