History Main / CoresAndTurretsBoss

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** The boss came back in {{Kirby's Epic Yarn}} during a spaceship scrolling stage. This time, your ship's fire could harm it.

* VideoGame/StarFox 64:

* In ''BreathOfFire IV'', the main party is forced to wage combat against a computerized security system, which consists of two giant metal boxes that cast spells.
* A boss early on in ''{{Rayman}} 2'' is a weak version of this. It spits out bombs with small helicopter blades on top that fly towards you (no, really). To defeat it, you have to grab a "[[ExplodingBarrel keg]]" and throw it at one of three [[AttackItsWeakPoint cartoony bandages]] on the side of the machine. Doing this will power down the electric cage which has trapped [[DamselInDistress Ly]].
* ''{{Einhander}}'' has a ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WelBBsVEbQ#t=01m05s mook]]'' like this. Twice during the second level, you have to face off a [[CoolTrain massive train car]] with respawning turrets and a [[AttackItsWeakPoint control tower]]. To beat it, you have to destroy the control tower while being careful not to shoot down the radar on top, or else the tower will retract for a few seconds and come out with a new radar.

* [[CastlevaniaLegacyOfDarkness Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness]] had the "Security Crystal" which consists of a large, central crystal and several self-repairing turrets of various types placed around it.

* In the Registered version of ''[[RaptorCallOfTheShadows Raptor: Call of the Shadows]]'', the Outer Regions set of levels features a number of non-Giant Ship bosses, all but one of them being heavily armed fortresses spraying [[BulletHell generous helpings]] of [[EnergyWeapon plasma]], [[WaveMotionGun heavy lasers]], [[MoreDakka bullets]] and [[MacrossMissileMassacre missiles]] at you. And yes, the FinalBoss is also one.

* ''Rockman4MinusInfinity'' has the Serges Devil, which combines the PlatformBattle with this trope.

* ''ResonanceOfFate'' has one in the penultimate chapter. Lots of turrets, one core.

* The ''{{Contra}}'' series is known to include many of them. The first ''Contra'' game had one at the end of stage 1 (defensive building wall), stage 2 (and to get to this, more cores and turrets have to be blasted), and stage 7.
* ''{{Zanac}}'' has one to six fortresses by the end of every level which consist of cores shooting stuff at player.
* ''TheGuardianLegend'''s first boss also is a boss with several turrets shooting football-shaped stuff at you.
* JourneyToSilius has one at the end of stage 3 which shoots tons of lasers.
* ''VideoGame/MegaMan2'' has Buebeam Trap which can become {{Unwinnable}} if crash bombs are wasted. Then there's Square Machine in ''4'' and 'Rounder 2 in ''6''.

* A more obscure game for the NES, ''Jackal'', consisted almost entirely of this kind of boss.
* ''{{Metroid}}'', of course, has Mother Brain. In most of the games she's appeared in, she just sits in a tank and lets her turrets and Rinkas do the fighting for her.

* ''{{Bosconian}}'' is one of the earliest examples of this type of enemy, but not in a BossBattle: you had to search every level to find the bases and destroy each base's core or the ring of six turrets surrounding it.
* The ''{{Xevious}}'' series has the {{recurring|Boss}} Andor Genesis and its FinalBoss variants.

** In the sequel, ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'', GLaDOS takes this a step further by assuming the position of BadBoss of a modified Personality Core (Atlas) and Turret (P-Body), two robotic test subjects, making her [[AWorldWidePunomenon the Core and Turret's Boss]].

* The boss of each stage in the NES ''LegendaryWings'' is a moving wall with a core that opens and closes, and turrets that shoot eyeballs and shrimp-like things. The FinalBoss is a teleporting core surrounded by four turrets, similar to the final battles in the later ''Mega Man'' games.

* The recurring final boss of the ''VideoGame/{{Raiden}}'' games is a space fortress with a [[PowerCrystal red crystal core]] guarded by multiple turrets and sometimes smaller crystals. The crystal itself typically unleashes BulletHell on you for its [[TurnsRed final attack]].

* The Cheplin airship in ''Adventures of Tom Sawyer'', which is also an UnexpectedGameplayChange.

* ''DigitalDevilSaga 2'' has about three fights against security doors with turret duos with the last one havering a third turret that can put you in a world of hurt.\\

* ''SuperAleste'' has two examples: Lono, a grid of nine turrets at the end of Area 2; and Rubar, a Mode 7 spinning fortress at the end of Area 7, with six turrets and a core. Only one turret attacks at a time, however.

* ''SuperAleste'' has Rubar, a Mode 7 spinning fortress at the end of Area 7, with six turrets and a core. Only one turret attacks at a time, however.

* ''SuperAleste'' has a Mode 7 spinning fortress at the end of Area 7, with six turrets and a core. Only one turret attacks at a time, however.

** Too bad Kirby doesn't have the Laser Ability from {{Kirby}}'s Adventure anymore, huh?
* The CPU/Attacker/Defender inside [[spoiler:the Giant of Babel]] in ''{{Final Fantasy IV}}''.

* ''ForgottenWorlds'' has the God Rah (4th boss), which is a giant egyptian boat with several turrets, a closing-opening "door" and the hawk-headed god itself serving as the core one needs to shoot.
* ''ThunderForce II'' had free-roaming overhead stages in which the objective, much like ''{{Bosconian}}'', was to seek out the many-turreted enemy bases and shoot out their cores to destroy them.
* The recurring final boss of the ''{{Raiden}}'' games is a space fortress with a [[PowerCrystal red crystal core]] guarded by multiple turrets and sometimes smaller crystals. The crystal itself typically unleashes BulletHell on you for its [[TurnsRed final attack]].
* ''ZeroWing'' does this with the reactor boss at the end of Stage 5.

* ''RockmanNoConstancy'', a RomHack of ''Rockman 2'', also has the Buebeam Trap.

* ''RockmanNoConstancy'', a RomHack of ''Rockman 2'', also has the Buebeam Trap.

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* ''RockManMinusInfinity'' has the Serges Devil Machine, which combines the PlatformBattle with this trope.

* ''TalesOfSymphonia'': The Defense system, guardian of Toize Valley mine.

* ''Game/MegaMan 2'' has Buebeam Trap which can become {{Unwinnable}} if crash bombs are wasted. Then there's Square Machine in ''Mega Man 4'' and 'Rounder 2 in ''Mega Man 6''.

* ''MegaManZero'':
** ''Mega Man Zero 4's'' first boss is the turret system defending the squad sent to destroy the caravan Zero is protecting. There is a [[{{Mook}} Pantheon]] merged into the core, but it doesn't move.

* ''{{Portal}}'':

** In the sequel, ''Portal 2'', GLaDOS takes this a step further by assuming the position of BadBoss of a modified Personality Core (Atlas) and Turret (P-Body), two robotic test subjects, making her [[AWorldWidePunomenon the Core and Turret's Boss]].