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| pzeke:
--- Quote from: ignition365 on July 07, 2017, 08:12:26 am ---If I'm not mistaken, Phalanx is a shmup too, right? --- End quote --- That it is. Best cover of all time, too. Could go for about $15-20 on eBay. I've seem people pick it up for a far better price while thrifting. Another quite affordable shmup for the SNES is D-Force. Not the best, but certainly not the worst. I mentioned the NDS, but the Game Boy handhelds also have some nice shmups, the GBA for instance has a few gems; Gradius Galaxies and Iridion II come instantly to mind. There's Battle Unit Zeoth, StarHawk, and Solar Striker for the Game Boy, and R-Type DX, Project S-11, and Space Marauder for the Game Boy Color. All of these are relatively cheap. |
| telly:
You should consider BioMetal on the SNES. It's not very good, but it least it has 2 Unlimited as the soundtrack, so that's something? 8) |
| maximo310:
STG Primer 101 First of all, if you are comfortable with emulation, I'd recommend MAME, which supports a vast majority of 2d shmups and some 3d shmups released in arcades ( some notable exceptions being the ST-V which had an ungodly amount of input lag, and Naomi which requires another emulator named Demul and a beefy computer). If you are looking for physical copies instead, then your best bet are checking out the Xbox 360 with Raiden IV, Raiden Fighters Aces, Deathsmiles, Mushihimesama Futari, Akai Katana, and the PS2 w/ the two Taito Legends compilation, and Castle Shikigami 2, Gradius III/IV, Gradius V. Steam has a lot of indie stuff nowadays as well. Most of the other console systems don't have too much of a robust library, has titles which are available in a better format, or are just simply too expensive. I'd highly reccomend the emulation route if you are testing out shmups. It makes it easier to determine what kinds of stgs you want to own and are more interested in. In addition, you can always check out shows for more in-depth analysis of a game such as STGWeekly ( a weekly stg podcast thingy which I'm currently a part of!) |
| scoobs22:
--- Quote from: burningdoom on July 07, 2017, 01:49:38 am --- --- Quote from: scoobs22 on July 06, 2017, 11:34:50 pm --- SNES is kind of a terrible system for shooters. --- End quote --- I've never understood why this mentality seemed to prevail on the internet when the SNES actually has a fine library of shmups. Some fantastic ones off the top of my head: -Aero Fighters -Axelay -Darius Twin -Gradius III -R-Type III: Third Lightning -Raiden Trad -STG: Strike Gunner -Super R-Type -Thunder Spirits -U.N. Squadron I feel it's just a victim of it's time. In comparison to it's contemporaries, the Sega Genesis, and ESPECIALLY the TurboGrafx-16, yeah, the list comes up a little short. But compared to most systems in general, that's a fine library of blowing things up. It's just that those other 2 systems just happened to really specialize in shmups. --- End quote --- For me it's mainly a matter of how slow-paced the SNES shooters are. They're beautiful to look at, but on average they're just boring compared to what we got on the MD/Genesis and TG16/PCE. |
| maximo310:
--- Quote from: scoobs22 on July 08, 2017, 12:35:55 pm --- --- Quote from: burningdoom on July 07, 2017, 01:49:38 am --- --- Quote from: scoobs22 on July 06, 2017, 11:34:50 pm --- SNES is kind of a terrible system for shooters. --- End quote --- I've never understood why this mentality seemed to prevail on the internet when the SNES actually has a fine library of shmups. Some fantastic ones off the top of my head: -Aero Fighters -Axelay -Darius Twin -Gradius III -R-Type III: Third Lightning -Raiden Trad -STG: Strike Gunner -Super R-Type -Thunder Spirits -U.N. Squadron I feel it's just a victim of it's time. In comparison to it's contemporaries, the Sega Genesis, and ESPECIALLY the TurboGrafx-16, yeah, the list comes up a little short. But compared to most systems in general, that's a fine library of blowing things up. It's just that those other 2 systems just happened to really specialize in shmups. --- End quote --- For me it's mainly a matter of how slow-paced the SNES shooters are. They're beautiful to look at, but on average they're just boring compared to what we got on the MD/Genesis and TG16/PCE. --- End quote --- Some of the best horis on the SNES never even made it to the states such as Parodius Da, Gokujou Parodius, Twinbee, Macross: Scrambled Valkyrie. There's also Space Megaforce, which is better crafted than several other compile titles like gunhed ( blazing lasers) or musha. Some of these have different modes or loops that keep difficulty high at a decent pace; space megaforce particularly excels at this with relatively little slowdown. |
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