Awesome pick, it's an amazing game
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Awesome pick, it's an amazing game
I have tried two things: - putting like 3 games (total) in my RG and sticking with them - putting a lot of games and hitting "random" and sticking with the pick ... Neither work lol So now I'm just picking things I like to play. I stopped RPGs on these bc I never have the time.
I feel that :(
Some people really like tea. There are tea houses they can go to to sample different flavors and varieties of tea. People have their own tools for preparing and consuming tea. Brewing tea has a particular process and everyone has their own techniques. #Shmups #stg
I don't see why you attach that behavior to shmuppers - plenty of these guys around in all genres, as long as there's a way for them to feel superior.
Demo Day 64 is here. I'm sharing an early development preview of MARRAS. The demo link is in the first reply to this post. It may have bugs and incomplete features and could change. I'd appreciate your feedback to help improve it. Please spread the word! #Shmup #STG #Demo #MARRAS
Achievements have been a blight on gaming.
What was the name? WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE GOOD SHMUP?!?
I'm not sure I should be thanking you for yet another shmup in my backlog 😶
Good news! Cosmo Dreamer Like Dreamer And all the games by this dev. Though they're more Touhou-like than Cave-ish.
Yes lives system are the basis of shmups. Remove the lives and there's just not any point to the game. And I say that as someone who generally dislikes lives and loves shmups.
There are a few shmups (Tac/Scan, Star Jacker, Shoot1Up) where you control all your lives at the same time. It's pretty cool.
Did you try the "tiny best set" you can find around?
There's the Astro City Mini V, but as much as I like the thing, I wouldn't call it a proper port, considering the massive input lag...
Yeah it's really good, at least as much as GG Aleste 2. It's also "cheating" in the sense that it's much larger than any other game on the system, since they don't have to take rom chip cost into account.
So I was messing around with Compile's Aleste games last night and realized that in North America, the games were released under so many different names it's not obvious they're part of a Japanese series. So here's a quick guide to them - they are most DEFINITELY worth your time! (A thread)
Cool! SaiDaiOuJou is incredibly good, and a real motivator to learn and improve despite the very high difficulty. I still can't get past stage 4 even in novice though, lol
OKAY NO I'M CRACKED I'M CRACKED I'M FUCKING CRACKED HOLY FUCKING SHIT WHAT THE FUCK I'M FUCKING IMPROVING
Have you played Cotton Reboot High Tension? The risk/reward system is pretty good, I think.
La prochaine fois faut leur dire que c'est interdit et c'est 135€ d'amende haha non je déconne il s'en fout www.service-public.fr/particuliers...
Faut lui dire que c'est 135€ d'amende haha non qu'est-ce que je raconte il en a sans doute rien à foutre www.service-public.fr/particuliers...
J'ai adoré The Lost Crown, je lui ai trouvé un petit côté "Hollow Knight mais accessible".
Oh :(
KILL THE RICH. SAVE THE WORLD
www.deviantart.com/vandrell Too bad they seem to have disappeared since 2016.
Beautiful retro video game #shmup art by Daniel Vendrell Oduber. Pictured: Gaiares, Phelios, Aleste and Arrow Flash. See the DeviantArt "Vendrell" profile for more paintings.
Coconut Beach (Outrun GB [Homebrew], PC-GBC, Rocketship Park, 2025)
Quand en Europe 😬😬😬
Yesterday I learned there is a Legend of Kage 2! I need to try it.
It's pretty good! A Xevious-like where you bomb cracks in a space structure until it breaks, then drop down a level, until you get to the ground. youtu.be/61Lvu5ZWSpw
Star Jacker (Sega, jul 83) A variant on the Tac/Scan concept, where the player controls several ships at the same time, but in a classic vertical scrolling shmup Xevious-style, with ground and air shots. The game is simple, but fun and pretty well done. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bgm...
Sky Lancer (Orca, jul 83) You control an astronaut falling down in the middle of the screen and can fire on the sides, so a downward-scrolling shmup. It's ugly, not fun and very repetitive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4vO...
SF-X (Nihon Game, jul 83) A free-movement horizontal shmup like Defender, but ugly as sin, slow, repetitive, and boring. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WEt...
I could make a joke but go look at @egvroom.bsky.social 's Game Boy Color version of Out Run. Then go download @egvroom.bsky.social 's Game Boy Color version of Out Run.
