Post your top 10 yoko/horizontal shmups!

[Green beret]

NEW EDIT:Every yoko smup can participate, that's why I change thread's title

Here are 5 yoko/horizontal shmups in random order:
Blazing Star
Progear No Arashi
Carrier Airwing
Mystic Riders
Deathsmiles
Please place them in order which you like more:)

[Captain]

Blazing Star
Blazing Star
Blazing Star
Blazing Star
Blazing Star

[_rm_]

Deathsmiles
Progear No Arashi
Blazing Star
Carrier Airwing

Never played Mystic Riders

[vinnyguy]

Blazing Star
Blazing Star
Blazing Star
Blazing Star
Blazing Star

Aye aye captain, I'll have to agree because it's the only one of the list I've played, own. Otherwise I'd have to say moon patrol is high on my list of horizontal shooters

[Stompp]

Deathsmiles (has to be on top, it's the only one I kinda survive )
Blazing Star/Progear No Arashi (love the looks of both)
Carrier Airwing (hardly played)
Mystic Riders (haven't played)

[Subterranean Sun]

Progear > Deathsmiles. Never played Carrier Airwing or Mystic Riders and Blazing Star is 100% garbage.

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

Progear blows them all away but Akai Katana Limited Ver. is the most brain-orgasmic horizontal anything ever made.

[Kino]

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[Some-Mist]

Progear is my favorite shmup of all time so I'd definitely set that as #1. Beautiful steampunk theme not really replicated in the genre often, a huge risk/reward bullet cancelling system (later modeled by akai katana but not as tight), organic flows reminiscient of the movement of spreads in ketsui. I get the goosebumps when I proc a bullet stream. Love it.
The only take it or leave it for me is the soundtrack.

I'd prob throw Akai Katana up in 2nd since it's a fun 1cc and scoring feels a bit similar to progear.

[trap15]

Blazing Star
Blazing Star
Blazing Star
Blazing Star
Blazing Star

[Hardbody]

Progear
Blazing Star (with turbo button)
Deathsmiles
Carrier Air Wing (but if you said UN Squadron id rank it num 2)
Mystic Riders

[iconoclast]

Akai Katana Zetsu
Akai Katana
Deathsmiles Mega Black Label
Deathsmiles
Deathsmiles II
Akai Katana Shin
Deathsmiles IIX
Deathsmiles Mega Black Label 1.1
Deathsmiles 1.1
Progear
Battle Traverse
(huge gap)
Games that weren't made by CAVE go here

[TonK]

Akai Katana Zetsu
Akai Katana
Deathsmiles Mega Black Label
Deathsmiles
Deathsmiles II
Akai Katana Shin
Deathsmiles IIX
Deathsmiles Mega Black Label 1.1
Deathsmiles 1.1
Progear
Battle Traverse
(huge gap)
Games that weren't made by CAVE go here

lol


Deathsmiles
Progear No Arashi
Carrier Airwing
Blazing Star
Mystic Riders (never played)

[Green beret]

This is my preference:
Progear
Carrier Airwing
Mystic Riders
Deathsmiles
Blazing Star

[Oniros]

Blazing Star
Deathsmiles
Akai Katana Shin

Those are the only ones I've completed.

[_rm_]

Deathsmiles
Progear No Arashi
Carrier Airwing
Blazing Star
Mystic Riders (never played)

Hey....

[Cee]

Gradius iv
Gradius Gaiden
Border down
Gradius 2
Salamander 2
Thunderforce iv
Xexex
Satazius
Blazing star
Metal black

[Plasmo]

smup

Not so much the topic itself, but at least this word is a new one.

[monouchi]

Hyper Duel
Thunder Force IV
Progear
Akai katana
Last resort

[davyK]

Gradius 1 I played this in the arcade back in the day but I had forgot how great this game is and rediscovered it only recently via the Saturn's Deluxe Pack. Later entries in the series pummeled the joy out of the game. G5 is a great comeback title, but going back to G1 and seeing just how much of a leap it was in game design and how much better the balance is too means this is my favourite hori ever.

