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During the demo screen (or attract mode) of the 1993 arcade game RayForce, the pilot heroine locks onto an enemy ship and activates the secondary fire "homing lasers" before fading to the menu screen. The whole sequence lasts 30 seconds, and you see the enemy for like 3 of them, but the developers at Taito decided to feature a massive sprite of it to showcase in fast cut panning shots. On the pilot targeting screen there are red letters that briefly appear to say "Gearwing" before the pilot flips the switch cover and fires four lasers. Then you never encounter that enemy ship again in the game.

It's a really cool sprite which deserves its own game.

This is a mock-up of the menu screen if such a game existed.

Here is a nice DEMO of it on Twitter

Description
During the demo screen (or attract mode) of the 1993 arcade game RayForce, the pilot heroine locks onto an enemy ship and activates the secondary fire "homing lasers" before fading to the menu screen. The whole sequence lasts 30 seconds, and you see the enemy for like 3 of them, but the developers at Taito decided to feature a massive sprite of it to showcase in fast cut panning shots. On the pilot targeting screen there are red letters that briefly appear to say "Gearwing" before the pilot flips the switch cover and fires four lasers. Then you never encounter that enemy ship again in the game.

It's a really cool sprite which deserves its own game.

This is a mock-up of the menu screen if such a game existed.

Here is a nice DEMO of it on Twitter