SydLexia.com - The Forums :: View topic - Favorite Gradius/Parodius, or any space shooting Game?

Posted: Aug 28 2006 06:15 pm

First, does anyone play Gradius or Parodius as much as I do?

Second, I think Gradius 3 is the best. I picked it up back in '91 and I was so hooked!

Especially these kinds of bosses.

I don't know about Gradius 4 or 5, because I don't have a PS2.

To the few who doesn't know what Parodius is, Go here.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parodius_series It will weird the shit out of you once you look!＾＾

Posted: Aug 28 2006 06:51 pm

Either Gokujyou Parodius or Sexy Parodius. No, Sexy Parodius is not a porn game.

Posted: Aug 28 2006 08:24 pm

Gokujo Parodius was released in Europe, in English, as "Fantastic Journey" Find that.

And I have Sexy Parodius.

Posted: Aug 28 2006 09:42 pm

I don't really like horizontally scrolling shooters after playing radiant silvergun and ikaruga. I usually play LifeForce / Salamander, because it has a mix of top down and horizontal, and hey, it's life force, can't go wrong there.

Dodonpachi is awesome.

G Darius is a good horizontal scroller.

Posted: Aug 28 2006 09:48 pm

Ikaruga was top down, wasn't it?

Posted: Aug 28 2006 09:56 pm

I remember playing Earth Defense Force on my SNES and Abadox on the NES (used the invincibility code the day I got it and finished it within an hour. I was pissed).

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I liked Life Force on the NES.

Use the Konami code, bitches!

Posted: Aug 28 2006 10:01 pm

Yeah, so was radiant silvergun. They're also both treasure games, so you know they're fucking impossibly hard

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Avian wrote:

I liked Life Force on the NES.

Use the Konami code, bitches!

Agreed.

Posted: Aug 29 2006 12:47 am

I had Phalanx for the SNES. There was an old banjo-playing guy on the cover art.

Posted: Aug 29 2006 12:54 am

I like the R-Types myself.

Posted: Aug 29 2006 06:06 am

The R-Type games kick ass. And the Darius games.

Posted: Aug 29 2006 05:00 pm

I love R-Type, but is Super R-Type too damn hard, or do I just suck?

And Salamander/LifeForce is how I got hooked onto Gradius in general.

And speaking of Vert shooters. does anyone play games from the Raiden series?

Raiden Trad on the SNES is awesome, and the music is well done too.

Posted: Aug 29 2006 05:01 pm

I like raiden, raiden DX and raiden fighters, I've played them all a ton. I like the purple homing laser thing in DX.

Posted: Aug 29 2006 05:48 pm

Cool!＾＾ A buddy from overseas gave me the Windows 95 port of Raiden 2 (released only in Japan)

And Raiden 3 for PS2 is coming out this fall.

Posted: Aug 29 2006 07:51 pm

Raiden is cool, but it's not really a space shooter. If we're doing all flying games though, I'd like to through the Strikers 1945 series into the ring as well as Gunbird 2.

Posted: Aug 29 2006 11:21 pm

Half of Raiden 1, 2, DX, and 3 (the ones I played) takes place in space, therefore, qualifing it as a "space shooter", but I am talking about all of people's faves.

And I've played Gunbird 2, but what is Strikers 1945?

Also, I thought you were talking about Capcom's 1942 and 1943, also good games.

Posted: Aug 29 2006 11:30 pm

The Capcom's 194X series is good too. Strikers 1945 is a series of 4 shooting games released by Psikyo, the company that did Gunbird 2 as well as the original Gunbird.

Pretty much any Psikyo shooter is good times.

Psikyo also released Cannon Spike, a rather underrated Smash TV style game licensed out from Capcom that stars Cammy and Charlie.

Posted: Aug 29 2006 11:46 pm

Oh yeah! Is that a SNK Neo-Geo game? I think I played that..