Shmup Ticker: What are you playing RIGHT NOW?

SleepersEye · Post by **SleepersEye** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:10 pm

I'm paying Darius Gaiden a second visit, in the hope of possibly making a superplay.

-Bridget- · Post by **-Bridget-** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:27 am

Every Extend Extra Extreme (what a name, lol....) on the 360.

Holy CRAP, the ADDICTION.......

Doing one of the unlimited modes (time left determined by item pickups), got 15 trillion on my first run....... which took an hour.

That hour flew by in no time.......

There should be a score page for this game on the hi-score lists, I might start one up tomorrow if there isnt one already. (I think the game just came out a few days ago)

Hibou · Post by **Hibou** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:18 pm

I'm playing P-47 Aces at the moment, with the goal of at least 1cc-ing it.

I'm working on it since a good month already and, considering that I'm not improving very fast on this one and that I had more spare time this month than usual, I feel like I'm going to keep stuck with it for quite some time...

evil_ash_xero · Post by **evil_ash_xero** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:35 am

At this moment, i'm all about Progear and ESP Galuda, with some In The Hunt on the side.

s/m

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:31 pm

Every Extend Extra Extreme (what a name, lol....) on the 360.

Holy CRAP, the ADDICTION.......

LOL.... agreed.... it's like crack

ESPgaluda 2 and Ibara.... PCBs are like crack also. So happy to have galuda 2 in my house, tate, on a RGB monitor with a saturn pad.

-Bridget- · Post by **-Bridget-** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:51 pm

Strider77 wrote:
Every Extend Extra Extreme (what a name, lol....) on the 360.

Holy CRAP, the ADDICTION.......
LOL.... agreed.... it's like crack

ESPgaluda 2 and Ibara.... PCBs are like crack also. So happy to have galuda 2 in my house, tate, on a RGB monitor with a saturn pad.

Yeah, they're like crack AND they'll destroy your bank account

There's a few PCBs I'd like to get myself (namely, Mushihime-Futari and a few others), but..... they're so damn EXPENSIVE.

grovsnus · Post by **grovsnus** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 10:06 am

I just played my first ever Cave game. It's DDP and it rocks my world.

Also played my first ever Toaplan game: Batsugun during a heightened late night session a few hours ago, and I found that the music and everything else in that game is awesome.

Edit: I forgot Hellfire is a Toaplan game...

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 5:48 am

Night Raid. OK, better than before. I will defend it (not for score playing).

Under Defeat - hate? yet I still play.

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 6:00 am

lol psikyo thread

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 6:29 am

What?

DC906270 · Post by **DC906270** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 9:05 am

soukyugurentai, as it is an awe-inspiring work of gamesmanship. not posting my score just yet

SuperGrafx · Post by **SuperGrafx** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 2:14 pm

Dug out the old Sega Genesis over the weekend and got back into some ThunderForce II.

What a classic. Hearing that memorable synthesized music brought me back to 1990 all over again.

ROBOTRON · Post by **ROBOTRON** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:32 pm

SuperGrafx wrote:Dug out the old Sega Genesis over the weekend and got back into some ThunderForce II.

What a classic. Hearing that memorable synthesized music brought me back to 1990 all over again.

Played that recently as well...awesome game/music despite some people's dislike for the overhead stages. The 3rd stage (overhead) flying over the city was awesome to me. Perfect music that fit the stage and the 3D effect of flying around buildings (it was possible to hit some of the taller ones) was incredible eye candy at the time. On headphones or a decent home theater you could really crank this one up and be mesmerized.

Right now I have been playing Herzog Zwei Genesis. A realtime shooter/strategy hybrid.

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:17 pm

Bullethell GBA.

MadSteelDarkness · Post by **MadSteelDarkness** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:02 pm

Hyper Duel.

It was still in my Saturn from back in...May? April? Apparently, I hadn't played anything on my dusty white box since then.

So yeah, some Souky as well. Gotta give the old girl some love.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:20 pm

Everyday Shooter. So lovely.

J-Manic · Post by **J-Manic** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 4:29 am

Just played some 2P co-op with my brother ala Giga Wing 2.

INTENSE!

MrQuan · Post by **MrQuan** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:01 am

Slap Fight! (JPN ver of Alcon). Recently bought the PCB for a steal!

tekneekz · Post by **tekneekz** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:31 am

homura

Ayanami · Post by **Ayanami** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:06 pm

Giga Wing 2
Gradius Gaiden

doctorx0079 · Post by **doctorx0079** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 4:49 pm

Darius Gaiden
Insector X
Exed Exes (again)

VicViper_Mk2 · Post by **VicViper_Mk2** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:27 pm

Gradius V 2nd loop
R-Type Final
Zanac Neo
Thunder Cross 1&2

Fighter17 · Post by **Fighter17** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:32 pm

Put me down for Eliminate Down for the JP Megadrive.

$150 well spent.

BrianC · Post by **BrianC** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:33 am

Gun Nac

unsane · Post by **unsane** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:34 am

I just rediscovered shmups after 10 years - forgot about them when arcades died here. I'm from the Raiden DX days, so i'm drowning in amazing shmups to catch up on. Until now i hadn't even played 23 of your Top 25!

I'm trying to play things chronologically, e.g. get through DonPachi before playing DDP to death. But at that rate i'll never get to Cave's more recent greats...

The two i'm putting some good time into right now are DonPachi and Raiden Fighters Jet. RFJ instantly sucked me in due to my teenage Raiden roots. So much for chronology.

ROBOTRON · Post by **ROBOTRON** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:48 am

unsane wrote:I just rediscovered shmups after 10 years - forgot about them when arcades died here. I'm from the Raiden DX days, so i'm drowning in amazing shmups to catch up on. Until now i hadn't even played 23 of your Top 25!

Needs more COMPILE. Make sure to try a few of those.

Mortificator · Post by **Mortificator** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 11:00 am

Yeah, especially Zanac X Zanac and Aleste II.

I'm playing Symphony of the Night. It's not a shooter, but at least you can get Gradius' options and shield.

grovsnus · Post by **grovsnus** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 11:43 am

I'm all about Batsugun right now. Sadly, Jupiter continues to whip me then laugh at me.

unsane · Post by **unsane** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 4:22 pm

ROBOTRON wrote:Needs more COMPILE. Make sure to try a few of those.

Mortificator wrote:Yeah, especially Zanac X Zanac and Aleste II.

Oh yes, i will definitely get to Compile at some point too. I'm not limiting myself to the "top 25" by any stretch, that was just to give people an idea of the insane amount of catching up i have to do.

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 4:35 pm

Fighter17 wrote:Put me down for Eliminate Down for the JP Megadrive.

$150 well spent.

Indeed. A good investment.

Dimahoo, still trying to 1cc it. It's not easy.