Fixed Shooters with Mouse Control?

[Pedro Lambrini]

I've a wrist injury that's been playing up recently. The only shmups that I can play are simple games with a trackball. Fixed shooters are the best for me just now.

I've come across the old Star Defender series and I love Titan Attacks!.

Does anyone have any other recommendations?

Cheers guys.

[schleichfahrt]

"The Bug Butcher" might fit your needs.
Not entirely sure about the mouse control (I don't have it in front of me right now).

[Deadliar]

Fraxy perhaps? With its ludicrous content of player-made bosses, at least half are designed for a single screen (as opposed to freeroam which is also supported).

[Obiwanshinobi]

Shatter? PC ports of gun games (HotD2&3, Virtua Cop)? I expect some mice to sport enough buttons to control something like Crimsonland. Gridrunner Revolution, some Tempest-alikes (Arashi, Space Giraffe) should be playable with a mouse.

[tate]

Gridrunner Revolution, some Tempest-alikes (Arashi, Space Giraffe) should be playable with a mouse.

I don't think Space Giraffe offers mouse control. But speaking of Llamasoft, donationware Gridruner++ might fit the bill. I couldn't get past the floaty controls on the systems I tried it on, but the OP might have better luck or be more tolerant. Also, it isn't strictly fixed field.

[Jeneki]

The trackball version of Cabal is really fun.

[Pedro Lambrini]

Thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately, I'm stuck with small horizontal movements so as much as I'd love to being a lot of these games, I just can't.

I probably should've been clearer in my OP.

More unfortunately (for me!), The Bug Butcher doesn't have mouse support - that would've been cool!

[Obiwanshinobi]

Not strictly a shooter (more of a Breakout clone, like Shatter), and - much to my grief - last time I tried playing it felt way more floaty than it was in my memories, but BreakQuest on the PC is controlled with horizontal mouse movements.

Though if I was impaired somewhat along those lines again (used to be) and wanted some real-time action, I'd try Ballance (assuming I could handle four keys). Not a shmup at all, but relatively slow-paced for its genre and digital controls work surprisingly well there. Far from topic I know; it's just that everything about this game speaks "convalescence" to me. Should work with arcade sticks too (not quite the way arcade games typically do).

[OmegaFlareX]

Not a shmup, but if you like music, Audiosurf 2 can be controlled entirely through L/R mousing. You can turn the sensitivity up to a high level as needed for small movements.

[Shepardus]

Not a fixed shooter, but Gunroar has a mouse-controlled game mode.

[Obiwanshinobi]

Since the thread keeps reminding me of Arashi, here comes another humble classic for Mac - by default a first person shooter (most playable this way if you ask me), Spectre Supreme can be controlled with very minor mouse movements in four directions only (those are 100% digital controls, mind; mouse happens to work a treat is all).