While the top25 works well enough and is a good idea in principle, there are so many shmups out there that a large amount of them get completely ignored because the usual suspects always make their way to the top of the lists.
This is just a simple way to reduce the amount of choice and hopefully get more interesting results.
Here are the rules:
-The games have to have been made specifically for home console, not ported from arcade. If the game is vastly different from the original, say Section Z on nes, it will be accepted.
-Post exactly 10 games.
-Post in order from best to worst (see example).
-Consoles only, no computers.
-Console exclusive arrange modes DO NOT count as "Games".
-Entries that break any rules will be ignored.
-Games ported from Home Computers (Zanac NES, Aleste SMS) are ok.
Here's an example of what a list could be (no need for fancy formatting):
NES:
Recca
Zanac
Gunnac
Star Soldier
Crisis Force
Abadox
Blade Buster
Hector 87
Over horizon
TwinBee 3
PCE(including cd):
Super Star Soldier
Final Soldier
Soldier Blade
Gunhed
Override
Cybercore
Winds of Thunder/Lord of Thunder
Gate of Thunder
Nexzr
Sapphire
Star Parodia
Spriggan
Spriggan Mark 2
Sylphia
Megadrive/Genesis:
Verytex
Gleylancer
Slap Fight MD
Musha
Thunderforce II
Thunderforce III
Thunderforce IV
Eliminate Down
Elemental Master
Gaiares
Gynoug
Steel Empire
Sol-Deace
SNES:
Super Aleste
R-type III
Axelay
Biometal
Jikkyou Parodius
Darius Twin
Darius Force
Saturn:
Blast Wind
Thunderforce V
PSX:
Gradius Gaiden
Einhander
R-Type Delta
Zanac Neo
Harmful Park
Jikkyou Parodius
Philosoma
PS2:
Shienryu Explosion
ThunderForce VI
Gradius V
R-Type Final
Other consoles:
Omega Five
Judgement Silversword
Eschatos
Last edited by nimitz on Sun Jan 15, 2012 7:17 pm, edited 12 times in total.
I didn't think I could do it, I almost wrote Gradius V or R-Type Final just to fill in the last couple of spaces.
Edit - forgot a few, edited a couple of entries
Edit 2 - fine, switching Bangai-O for something else
Edit 3 - well damn I didn't realize Strania was eligible despite the NESiCAxLive release
1. Axelay
2. Thunder Force V
3. Gradius Gaiden
4. Gradius V
5. Thunder Force IV
6. Cardinal Sins
7. Eschatos
8. R-Type III: The Third Lightning
9. R-Type Delta
10. Harmful Park
Last edited by Estebang on Wed Jan 11, 2012 8:15 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I'm sure no one will disagree with the following most definitive list of shmups to ever show exclusively at home:
1. The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
2. Shoot the Bullet
3. Imperishable Night
4. Immaterial and Missing Power
5. Perfect Cherry Blossom
6. Lotus Land Story
7. Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
8. Undefined Fantastic Object
9. ⑨⑨⑨⑨⑨⑨⑨⑨⑨
10. Mountain of Faith
1 Recca
2 Gradius V
3 Musha
4 Gynoug (Wings of Wor)
5 Spriggan
6 Enhander
7 Wings of Thunder
8 Harmfull Park
9 Gun Nac
10 Score Rush
EDIT not quite shmups but I cant help making honerable mentions of REZ HD and Sin and Punishment 2
I havnt played any of the Soldier Blade series, Later R-Types, Gradius Gaiden, Gleylancer or Strania & Escatos yet but ive a funny feeling ild like them, Plus ive only had a few goes of the thunderforce games so I cant really list em, since I never developed a taste for them, but they have a similar feel as Gynoug to me.
Last edited by TrevHead (TVR) on Thu Jan 12, 2012 1:04 am, edited 8 times in total.
Why? Apidya or Uridium, just off the top of my head, deserve some applause.
I assume because then the crap that is Touhou would have to be accepted, too.
Of course nimitz could allow home computers (= 8 and 16-Bit computers like MSX and Amiga) but exclude PC...
