In search of a shmup.

[Dezante]

Hello all you shmup fans.

I stumbled upon this site in my (desperate) search for a shmup I enjoyed years back at the local arcade when attending high school, and if anyone can help me find it again it will be you guys.

I can give the following info and thus hope one or more of you can help me identify it:

Year: Older than or from 1994.

Company: That I cannot recall.

Type: Vertical shmup.

Title: This I of course cannot recall, but closest to my memory is Sorcerors' Strike, but do not cling to that because it might well be way off.

Miscellaneous: 4 or 5 pilots to choose from. The setting was sort of the mystical meeting tech, like is popular with asian games. All pilots (or characters would be more appropriate) were a type of spell caster (witch/sorceror/wizard).

Now, my favourite character and the only one I would play with was, as I recall, a sort of samurai underwater lizard humanoid (indeed!), and what I remember the most was his secondary weapon which, when fully developed, were 4 blue energy balls shot out in an arch, and they'd explode with some Chinese/Japanese (most likely Japanese given him being a samurai) sign in the center of each.

One stage I remember was fighting in a huge arena against a gigantic robot while the audience in both sides would throw various stuff into the arena (non-harmful though as I recall).

The final boss (of the final stage) had two or three stages of fighting, and I recall it being a whole castle-like robot thingy

That's about as much as I can recollect of it. I hope it rings a bell with some one.

Thanks for reading.

[lgb]

Heheh. Sorcer Striker, aka Mahou Daisakusen. 1993. Raizing.

The samurai lizard you speak of is Miyamoto The Dragon.

The stage you speak of is the final stage, I do believe. Stage 6. Beat it and the game loops itself.

[MR_Soren]

Maybe it's Gunbird?

[Dezante]

LGB, that was an awe-inspiringly fast response, and having checked it out, you're right; it is exactly the game I was looking for.

Thank you so much.

[lgb]

The giant robot is called the Gob-Robo. He's a bit easy, but I still lost there, and never played it since...

[Ruldra]

My latest video on youtube is a replay of myself clearing the first loop of Sorcer Striker. You should watch it if you're interested.

Here's the final stage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7bHrC51YHI

[Dezante]

Ruldra, I've actually seen it already After I learned the name of the game I sought it out in many places, and your video was one of the things I encountered.

And since then I've played it a bit, but I must say I miss the joystick and the big buttons to mash. I can hardly believe how I could complete the first loop and then some on one credit those years back. Ah, good times...

[Jockel]

oO Wow, a youtube shooter vid with no comments like "he got hit and didnt die!!! cheater!!!1111"

[Enhasa]

Title: This I of course cannot recall, but closest to my memory is Sorcerors' Strike

LOL, easiest "name this shmup" ever.

[Dezante]

LOL, easiest "name this shmup" ever.

Indeed Took only 2 minutes to get a correct response in here.

But try as I might I got no results when Googling no matter how I tried to vary it; Sorceror Strike, Sorcerous Strike, Sorcerer's Strike, etc., so I'm glad I found this site and asked.