After stretching our brains with Pururun and its gelatinous blobs, it’s time for pure adrenaline with the sixth game of our One Credit Challenge: Armed Police Batrider, an intense vertical shoot ’em up that will put your reflexes to the test.

Armed Police Batrider is a vertical manic shooter released in arcades in 1998, developed by Raizing and published by Eighting. As the spiritual successor to Battle Garegga, this title stands out with its impressive roster: nine standard pilots plus nine unlockable characters taken from previous Raizing games. Each character pilots a flying jet bike (a Batrider) with their own shot and bomb characteristics.

Universe & gameplay

The action takes place in 2019 on Zenovia, an artificial island near Manhattan that has turned into a crime-ridden slum. Nine fighters are recruited as “Zero-Cops” to face the forces of GiganTech and their ultimate weapon, “Discharge.”

The game offers four modes (Training, Normal, Advance, and Special) with a team system inspired by The King of Fighters: you select three characters, each acting as one life. The power-up system is based on Shot and Option items, with five different levels. Depending on the mode, the game features up to 18 bosses, destructible environments, and a rank system (dynamic difficulty).

🏆 Challenge rules

Your goal is to achieve the highest score using a single credit.
The challenge runs from November 16th to November 30th at 11:59 PM. You can attempt as many runs as you like.

📢 How to participate?

• Launch the game (ROM batrider)
• Play and try to beat the best score
• Take a screenshot or a photo of your final score
• Share your score on the #challenges Discord channel along with your username and score

⚖️ Rules to follow

To ensure fairness:

Scores must be achieved using a single credit, with no save states, no rewind, no cheats, and no auto-fire (unless the game includes auto-fire by design).

Gentlemen’s agreement: using glitches that artificially inflate the score is also forbidden.

🎁 Rewards & fair play

The challenge’s purpose is above all to discover games, share tips, and of course, have fun — all in a friendly competitive spirit!

The winner will receive a game key (GOG, Steam, etc.) chosen from a list of about 100 titles.
If you have won a challenge in the last three months, the reward goes to the next player.

Your ranking will be added to the One Credit Challenge leaderboard.
The champion of the first season will win either an RGB Dual 2 or one year of Recalbox Patreon membership.

Good luck to all, and may the best score win!