The Burai, a race of evil super-brain aliens, have launched their plan to conquer the universe with their army of half-organic, half-robot creatures - the robo-mutants. It's up to the player to stop them! Strap on your jet pack, and get ready to become the ultimate Burai Fighter.

Burai Fighter Deluxe is an scrolling shooter game. The levels are side- and vertical-scrolling with pre-designed layouts. The player is armed with a variety of weapons, including different guns (laser, missile, ring) and the powerful cobalt bomb which kills everything on screen.

The top-down stages from NES version are not included. The "Deluxe" part refers to the added versus multiplayer mode through the link cable functionality that is included with this Game Boy release.