Omega Boost[b] is a 1999 shoot 'em up video game developed by Polyphony Digital and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation.

In the past, an artificial intelligence named AlphaCore peacefully and silently co-existed with the human race, though its origins remain unknown.

It builds a giant shaft, the Timeshaft, on a desolate, mined out planet named ETA, and uses this to travel back in time and alter ENIAC, the first general-use computer created and considered by AlphaCore to be the first artificial intelligence.

It plans to implant a virus into one of ENIAC's vacuum tubes, thus creating a predestination paradox and ensuring its survival in the present day.

To counter AlphaCore's scheme, human scientists create the Omega Boost, a giant robot capable of traveling through time using the Direct Drive System (DDS).

Omega Boost pursues it and destroys its three forms- crystal, serpent-like machine, and finally the true form, a vaguely fairylike humanoid with wings.

Similarities between Omega Boost and Sega's Panzer Dragoon series led to a rumor that former members of Team Andromeda, dissolved in 1998, had joined Polyphony Digital.

This rumor turned out to be true as the lead designer and programmer on Omega Boost was Yuji Yasuhara,[2] who had worked on Panzer Dragoon Zwei.

The North American version licenses songs by Loudmouth, opening with "Fly" and closing with "The Road"; as well as featuring "Otsegolation" by Static-X, played during the title screen and the final boss.