There are mental effects at play, too. Men can get too anxious or, as I find more probable in anon's case, too used to getting a lot of different visual stimulation
"Bro we're totally winning bro, trust me bro, we just need another 1 trillion USD in missiles bro, trust me bro, this time the regime will totally fall bro, we'll even send troops to ensure that bro, plz bro just 1 trillion USD"
Being ambitious isn't always about becoming rich, just so you know. "I want to win gold at the olympics" is ambitious. "I want to join the Cirque du Soleil" is ambitious. Wanting to be among the best of any given field is ambitious and not necessarily about money.
Speaking of Metal Slug, Gunforce 1 and 2 are other spiritual prequels to that game (especially 2) and might fit as cyberpunk for you - or at least sci-fi (they even have some screams that were later reused in MS)
I would say that Strider fits cyberpunk. Osman is a similar game and might also fit
Not sure Numan Athletics would fit, but I can totally see it as "official sports in a cyberpunk world"
Undercover Cops has a very gritty aesthetic (also reminiscent of Metal Slug) and the first boss is a cyborg.
Something to note is that a lot of sci-fi in Japan in the late 80s and early 90s started to mix with magic and demon stuff, or some sort of alien biotech, it's very easy to find examples of that in anime and games (like contra 3), but these themes were rarely consistent through the entire game, it was more common to find a bit of everything thrown together
Not arcade, but Neon Inferno might be worth checking out
