Metal Black

A shoot ’em up published by Taito. It is both “Project Gun Frontier 2” and “Darius III”; the game was developed by the Gun Frontier team, and there are still ties to the original Darius development. Players control the Black Fly on its mission to defeat the forces of Nemesis, in the hope of saving humanity. Players collected many small power-ups to increase their weapon’s power. Once fully charged, players could unleash a powerful beam attack that reset their energy level to zero. Bosses could also collect these power-ups and use similar beam attacks. When a player’s beam collided with a boss’s, a spectacular reaction occurred before the stronger attack defeated the weaker one.