Shmup Ticker: What are you playing RIGHT NOW?

Post by **Shatterhand** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 12:32 am

Just played 3 games of Zanac Neo. Played crappily the first 2 games, played a little better on the 3rd game, but lost a couple of stupid lives on area 7 and then went downhill, losing my last life on the boss rush of area 8.

jonny5 · Post by **jonny5** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 1:23 am

ketsui....very badly

i cant play when im tired

durias · Post by **durias** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 2:25 am

Chaos Field or Radirgy or Karous and Hori Fighting Stick, what else?

ST Dragon · Post by **ST Dragon** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 7:24 am

Ocean Commander.
Yeah I like it, very fun game. Gameplay wise it reminds me of Walker on the AMIGA. Weapons become very destructive and visually very pleasing, when fully powered up.

null1024 · Post by **null1024** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 1:39 pm

More Einhander, and some Dangun for good measure.

corbie · Post by **corbie** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 5:54 pm

Deathsmiles Xbox 360. Next up, ProGear.

thamasha69 · Post by **thamasha69** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 8:22 pm

Battle Bakraid (pcb)
.....while I eagerly await my copy of Death Smiles (360).

ex.machina · Post by **ex.machina** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 2:21 am

Death Smiles (360), plus lots other non shmups stuff

BIL · Post by **BIL** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 2:33 am

Been revisiting Gradius V for fun, and trying out the Type 3 (Thunder Cross) Options. I'd forgotten how satisfying this game was to just steamroll through... it's a hell of a lot more entertaining than I've given it credit for in subsequent years. Almost a movie-like experience, ie not something I'll play for months on end, but good occasional spectacle.

neist · Post by **neist** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 1:56 am

ZacharyB's thread made me go play some Blast Works. Man, his games are incredible. I really need to pick me up one of those Hori Wii Fighting sticks.

mrtie · Post by **mrtie** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 2:03 am

Currently playing Ibara, very very very poorly.

Rozyrg · Post by **Rozyrg** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:56 am

Blast Works here, too... (pretty soon I'll have played it almost a year straight.)

Also Arrow Flash >_>

MadSteelDarkness · Post by **MadSteelDarkness** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 4:42 pm

Tons of Parsec 47, then a bit of DDP DOJ.

Post by **Shatterhand** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 6:27 pm

Raiden 3.

null1024 · Post by **null1024** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 10:38 pm

Playing some Z-Lock.
Amazingly, unlike most other Hello World Project games, it doesn't give you massive gobs of lives...

corbie · Post by **corbie** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:18 am

Been playing Coryoon on the old PC Engine tonight. I still love this silly shooter.

SockPuppetHyren · Post by **SockPuppetHyren** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 3:19 pm

Armed Police Batrider and Milestone Block-'em-up Collection.

null1024 · Post by **null1024** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 12:23 am

Psyvariar, and sucking at it tonight.

Post by **Shatterhand** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 12:56 am

Raiden 3 again

Accidentally I deleted my hi-score table

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 7:40 pm

1944 - The Loop Master [ARC], Andro Dunos [ARC], Sengoku Ace [ARC], Touhou Koumakyou [PC].

Sonic R · Post by **Sonic R** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 9:25 pm

Playing Death Smiles on the Xbox 360

drboom · Post by **drboom** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 9:55 pm

Fuck tons of Batsugun Sp. Ver. Love to hit that counter stop, but really just playing to get higher up on the scoreboard here. Got to get that All as well...

unsane · Post by **unsane** » Fri May 01, 2009 12:20 am

After playing through tons of shmups i'd somehow missed, of the Big 3 i've realized Raizing is my favorite. Psikyo a distant 2nd, Cave 3rd.

Put in a couple hours of Battle Garegga today, i've hardly played it before so it's about time i gave it some lovin'.

I'm really enjoying the controls, it just seems more fluid than APB & BB for some reason. Might just be that the ship speeds more closely match my playing style.

Aquas · Post by **Aquas** » Fri May 01, 2009 5:44 am

Starforce (Arc) this game is pretty fun! The enemy types are fun to learn, the music is good (even though there's like 3 tracks) and it's just really classic. I'm trying to get the 50k bonus from destroying the assembling orb thing but it's pretty hard, it seems I need the autofire powerup to do it easier or something.

Also some Gradius IV here and there, trying to get the 2-loop clear but the game just continues to piss me off in the 2nd loop. I've played the game for almost 90 hours now! That's 25 more than I put into Gradius V, defintely my fave Gradius game and more people should try to clear it.

unsane · Post by **unsane** » Fri May 01, 2009 9:43 am

Later on i tried Sengoku Blade for the first time, a Psikyo horizontal shmup. I must say, my first impression is that it almost feels like Psikyo was meant to be played horizontal...

Speaking of which, did 8ing/raizing make any good horizontal shmups?

Fenrir · Post by **Fenrir** » Fri May 01, 2009 11:11 am

Patriot Dark. I've been playing it for a good while now.
No seriously, that's funny and challenging shit. I'll try 1cc'ing it this w-end, although I don't know how many stages it is

clp · Post by **clp** » Fri May 01, 2009 11:16 am

psyvariar 2 now that i have the dreamcast version re learning without the autospin feature and boy how much more fun it is .

Yoshi · Post by **Yoshi** » Fri May 01, 2009 11:13 pm

I'm passing the time before my J360 and Death Smiles arrive with some Border Down. The DC in VGA holds up amazingly well almost 11 years after release.

null1024 · Post by **null1024** » Sat May 02, 2009 12:09 am

Gradius [and hating it, it's just cheap.]
Batrider [and dieing w/o knowing what hit me, also I suck tonight.]
DoDonPachi [and realizing that I suck tonight, however this is the first time I've no missed the second level, I usually get hit right before the boss...]

[May 3rd edit:]
Tried to see how far I'd get in Radiant Silvergun by loading it up with 10 credits in MAME [that's 30 lives!], I got to Stage 3e's boss [I think, was there a 3f?]

Yeah, I suck at RSG.

Alec · Post by **Alec** » Sun May 03, 2009 9:19 pm

R-Type Dimensions. Just got the Xbox 360 in the egret 3 cab, so I had to give this a purchase. way awesome game.