Your first shooter?

VNAF Ace · Post by **VNAF Ace** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 2:24 pm

First 3D shooter played/owned: Zaxxon 3D (Sega Master System)

First horizontal 2D shooter played: Super R-Type (Super Nintendo)

First horizontal 2D shooter owned: R-Type DX (Nintendo Game Boy Color)

First vertical 2D shooter owned/played: Galaga and Galaxian on Namco Museum 64 (Nintendo 64)

Vincere · Post by **Vincere** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 4:02 pm

Damn, I'm a noob for sure. The first shmup I played was Raiden II on the PSX version The Raiden Project back in the mid-90's. But I didn't play a simple shmup from then and I've begun tp play deeply in 2004 I guess ha ha.

That's funny how everybody started 20 years before me.

Pixel_Outlaw · Post by **Pixel_Outlaw** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 4:59 pm

Vincere wrote:Damn, I'm a noob for sure. The first shmup I played was Raiden II on the PSX version The Raiden Project back in the mid-90's. But I didn't play a simple shmup from then and I've begun tp play deeply in 2004 I guess ha ha.

That's funny how everybody started 20 years before me.

Well at least you were introduced by a quality game.

Arvandor · Post by **Arvandor** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 2:26 am

I'm pretty positive my very first was Zaxxon on our old DOS computer (old as in just prior to color monitors old). The first one I played in the arcade I think was 1943. Captain Skyhawk and Ledgendary Wings (both NES) were the ones I actually played the most though. Random bits of Isolated Warrior as well.

Battlesmurf · Post by **Battlesmurf** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 3:08 am

part of me wants to say asteroids, part of me wants to say robotron ( I could swear at chuckie cheese

) , and the other part wants me to say Nintendo, 194x : )

J-Manic · Post by **J-Manic** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 5:18 am

Again...

Gradius and Life Force on the NES were the first shmups I can remember playing. And I wasn't a huge fan of the genre back then.

It was when I first bought my Saturn, and purchased Darius Gaiden and Layer Section, that I got hooked onto the genre. Those two games are responsible for my love for the shmups. They made me want to buy more.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 10:58 am

Arvandor wrote:Random bits of Isolated Warrior as well.

Cool game! Underrated, I think. Including by me, as I haven't played it much.

stuntman · Post by **stuntman** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 11:38 am

Scramble, in a cocktail cab which I thought was really cool (when I was just a little lad). Then Gyruss on the C64.

MJR · Post by **MJR** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 11:57 am

First shooter I ever played was missile command in the 70's

First horizontal shooter I played and loved was Scramble on vic-20

First shooter I actually bought (if we count out space harrier on c64) was parallax on c64, then hades nebula, which is awesome starforce clone.

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 1:17 pm

Defender.

You would think i'd feel so cool right now but really i'm just old.

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 1:36 pm

circuitface wrote:Defender.

You would think i'd feel so cool right now but really i'm just old.

Yup. They had a cab up at a convienance store when I was a kid right along with dig dug. I also remember the Tron game, moon patrol and burger time circling through. My parents were not at all cool with me going to the convienance store to play video games.

chickadee · Post by **chickadee** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 6:17 pm

First shooter played: Dragon Spirit NES.

zinger · Post by **zinger** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 6:25 pm

A PC game called Xatax when I was about seven years old. Elemental Master got me interested in the genre, only a few years ago.

FatCobra · Post by **FatCobra** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 6:59 pm

My first shmup was Solar Strike for the Gameboy. When I was young, I thought that game was hard as hell. I can still remember that day when I finally did beat it. My heart was pounding as I fought the boss brain. Of course, revisiting the game two decades later, my skills have improved and it's not as hard now.

I was always attracted to shmups in the arcades even when I was just a kid. So I have some special connection to them, I guess.

doctorx0079 · Post by **doctorx0079** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 8:42 pm

MJR wrote:First shooter I ever played was missile command in the 70's

1980 actually, but close enough.

