Batsugun is a "bullet hell" shooter developed by Toaplan and Gazelle. After a 1993 arcade release, it was ported to the Sega Saturn and released exclusively in Japan in 1996. The game is considered the pioneer of the bullet hell genre; its designers would move on to form Cave, one of the leading developers in the genre.

You can choose one of three pilots; each pilot has a ship with a different attack range/frequency. Each ship has three forms, based on the experience points collected.You power up gradually by collecting P icons and by destroying enemies which grant experience points, an unusual design for a shooting game; dying takes away a certain amount of power but gives you a free P icon. After fully powering up, gathering further experience points adds bombs and restores the ship's hitpoints.

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Alternative Titles

バツグン

Platform

Arcade

Developer(s)

Toaplan

Publishers(s)

Toaplan

Genres(s)

Shooter

NA Release Date

August 17, 1993

JP Release Date

February 17, 1993

EU Release Date

August 17, 1993

MVGL User Score

6.7 by 3 user(s)

MVGL Difficulty

3.0000

Composer(s)

Yoshitatsu Sakai

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4 User(s)

This game also exists on:
Sega Saturn

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