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please don't make me into a gradius last boss. where are the bullets?!
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Rob wrote:
DJ Incompetent wrote: No you're not "shooting your fists"....jerkass... :P
Poor Twinbee.
Plok is a shmup.

cause you see Twinbee is also a platformer, and involves shooting fists, and plok is a platformer about shooting fists and feet, then obviously Plok is at least as much of a shmup as twinbee is, and c'mon, no one would would wanna argue twinbee isn't a shmup right?

sudoku is a shmup too.
it's just....
really abstract.
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ghouls n ghosts is a run n gun.

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My favorite shmup is Burger Time. I mean, come on, you dodge pickles, eggs and hot dogs, clearly a manic shmup.
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^^Manic Cute-em-up =D
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I just played that really famous shmup for the NES, you know, Super Mario Bros.? Dodging enemies? Shooting fire? Story makes absolutely no sense? Totally a shmup. :roll:
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Wow, I do remember it. The end boss's bullet pattern is insane.
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Super Dodge ball is a shmup. So is Burning Heat.
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Ceph wrote:
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Ceph wrote:It's just you.
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Alright let me break it down for y'all.

SuperKilla is not all that off base. Heck compare a shmup to an older Madden Football game, first downs could be like check points in a shmup, players bullets,whatever, other then purpose and style what we do with the controller is almost exactly the same. The point is that Video Games don't change all that much,not only that but were talking about 2-D ones witch are even more basic. I say whatever we defined a game as when it first came out we should still consider it, we don't need all these definition debates all I know is I'm pressing buttons and stuff I like is happening.

And what is this Space Invaders is not a shmup shit, I bet people are saying Galaga and Tempest aren't shmups too. Let's just keep it simple folks.
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^^^So games really began with shmups, since Pong is obviously a shmup. How did we not see this before?
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eight wrote:
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thesuperkillerxxx wrote:The only strike is that there is no forced scrolling
I too sometimes make a thread and then while writting I then too answer my own question. Then i just not post the thread at all. Perhaps you should do the same. I dunno what all the hostility is all about. We can have crazy threads from time to time. I do have news for you though.
Alien Storm http://klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=6856
it's states the game genre as shooter. I consider it a beat 'em up.
It does however have 100% true shmup stages.
I'm sure it's somewhere in this video.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mPFjz1ObbdY
Haven't checked, but it should be in there considering the length of the video. It's in the Megadrive/genesis port too!
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So can we classify games like Pac Man and Mappy as shmups? :lol:
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Ceph wrote:
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Shatterhand wrote:
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freddiebamboo wrote:
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Herr Schatten wrote:
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Nuke wrote:
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eight wrote:
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Wow cMoon, look at that quote box! Such grace, such presense! Its almost like one of those paintings of a painting in a painting... tres belle!

Well, that statement makes more sense then this topic ever did. :?
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PFG 9000 wrote:^^^So games really began with shmups, since Pong is obviously a shmup. How did we not see this before?
Your misinterpreting me. All I'm saying is that are heavy similarities between all 2-D genre's of games,I'm not saying their all shmups, just similar. I wasn't totally agreeing with Superkilla just kinda defending him because the similarities are their.
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Rob wrote:Wipeout is my favorite tube shmups series.
Wipeout is a shmup? I thought it was a surfing game! California games and Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer are shmups! ;)
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haha : ) I was missing that other it's just you thread, too : P
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Samurai Shodown and The Last Blade II are my fav "weapons based" shmups.
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