Rayforce

Manufacturer: Taito
Year: 1993
Class: Wide Release
Genre: Scrolling Shooter
Type: Videogame

Monitor:

Orientation: Vertical
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: Taito F3 System - JAMMA
Number of Simultaneous Players: 2
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Joint
Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player
Controls:

Joystick: 8-way
Buttons: 2 [Gun|Lock-On Laser]

Sound: Amplified Stereo (two channel)

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Rayforce Description

A vertical shoot-em-up where you fly spaceships through space and to the center of the techno-earth while blowing up enemy ships. Excellent graphics and gameplay. The lock-on secondary weapon is very well implemented in this game.

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Cheats, Tricks and Bugs

The general object of the game is to try and blow-up enemies with your lock-on lasers before the foes scale up to your level and become a threat. Also, shooting some boss' weak points kill them faster (for example: a boss hangs over an abyss - shoot his claws off and he will fall).

Game Introduction

In the future, the humans have moved inside the earth to avoid the ruined environment and their new invention, the "matter generator" sustains them. The computer that controls the matter generator has decided to kick all the humans out. Your job is to pilot your awesome spaceship to the earth, over the surface, and into the center to destroy the computer.

Game Play

The game has tons of scaling effects. Enemies on your plane can be shot down with your guns while enemies in the background or below you can be locked on to (with a target floating in front of your ship) and then destroyed by a homing laser. Multiple enemies can be locked on to at once and then destroyed in a barrage of lasers multiplying the score by two for each one blown up in succession. Red ships and capsules release laser icons and red or yellow pyrimids to power up your lasers and guns.

Miscellaneous

Both sequels use similar play but have polygon graphics, which look spectacular but do not control quite as well as Rayforce. And the gameplay of locking on to some enemies and shooting down others is lost. Rayforce has extremely good graphics and music and is very difficult and presented wonderfully (with dramatic un-interupted level changes and transitions to this and that). And the earth explodes at the end. Awesome! Home conversion is on the saturn called Layer Section in Japan and Gallactic Attack in the United States.

VAPS Arcade Census

GAMES OWNED, WANTED, or FOR SALE BY MEMBERS OF THE VIDEO ARCADE PRESERVATION SOCIETY

Scarce - There are 3 known instances of Rayforce owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 3 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Of the 57,121 video games (3,420 unique) tracked by the Video Game Preservation Society, this game ranks a 3 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on ownership records.

Wanted - We currently do not know of any VAPS members that have gotten around to adding this game to their wish list. The wish-list system is fairly new (not all VAPS members have filled one out) and there are probably a number of collectors who might purchase this game if offered one at the right price. There is one VAPS member looking for a Rayforce circuit board set.

Rarity is NOT necessarily an indication of value. Some common games show up as very rare here because collectors don't want them (they are common because arcade operators might be sitting on tons of them in warehouses), while some fairly scarce games are grabbed by collectors every time they show up. Additionally, some games made in the last 5 years are still making money for operators and are thus not yet affordable to the typical collector. For a clue to value, compare how many people have this game vs. how many people want this game and then click on the eBay links to help determine an accurate price range.

Technical

The board has a test button on it and then all the game settings including the volume are on screen.

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Legacy

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