Third thread this week about recommendations, lay off, is what I thought before I made this thread, but I was planning on having I like to call a Shmup-a-thon. Basically, I take tons of shmups of any type and play them all, not in any specific amount of time. Any type of shmup too. If you could recommend more after my list, it'd be appreciated. Side note, most of the games on the list are Freeware, if you could recommend some games that aren't but any recommendations of Shmups are fine. My list so far:
DoDonPachi Dai Ou Jou
Mushihimesama Futari
Warning Forever
Mogura 2
Reflex
eXceed
White Butterfly
Garden of Coloured Lights
Touhou series
Shuusou Gyoku
Kioh Gyoku
Banshiryuu
Samidare
Uwabami Breakers
Moedan
Parodius series
Darius series
Cotton series
eXceed 3rd Jade Penetrate
Tails Gear
Yakuga 4
Blue Wish Resurrection
Armed 7 (Help finding this game too?)
Edens Edge (Dunno where to get this one)
Alblation
Clean Asia
eXceed 2nd Vampire
Genetos
Demolition Gunner (Help me find this game?)
End Effector: Accomplished Edition
Ether Vapor
Gradius series
Gamma Bros. (Really fun game)
eXceed 2nd Vampire REX
Titanion
Vacant Ark
Arachnos
Asougi
Beautiful World
Excellent Bifurcation
Hyper Wars: The Mega Firestorm
La Soeur de Barrage
Touhoukokuhuugi
Trouble Witches
Bike Banditz
Blue Sabers
R-Type series
Mushihimesama
DonPachi
DoDonPachi
DoDonPachi II
Do-Don-Pachi Dai-Fukkatsu
Neutral-Bob
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Posted:
Oct 07 2009 08:24 pm
I always loved playing what shoot-'em-ups I could get my hands on however I never reached the levels of greatness others have. One of my favorites is Recca for the NES. I don't think it was released stateside however it's worth checking out if you can find a copy of it in some form.
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Ba'al
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Posted:
Oct 07 2009 08:31 pm
Einhander
Bio-Hazard Battle
Cybernator
Axelay
Sol-Deace
Thunder Force IV
Phalanx
Zero Wing(Why not?)
Off the top of my head.
Douche McCallister
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Posted:
Oct 07 2009 08:45 pm
Ikaruga and Castle of Shikigama
Syd Lexia
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Posted:
Oct 07 2009 08:57 pm
Castle of Shikigami III
Radio Allergy
Strikers 1945
Strikers 1945 II
Mazinger Z
Gunbird
Gunbird 2
U.N. Defense Force: Earth Joker
And I'm pretty sure Darius/Parodius/Gradius/R-Type aren't so much freeware as they are pirated ROMs, but I could be wrong.
I'm currently trying to learn to adjust my vision to Raiden Fighters Jet. Some of the fighters just launch to fucking much shit at one time and I cant see a fucken thing, but the others are sweet.
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Posted:
Jul 02 2010 10:59 pm
Hydorah, a freeware horizontal shmup. To quote the site, "The whole game takes obvious influence from Gradius, Castlevania or R-Type, but also from other classics treated worse by the time: Turrican, Enforcer, Space Manbow, Hellfire, Guardian, Hydefos, Armalyte and many others..."