Anway, small price to pay to invalidate entries like this by people who lack taste and reading skills:
BeruBeru wrote:
1. The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
2. Shoot the Bullet
3. Imperishable Night
4. Immaterial and Missing Power
5. Perfect Cherry Blossom
6. Lotus Land Story
7. Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
8. Undefined Fantastic Object
9. ⑨⑨⑨⑨⑨⑨⑨⑨⑨
10. Mountain of Faith
Last edited by Friendly on Wed Jan 11, 2012 9:16 pm, edited 2 times in total.
I like top 10 lists, maybe we could do the same thing for arcade, PC and Borderliner Shooters?
I much prefer these types of specific lists over the top 20-25? shmups of all time since its always the biggest names that everybody puts down, Atleast with these the games are more niche and intresting
Last edited by TrevHead (TVR) on Wed Jan 11, 2012 9:29 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Do I really need to put a "SARCASM" (or trolling) flag above comments like mine because they are not obvious enough?
Also, isn't two fighting games in the list makes this even more obvious?
Friendly wrote:
Marc wrote:
nimitz wrote:Home computer games DO NOT count
Why? Apidya or Uridium, just off the top of my head, deserve some applause.
I assume because then the crap that is Touhou would have to be accepted, too.
Of course nimitz could allow home computers (= 8 and 16-Bit computers like MSX and Amiga) but exclude PC...
Anway, small price to pay to invalidate entries like this by people who lack taste and reading skills:
BeruBeru wrote:
1. The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
2. Shoot the Bullet
3. Imperishable Night
4. Immaterial and Missing Power
5. Perfect Cherry Blossom
6. Lotus Land Story
7. Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
8. Undefined Fantastic Object
9. ⑨⑨⑨⑨⑨⑨⑨⑨⑨
10. Mountain of Faith
Anyway for my real list:
1. Gradius V
2. R-Type Delta
3. Recca
4. Super Star Soldier
5. R-Type Final
6. Axelay
7. R-Type 3
8. Thunderforce 3
9. Lords of Thuner
10. Bangai-O
1. Nexzr
2. Recca
3. Gradius V
4. Super Aleste/ Space Megaforce
5. Spriggan
6. R-Type Delta
7. Winds Of Thunder
8. Thunder Force V
9. Gunhed/ Blazing Lasers
10. Blade Buster (NES) or, if that's not allowed for some reason, then Judgement Silversword
Respect to the OP- the excellence of these games should not be overlooked
1. Gradius Gaiden PSX
2. Musha Genesis
3. Super Aleste SNES
4. Thunder Force III Genesis
5. Thunder Force IV/Lightening Force Genesis
6. Gun Nac NES
7. Pop 'n Twinbee SFC
8. Nemesis Gameboy
9. Beamrider Intellivision
10. Twinbee 3 FC
Edit: Took off Zanac since it's ported from a computer (MSX). Same reason I left Power Strike/Aleste SMS off the list.
Last edited by BrianC on Wed Jan 11, 2012 10:36 pm, edited 3 times in total.
1. Recca
2. R-Type Delta
3. Judgement Silversword
4. R-Type Final
5. Zanac
6. Bangai-O
7. Gradius V
8. Thunder Force V
9. Shienryu Explosion
10. Super Star Soldier
1. Thunder Force IV
2. Gleylancer
3. Thunder Force V
4. Thunder Force II
5. Thunder Force III
6. MUSHA
7. Einhänder
8. Recca
9. Gun-Nac
10. Zanac
TrevHead (TVR) wrote:
I havnt played any of the Soldier Blade series, Later R-Types, Gradius Gaiden, Gleylander or Strania & Escatos yet but ive a funny feeling ild like them, Plus ive only had a few goes of the thunderforce games so I cant really list em, since I never developed a taste for them, but they have a similar feel as Gynoug to me.
Your misspelling is borderline blasphemy, but do have a go at Gleylancer - I highly recommend it. If the difficulty makes you feel like you wanna sleep on the keyboard, there's Maniac mode but I can never remember how to enable it.
Last edited by BPzeBanshee on Fri Jan 13, 2012 10:49 am, edited 1 time in total.