Absurd dedication to shmups...

[Lynx Winters]

Batrider. The zoo's nocturnal house. "Milking." You do the math.

[jochen]

Playing Choaniki -

sitting on the butt of a naked bodybuilder - using him as a seat
while other naked guys serve you drinks and food.

[jochen]

Or - if you have problems with naked men

- playing Sexy Parodius in a room with beautiful naked girls
( over 18 - of course).

[lgb]

Also, playing danmaku games on the go while flawlessly squeezing through a really huge crowd.

Ketsui DS get!

Playing a high-speed Gradius stage while driving down the highway.

[Ed Oscuro]

Sort of covered already:

playing whichever of the cho aniki games whilst in the throes of manpassion

I'm surprised that at least two more Big Brother entries have appeared since then

Anyhow, next to my dorm room there's a board with "WHAT SORT OF FUNS DO YOU HAS?" and I think I'll print up a little sheet in the style of the others saying "Fire Shark 1cc"

[I'm Alec]

Putting Ketsui in the closet where nobody can play it.

[Ed Oscuro]

Putting Ketsui in the closet where nobody can play it.

[Pixel_Outlaw]

Putting Ketsui in the closet where nobody can play it.

I'm sure there are already a few Cho Aniki fans already in the closit playing Cho Aniki.

[jonny5]

Putting Ketsui in the closet where nobody can play it.

i know somebody who kinda does that....lolz

[Ed Oscuro]

Putting Ketsui in the closet where nobody can play it.

I'm sure there are already a few Cho Aniki fans already in the closit playing Cho Aniki.

Say it with pride! Damn, have some respect for your fruit machine brothers.

[ChurchOfSolipsism]

Setup a game of Ikaruga with a dual signal splitter to two TVs facing each other, sit in the middle of them on a swivel chair, with the front/back of your body painted black/white, and spin 180 each time you change polarity in the game

I support this.

[glitch]

Playing Mushihime and at the same time combating these freaky little insects that often encrouch upon your territory

with BOMBS.

ok.

playing 2 games of excellent bifurcation simultaneously.

maybe that swivel chair could come in handy for psyvariar too.

[MX7]

When you think about the premise for Mushihimesama, it's possibly the strangest central conceit in videogames. You play a tiny, jailbait fairy girl with huge tits on the back of a beetle, flying through some gardens and woods and that. I'm not sure where you're going, but I'm sure it's for a good cause. Anyway, so far, so Enid Blyton. But then, on top of this wholesome setting (disregarding the tits), all the insects in the garden for some ungodly reason are spewing craptonnes of bullets at you! And your beetle fires out hundreds of bullets a second and eviscerates the entire insect populace of someones back garden! Is this really what it's like to be an insect? Has she no remorse for permanently affecting the biodiversity of the area?

It's the gaming equivalent of getting a magnifying glass and burning THOUSANDS of assorted invertebrates over and over while a particularly well endowed girl in GCSE year shrieks in your ear in Japanese.

[PROMETHEUS]

Playing Dangun Feveron while dancing in a night club.

ALL RIGHT !

[glitch]

When you think about the premise for Mushihimesama, it's possibly the strangest central conceit in videogames.

but but but....

...espgaluda.

[spadgy]

Brilliant stuff!

Playing Gradius, and moving back to the last house you lived in each time you die, but without moving any of your new possessions with you.

Playing Progear while robbing a jewelry store, or maybe just wearing shit loads of exploding theatrical jewelery?

Playing Psyvariar while rubbing your shoulders against neon signs, but not enough to get burned?

EDIT: Missed this one - genius!

Buying and selling Radiant Silvergun repeatedly until you've earned enough to buy an extra Radiant Silvergun.

[moozooh]

Playing Psyvariar while rubbing your shoulders against neon signs, but not enough to get burned?

How about playing Psyvariar while twisting and rubbing yourself against people in a large crowd? Sounds pervy enough.

[spadgy]

Oh yeah...

Playing Battle Garegga on a TV the same colour as the wall behind it...

[MX7]

When you think about the premise for Mushihimesama, it's possibly the strangest central conceit in videogames.

but but but....

...espgaluda.

Yeah, I see what you mean :p

I once briefly mentioned ESPGaluda in an essay about gay, lesbian and transgendered videogame characters. The concept of being male and female at once has a lot of precedent in far Eastern culture, but obviously 'Galuda is perhaps the logical conclusion of such a concept

[320x240]

Is this really what it's like to be an insect?

No, it's what games are like when their producers think: "We have no way of making this into a coherent, artistic whole, but who cares, our customers are geeks right, they see only the parts."

[Pixel_Outlaw]

To really enjoy Darius you need to go to your local Smithsonian and steal a few of the fossil of dead plants and animals. It would be best to glue them to your walls and floor. Now you are ready for the Queen Fissil. You should then proceed to find a living coelacanth and suspend it from your ceiling fan. You then need to go to the local Wal mart and purchase a plastic child size rhinestone tiara and superglue it to the coelacanth to make a queen fossil. As the poor thing flails around let the sprinklings of fish water sooth your soul. If you really want to play the game correctly you will hire Zuntana to play.

[PROMETHEUS]

Is this really what it's like to be an insect?

No, it's what games are like when their producers think: "We have no way of making this into a coherent, artistic whole, but who cares, our customers are geeks right, they see only the parts."

Or when they're smart enough to recognize when it's good to sacrifice some coherence for gameplay.

[croikle]

Compulsively avoiding powerups in every shmup you play in order to get a karmic rank decrease in Garegga.

[Icarus]

- playing Sexy Parodius in a room with beautiful naked girls
( over 18 - of course).

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[nimitz]

playing R-type with alzheimer.

playing Gekirindan in A.D. 4580.

make a monkey play Gunbird 2's "monkey" difficulty level.

playing a Dooyong game...

[Master O]

Playing the fruitcake level of Gokujyou Parodius while eating fruitcake and dancing salsa to Mambo No 5.

[Pixel_Outlaw]

Playing Gradius with two cosplayers dressed up as giant foam options. They must position themselves as your ship moves onscreen.

[Ed Oscuro]

Playing Gradius with two cosplayers dressed up as giant foam options. They must position themselves as your ship moves onscreen.

Bonus points if you have them running around underneath a glass floor you're standing on, so they won't collide with you.

[jochen]

Some suggestions about playing "Toilet Kids" on the
PC-Engine ????


Jochen.

[orange]

Playing Choaniki -

sitting on the butt of a naked bodybuilder - using him as a seat
while other naked guys serve you drinks and food.

sounds like a good time to me