Hyper Duel

Hyper Duel is a 1993 horizontal-scrolling shooter video game developed by Technosoft and released for arcades in Japan by Taito. A Sega Saturn port was published in 1996. The player controls one of three characters piloting transformable fighters called Buster Gears, whose mission is to recover or destroy a prototype unit stolen by terrorist forces. The player can switch between a compact spaceship and a humanoid mecha. The game runs on the TEC442-A arcade system board. Hyper Duel was Technosoft's first original arcade game, reminiscent of its Thunder Force series, and was created by new employees who would later work on Thunder Force V.