Boss Alley Shmups

Master O · Post by **Master O** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 3:04 am

Unofficial Shmup Glossary wrote:
2) A rare type of shmup composed entirely of boss fights, with few or no "minor" enemies or other sections of consequence in between successive bosses. When the term is used in this context (to describe an entire shmup, instead of just one section of it), it usually indicates that the game goes a step beyond what is usually defined as a Boss Fest.

Just out of curiousity, what arcade games fit the bolded description?

SFKhoa · Post by **SFKhoa** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 3:10 am

A certain stage in some Gradius games.

Zebra Airforce · Post by **Zebra Airforce** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 3:15 am

Master O wrote:
Unofficial Shmup Glossary wrote:
2) A rare type of shmup composed entirely of boss fights, with few or no "minor" enemies or other sections of consequence in between successive bosses. When the term is used in this context (to describe an entire shmup, instead of just one section of it), it usually indicates that the game goes a step beyond what is usually defined as a Boss Fest.
Just out of curiousity, what arcade games fit the bolded description?

Darius Alpha, I think??

mainpatr1 · Post by **mainpatr1** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 3:16 am

Chaos Field
Darius Alpha

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 3:50 am

Quite a few shmups have bossonly modes.

Pixel_Outlaw · Post by **Pixel_Outlaw** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 3:51 am

-rRootage
-Warning Forever
-Touhou Project (borderline)
-Gun Ranger X (heh)

These are my favorite types of danmaku games. It's not a commonly used term. There are plenty independent programmers making them. Chaos Field is a commercial example.

tada · Post by **tada** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 6:37 am

DoDonPachi DOJ Death Label.

Damocles · Post by **Damocles** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 3:00 pm

Change Air Blade

...well...there _are_ some popcorn enemies that come in during the fight...

sikraiken · Post by **sikraiken** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 3:04 pm

Master O wrote: Just out of curiousity, what arcade games fit the bolded description?

The only person who has said one is Damocles. ARCADE GAMES.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 3:05 pm

unfortunately change air blade is shit

Macaw · Post by **Macaw** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 3:08 pm

Twiddle wrote:unfortunately change air blade is shit

No its not, it has the Event Horizon ship in it.

j^aws · Post by **j^aws** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 3:55 pm

Bee Storm: DoDonPachi II is kinda like a boss-rush type arcade game...

ROBOTRON · Post by **ROBOTRON** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 4:23 pm

Radiant Silvergun consist mainly of Bosses. You fight very few minions.

Skyline · Post by **Skyline** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 4:45 pm

sikraiken wrote:The only person who has said one is Damocles. ARCADE GAMES.

mainpatr1 wrote:Chaos Field

Post by **undamned** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 5:40 pm

j^aws wrote:Bee Storm: DoDonPachi II is kinda like a boss-rush type arcade game...

Uh, have you actually played the game?
-ud

j^aws · Post by **j^aws** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 6:30 pm

undamned wrote:
j^aws wrote:Bee Storm: DoDonPachi II is kinda like a boss-rush type arcade game...
Uh, have you actually played the game?
-ud

Yeah, the first few stages; which mainly had boss-type enemies... like I said; "kinda" like one...

sikraiken · Post by **sikraiken** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:11 pm

Skyline wrote:
sikraiken wrote:The only person who has said one is Damocles. ARCADE GAMES.

mainpatr1 wrote:Chaos Field

I'm sorry, I missed that one. He also listed Darius Alpha, however. ; )

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 2:30 am

Armed Police Batrider
Battle Bakraid (or was it Garegga?)

Post by **Shatterhand** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:10 pm

both Batrider and Bakraid are not like this, they have proper stages.

Radiant Silvergun nearly fits it IMO. The first level is layed out like a proper shmup, but later at the game it feels like you are fighting boss after boss after boss after boss, with just a few pop-corn enemies between layed out in way to make chaining difficulty.

I remember there were spots where the enemies wouldn't even shoot at you, they would just stay there in some kind of weird pattern for the player to chain them.

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:23 pm

Shatterhand wrote:both Batrider and Bakraid are not like this, they have proper stages.

They both have special courses where you only play bosses though.

JoshF · Post by **JoshF** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:28 pm

Sonic Wings Special has a boss rush mode.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:43 pm

RF2 and RFJ have boss rush modes -- however half the time in the Special mode in RFJ you're facing them in minimum rank, which makes it poor practice.

Post by **Shatterhand** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:45 pm

Acid King wrote:
Shatterhand wrote:both Batrider and Bakraid are not like this, they have proper stages.

They both have special courses where you only play bosses though.

Yes, you are right, obviously.

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:20 am

Twiddle wrote:RF2 and RFJ have boss rush modes -- however half the time in the Special mode in RFJ you're facing them in minimum rank, which makes it poor practice.

Wait WHAT!? How?

Can't wait to try this if it exists in the mame variants.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:22 am

f2
game settings
special mode on

Master O · Post by **Master O** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 3:26 am

So, so far, the following are arcade Boss alley shmups:

Darius
Change Air Blade
Radiant Silvergun
Chaos Field
Vasara 2

(This excludes games with boss rush stages or boss rush modes enabled in the service menu)

Zebra Airforce · Post by **Zebra Airforce** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 3:29 am

You forgot chaos field

mainpatr1 · Post by **mainpatr1** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:09 pm

I got another one to add.

Vasara 2.

Defintely a boss alley shmup.

Reverie Planetarian · Post by **Reverie Planetarian** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:10 pm

Could some of the Touhou games count? I've seen boss battles go on for more than 5 minutes with little actual regular enemy killing in between.

...OK, OK, not exactly a boss alley shmup, but very close to me. There's precious little in enemy swarming.

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