I feel like what publishers took away from Baldur’s Gate’s success is that every game needs to have like 5000 hours of content, instead of the much more valuable takeaway imo: you need to let players have sex with a demon lady and a man who turns into a bear
Tu peux faire des arts martiaux avec une perception pourrie des distances, tu vas juste pas faire de la compète. La plupart ont des pratiques "lentes" en entraînement, et beaucoup ont des composantes solo (ex les katas en karaté).
Incredible read, well worth a few minutes of your time.
Juno First (Konami, jul 83) A game that reproduces the aesthetic and intensity of Defender, but with a vertical scrolling, and much more simple: no base to defend, no bomb, etc. It's pretty fun still, but a bit basic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H81t...
Battle Cruiser M-12 (Sigma, jul 83) A sort of modernized Depthcharge where you control a ship at the top dropping missiles towards the bottom. It's fine and plays well, but in 1983 you expect a bit more from shooters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID7v...
Oh man now I want a new one :(
Thanks! I liked the little I saw of Mach Breakers in emulation, I might give it a try
If you like Numan Athletics & Mach Breakers, give this a read If you don't like Numan Athletics & Mach Breakers, give this a read and then you will change your opinion
Aren't these trivialized by using autofire? I feel they're more interesting in multiplayer when you're against a human?
This week's Arcade Archives release is a big one- Namco's Mach Breakers, the 1995 sequel to Numan Athletics. Mash the buttons and test your timing and reflexes as you compete in wild and over-the-top events as superhuman athletes! Dreamwidth post! tepidsnake.dreamwidth.org/25933.html
Apparently the mobile versions are still in review. On Android I'm using Pulsar, it's not incredible but it gets the job done.
It was generic fantasy but at least it had its own identity with phyrexians and later eldrazis. Now it's just a mish mash of external IPs that don't belong together.
Sure, but my brain is fine accepting that I won't listen to every music or read every book, but it cannot stand that I won't play every game? Like, I want to get good at some shmups but I also want to try 100 others. I have RPGs in my backlog that I'll probably never play despite wanting to.
I wish I could be like that. I'm too easily influenced and I sometimes buy a game just because I see someone say it's good. Well, the good part is I often get good surprises and play great games like that, between all the "why did I buy that"
Waiting for the "dead game" comments in a week or two
the no man's sky reddit has been particularly fun
Or do you binge Technopolis and scan Silksong ? 🤔
Ambush (Tecfri, jun 83) The first clone of Buck Rogers, with multiple phases but poor controls, making the experience pretty miserable. Too bad, it had nice ideas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kdb...
Ah ben bon courage alors :o je passerai l'info si j'entends parler de quelqu'un qui recrute sur ces technos.
Quels languages/technos ?
Je me demande régulièrement comment serait écrit le manga aujourd'hui. Est-ce que Light aurait quelque chose à foutre des criminels ? Est-ce qu'il partirait en croisade contre le fascisme ou est-ce qu'il tuerait juste ceux "qui en font trop" ?
Dev en quoi ?
Star Wars (Atari, may 83) One of the rare American shooters to be a hit in Japan, it reproduces the end sequence of the movie in an on-rails sequence where you move a target. It's fun but way too short, and pretty hard to control using modern pads. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhBu...
Night Star (Data East, april 83) A vertical scrolling shooter with nothing special and very repetitive. There's going to be quite a few of these nothing-games in these years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnzP...
That's exactly what he did
Ok, here's the real answer. 2025 is the first year where PS5 Monthly Active users are higher than PS4. Was equal last year. Even though we are 5 years into the PS5 lifecycle, non-PS5 devices still have 46m MAUs, primarily engaging with and spending on live service titles. Slower upgrade curve.
I like to be really whiny here and claim that either the SNES is 8-bit because the 65c816 has an 8-bit external data bus or the Genesis is 32-bit because the 68000 has internal 32-bit capability (Atari actually claimed this, classic)
Just finished this and.. Damn. This is a mighty fine game. Not perfect, but the game is a literal blast to play. A fun run and gun with some item collection thrown in. Just tearing everything down with the Psychogun rules. The devs put so much love into it. It’s better than it has any right to be.
Is Telenet Shooting Collection 1 worth anything?
Real gamers play Darius in tate mode
The SG1000 (basically a Colecovision) and Famicom released on the same day in Japan. I cannot comprehend how anyone would lump them in the same generation.
Why yes of course I will pass through what clearly looks like a bullet without being hit. Multiple times. Why do you ask?
Vu que ces gens ne payent que très peu de taxes, c'est pas un problème qu'ils partent de toute façon.
