You ever wonder if somewhere out there...

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:01 am

... a real life shmup is happening? Really - there's billions and billions of stars and planets and galaxies and such. What if something like R-Type or Gradius is actually happening to someone somewhere? That would make life so much more interesting.

I mean, to find out about something like that. Like, we see light from thousands of years ago with our telescopes and satellites. What if we just suddenly picked up an intergalactic war off somewhere out there that happened. I mean, all those explosions have to give off a detectable amount of light - even light years away, right?

What would you do if you turned on the news and saw that astronomers had discovered something of that sort? Just how would you react?

I think it would instill a new hope in me for real...

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:16 am

Umm... like, whoa

Blade · Post by **Blade** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:19 am

Well, just so you know, the physics in space are far different than those of earth's atmosphere, so things like Space Explosions and Laserfire are not likely. Due to the vacuum of space first of all, and the logic that lasers are made from light energy, and for any sort of ship to dodge light is nearly impossible unless you're talking about moving at light speed, which is also not likely.

Sorry for bursting your bubble, but if anything were to happen along those lines, it would be on a higher technological scale than we humans of the 21st century could fathom.

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:31 am

Well that's common knowledge, man.

You're right about the explosions if we are still talking about a place with similar physics to our territory - but maybe in the REAL vast expanses - the places where things could work in a completely different fashion.

Even as such maybe the space around this certain area is filled with a gaseous substance like oxygen that would allow for explosions and such? Hey - it could happen!

There could be something similar to lasers that isn't actually using just concentrated light. I think that's why alot of creators refer to laser weapons as 'plasma' beams and such. It just makes more sense givin the way action progresses in alot of stories.

No one can say for sure what is out there - that's not what this is about, though. This is about what you would do - how you would feel.

So how would you feel if you found that it was real?

thesuperkillerxxx · Post by **thesuperkillerxxx** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:38 am

you are all wrong, dude....

Every shmup is about survival of the fittest... you already survived once, by being born. Can you repeat it?

russ · Post by **russ** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:40 am

I'd give a big hearty salute to those brave pilots defending the universe from threats like the Bydo and the Bacterion empire! I feel all warm and fuzzy inside already!

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:40 am

Yeah - i beat all those other spermies like they where nothin! Take that inner-space drones!

russ · Post by **russ** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:43 am

Hehehe... that's pretty reminscent of the episode of Family Guy ("Emission Impossible") where Stewie enters Peter's body in a shrunken ship in order to destroy his sperm and stop a potential newborn... There's a nice little shmuppy scene to be found in it too

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:47 am

LMAO - i remember that! I usually don't watch Family Guy but i remember seeing that episode sometime last year.

Cthulhu · Post by **Cthulhu** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:01 am

And somewhere off in a distant corner of the universe are the ruins of a civilization so advanced they dissapeared entirely... into the mystic "second loop" of time-space.

russ · Post by **russ** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:08 am

I'm not so good at this crappy "real-life" game - I'll probably lose at around stage 80. I'll be damned if I could 1CC this stupid thing. And why in the world would anyone want to access the second loop? Everything would just be harder!

TGK · Post by **TGK** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:28 am

russ wrote:I'm not so good at this crappy "real-life" game - I'll probably lose at around stage 80. I'll be damned if I could 1CC this stupid thing. And why in the world would anyone want to access the second loop? Everything would just be harder!

hmm, I prefer to think that real life game has a long hitpoint meter that differs for each ship instead of 80 stages. At most it probably has 8 stages

Toddler
Kindergarten
Elementary
High School
College
Jobs
Unlockable Stage: start your business
Retirement

The stages are really long, and for most people including me the gameplay is like Cave's, where you got to deal with random spam at every turn. I've known people who got Raiden aimed shots gameplay for their lives though, I salute them.

I too don't want to access the second loop of this game for sure.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:43 am

I think my life's cosmic disc is scratched, I'm still stuck at the "Now Loading" screen.

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 7:13 am

What if we are on the second loop already, which is lame, and have forgotten about the fantastic first loop?

We should go see if the Rynex/Vasteel Original is orbiting the Solar system beyond Pluto by now. We'll just make sure the Guardian doesn't go bananas.

