Sharp X68000 Exclusive Shmups?...

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:38 am

Every time I hear about his PC in relation to shmups, it's always been shmups that have also been released on other platforms.

So, are there any shmup-exclusives for the X68000?

PooshhMao · Post by **PooshhMao** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 6:40 am

Wasn't Cho Ren Sha initially a X68K exclusive title? (Before it got 'ported' to Windows?)

Oh yes and there's Gradius '90, which is the MSX Nemesis 2 game but with Gradius III quality graphics. I played a couple of others too but I can't remember which ones.

(EDIT: http://www.excellentcontent.com/emuzone/ez137.htm)

Neat system though

I like to think of it as the Amiga to the C64's MSX

D · Post by D » Tue Jul 25, 2006 6:57 am

PooshhMao wrote:Wasn't Cho Ren Sha initially a X68K exclusive title?

I think it should've stayed that way. One of the characters even made to become a Street Fighter III character Urien

Post by **Ghegs** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 8:11 am

D wrote:
PooshhMao wrote:Wasn't Cho Ren Sha initially a X68K exclusive title?
I think it should've stayed that way. One of the characters even made to become a Street Fighter III character Urien

...what?

serge · Post by **serge** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 8:45 am

This one, by Toshiaki Fujino of Triangle Service, can be found on the INH DVD "The Shooting Love" (as a floopy disk image, playable in emulator):

In the booklet "Project Moon" is mentioned on page84.

Grindie · Post by **Grindie** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:03 am

Ghegs wrote:
D wrote:
PooshhMao wrote:Wasn't Cho Ren Sha initially a X68K exclusive title?
I think it should've stayed that way. One of the characters even made to become a Street Fighter III character Urien

...what?

Yes, what!?

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:47 pm

serge wrote:This one, by Toshiaki Fujino of Triangle Service, can be found on the INH DVD "The Shooting Love" (as a floopy disk image, playable in emulator):

In the booklet "Project Moon" is mentioned on page84.

Wow, that looks pretty cool!

gameoverDude · Post by **gameoverDude** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 3:32 am

Enix's Code Zero (published by Random House) is another good X68000 exclusive. The graphics are a bit of a cross between Raiden and one of the PCE Star Soldier games.

You can get the typical "wide shot", a narrow but stronger shot, and also a 2-option formation. Like Twin Cobra, you find hidden stars for bonus points- but some of the locations are not as obvious.

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 4:11 am

Here are all officially released shmups for X68000 (so no doujins):

Gradius
Xevious
Slamander
Dragon Spirit
Thunder Force II
Twinbee
Mid-Garts
Bosconian
R-Type
A-Jax
Fantasy Zone
Granada
FZ Senki Axis
Sol Feace
Image Fight
Galaga '88
Gemini Wing
Naious*
Shooting 68k
Parodius Da!
Scorpious*
Nemesis '90 Kai**
Flying Shark
Atomic Robo Kid
Chuuka Taisen
Detana! Twinbee
Phalanx
Alien Syndrome
Dive On*
Mahou Daisakusen
Cotton
Cyber Core
Starforce
Terra Cresta/Moon Creasta
Baraduke
Gradius II: Gofer No Yabou
Galaxian
Kyuukyoku Tiger
Xenon-2
Sylvalion
Viewpoint
Ku2
Star Trader

* either exclusive or appear to be exclusive
** different enough from the original to be considered an exclusive

D · Post by D » Wed Jul 26, 2006 8:39 am

Grindie wrote:
Ghegs wrote:
D wrote: I think it should've stayed that way. One of the characters even made to become a Street Fighter III character Urien

...what?
Yes, what!?

I fucked up, I thought that gay shmup was mentioned Cho Aniki

And I even haven't played any of them so I should've stayed out of it anyway and I'm not that homofobic either, but it's supose to be crap anyway and the gay visuals.....
Cho Ren Sha, I just checked on this site and looks cool.
http://www.int13.net/~roni/shmup.htm
sorry for the unintended interference.

SamIAm · Post by **SamIAm** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:06 am

I hear good things about Mid-Garts, and that one appears to be exclusive. Emulation of it isn't great, though.

Now there's something I'd like to know - is X68000 emulation dead where it stands, or is someone making progress on it? I know the two half-way decent emulators for it are Japanese made, so it's hard to know about this kind of thing, but still, I want to know.

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:02 am

CIT wrote:Here are all officially released shmups for X68000 (so no doujins):

Gradius
Xevious

I think the X68000 Xevious is doujin, CIT.

