(PCE) Image Fight

Released in 1988, a year after R-Type, Image Fight is a vertical shoot’em up from Irem that was ported to PC Engine in 1990.
The game starts with 5 stages, if the player finishes them with an average kill score of 90% or better can proceed to the following final 3 stages; the ship can acquire a special pod in the same way as seen in R-Type, that provides a more powerful laser weapon and also there are pods that can be set alongside the ship, the blue one just points forward while the red one aims itself to the enemies.