Cyber Troopers Virtual-On
Virtual-On is structured similarly to a Versus fighting game. Two Virtuaroids (mecha) face each other on a stage. The player uses a variety of firearms, explosives, melee weapons, and other techniques to destroy the opponent for a set number of rounds, usually a single battle or the best two of three rounds, as in fighting games. The game is played with two joysticks, called twin sticks. Each stick is equipped with a trigger and a button on the top of the stick.
Story
The game is set in a dystopian future in which Earth is controlled by corporate syndicates. Humans who want to free themselves from this rule colonize other planets. On one of these colonies, a powerful technology is discovered that is being used by an extinct ethnic group. One of the corporate syndicates, DN, reverse engineers the technology and uses it to build combat robots called Virtuaroids. While testing this new technology, the central computer in the test complex becomes self-aware and activates the sun cannon to destroy the civilization. The DN orders its top personnel to take control of several Virtuaroids and use them to take out the rogue computer.