Shmups at school

[Zeether]

Have you ever referenced a shmup or showed a shmup in a school project/got a teacher hooked on shmups?

[Fighter17]

Have you ever referenced a shmup or showed a shmup in a school project/got a teacher hooked on shmups?

I play shmups everyday, and all my friends said "You're a god!" Mostly because I was playing DoDonPachi, and Battle Garegga. But the sad thing is that I didn't get anyone hooked to shmups.

[dementia]

I've weaned a clasmate or two onto shmups via Ikaruga. I find that's much easier to hook them than giving them some Raizing or Cave.

[Dale]

I got a buddy hooked on Marz Matrix and Giga Wing.

[professor ganson]

I sometimes mention shmups in class, but my students don't really know anything about them, as far as I can tell. Most students here seem to like RPGs and FPSs for the PC. That's about it.

[Ganelon]

No, but I got a teacher pissed for playing a shooter in a computer science class back in high school.

[TWITCHDOCTOR]

What are "shmups" or shooters?

[it290]

Twitch, have you been hitting the sauce again?

[Raidenfighter Kirkov]

Hi !

One day there was this "organized strike" on our school.
Some kids were striking some not. Most kids from my class didnt went on this strike so we spent our time with our teachers who sad to us:"You can do whatever you want".

Our biology professor went shopping with us. So i asked her if i could went home and bring my computer stuff to school. (i only lived 5 minutes away from my school)
"Sure" thats all she said.

So i went home and fetched up my commodore c64 system and my little tv and brought it to school.

On this day we got 4 different teachers (biology, latin, physics and history).
Each of the teachers let us play with the computer.
My physics professor played a few rounds of URIDIUM *as i rememeber right, he wasnt that bad on the game *

And my latin professor played summer games with us.

That was really a very funny day.


Greetings

RFK

[D]

two friends came over somewhere in 2002/2003 and ended up playing dodonpachi on sat for about three hours straight. I didn't play. I just went to myself while making a fist: "I knew it!". I just knew non 2D gamers can love it. They would never get into it/buy it, because:
1 It's not marketed
2 It's not American
People in general like marketed American games (which is about the only thing about the US I don't like )

[SteevTee]

At the end of the school year, my senior school would have an activities day, we could choose from a load of hobby clubs to indulge in for the day. Of course I went to the computer games room. I requested Xenon 2, as my cousin raved on about it, the teacher who ran the club fired up his Amiga and we all sat in awe and listened to the then legendary soudtrack.
Those of us who played it seemed to like it.

A few years later I took my ST to the club and proceeded to amaze everybody who thought it was a far inferior machine to the Amiga with Lethal Xcess. Those kids just lapped up the speech from that game.

Great days indeed...

[captain ahar]

ot: but in high school i made a presentation on the dreamcast (mostly the hardware, with some history on top). as part of the presentation, i played shenmue and jet set radio as visual aids. the projector didn't like audio that that day though, so the class never heard jsr... D:

[nullpointer]

I teach on a games design course at a Uni in the UK, I mke apoint to give my students a lecture on shmups sometime in their first year, and i frequently reference ikaruga as an example of contemporary shmup creativity. Hooray for shmups, theyre actually a really good way for people to start to understand how games are constructed and how programming works etc

[it290]

Damn nullpointer, that is awesome. I guess you're right about shmups being good for learning game programming as well.. they have all the basics like collision, simple AI etc. Have you ever had a student get addicted to shmups or to the idea of making a shmup as a result of that lecture? Or are they all too keen to get into creating MMOs?

[Fighter17]

Today I played all the weird shooters from school. Most of the time I was play Sexy Parodius thru MAME, and all my friends sat OMG.

Then it was Gun-Nac's turn and everybody love to kill the bunnys and their carrots.

[Alpolio]

I took my Atari 2600 to a school "Rock-a-Thon" once. If you've never done a Rock-a-Thon before, a Rock-aThon is when all of the kids stay up at the school all night while rocking in chairs and this is done to earn money. But anyway, I brought along my entire Atari collection and all of us guys played the shmups and a little racer called "Dragster" all night long. Every now & then, a girl would push us out of the way to play Ms. Pac-man or Donkey Kong, but most of the time it was one of us guys with Megamania or Vanguard. And that was the only time that we played any kind of video game in school.

I didn't really get anyone hooked on shmups because this was in the 80's when shmups ruled the earth.

[LoneSage]

No, I don't talk about games much at school. I did see a kid I know for years play a flash version of Raiden when our class was doing a project for poli sci, I thought that was interesting.

[iatneH]

My supervisor walked by while I was on break, and I was playing ESP Galuda Arrange Mode.

"Holy Shit."

That might have actually turned him OFF shooters :(