Your first shooter?

Asherdude · Post by **Asherdude** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 7:45 am

My first was Sea Wolf back in '77. I can remember my Dad having to hold me up, so I could see through the periscope.

My first console shmup was Asteroids.
My first PC shmup was Scramble.

Batman34 · Post by **Batman34** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 3:12 pm

Pulstar on the Neo Geo AES.

xghostsniperx · Post by **xghostsniperx** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 4:57 pm

I think I vaguely remember playing a few arcade shooters when I was younger.

But the first shooter I actually REALLY played was Ikaruga.

Batman34 · Post by **Batman34** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 5:13 pm

xghostsniperx wrote:I think I vaguely remember playing a few arcade shooters when I was younger.

But the first shooter I actually REALLY played was Ikaruga.

Ikaruga is one of the best Shoot 'm Up games I ever played on the Dreamcast and on the GameCube.

popawell · Post by **popawell** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 5:27 am

Life Force (nes)
Scratch first shmup, this was the FIRST game I ever played. Never passed the third level untill I turned 7 Years old.

"After a nuclear war, the only things to survive will be cockroaches and gamecubes."

snkoui · Post by **snkoui** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 10:57 am

Gradius 2 NES

Great Shooting Always ....
Thanks,

dolph · Post by **dolph** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:31 pm

My first shooter was Ikaruga for Gamecube. Now I'm playing ESPGaluda on my PS2 and I allready ordered Mushihimesama at Play-Asia. Well I'm a Newb and I suck, but it's great!

Jeffrey · Post by **Jeffrey** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 3:23 am

Gradius. My memories of that game is what brought me back to this forum and video games as an adult. I still remember trying to shoot down those orange tentacle thingies. Die, moai heads, die!!

warp_zone · Post by **warp_zone** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:15 am

Great topic!

I'm almost 100% sure my first shooter was Galaga in the arcades, and Space Invaders (2600) on a home console. First scrolling shooter was Vanguard on the 2600! Good times.

silvergunner · Post by **silvergunner** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 12:32 pm

My first shooter i`ve played was Spave Invaders for Atari 2600 in the end of the 70`s.My love for shmupping start up with the Amiga-Shmups:
Silkworm,Apydia,and many more titles i`ve forget...yes...i´m old

Circa2113 · Post by **Circa2113** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 1:29 pm

My first was galaga followed by Ikaruga. Talk about spoiled.

CHI · Post by **CHI** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 7:07 pm

space invaders at LV on wardour street in the early 80s.....

Afterbirth · Post by **Afterbirth** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:23 pm

Konami's Scramble was the first game i played in an arcade, let alone first shmup.

My first home console shooter compy was Snoopy and The Red Baron on the VCS - but that Christmas (1983) i'd also got Defender, Asteroids and Imagic's Demon Attack.

On the computer side of things Firetrack was the first - although i owned an Aquarius before a VCS - that didn't sport a shooter (and Night Hunter doesn't count IMO)

Ayanami · Post by **Ayanami** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:42 pm

I want to say my first shooter was Galaga, but I am not sure. I started really getting into shooters with Gunbird 2 and Giga Wing 2 on Dreamcast.

elvis · Post by **elvis** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:01 pm

Ed Oscuro wrote:You had a -H? Lucky...Tape? Maybe not so lucky...

Heck, I could've just checked your infobox to see where you were from. I hadn't thought much about it before, but SC-3000 let me know you were Australian (or maybe NZ'der). Interesting. I've got a 3000 myself, just the crummy chiclet keyboard model...no tape drive either, so far.

Yup, the good old SC-3000H distributed by John Sands electronics here in Australia. Ahh, the memories... I still remember the day my dad walked in the door with that thing, and how my mum went off at him for "wasting" all that money on a toy (only 30 days later the woman would be hooked on some Dungeons and Dragons game... HAHAHA).

Tape was bloody awful, but I haven't found anyone who had Vortex Blaster on cartridge, nor are there any dumps of it anywhere on the net. Only thing I could find was a guy in NZ who has a wav file dump of the tape (which I can use to re-record now that my tape is stuffed).

stratos · Post by **stratos** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 1:37 am

In 1986, when I was 6, my father bought a Commodore 64 for christmas, with pole position, other games I don't remember, and a clone of space invaders, with very simple graphics, in black'n'white, no protective barriers, very simple gameplay: I don't remind the title, but it was my first shooter ever

dcharlie · Post by **dcharlie** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 1:40 am

ignoring things like Space invaders, etc... i think the first few shooters i really got into were :

Scramble (arcade)
Phoenix (arcade)
Devil Assault (Dragon 32)

stratos · Post by **stratos** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:29 am

Scramble

Cool!!! I had it too on my CMB64!!!