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 1:56 pm

Hmm, according to the info I have, it was released by Denpa, but who knows, maybe it's not accurate.

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 4:43 pm

Thanks, CIT! Wasn't A-Jax exculsive to the X68000?

Oh, BTW, Yakumo, the guy who does the Retro Core series, told me in an email that an X68000 Special is in the works!

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:34 pm

dave4shmups wrote:Thanks, CIT! Wasn't A-Jax exculsive to the X68000?

Nah, it's an arcade game. ^^

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:59 pm

CIT wrote:Hmm, according to the info I have, it was released by Denpa, but who knows, maybe it's not accurate.

You may be right. It's by Dempa. I just didn't figure out that Dempa was a commercial publisher.

http://members.tripod.com/Readonly2/xevious.html

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 6:21 am

Dempa may be most known nowadays as the company that owns Micomsoft, which is the company that makes the X-RGBs. I don't think they put out games anymore, probably since the X68k days..

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:55 am

serge wrote:This one, by Toshiaki Fujino of Triangle Service, can be found on the INH DVD "The Shooting Love" (as a floopy disk image, playable in emulator):

In the booklet "Project Moon" is mentioned on page84.

goddamn i want to try that...

anyone have some gameplay pics.

also i am so sorry i missed this thread. nemesis '90 owns. i am always willing to spread the gospel. there are a few other really great ones not yet mentioned, but i don't have my emu set up here.

AirRaidX · Post by **AirRaidX** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 1:06 am

Thunder Force II on X68000 has a few exclusive levels and weapons not found in the Megadrive/Genesis version.

probably the most famous X68000 exclusive shmup is Nemesis '90

Alien Syndrome on X68000 while not exclusive to the X68000, is exclusively the only home port of the game that is arcade-quality. everything else was a hugely downgraded translation or a complete remake in the case of the modern PS2 Sega Ages version.

Zigfried the Trizealot · Fri Oct 27, 2006 1:58 am

Mid-Garts and Star Trader aren't exclusive --- they were both on the PC-88/98, and Mid-Garts was on MSX.

By the way, Mid-Garts is really cool once you get past the first level.

//Zig

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 2:11 am

Thanks for the info. I edited my list. That really doesn't leave the X68k with too many exclusives now.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 4:06 am

Still, for some of these games the x68000 is by far the best way to go. A few are still PCB and x68000 only (A-Jax should be one), and many others just had home console releases. Also, the Dempa Micomsoft releases are awesome. For the time, it was x68000 or nothing for most of these. Good prices on most of these even today.

DarkWolf7 · Post by **DarkWolf7** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:20 am

Zigfried the Trizealot wrote:Mid-Garts and Star Trader aren't exclusive --- they were both on the PC-88/98, and Mid-Garts was on MSX.

Except that the X68000 "Star Trader" is completely different than any of the other releases. It's a pure shooter - that is, it lacks the ADV backend (or frontend, depending on your perspective) of the PC-88/98 releases. I've always been a bit curious about the X68000 game. It appears to be only partially complete. The 1st 2 stages have power-ups but the other 5 don't. Also the game lacks scoring completely.

It even doesn't seem official for that matter. Copyright information is curiously lacking from the title screen, although I do recall seeing Nihon Falcom with another company, Brother I think, in the credits. I don't recall ever seeing the X68k Star Trader listed in any fan-compiled catalogs either. The game uses a non-specific sound driver (PMD) rather than a Falcom-specific one, so that makes me question Falcom's involvement as well. A very odd title if you ask me - one that I'd love to have more information on. Not a bad game for what's there either.

zinger · Post by **zinger** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 8:39 am

There's also a hentai game called Cosmic Psycho which has some shooting stages, don't know if that'd count. Not x68k exclusive.

DarkWolf7 · Post by **DarkWolf7** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 7:09 am

CIT wrote:Here are all officially released shmups for X68000 (so no doujins):

<snip>

I don't see Undeadline on there. Also, Dive On is doujinsoft (source: TOSEC, Google).

Zigfried the Trizealot · Sun Oct 29, 2006 5:46 pm

Interesting info you had there, Darkwolf. I looked around a bit, and it appears that Star Trader *was* an official release, published by Takeru (who published a bunch of stuff) and developed by Brother. Falcom wasn't actively involved, but then, they weren't actively involved with X68000 Ys, either. (To my knowledge, the only X68k game Falcom did themselves was Ys 3.)

//Zig