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Children's shmups?

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Do they exist? There are children's games where a level or two are of a shmup nature I'm sure, but what about whole games?
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320x240 wrote:Do they exist? There are children's games where a level or two are of a shmup nature I'm sure, but what about whole games?
Yes, they exist. I don't remember any specific names, but I remember at a summer camp when I was young, there was a computer lab with macs that we could game on, and there were a couple of shmups that were definitely meant for kids. Not all that good, and they weren't arcade shmups, but there you are.
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I've been waiting forever for a reason to post this link:

http://www.noggin.com/games/missspider_dragonfly_derby/

It's also a "pacifist" title!

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It's technically not a shmup because it's not auto-scrolling, but for the most part Operation Neptune fits this for sure. Well, it's not aimed at little kids (the box says "ages 9-14"), but it is a learning (math) game with a submarine which you go around with, shooting enemies (with ink clouds that only temporarily stun them and do not kill them) and sometimes having to solve a math puzzle. It was a Super Solvers game, so like most all those games it was pretty good. :)
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Nate wrote:I've been waiting forever for a reason to post this link:

http://www.noggin.com/games/missspider_dragonfly_derby/

It's also a "pacifist" title!

8)

Awesome, Nate. I'm going to test this out on my 5 year old tomorrow.
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professor ganson wrote:
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Nate wrote:
I've been waiting forever for a reason to post this link:

http://www.noggin.com/games/missspider_dragonfly_derby/

It's also a "pacifist" title!





Awesome, Nate. I'm going to test this out on my 5 year old tomorrow.
Yeah, my little girl will be 6 in July. A few months ago I walked into the room and she was playing it; of course I was like, "Holy sh...what the...!!!"

I very much encouraged her to keep playing it, naturally. Good, wholesome gaming there. :wink:
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A Black Falcon wrote:It's technically not a shmup because it's not auto-scrolling, but for the most part Operation Neptune fits this for sure. Well, it's not aimed at little kids (the box says "ages 9-14"), but it is a learning (math) game with a submarine which you go around with, shooting enemies (with ink clouds that only temporarily stun them and do not kill them) and sometimes having to solve a math puzzle. It was a Super Solvers game, so like most all those games it was pretty good. :)
Operation Neptune is fucking awesome (or it could be the little kid in me speaking with rose-tinted glasses), by far the best learning game, the only one I would say was a good game in its own right. I remember I would intentionally miss all the math questions out of laziness and impatience and to make the game actually challenging (and angering the comp lab teacher), so not so good from a learning standpoint. :lol: Still, the math questions were well done and implemented, even if they were completely separate from the actual game, and if you actually solved them, you would learn far more than most learning games such as Oregon Trail or Reader Rabbit.

Ancient Empires (a puzzle platformer) was decent too but not quite on the level of Operation Neptune. The puzzles were actually pretty good but the character moved like a clunky snail. Also the best part of TLC games is the supervillian is such a shameless ripoff of Dr Wily. :lol:
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There's on for PS1, it's on the JPN/Asia PSN store. I forgot the name though, maybe someone can help out. ;)
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ex.machina wrote:There's on for PS1, it's on the JPN/Asia PSN store. I forgot the name though, maybe someone can help out. ;)
Dezaemon Kids? Though it's a shmup where you can create your own stuff.
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Incidentally - on Miss Spider's Dragonfly Derby - I just made a high score of 40 honeysuckle pieces on "Hard" difficulty. You have to grab those blueberries; they're like "autopilot" in WipEout.

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Diebythesword wrote: Dezaemon Kids? Though it's a shmup where you can create your own stuff.
I think that's the one yes. In general a lot of shmups I wouldn't really consider "harmful" for children. Many of them get very low ratings from ESRB or PEGI.
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Super Fantasy Zone?
Played it yesterday on Wii VC for the first time and finally i can understand all the love it's getting. =)
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