Awesome Konami shooter!

Kami68k · Post by **Kami68k** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:43 am

My first one apparently was R-Type sometime in 1990 or so

I was 8 then though.
First "real" Shmup, when I knew what's going on was Soukyu Gurentai in 1998 i think.

cadpipe · Post by **cadpipe** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:26 pm

r-type mastersystem i think(it takes dedication)

Sonic R · Post by **Sonic R** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 12:19 am

Back in the 80's at the arcade in Meijers, I recall playing some Defender (liked it), Space Invaders (hated it), and Zaxxon (ok).

I realized that I liked the genre when I had my NES and played Gradius and Zanac. These titles were difficult (I was 12) and just found my self trying harder and having fun doing it. A few years later I would get a TG-16 and shortly after I would shell out $70 for R-type and that was all she wrote. I literally spent a whole weekend spanning around 30 hours playing R-type using the every bit of the 21 credits over and over just to get better at it.

zero.otaku · Post by **zero.otaku** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:28 am

The first shooter I ever played was either River Raid or Space Invaders for the Atari 2600 when I was about three. River Raid was my all-time favorite game for about two years until I got an NES, so I think that's where my love of the shooting genre was born. After that, I didn't really play them fanatically or anything, I liked Life Force and Guardian Legend and Super R-Type was the second SNES game I bought (the pack-in Super Mario World being my first). I didn't really get hardcore into shooters until I got my Japanese Saturn and Radiant Silvergun. After that, I was hopelessly addicted and remain so to this day, though I still completely suck at 'em.

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RoninBuddha · Post by **RoninBuddha** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:47 am

first one i tried was Tiger-Heli for the NES...

but the first one i really played was Airbuster/AeroBuster - Mega Drive

i played it in a pirate 3-in-1 cart (also included a Doraemon game, and Flinstones)

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 7:04 am

elvis wrote:
Ed Oscuro wrote:You had a -H? Lucky...Tape? Maybe not so lucky... :lol:

Heck, I could've just checked your infobox to see where you were from. I hadn't thought much about it before, but SC-3000 let me know you were Australian (or maybe NZ'der). Interesting. I've got a 3000 myself, just the crummy chiclet keyboard model...no tape drive either, so far.
Yup, the good old SC-3000H distributed by John Sands electronics here in Australia. Ahh, the memories... I still remember the day my dad walked in the door with that thing, and how my mum went off at him for "wasting" all that money on a toy (only 30 days later the woman would be hooked on some Dungeons and Dragons game... HAHAHA).

Tape was bloody awful, but I haven't found anyone who had Vortex Blaster on cartridge, nor are there any dumps of it anywhere on the net. Only thing I could find was a guy in NZ who has a wav file dump of the tape (which I can use to re-record now that my tape is stuffed). :)

I'll have to check out that game. Right now I've got Borderline, which is...eh. When I was in Australia I had wanted to find one of the John Sands models; perhaps it's best I didn't due to the different video standard.

I'm mostly happy because I have a Card Catcher and some of the better card games: Zoom 909, H.E.R.O., and something else.

Need the power supply though.

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 12:47 pm

i could say a few 2600 games, but honestly i give r-type on the master system that award as my 1st shooter

Shotgunfacelift · Post by **Shotgunfacelift** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:15 am

Galaga of course!

Fighter17 · Post by **Fighter17** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:17 am

Super R-Type for the SNES.

Monk 0 Nuggets · Post by **Monk 0 Nuggets** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:22 am

Fighter17 wrote:Super R-Type for the SNES.

Mine too. That game still kicks my ass by the end.

Aquas · Post by **Aquas** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:00 am

What first sparked my interest was U.N. Squadron for the SNES. That was when I was about 10 years old probably. My bro rented it and I played it briefly and thought it was just... the bees fucking knees. Years later I bought the cartridge from a local game shop.

That game really introduced me to how good a shmup can be.

Years pass and I get into Raiden Fighters Jet at the arcade. I really get into it. RFJET has rekindled a new fondness for shmups, and has brought me here. And consequently, I am now diving into Mushihime-sama... what a fascinating level of gameplay. I'm pretty convinced at this point that shmups are freaking awesome.

Dennis · Post by **Dennis** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:32 am

Burai Fighter and Life Force for the NES.