Shmups!

[AthlonMan]

My copy of Truxton arrived the other day box + game but sadly no manual.

It still plays great

Edit - Also, I bought Dodonpachi resurrection for Xbox. I gotta say, it not a very nice game. I wish they'd just do a straight Arcade port of the original donpachi/dodonpachi.

[GooSE]

This was probably my favourite game on Commodore 64:

[dexster]

this thread is one of the main reasons the dreamcast and saturn get regular use :P

some of my all time favorites are (were) in the arcade

1942
raiden 1 (did not like 2)
strikers 1945 (2 was very good as well)
soukyu gurentai - saturn (terra driver)
in fact there is a heap on the saturn/dreamcast (most mentioned already)

but i also like the horizontal scrolling too
ie
un squadron - snes
salamander - saturn
r-type - on various but snes is a favourite

another good game that i think has not gotten a mention is super probotector for the snes (contra 3 on ntsc/if you want to find it on emulator);
not sure if it is a shmup but still a classic

[Shaetano]

Bit of a thread bump..

I started playing Flying Shark....this game makes me feel like I have 0 skill

[Rory K]

Here's a few I used to play, going all the way back to primary school for at least 2 of them:

Clean Asia, a Cactus game (if you know him, then you know what I mean ) with 2 very different ships and 3 very different stages.


Invasion Of The Mutant Space Bats Of Doom, still one of my favourite video game titles, and one I loved to play in primary school


Tumiki Fighters, has an interesting mechanic involving breaking off parts of enemy ships and attaching them to your own.


Go Beryllium, a rhythm-based atomic shmup


There was one other shmup I used to play in primary school, I remember having fantastic fun with it but can't for the life of me remember the name it was a tate shmup, with large bosses, called... Commander something, or Captain something... I remember a huge red crescent-shaped boss that took up most of the top half of the screen. It was a PC game. Halp?

[elvis]

Yay for thread bump, and yay for Kenta Cho shooters!!!

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/index_e.html

[Sledge]

my favorites are Truxton, Time Pilot, Galaga, Hellfire, and Thunder Cross.

[two40]

Where do you guys buy your sticks from? Trying to source a local supplier of Seimitsu LS-58 but not having luck. Some carry the 32 but not much else.

Are there any international stores with decent shipping rates?

[elvis]

Originally Posted by two40

Where do you guys buy your sticks from? Trying to source a local supplier of Seimitsu LS-58 but not having luck. Some carry the 32 but not much else.

Are there any international stores with decent shipping rates?

From my little friend in Hong Kong, Fannie, who works at ExcellentCom

http://www.excellentcom.net/

Originally Posted by Sledge

my favorites are Truxton, Time Pilot, Galaga, Hellfire, and Thunder Cross.

A couple of Toaplan titles in there I see. Whilst they're not around today, they still rate in my top 10 favourite dev companies ever.

Check out some of their other awesome titles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toaplan

Of note, many of the Toaplan staff went on to form two other awesome companies: Cave and Eighting/8ing/Raizing (yes, that one company has three names).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAVE_(company)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8ing/Raizing

[two40]

Originally Posted by elvis

From my little friend in Hong Kong, Fannie, who works at ExcellentCom

http://www.excellentcom.net/

Thanks Elvis. Looks like a decent store. They don't seem to have the LS-58 I'm after. So far only focusattack have them along with some ebay sellers.

http://www.focusattack.com/seimitsu-...oystick-clear/

Any other HK etc stores that are worth a look and a bookmark?

[elvis]

Welink are the other mob I buy from (I generally only buy Sanwa though)

http://welink.cc

But they do sell Seimitsu I'm pretty sure.

[Supplanter]

Tyrian is open source now. It plays great on my Xperia Play.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ode.opentyrian

https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/tyrian/id319007240?mt=8

[Pbx_Jnr]

Apart from being absolutely obsessed with Invasion Of The Mutant Space Bats Of Doom, Raiden, Tyrian and Raptor, there was another game that occupied a bit of my time... and I LOVED the game music!!! (the amiga one sounds a buttload better too)

XENON 2

[dacow]

Originally Posted by Pbx_Jnr

XENON 2

movie

LOL I was just thinking this game and was busy searching the thread for Xenon 2 and your post appeared!

Being a Sierra and PC Fan boy, Silpheed anyone?

[Sledge]

Originally Posted by Pbx_Jnr

XENON 2

not sure how it relates to Xenon 2, but a little while ago they were giving away this: Xenon 2000 - Project PCF