I always liked the notion that danmaku wasn't invented for the sake of truly crushing difficulty, but rather to make shooters more visually enticing and thrilling. It's a little sad that these types of games got assumed by onlookers to just be completely impossible instead.
The best programmers are often autistic because there's a strong overlap btw what's needed to be good and what autistic people enjoy doing. I can't speak for trans people.
And in portrait mode! Probably to display the engineer's selfies, no doubt.
Chez @shmupemall.bsky.social on revient avec un nouveau pan de la Darius Cosmology, consacrée à Gun Frontier & Metal Black, avec le programmeur Takamasa Hori. shmupemall.com/dossiers/dar...
Even if you believe that he was right and SoJ was wrong, conflating his departure with Sega exiting console business five (!) years later is a huge stretch.
I think it's unfortunately impossible for neurotypicals to understand. They just cannot comprehend someone having a non-physical difference.
@cpi.pinball.horse
Bio Attack (Taito, april 83) Under licence from Fantastic Voyage (a 1966 movie), you fight diseases as a tiny ship inside a body. It's very ugly for the era, and the gameplay is very basic, but the concept is fine, I guess. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcAM...
Yamato (Sega, march 83) Your move the bow of a battleship to target ships in the distance. The controls are confusing, the gameplay is very static, you can't really dodge anything, I really didn't like it, but maybe I missed something. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDLA...
Tech giants are a threat to democracy and the autonomy of countries
They're actively targeting creators who call in & banning them, making it even more important to call if you're a customer & not a creator Tell them they shouldn't be dictating how you get to spend the money you put your blood, sweat, and tears into earning
Dont remember about final but I've played several games where a boss was a ICBM.
This story of one coder's 16-year effort to make an emulator for a largely forgotten laser disc video game system is a fun reminder of the mountains people will climb simply "because it's there." www.readonlymemo.com/this-is-the-...
At this stage, a lot of MAME updates are things like English pub fruit machines or godforsaken 2000s plug'n'play crap, but every now and again you get a goodun.
Can't speak for the level of excess noise though. I don't know your disability so you'll have to check for yourself.
Gun Frontier Like Dreamer Cosmo Dreamer Cotton Reboot Hazelnut Hex Gunbird Dragon Blaze Barrage Fantasia Rangerdog EspGaluda 2 Mushihimesama Space Moth Vasara Shikhondo Also take a look at Danmaku Unlimited 3 and Metal Black, even if they're space themed they're far from boring
I have the opposite issue: everything above easy is "way too hard" 🙈
He hasn't made much waves lately. Not that I'm complaining. If he could just never do anything publicly remarkable that would be great.
Even during the 16bits era the trends had shifted towards more long-form gaming, though. Even Sonic and Mario got save slots. And the best sellers list of PS1 has a lot of adventure and rpg games. I think Sega failed to recognize that with the Dreamcast and its focus on arcade ports.
Well it depends, sometimes they do. Sometimes enemies just fire more bullets and/or faster ones. Even when boss patterns add more things they are often faster as well, and it can make them unnecessarily difficult or even easier than before by creating larger gaps. But I'm not an expert lol
Most shmups change number or speed of bullets when changing difficulties but it can make the difficulty unbalanced, and completely change the feel of patterns, forcing players to learn new routes instead of just making them harder to execute.
Are you not familiar with the genre ?
I hope you'll add settings to NeoGeo games because AoF2 is *brutal*
A good shmup is very hard to do. Just check out how many bad shmups there are (which is 90% of them).
Mega Zone (Konami, march 83) The first copy of Xevious, using a tank instead of a spaceship, making us go around obstacles instead of flying over them. There's a light powerup system, a "mega" item making the tank more powerful, & a screen-clearing item. It's okay. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CKC...
Oh, if only I had some time besides all the unfinished projects I currently have... 🥺
Can I interest you in some shmups bsky.app/profile/cosm...
Here is a list of shmups that I think are great beginners or casual entry points in the genre, with easy difficulties or features like rewind. I'm still a bad shmup player myself. All are available on Switch, most are also on PC and/or PS4/5.
Ghost Blade is a very good game to go from easy to normal to hard, the difficulty is really smart. It's a bit generic design-wise but it's a good game besides that.
Yeah I know of the place but I never dared to post there, it's pretty intimidating.
There is no "meta progression" and no randomization (unless it's an actual roguelitke shmup).
Congrats! Was it on easy?
Just checked out USG, a shmup with one heck of a style. I’ve only played a bit but I’m enjoying myself so far - and I’m loving the colors store.steampowered.com/app/2837160/...