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CAR SHMUPS?!

Hell yeah, I'm all for that shit!
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Not as rare as boat shooters, but somewhat rare nonetheless. If a company were willing to make a car or motorcycle shooter in this day and age, would you be down? Just think, a Cave-style combo system and instead of popcorn drones to keep the chain going you could run over pedestrians or innocent pets a lá GTA. Yes, I need professional help.
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Post by ST Dragon »

Well, Video System's “Turbo Force” featured some vice innovations for the time (1990) like 3-Players simultaneously and an interesting build up power up system, but you didn't have to run over pedestrians / pets.

You've been playing Carmageddon lately?
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Post by Eight One »

Just imagine Spy Hunter...presented by Cave!
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^ *dies* :shock:

I mean, Cave games are wicked enough with a joystick... but maneuvering via steering? :o
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Minzoku wrote:^ *dies* :shock:

I mean, Cave games are wicked enough with a joystick... but maneuvering via steering? :o
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I vote for Cave making...............*drum roll*.........

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Post by Ganelon »

Eight One wrote:Just imagine Spy Hunter...presented by Cave!
Yeah, isn't this idea exactly like Spy Hunter? Autoscrolling, avoid obstacles, drive in car, shoot stuff?
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Post by TWITCHDOCTOR »

Yea, it could be cool. As long as its a more traditional style shmup.

Now that I think about it, there's a cool car shmup for the Japanese NES...
I forget the name though.
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Post by TVG »

not saying anything against the quality of the game, but turbo force looks very corny.
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Post by professor ganson »

Or, in the spirit of cutting back on consumption of fossil fuels, I propose a bicycle shmup. Or perhaps a snow-sled shmup. If it were a traditional shmup, I'd be there. Perhaps with a Code Name: KND license.
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Post by Andi »

It's a way more popular genre then boat shooters. Of course there is Spy Hunter, but also Super Spy Hunter (Battle Formula) for the NES, which is much more of a traditional shooter style game than Spy Hunter, and Highway Hunter (90's PC game), which is very similar to Battle Formula but is slightly more intense.

As far as motorcycle games, the only one that comes to mind is Thundercade. It plays almost exactly like a motorcycle version of Tiger-Heli (only worse). I've only played the NES version which isn't very good but the arcade release might be better
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Andi wrote: As far as motorcycle games, the only one that comes to mind is Thundercade. It plays almost exactly like a motorcycle version of Tiger-Heli (only worse). I've only played the NES version which isn't very good but the arcade release might be better
the arcaderelease ispretty good yeah :)
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Post by GateofThunderforceIII »

The first Batman for the Mega Drive/Genesis had horizontal Batmobile shooter levels and for the Batjet also...I guess it can work if done right. But vertical would probably work better.
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Battle Mobile for the SNES. Ugh.
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Eight One wrote:Just imagine Spy Hunter...presented by Cave!
Just imagine Spy Hunter.... RAIZING!


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err, Armed Police Batrider anyone? :-)
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Post by it290 »

If anyone's ever played Vice: Project Doom for NES, that game has a couple of Spy Hunter-style shooter levels. Sweet game overall actually, it combines Spy Hunter, Ninja Gaiden, and Operation Wolf into one tasty package.
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Post by dave4shmups »

ST Dragon wrote:Well, Video System's “Turbo Force” featured some vice innovations for the time (1990) like 3-Players simultaneously and an interesting build up power up system, but you didn't have to run over pedestrians / pets.

You've been playing Carmageddon lately?
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I LOVE Turbo Force! I first played this game at a Rec. center near my house, about 15 years ago, and I was hooked! :D It's quite a shame that it never got a home port, unlike some of Video System's other shmups, because it's more then worthy!
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Post by dave4shmups »

it290 wrote:If anyone's ever played Vice: Project Doom for NES, that game has a couple of Spy Hunter-style shooter levels. Sweet game overall actually, it combines Spy Hunter, Ninja Gaiden, and Operation Wolf into one tasty package.
Word, Vice: Project Doom is easily one of the best action games for the NES, if not one of the best games for the system.

Super Spy Hunter, for NES, is also great-I like it a lot better then the first one.
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Post by Andi »

dave4shmups wrote:Super Spy Hunter, for NES, is also great-I like it a lot better then the first one.
I agree. However, (someone correct me if I'm wrong) Super Spy Hunter was not actually a sequel to Spy Hunter. The original Japanese version was called Battle Formula and was unrelated to the Spy Hunter franchise. When Sunsoft localized it for the U.S. they attached it to the Spy Hunter franchise to give it a familiar name to U.S. audiences.
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Post by elvis »

I dug "Action Fighter" on Sega's Master System. You started off as a motorbike, and then collected powerups to turn into a car, and from there more powerups to turn into a plane. You could either bump into cars on the ground, or shoot them.

We used to play that for hours as kids, but never get enough powerups to turn into the plane, because the car bit was the most fun!

HAHAHA! Play it here!

http://www.everyvideogame.com/play-sms- ... 5B!%5D.htm

That is damned cool! :D
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Post by Eight One »

Guys, what about Last Duel? (At least for the majority of the levels where you command the trike)

Does Thundercade/Twin Formation make the cut?

Firepower 2000/Super SWIV and Silk Worm? (Jeeps, baby!)
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Post by it290 »

Ah yes, I forgot Last Duel. Not a bad little game overall, although it can be frustrating. I used to play it all the time on my C64, and actually I prefer that rev to the arcade version.
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Post by ED-057 »

Highway Hunter was a decent shareware car shmup for MS-DOS. It'll run too fast on a Pentium or above though so you'd need an emu or slowdown program to try it.
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