Compiling amiga shmups

corpsicle · Post by **corpsicle** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 7:47 am

The topic has been up before but ive been building on it.
www.gasm.info/corpsicle/shmups.txt
Thats my current list of amiga shmups.
Anyone got any more to add to the list ?

Herr Schatten · Post by **Herr Schatten** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 8:54 am

corpsicle wrote:The topic has been up before but ive been building on it.
www.gasm.info/corpsicle/shmups.txt
Thats my current list of amiga shmups.
Anyone got any more to add to the list ?

You rather should remove some of them. Alien Breed, Cabal, Chaos Engine, Desert Strike and lots of others in your list are not shmups (unless you interpret the term very loosely).

The only one missing I can think of offhand would be Lethal Xcess. But I'm sure there are more.

Btw, we already have a quite comprehensive list of Amiga shmups in the Xenocide Files at shmups.com. Why not have a look at it?

corpsicle · Post by **corpsicle** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 9:48 am

Heh, checking the list here revealed 46 games i didnt have installed.
And about 20 - 40 that i cant even seem to find.
Is the games on that list confirmed to be amiga games ?
Or could some of them be "from memory" ?

Herr Schatten · Post by **Herr Schatten** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:28 am

corpsicle wrote: Is the games on that list confirmed to be amiga games ?
Or could some of them be "from memory" ?

No, I'm sure they're all confirmed.

It's quite possible that some of them never made it to any download sites, though.

Post by **Shatterhand** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 2:13 pm

Nah, none of those games are that hard to find on intenet. It's just that Amiga games, in general, aren't as easy to find as say, SNES roms.

But they are all in Tosec.

Like Herr Schatten said, lots of games in this list aren't shmups. I could list them, but I am in a bit of hurry now

There are also lots of stuff missing. Banshee, X-Out, Blastar, Frenetic, Overkill, Sidewinder, Sidewinder 2, Alert, Apache Flight, Gemini Wing, HATE, The Hunt for Red October, P-47 Thunderbolt, Tubular Worlds .... and still a lot more.

The Amiga has LOTS of obscure shmups which were all released commercially, not to mention all the Freeware shmups.

A good place to start seraching is in HOL : hol.abime.net

corpsicle · Post by **corpsicle** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 6:29 pm

Yes i looked at HOL and couldnt for instance find any mention of a Raiden port.
Im gonna try to hunt down the 40 something games im missing.

sancoa · Post by **sancoa** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 7:20 pm

Darius was also released for the Amiga. Zeewolf and Zeewolf 2 would probably be classified as borderliners, you might want to take a look at those games.

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 8:46 pm

Look also here. It may not be the most complete, but it's the best analysis of the whole picture:

http://www.amigachapterone.com/amiga/do ... _liste.htm

and another thing you'll appreciate is that it takes the "shmup" definition the correct way

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 8:52 pm

Great project Corpsicle!

If you haven't already done so, check out the Amiga Hall of Light:

http://hol.abime.net/

Its the most extensive Amiga game database I've ever seen.

BTW, I noticed that you included one of the Alien Breed games, I thought those were borderliners?

Post by **Shatterhand** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 1:57 am

Well, that list is still incomplete, but a whole much better

The problem with HOL is that they don't have a "shmup" gente, just a "shoot'em up", and then include borderlines on this, like Alien Breed.

Oh, and Raiden was never released on Amiga. It was planned, there's a demo of it around, but it wasn't published.

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