Shmup Dreams (or I really must start playing something else)

Tigershark · Post by **Tigershark** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 10:48 am

I've just had my first shmup dream. I was walking down a deserted street with only an arcade hall open. In it were various gambling machines and arcade cabinets. However, in the corner was a huge wide screen cabinet in Streetfighter style except this was an R-Type clone game with amazing graphics.

What a dream.

Maybe I need help.

Anyone else have similar dreams or is it just me that's losing it?

Milkgoat · Post by **Milkgoat** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 10:51 am

When I was in school, I would play roms all 6th period (usually DoDonPachi), then when I slept in 7th period, I always dreamt I was still playing games in 6th period.

Tigershark · Post by **Tigershark** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 4:08 pm

I can't remember that far back!

Michaelm · Post by **Michaelm** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 5:03 pm

You need help!

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 7:51 pm

So.... was it Pulstar in your dream?

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 8:58 pm

That´s a lot better than arranging Tetris shapes in your head why you are trying to sleep.

Nuke · Post by **Nuke** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 9:33 pm

Just the other night I dreamt that I was torn between a Evangelion hori by Treasure and a Mushihime-sama styled rpg vert shmup by razing.
Both on the Dreamcast and in a comic book store for some reason (which also doubled as a hardware store)

OdiousTrident · Post by **OdiousTrident** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 4:44 am

I have had at least 2 dreams where I found the "ultimate" shmup/fighters arcade, mostly with imaginary games: crossovers or entirely new stuff that just happens to look sweet. I knew it was a bad sign when that started happening, haha still think its bad

Pixel_Outlaw · Post by **Pixel_Outlaw** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 5:44 am

I find shmup/programming dreams counterproductive to deep sleep. I usually get annoyed and cannot enter REM.

shinsage · Post by **shinsage** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 5:45 am

i had a dream where i killed my father

it was a sweaty dream

Zeether · Post by **Zeether** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 6:22 am

I had a dream about a shmup that was very similar to In The Hunt but it was more manic and the powerup system was like Darius.

Pixel_Outlaw · Post by **Pixel_Outlaw** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 7:15 am

In The Hunt is a game I played maybe once or twice. I should really give it some time I guess.

I HATE game dreams they usually prevent me from sleeping. If I polish off a 2 liter of diet coke before bed I sometimes get the same feeling. I can't sleep when I'm tensely playing a shmup that defies logic.

Limbrooke · Post by **Limbrooke** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 7:20 am

I had a dream about a shooter recently.
I was under the impression I was playing/watching DeathSmiles except it was a vertical scrolling game not horizontal, and that it was less colourful, and that it wasn't for arcade it was for Sega Saturn, and it wasn't by Cave it was by Raizing. It was a hell of a dream and a good game too.

Emperor Fossil · Post by **Emperor Fossil** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 1:16 pm

Pixel_Outlaw wrote:I find shmup/programming dreams counterproductive to deep sleep. I usually get annoyed and cannot enter REM.

You should dream that you're programming in BASIC. Then you could enter all the REMs you like.

Post by **spadgy** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 2:44 pm

I dreamt the other day I was on a hillside covered in holes. Otters were scuttling from one to the other, and I had to catch them for my job. Hard enough on it's own, but there were big sweeping Psyvariar bullet patterns spiralling out of some of the holes, and I had to buzz them. Holding and otter while buzzing equalled double pay.

1cc'ed Psyvariar Revision for the first time the day before, and played a lot of the new PS3 Loco Roco, and I just like otters, so I guess it's all pretty obvious whyit happened...

dmauro · Post by **dmauro** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 9:12 pm

shinsage wrote:i had a dream where i killed my father

Hey, this thread is about shmup dreams, not jRPG dreams.

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 9:49 pm

Last night I dreamed of buying a special PS3 that had a blu-ray drive on the left side, and a top loading Saturn drive on the right one. I loaded a bootleg of Saturn RSG, and it popped on the screen with PS3 graphics and Hi-res. Lovely.