Rob's 91-95 arcade countdown: hidden gem search.

Zebra Airforce · Post by **Zebra Airforce** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:34 am

Acrobat Mission SUCKS
I actually think Acrobat Mission might be the worst game on here so far.

OT: Ninja Spirit has 8-way attacks. Is Ninja Spirit even a Neo Geo game?

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:36 am

Oh no! I missed all the f17 drama

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:40 am

Zebra Airforce wrote: OT: Ninja Spirit has 8-way attacks. Is Ninja Spirit even a Neo Geo game?

No, it's way too awesome.

Arvandor · Post by **Arvandor** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:55 am

Ceph: It should be in the Off-Topic thread all nice and split off. Of course, you're too late to participate, if that's what you mean

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:24 am

#63 Hacha Mecha Fighter (NMK, 1991)

No name brand Parodius with the cutest player sprite ever. The sprites are big, the bullets are big, the bombs are called "big". Overly simplistic and uninteresting, clunky obstacles.

(person who uses this sprite as avatar to thread for furious rebuttal)

Macaw · Post by **Macaw** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:11 am

You forgot to mention its like one of the hardest shooting games ever...

Also its made by NMK so its instantly awesome, hoho!!

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:32 am

i like Hacha Mecha Fighter T_T

Dale · Post by **Dale** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 4:25 pm

Rob wrote:
D wrote:The graphics are very ugly.

This game be handsome. Doesn't Mars Matrix have a really similar graphical style to this? I don't see why you don't like the graphics.

EDIT:I'm never gonna get this quote system down.

freddiebamboo · Post by **freddiebamboo** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 4:54 pm

Can't believe I didn't notice this sooner...

Good stuff Rob

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 6:58 pm

Hey guys what'd I miss on the 3rd page?

boagman · Post by **boagman** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:06 pm

shoe-sama wrote:Hey guys what'd I miss on the 3rd page?

Nothing.

Nothing to see here.

Keep moving.

These aren't the droids you're looking for...

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:13 pm

Someone let me know when he gets to Space Bomber.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:13 pm

shoe-sama wrote:Someone let me know when he gets to Space Bomber.

8 is not a number between 1 and 5.

#62 Explosive Breaker (Kaneko, 1992)

Raiden-Toaplan-Gradius-Star Soldier-etc. heaping slop of game. Not even made from the best elements of those games. Gigantic (Ugly) helicopters and stealth bombers and aircraft carriers appearing in the middle of space. A secondary weapon that looks like fireworks. Level theme that wouldn't sound out of place in a Super Mario Brothers. I'm not trying to make the game sound appealing or anything, these were just the only three things worth noting.

Sonic R · Post by **Sonic R** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:14 pm

ROLFZ LOLZ

Ghost Pilots

I paid $30 for BRAND NEW Ghost Pilots about 2½ years ago. How do I get it new? Who the F would buy this game. I am sure there are plenty of these around as this game cannot possibly sell. Know the saying a sucker is born every day. I was sucker when I buy Ghost Pilots

This one time my friend and I played this game for 12 hours? We start at dusk and we still play at dawn and have yet to reach the end

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:23 pm

#61 Black Heart (UPL, 1991)

A dark, but semi-cute fantasy shooter. The first boss and most bosses after that look nice. I was enjoying it, but then by stage four or so you keep getting the same enemies over and over again, the same cute music while there are piles of skulls in the background... the same bouncing or dropping platforms with swords embedded in them. Over and over. The dragon you are riding acts as a huge shield for the bullet clutter happening below, but this is one of those games where you will keep losing lives to clunky enemy sprites and the general mess regardless. Not helping is the only non-shooting command (dragon fire) obstructing the view. By stage 8 or so I couldn't even bear to finish credit-feeding through it to see the story end. :(

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:53 pm

#60 Metal Black (Taito, 1991)

This game manages to take one of the two things that made G. Darius occasionally great, giant laser battling, and makes it incredibly lame. These stages suck: little detritus that collects on your ship to make it slower, bubbles that temporarily entrap you to seemingly no adverse effect - the attacks seem random and pointless, even compared to the other 70 games.

Bonus stages:

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:22 pm

I like this.

Could you link to your earlier countdowns in the first post, please? Too lazy to do teh search.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:36 pm

NES countdown:
http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=14733

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:43 pm

Why do teh bulletz look so ghey

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:48 pm

Those aren't bullets.

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:06 pm

Wow, easily the most entertaining read I have had in awhile. Aside from the thread nearly melting my brain early on you managed to unearth a few "gems" that I haven't even seen before let alone played. I guess I need to fire up mame again. Think I am gonna wait till your finished though Rob.

splitblkribbon · Post by **splitblkribbon** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:38 pm

yeah metal black sucks, I have it on taito legends 2. I played it once and thats enough.

Zebra Airforce · Post by **Zebra Airforce** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:40 pm

Aww com on, Metal Black is cool!
You guys just aren't AWESOME enough to understand!!

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:32 am

#59 Mazinger Z (Banpresto, 1994)

This game is broken like the rest of these games are bad. The difficulty level is already low and your secondary attack can wipe out any bullets in front of you. You can use this however often you want.

yojo! · Post by **yojo!** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:37 am

I think Mazinger Z is great; why do you say it is broken ? If it is too easy for you just nudge the difficulty up a bit.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:46 am

yojo! wrote:I think Mazinger Z is great; why do you say it is broken ?

I answered that in the second sentence.

Neon · Post by **Neon** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:47 am

Are the backgrounds in all these games as terrible as the screens show throughout, or are you picking the 'best' moments?

oxtsu · Post by **oxtsu** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 2:06 am

Rob must have been a rock critic in his former life. This is fucking brutal.

great read though.. keep it up ROB.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 2:06 am

Best.

(to Neon's q)

I actually really like the background in the first Metal Black screen.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 2:19 am

Long awaited first Dooyong.

#58 Blue Hawk (Dooyong, 1993)

They forgot the challenge. If you're looking to find a game to 1CC on your first credit, this may be the game. I survived well beyond my usual first credit average (stage 2). I think they were relying on manual rapidfire to provide the challenge. I don't think Dooyong's games are bad as much as they are mediocre, generic and (for the most part) easy.

You can't see it, but in the third screen bullets spontaneously appear out of the rubble.