also known as Android Assault - The Revenge of Bari-Arm
Sega Mega-CD
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Reviewed in 1992
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✪ Reviewed on September 12, 2024
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Android Assault is a very high-quality vertical shoot'em up on MegaCD. Impressive visuals, varied power-ups and sumptuous bosses. One of the best shmups available on the console. Essential.
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Shooter1 player12+
Description
A ship piloted by an android AI faces extraterrestrial invaders in this polished horizontal shoot'em up. Published by Renovation, released in Japan in May 1993. Horizontal shoot'em up with ship transformation into two modes, titanic bosses, high-quality CD soundtrack. Japanese edition.
A vertical shoot'em up from NCS, known in the West as Android Assault, ranked among the Mega CD's best-regarded shmups for its visuals, bosses and CD soundtrack. This original Japanese release predates the Western edition and remains the version sought by Sega shooter enthusiasts. Its appeal rests less on raw scarcity than on reputation: a genuinely strong shmup on a format with few of them, with value sustained by enduring genre demand.
Is Bari-Arm still worth playing in 2026?
A horizontal shoot-em-up from Renovation, Android Assault offers a ship piloted by an android AI against waves of invaders, in a polished production leaning on the Mega-CD. The snappy shooting, the ship's transformations and the driving CD soundtrack make it a solid, readable shmup in the genre's good tradition. The content stays a bit short and the difficulty tough. A delightful pick for fans of retro horizontal shooting and the curious about the Mega-CD catalog.
