Shmup Ticker: What are you playing RIGHT NOW?

durias · Post by **durias** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 3:21 pm

Chaos Field or Radirgy or Karous and Hori Fighting Stick

Gmintyfresh · Post by **Gmintyfresh** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:11 pm

Dodonpachi Dai Ou Jou - 360 I can just about play the game now without getting frustrated at those stupid loading screens!

Tengai - PS2

PsikyoPshumpPshooterP · Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:27 pm

played ddp doj blex for a week, whored it 1000/1000. im done foreever

MadSteelDarkness · Post by **MadSteelDarkness** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 6:03 pm

Ibara, arrange mode.

Also, Gradius Gaiden on my PSP.

zap · Post by **zap** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 6:16 pm

Gradius IV (PS2)

Fucking bubbles on 3rd stage! The moving iceblocks are not making it easier

null1024 · Post by **null1024** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 12:34 am

Raycrisis and R-Type II [got to level 2, and died 10 seconds in, lost all 3 lives there].

Aquas · Post by **Aquas** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 1:03 am

Buncha stuff here and there, not dedicated to anything really right now, in terms of like 2hour practice sessions lol. Gradius, Gradius 2 (meh... 2nd stage is stupid, contra references aside), Gradius IV (finding it hard to replicate my 1cc D= ), Raiden (I don't really like it a lot, too be honest due to "FUCKING BITCHES!" deaths) Flying Shark (do like this though,) ESPrade (losing steam here...) and some other ones...

durias · Post by **durias** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:13 am

Gradius Rebirth. I'm now calling it Gradwiius.

gs68 · Post by **gs68** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 5:59 am

durias wrote:Gradius Rebirth. I'm now calling it Gradwiius.

Or Nemesis 4, given all the MSX Nemesis references (James Burton, Venom, the year 6667, sounds, etc.)

durias · Post by **durias** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 12:02 am

gs68 wrote:
durias wrote:Gradius Rebirth. I'm now calling it Gradwiius.
Or Nemesis 4, given all the MSX Nemesis references (James Burton, Venom, the year 6667, sounds, etc.)

Nice.

null1024 · Post by **null1024** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:28 pm

Just came off an awesome run of Progear, but I panic bombed repeatedly in level 3 [It reminded me of fucking Mars Matrix -- level 2 is manageable, level 3 is psychopathic].

Dragoforce · Post by **Dragoforce** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 1:49 am

Espgaluda. Day and night.

null1024 · Post by **null1024** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:13 am

Xexex [JAA version], and sucking at it.

corbie · Post by **corbie** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:17 am

Muchi Muchi Pork...and I'm loving every second of it.

steveovig · Post by **steveovig** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 4:35 am

I just got done 1CCing Gradius Rebirth and I headed onto Gradius Galaxies that I bought a couple months ago. I'm playing it on my Gamecube GB Player and it looks awful. The shitty Gamecube controller doesn't do any favors for me either. I might move onto another Gradius game soon and I'm thinking of trying out Astro Tripper while I'm at it.

MadScientist · Post by **MadScientist** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 12:14 am

null1024 wrote:Xexex [JAA version], and sucking at it.

Has anybody else noticed any slowdown issues with this in MAME? I was playing it earlier and the game slowed down quite a bit in level 3. I don't remember this happening before. I'm on .129u5 at the moment.

ROBOTRON · Post by **ROBOTRON** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 6:13 pm

Astro tripper.

way cool.

null1024 · Post by **null1024** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 3:24 am

MadScientist wrote:
null1024 wrote:Xexex [JAA version], and sucking at it.
Has anybody else noticed any slowdown issues with this in MAME? I was playing it earlier and the game slowed down quite a bit in level 3. I don't remember this happening before. I'm on .129u5 at the moment.

The game frameskips pretty badly on my machine. I'm on .129, haven't tried with .130.

Also, playing some Dangun Feveron recently.

themachinist · Post by **themachinist** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 7:55 am

Just started einhander jp. It's fun.

durias · Post by **durias** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 12:52 am

Chaos Field or Radirgy or Karous and Hori Fighting Stick

corbie · Post by **corbie** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 4:35 am

Just popped Don Pachi into my Egret 2. Haven't played this one in a long time.

BrianC · Post by **BrianC** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 4:53 am

I have been playing Star Prince in Retro Game Challenge and a bit of Star Soldier NES.

gs68 wrote:
durias wrote:Gradius Rebirth. I'm now calling it Gradwiius.
Or Nemesis 4, given all the MSX Nemesis references (James Burton, Venom, the year 6667, sounds, etc.)

From what Turrican has told me, James Burton was mentioned in some Japanese Gradius documentation outside of the MSX games. The first two MSX games were Gradius in Japan (the roms seem to have multiple languages and play with different titles depending on the language setting, as well) and the third Nemesis was called Gofer no Yabou Episode II in Japan.

null1024 · Post by **null1024** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 9:12 pm

Playing Cho Ren Sha. Every shmup I play, I die on level 3. This one's no exception.

SockPuppetHyren · Post by **SockPuppetHyren** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 9:21 pm

null1024 wrote:Playing Cho Ren Sha. Every shmup I play, I die on level 3. This one's no exception.

Look on the bright side, there are even more people who die on level 2.

Currently playing Radirgy. Keeping that multiplier up in areas with minimal enemies is a pain.

Also, does Radirgy have a rank system of any sort?

Fenrir · Post by **Fenrir** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 9:26 pm

Ikaruga. This also explains my signature.
(In fact I'm playing Ikaruga on XBLA, so I should probably write IkarugaLOL)

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 9:32 pm

null1024 wrote:Playing Cho Ren Sha. Every shmup I play, I die on level 3.

I hear ya. Everything but Gradius and some Toaplan shooters do that to me without lotsa practice

steveovig · Post by **steveovig** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 9:34 pm

I'm finally getting around to playing Star Soldier R (Wii) a lot. I never had a proper controller for this until a few months back and I'm just now getting around to using it with this game. I've been fiddling with 2 Minute Mode and I got my high score to 910,000. This game is damn addicting.

Dragoforce · Post by **Dragoforce** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 11:10 pm

Twin Cobra.

Never knew that pure evil could be so much fun.

Malc74 · Post by **Malc74** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 11:39 pm

I must have been in a masochistic mood, because I just had a run through The Monkey King: The Legend Begins. Absolutely bloody awful, not least because all you get when you finish the game is a Game Over message.

steveovig · Post by **steveovig** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 12:10 am

Malc74 wrote:I must have been in a masochistic mood, because I just had a run through The Monkey King: The Legend Begins. Absolutely bloody awful, not least because all you get when you finish the game is a Game Over message.

Even though the game does blow ass, I still had some fun putting in my 1CC. Granted, I haven't played the thing since then but I still had fun with it.