>FIGHTING SPIRIT from A-JAX
>COUNTER BLOW from Flak Attack - hey, kid, stop all the Dick Stock!
>STURDY WINGS from Trigon - a marginally better known STG with similarly blazing tunes, beloved of Hitoshi Sakimoto, feat. Michiru Yamane. Three is a magic number!
Having tracked down the link, I see I already posted COUNTER BLOW on the previous page! But the link's dead, and frankly, one good blow deserves another.


I recommend A-JAX; the 3D stages are a bit goofy, but easily cleared, brief, and infrequent. The straight topdowns are remarkably furied Xeviousesques, and it sports the rare advantage of a single balls-hard loop.
Flak Attack, I really want to love, but good lord - the bullet visibility can be absolutely punishing, and worse, there is a lightning bolt memoriser hazard that may be the most cynical in all of STG history.
