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Summary

Space Megaforce (known as Super Aleste outside the U.S.) drops you into a classic vertical shooter where a lone starfighter must thin out an alien armada. What makes it stand out is the sheer depth of its armament: eight distinct weapons, each with six power‑up levels, yielding 48 firing configurations plus bomb upgrades. Power‑ups come as orange chips that gradually raise a weapon’s level, or green chips that boost it instantly, and the weapon’s current level doubles as your health bar—take a hit and you lose four levels, and a zero‑level weapon means instant death.

The game offers a “Short Game” mode that strips the stages down to pure scoring challenges, while the main campaign runs on three difficulty settings and includes a checkpoint system that can be upgraded to “Special Lives,” letting you respawn exactly where you fell. Background scenery never harms you, but you can be crushed between the screen edge and incoming terrain.

The Japanese version packs extra content: super‑deformed art, a longer ending, different boss names, and a few music tracks that were swapped or removed in the Western release due to similarity with New Order songs. Critics praised its inventive power‑up system and Mode 7 graphics, earning scores in the high 80s and 90s, and it even inspired a manga adaptation in 1993.

Storyline

In the year 2048 a massive mechanical sphere crashes to Earth and begins ravaging major cities worldwide. It eventually settles over the South American jungle, etching giant Nazca‑like lines into the ground while siphoning energy from the foliage and defending itself against every military assault. The original Aleste fighter proves ineffective, prompting engineers to build a new ship – the Super Aleste, known outside Japan as Space Megaforce – equipped with extraordinary weaponry. Players must pilot this craft into the sphere, destroy it, and also eliminate the alien reinforcements it summons from deep space. In the Japanese version the story follows ace pilot Raz and his mysterious alien co‑pilot Thi, a prisoner on the sphere who uses strange powers to help weaken its defenses, a subplot that was removed from the Western release.