Bronco, also known as Bronck, Bronko, Buronku, Buronko and Lunar, is the boss of the City in Ruins in the first R-Type mission. It's a R-craft-sized disposal machine with a large radar dish in front. This radar dish, constantly on the move, shields the unit from damage, including Wave Cannon shots. It's accompanied by Sonar. Bronco has no offensive or defensive capability of its own. The battle consists of dodging garbage debris, avoiding Bydo Shots from the Sonar, and taking potshots at Bronco whenever possible.
In some versions, the garbage being dumped is decommissioned/damaged Bydos, large heaps of scrap metals and even includes POW units that, despite their condition, still have power-ups, thus it is possible to fully power up during this battle. In the Game Boy version, the pieces of debris are their own enemy, and this is not possible. Combined with the Sonar units being invincible, this makes things considerably harder, especially if lacking a Bit Device .
Similar to Blender ( the wall-boss of R-Type II' Additional Base) and Recojunator (the wall-boss of R-Type III: The Third Lightning' Fire Cask Factory).
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A run away disposal machine. Its control system is broken and it will attempt to dispose of anything.