Oshaberi Parodius Kind of cheating I know but I love this series and this one is the highlight for me. Not least because of the great extra content squeezed onto the Saturn version with an arrange mode, two score attack omake games, fun co-op options and gameplay features, fairy search side-quests and loads of different characters with stats tracking for all. Running commentary too!

Deathsmiles Magnificent and so accessible. The 360 version is packed with content too with BL and other modes.

Sturmwind I know this has its faults but for sheer entertainment and the pure joy of seeing what's in the next level (something I haven't felt in 30 years) this old school game is hard to beat. The lower difficulty tarriff helps too - maybe not one for highly skilled players and high score chasers, but for those of us getting on in years and slowing down this is brilliant.

R-Type R-Type's brilliant design under delivers because of the over use of levels that require learning by rote. Still highly enjoyable though.

Defender/Stargate The closest thing the genre has to non-linearity. The pace is set by the player yet it still manages to run away with you. Magnificent - and will last a lifetime.

[Imhotep]

Darius series
Border Down
Metal Black
Black Heart
Macross 2
P-47 Aces
Tengai
Blazing Star
Kaitei Daisensou
Bio Metal

[atro]

In no particularl order, here goes :

Winds of Thunder - PCE CD
Last Resort - NG AES/MVS
Blazing Star - NG AES/MVS
R-Type - Arcade
U.N. Squadron - SNES ( I actually prefer this one over the CPS version.. )
Thunder Force III - MD
Thunder Force IV - MD
Apidya II - Amiga 500
Salamander 2 - Arcade/Saturn
Xexex - Arcade

I really wish I could put Axelay in there, but it wouldn't count as it has overhead levels.

[ratikal]

No order:

Border Down
Deathsmiles IIX
Gradius Gaiden
X-Multiply
Zero Gunner 2 (yoko orientation)

That's really it, the rest would be filler.

[MintyTheCat]

random order:

Last-Resort: NeoGeo - played it the most and love it. Brilliant art design, music and atmosphere that 'made me' want to get a NeoGeo the moment I saw LR back in the early 1990s.

R-Type 3: SFC.

Axelay: SFC.

Gate of Thunder: PCE.

Thunderforce 3 & 4: MD - I like them both and cannot decide which I like the most.

Darius 2, gaiden & Force: various - with a theme that dared to be different and has become a favourite over the years.

Gradius 1 & 2: various - I have not played any of the other Gradius games but I really like part 1 for its innovation and part 2 for how
much they improved it.

R-Type 1 & 2: various - RT 1 was a ground breaker for me. RT 2 just polished everything and made things much harder - I still get nervous around the Stage 2 Boss - that throbbing vulva 'had me' far too many times It is a masochist's Shmup for sure but a pretty one.

I play more tate oriented Shmups these days.

[ED-057]

you forgot 戦国ブレード. And Air Buster.

[jepjepjep]

Blazing Star
Gradius IV
Fantasy Zone
Progear
Akai Katana
Area 88
Zed Blade

these games are all rad

... how could I forget Darius Gaiden
Gradius II
DBAC
Last Resort

[_rm_]

Deathsmiles
Progear No Arashi
Blazing Star
Carrier Airwing

Never played Mystic Riders

If it's a top 10 i would probably remove Carrier Airwing and add:

- Akai Katana
- Tengai
- Zed Blade
- Thundercross 1 and 2
- Deathsmiles 2
- Hellfire
- Andro Dunos

[Ed Oscuro]

Mystic Riders got mentioned, so let's mention Tengai / Sengoku Ace Ep 2 and Hellfire.

[DEL]

Border Down
Hellfire
R-type
X-Multiply
Gradius 2
Salamander
Biometal
Darius
P-47 Aces
Nemesis

[To Far Away Times]

1. R-Type
2. R-Type Delta
3. Deathsmiles
4. Xexex
5. Thunder Force III
6. Akai Katana Slash
7. G-Darius
8. Gate of Thunder
9. R-Type II
10. Darius Gaiden