General and Gaming => Classic Video Games => Topic started by: richvgs on February 23, 2015, 07:26:06 pm
Title: Sega Genesis' SHMUPs
Post by: richvgs on February 23, 2015, 07:26:06 pm
Hi everyone. I'm moving into more focus on the Sega Genesis as I keep hearing about all the SHMUPs the console. Can anyone recommend some quality or standouts from the pack as I know there are way too many to try and chase down.
Title: Re: Sega Genesis' SHMUPs
Post by: abe on February 23, 2015, 07:39:06 pm
If you watch any of Lord Karnage's (Mark Bussler's) Classic Game Room reviews on YouTube, Truxton is one that should be forever ingrained into your mind as one of the best Genesis shmups. M.U.S.H.A. is another good one, but it's rather expensive now unfortunately.
Title: Re: Sega Genesis' SHMUPs
Post by: betelgeuse on February 23, 2015, 07:40:51 pm
Here's some that I enjoyed:
Fire Shark Gaiares Thunder Force III Lightning Force Whip Rush
Title: Re: Sega Genesis' SHMUPs
Post by: burningdoom on February 23, 2015, 09:26:20 pm
^ To add to that great list:
-Bio Hazard Battle -Raiden Trad -Wings of Wor
Title: Re: Sega Genesis' SHMUPs
Post by: fauxshot on February 24, 2015, 02:17:31 am
If you watch any of Lord Karnage's (Mark Bussler's) Classic Game Room reviews on YouTube, Truxton is one that should be forever ingrained into your mind as one of the best Genesis shmups. M.U.S.H.A. is another good one, but it's rather expensive now unfortunately.
I was just thinking of Mark's channel. XD
He reviews a lot of SHMUPs across quite a few consoles, so I would also give him a recommendation if you aren't already watching the channel on YouTube.
Title: Re: Sega Genesis' SHMUPs
Post by: asmodean on February 24, 2015, 03:15:32 am
Bio-Hazard Battle Empire of Steel Gynoug Thunder Force IV Truxton Robo Aleste (CD) Silpheed (CD)
Title: Re: Sega Genesis' SHMUPs
Post by: bikingjahuty on February 24, 2015, 05:56:12 pm
MUSHA Arrow Flash Lightening Force Thunder Force 3 Trouble Shooters Gaiares Sagaia Raiden Trad Philios
Title: Re: Sega Genesis' SHMUPs
Post by: zenimus on March 09, 2015, 04:57:33 pm
Gaiares might be my favorite shooter on Genesis. But there's some really great ones that no one's mentioned:
Elemental Master Awesome music, great graphics, cool fantasy setting. One of the best hidden gems of the system.
Viewpoint A port of the excellent Neo Geo title, the music in this keeps you moving.
Grind Stormer Possibly the only game in existence (outside Neo Geo games) that lets you switch to the original Japanese mode if you desire.
Title: Re: Sega Genesis' SHMUPs
Post by: evilnick on March 10, 2015, 09:12:03 am
A long-time favorite for me was Forgotten Worlds, which was like a "shmup version of Contra."
In reality, the game is not particularly good--it has flaws all over the place mostly from being a very early Genesis game, and a Sega-helmed conversion of a Capcom arcade game, but it has it's charm and my brother and I poured countless hours into it when we were kids. It also has a unique bug that gives you infinite lives--play the game in two-player and literally the only way to get a Game Over is for both players to die or be dead at the same time.
Title: Re: Sega Genesis' SHMUPs
Post by: stealthrush on May 27, 2015, 08:39:09 pm
Forgotten Worlds, Trouble Shooter, M.U.S.H.A. are some of my favorite NA shmup releases.
Title: Re: Sega Genesis' SHMUPs
Post by: thecrypticodor on May 28, 2015, 09:30:43 am
Hellfire is an awesome horizontal SHMUP, also one that doesn't seemed to get mentioned all that much. Probably because of it difficulty it's one of the harder SHMUPS on the Genesis.
Title: Re: Sega Genesis' SHMUPs
Post by: yancakes on May 28, 2015, 01:24:50 pm
Also, it's not quite a "shmup" but you're in a ship and you shoot things up, Subterranea is friggin' amazing in terms of both gameplay and it's got style out the butt.
Title: Re: Sega Genesis' SHMUPs
Post by: maximo310 on May 28, 2015, 05:41:23 pm
A long-time favorite for me was Forgotten Worlds, which was like a "shmup version of Contra."
In reality, the game is not particularly good--it has flaws all over the place mostly from being a very early Genesis game, and a Sega-helmed conversion of a Capcom arcade game, but it has it's charm and my brother and I poured countless hours into it when we were kids. It also has a unique bug that gives you infinite lives--play the game in two-player and literally the only way to get a Game Over is for both players to die or be dead at the same time.
I think part of the reason that Forgotten Worlds doesn't hold up as well is that it was the first game on Capcom's CPS System (I) so it's got a lot of setpieces designed to impress the player with the new graphical power of the pcb as part of the game. The Genesis port of the game is alright, although I feel like the difficulty is really uneven in many places, and it doesn't help that the final boss has a 6-laser pattern that is impossible to dodge most of the time.
Title: Re: Sega Genesis' SHMUPs
Post by: dreama1 on May 29, 2015, 05:38:55 pm
Grind stormer is the best shoot em up on the sega genesis I would say. Probably the most graphically impressive shoot em up as well for the genesis. Check that one out.