NeoGeo Pocket shmups?

zubiac · Post by **zubiac** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 11:14 pm

Are there ANY beside "Cotton"?
I can't believe that such a great handheld has/had only 1 darn shmup.

oh, and how is Cotton for NeoGeoPocket btw?
good or bad?

thanx in advance

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 11:24 pm

Nope, Cotton is the only one.

It's pretty good actually, amazingly faithful to the arcade original, apart from the low color palette.

Still, unless you're a huge Cotton fan or you really need some shmupping on the go, I think it's better to get the PSX direct port, or the PCE port, which I think is even better than the arcade version due to the better soundtrack.

EDIT: There's the two Metal Slug games for NGPC, of course. Not exactly shmups, but you do get to shoot lots of stuff.

zubiac · Post by **zubiac** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 10:31 am

thanx.Maybe I'll hunt down "Cotton" if it's really that good.
and for portable metal slug gaming i stick with the gba version.

M0nk3y · Post by **M0nk3y** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 12:02 pm

Yeah, I'd probably still have a NGPC if there were a couple more shooters. Cotton and MetalSlugs are great, but the system needed a couple more solid shooters, preferably including Pulstar/Blazing Star Pocket.

Great joystick/pad on the system though; better than any other handheld (and most home consoles).

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:48 pm

M0nk3y wrote:Yeah, I'd probably still have a NGPC if there were a couple more shooters. Cotton and MetalSlugs are great, but the system needed a couple more solid shooters, preferably including Pulstar/Blazing Star Pocket.

Great joystick/pad on the system though; better than any other handheld (and most home consoles).

Yes, NGPC ports of Pulstar and/or Blazing Star on it would've been ace. ^_~

Perhaps, a homebrewed NGPC shmup title from one of our talented shmuppers into game programming, anyone? (Of course, it would take a PC and a NGP "flash" cart to pull that shmup game stunt off.)

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 3:51 pm

zubiac, I love my Cotton for NGPC, but I doubt it's worth the price it usually fetches-- it's a pretty rare item in my experience. You might have to pay $50 or so to get it these days.

BenT · Post by **BenT** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 3:23 am

Cotton is f'in terrible. Seriously. Collectors only, as far as I'm concerned. Well, maybe insomniacs too.

Edit: As fun as completely unsupported attacks can be, see the middle part of this old thread for a few actual well-reasoned thoughts as to why this is the case.

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NeoGeo Pocket shmups?

NeoGeo Pocket shmups?

I'd love to play Pulstar/Blazing Star on NGPC handheld...