Contra Hard Cops was a direct inspiration! these days I've been playing a lot of cContra in Genesis emulator(along with the Alien Wars in snes) but Hard Cops in particular is insane in the boss department, their animations and transformations led a bit to the idea of these giant machine bosses. Also Gunstar Heroes was another inspiration. Run n gun games are the definition of cool hehe
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Run and gun games are 100% the definition of cool! And I truly can't say enough how much I loved Probotector (I actually knew it as that before I knew it was called Contra Hard Corps) hehe. I agree the bosses were fantastic! It had multiple routes through the game and even bosses that only showed up if you had more than one player playing. A work of art. Alien wars was awesome too.
Great ones to be inspired by.