I'm fairly sure that was.
Spriggan's overall framerate & speed are reportedly helped by the arcade card, even though it came out 3 years sooner.
This thread deserves a mention of Nexzr.
The well-done opening cinema features a tragic prologue taking place in 2012 (!) where you lose your squadron, including a cute female squadmate- and jumps ahead to 2015 where you're back at it to kick the enemy's ass. While Nexzr sticks to mostly space-type environments for its stage backdrops, the truly challenging gameplay (a thinking shooter, like Pulstar, Viewpoint, etc. but with vertical scrolling) takes center stage here. Nexzr's soundtrack is great, especially the stage 3 theme. One cool subweapon is a couple of pods that pitbull the enemy Battle Garegga/Musha style. Unfortunately the cutscenes are taken out of the later Nexzr Special rerelease for some lame reason, but this one does offer caravan modes.
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