What was the first shump you ever played?

[Ixranin]

I was banned from playing games as a kid so no arcade games, but eventually at a friend's house got to Gradius III on the SNES. Somebody gave him a whole garbage bag full of SNES carts for his birthday, that lucky bastard.

[spl]

To be honest I can't really remember - whatever shooters were on Amstrad since that was my first computer.

The first shmups I remember playing are R-Type and Gemini Wing on Amiga although I'm sure I played others before.

[DocHauser]

That Sky Attack pic is giving me flashbacks. There was a similar Tomytronic game called 3D Shark Attack.



I also remember owning Grandstand's Astro Wars (also released as Galaxy II).

http://youtu.be/woIvOSliMlE

[BareKnuckleRoo]

I was banned from playing games as a kid so no arcade games

That sounds awful.

[Kollision]

I was banned from playing games as a kid so no arcade games

That sounds awful.

You know, in my youth "kids going to arcades" was also frowned upon by lots of people.
At least for a while it was like doing a completely forbidden thing, we'd have to play alongside street kids, dirty people, probably young drug addicts and all of that. In some places this still happens today.

[Marc]

No, having an Amstrad as your first machine sounds awful. Either Speccy conversions but slower, or C64 conversions, with a tiny play area and slower. Poor guy.

[Nitrous]

Space Invaders for Atari 2600.

[spl]

No, having an Amstrad as your first machine sounds awful. Either Speccy conversions but slower, or C64 conversions, with a tiny play area and slower. Poor guy.

Well never having a Speccy or C64 I was oblivious to this fact. I remember getting an Amiga 500 though and was completely blown away by the quality of games on that!

[Gus]

I was banned from playing games as a kid so no arcade games

That sounds awful.

You know, in my youth "kids going to arcades" was also frowned upon by lots of people.
At least for a while it was like doing a completely forbidden thing, we'd have to play alongside street kids, dirty people, probably young drug addicts and all of that. In some places this still happens today.

I probably wouldn't want a kid going to an arcade if the ones in Brazil are anything like the ones in Japan. Fuck that smoking.

[AttObl]

Giga Wing, Viper Phase One, and that helicopter shmup whose name escapes me (If I recall, you perform special movements with the joystick and the buttons to perform special attacks.). All of them happen to be at a Nickel City near my location.

[TheRedKnight]

I guess this is the thread where new guys introduce themselves by telling everyone what their first shmup experience was.
My memory is a bit hazy, but I think my first "shmups" were those special stages in Turrican II. And no, I'm not an Amiga fan.