Image Fight[a] (also IMAGEFIGHT) is a 1988 vertically scrolling shooter arcade video game developed and published by Irem.

The following is taken directly from the NES instruction manual: On a fateful day in 20XX, the Earth's moon exploded into four large fragments and a multitude of meteors.

Their trademark evil exploits being a dead giveaway, invaders from the Boondoggle Galaxy had arrived to take over the Earth.

Image Fight was released one year after Irem's successful horizontal scroller, R-Type, and, although not directly related, the two games have some similarities.

The term OF-1 does appear in the NES version's instruction manual, as well as in the official artwork for the sequel, Image Fight II.

The game begins with five stages taking place inside a combat simulation, and the player's ability to destroy enemy entities is tested.

The defining feature of Image Fight is the Pod, a small, coloured sphere with two short gun barrels attached to it.

In 1998, Image Fight, along with another arcade game by Irem, X-Multiply, was released only in Japan as a one-disc double-bill for the Sony PlayStation and the Sega Saturn.

The arcade game was followed by Image Fight II: Operation Deepstriker, a sequel for the PC Engine Super CD-ROM² in 1992 exclusively in Japan.

In Japan, Game Machine listed Image Fight in their December 15, 1988, issue as being the most-successful table arcade unit among operators surveyed during that two-week period.

[8] Tomonobu Itagaki, creator of the Dead or Alive series, listed Image Fight as one of his five favorite games.