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:55 pm

Hey, why do you even need to think of space?

60+ years ago our grandpas were shmuppin' it out over Europe and the Pacific.

Capcom even made some games about it.

Sly Cherry Chunks · Post by **Sly Cherry Chunks** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:52 pm

thesuperkillerxxx wrote:you are all wrong, dude....

Every shmup is about survival of the fittest... you already survived once, by being born. Can you repeat it?

Dammitt, we're all stuck in one big long ending sequence. But what happens when it's over? Are we taken to a second loop or just a highscore board?

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:00 pm

I wonder if the word "Congraturation" flashes before our eyes when it's all over?

TGK · Post by **TGK** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:30 pm

"Congraturation, a brave pilot is you. Go take a hard-earned rest, and leave the rest to us the main fleat...

Programmer
God "the Father"
Mikael "Godlike" Arcseraph
Santa Claus

Background art
The Buddha
Christ "the Son"

Enemy design
Zeus
Athena
Studio Olympus (aka. Teh Greek Gods Studio)

Music
Zuntata

Producer
Yo Mama
Yo Papa

Executive producter
Mama Nature

...

and you!

...

Thank you for playing! Let's try Special course "Heaven" and "The Other Place"!
"

That's what I think will flash, or rather scroll, before our eyes.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:37 pm

^^ it will proboably be as satisfactory as when my mom knocked over my playstation on my first sephiroth encounter all those years ago.. aaargh.. the memories..

BrianC · Post by **BrianC** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:03 pm

"All your base are belong to us, co operate and a winner is you!"

Zweihander · Post by **Zweihander** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:57 pm

i'm a shmuptard and even THAT belief is too much for me...

besides, if there was an intergalactic war going on, it'd have shitty free-roaming play controls. :/

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:53 pm

TGK wrote: Toddler
Kindergarten
Elementary
High School
College
Jobs
Unlockable Stage: start your business
Retirement

What happens if you quit before the fifth stage? Loophole?

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:56 pm

A hidden warpzone to the secret "Welfare Line" stage, probably.

Ramus · Post by **Ramus** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:59 pm

BulletMagnet wrote:A hidden warpzone to the secret "Welfare Line" stage, probably.

Or maybe to "Crack Alley" or "Homeless Mode"

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 5:06 pm

As pointed out, just the 'sperm to egg' level was no doubt supremely challenging, and like that last stage in RSG, you can't shoot or use a bomb. Holy crap!

I really like TGK's final credits. Yes, that's exactly what happens.

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 2:24 am

I just hope that i don't have to fight a gigantic cyst with a huge cock protruding from it. Life would really never be the same...

Sundance · Post by **Sundance** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 2:48 am

circuitface wrote:... a real life shmup is happening? Really - there's billions and billions of stars and planets and galaxies and such. What if something like R-Type or Gradius is actually happening to someone somewhere? That would make life so much more interesting.

I mean, to find out about something like that. Like, we see light from thousands of years ago with our telescopes and satellites. What if we just suddenly picked up an intergalactic war off somewhere out there that happened. I mean, all those explosions have to give off a detectable amount of light - even light years away, right?

What would you do if you turned on the news and saw that astronomers had discovered something of that sort? Just how would you react?

I think it would instill a new hope in me for real...

Ok..your puttin' WAY to much thought into this thing Last Starfighter.

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 3:02 am

Don't be closed-minded now - this shit could be real!

Eep!

zinger · Post by **zinger** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 2:31 pm

TGK wrote:Music
Zuntata

Hahaha!

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 4:08 pm

Zweihander wrote:i'm a shmuptard and even THAT belief is too much for me...

besides, if there was an intergalactic war going on, it'd have shitty free-roaming play controls. :/

Exactly, and who the heck would find out about it anyway? Certainly not our ever-incompetent Need Another Space Administration.

Yes, I know the shuttle launch this morning went off well, but IMO that's in spite of NASA's efforts, not because of them. They waved a major safety issue before the launch, the morons. :

Sure, this could possibly be happening somewhere in space, given the vast number of galaxies and planets that exist in the universe, but considering that the worlds largest space agency is content to play Russian Roulette with people's lives, IMO, we'll never even know.

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