Xargon · Post by **Xargon** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:47 pm

It was Overkill and I played it with Schneider 386. Sure there were also Space War and Space Invaders, but I don't remember me playing them. Or liking them. At that time I didn't know anything about games or their genres (didn't know a thing called shoot 'em ups) but hell, I loved Overkill.

Neon · Post by **Neon** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:59 pm

I remember Overkill!!!111 sorta.

That was probably my first, Donpachi for PSX was the first one I bought when I really got into shmups

Klatrymadon · Post by **Klatrymadon** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 10:44 pm

The NES versions of Gradius and Salamander were probably my first. Might explain why I'm still ever-so-slightly obsessed with the series...

Never_Scurred · Post by **Never_Scurred** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:33 am

my first shmup...Gradius for the NES. Hip hop is dead.

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:54 am

Defender. Though as of late, I've been thinking I may have played Space Invaders first (not just as my first shmup, but as my first arcade game in general).

Post by **Icarus** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:04 am

Double vodka on ice. Stargate, Atari 2600.

atro_city · Post by **atro_city** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:17 am

Me, Galaga, and Raiden go way back...not that I'm old or anything, but I played those two games many, MANY years before I played any other shmups (due to them being the only two we had in the arcade that my dad worked at). Ironic that the only two shmups that arcade had were both widely considered classics.

DJ Incompetent · Post by **DJ Incompetent** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:33 am

Icarus wrote:Double vodka on ice. Stargate, Atari 2600.

Yager Bomb. The ghetto pre-mixed way. No Double Glasses. Very non-authentic.

Life Force....a pity gift. NES set up in the hospital when I broke my leg. 7yrs old.

Never_Scurred wrote:Hip hop is dead.

amen

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 8:01 am

Never_Scurred wrote:Hip hop is dead.

Only if you've had hip replacement surgery. Then hopping is pretty much out of the question.

Arvandor · Post by **Arvandor** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:06 am

Oh, completely forgot to mention I used to play a lot of Gunsmoke too ^_^ One of the coolest and most unique shooters on the NES in my opinion.

llabnip · Post by **llabnip** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 2:09 pm

My first was Space Invaders. When I was 9 or 10, my parents would drive me and a couple of friends to this indoor roller-skating rink which played current music of the times (late 70's) and people would rent skates and skate around a big oval. That wasn't for me - I wasn't much into music, wasn't coordinated on my skates (so I mostly looked like a fool) and the girls were scary to me at the time

But near the end of one side was a mini-arcade - the first I'd ever seen. They had that Atari X's and O's football game and maybe breakout... and Space Invaders. I put ALL of my skate-rental money into quarters and played Space Invaders until my fingers hurt. I remember the tinted glass screen to make the invaders look green. I remember going home and dreaming about the game - wierd. Great times - I later found a Galaxian machine at the local beach and played that until the joystick broke. Then for Christmas 1980 I got my Atari 2600 - and not long after the port of Space Invaders which I still play to this day.

In a wierd but semi-related tidbit of information, the window of my office looks out over the street where the old roller-skate rink was. It's now a workout place but I still get nostalgic when I look at the building.

DEL · Post by **DEL** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 2:59 pm

llabnip - I must be pretty much the same age as you, and ditto on the Space Invaders. In a Sports Centre bar, table top space invaders machine.

FRO · Post by **FRO** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:19 pm

Galaga for sure. First scrolling shooter was probably Vanguard on 2600.

Blade · Post by **Blade** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:44 pm

Anyone who says SPACE WAR! was their first shmup gets extra points from me, mostly because that *is* the first Shmup, historically.

DEL · Post by **DEL** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:36 pm

Blade wrote;

Anyone who says SPACE WAR! was their first shmup gets extra points from me, mostly because that *is* the first Shmup, historically.

No one here at the moment is that old, although I met TC a few years ago who used to post here. He's 60'ish.

Space War was 1962.
The first arcade machine was installed in a Stanford student union coffee shop in Sept' 71, called 'Galaxy Game'.