Your favorites PC shmups!!!

TerminasluT · Post by **TerminasluT** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 7:34 pm

I just wanted to know how many of you guys played those PC shmups and wich ones are your favorites. For me theres a buttload of amazing PC shmups, heres a few of my favorites...

Angeraze 2
Kamui
Hitogata happa
Phantasmagoria of FV
Samidare

Theres many more but ill leave it there for now.

shiftace · Post by **shiftace** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 7:54 pm

1. Radio Zonde
2. Radio Zonde
3. Parsec47
4. Nomltest

Of those, I only get to play nomltest lately because I just have an old laptop. It's frustrating.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:16 pm

Perfect Cherry Blossom is perhaps my favorite overall, though I also like Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (a bit simpler than PCB) and Imperishable Night (a bit more complicated). Bike Banditz is also great, if you can find it. Then, of course, there are the ever-present Cho-Ren-Sha and Warning Forever. There are others I like too, but those are the standouts for me.

Klatrymadon · Post by **Klatrymadon** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:27 pm

My faves are probably Cho Ren Sha 68k and Kenta Cho's efforts.

I haven't bought any of the bigger PC releases, although I plan to at some point. I've been trying to get the Kamui demo for quite a while now. Does anybody have a link to a direct download?

Cheers!

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:36 pm

Bal-Sagoth wrote:I've been trying to get the Kamui demo for quite a while now. Does anybody have a link to a direct download?

Shoot the Core has a link to Vector, as far as I can tell the download there still works.

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:44 pm

Bal-Sagoth wrote:My faves are probably Cho Ren Sha 68k and Kenta Cho's efforts.

I haven't bought any of the bigger PC releases, although I plan to at some point. I've been trying to get the Kamui demo for quite a while now. Does anybody have a link to a direct download?

Cheers!

The Kamui demo is still available on Siter Skain's website:
http://www.siterskain.com/products/data ... index.html

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and there should be a link with a file called: KamuiTrialSetup.exe
Download and run the file. Remember that F2 switches between window and full-screen.

Sly Cherry Chunks · Post by **Sly Cherry Chunks** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:50 pm

I really enjoy Galshell: Blood Red Skies.

Horrible, horrible visuals and atmosphere. (And I mean that in a good way.)

TerminasluT · Post by **TerminasluT** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:53 pm

Theres also a Update for Kamui on Siter Skain's page.
Now all the midi tracks were updated with ogg vorbis. ( i think )
Anyway the soundtrack is even more awesome than before...

ST Dragon · Post by **ST Dragon** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:54 pm

Cho Ren Sha 68k
Baryon (1995) - By Korean Acro Studios
Die Slave
Kamui
Tyrian

Also "Aqua Cube" is supposed to be a nice Tunder Force V PC clone.

http://adol.jp/cube/

TerminasluT · Post by **TerminasluT** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:56 pm

How could I forget Bike Banditz & Galshell, I really like both of these.

kidneythief · Post by **kidneythief** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 9:33 pm

how about these!!

in no particular order:

Raptor: Call of the shadows (DOS, windows port is now available but seems to run slower... has a life bar but it's still pretty hard... cool weapon shop thingy)

Starfire (DOS, very cheap 8bit looking game, it was actually pretty fun when I was younger, havn't played it since... It's a gg)

Stargunner (DOS, side spacey side scroller game with pretty nice graphics)

Tyrian (DOS, doesn't run on my comp too good with an emulator so I can't say, I missed out on this one back in the dos days

Overkill (DOS!! It was alright, kind of like tyrian if I remember correct as you get a shield and stuff? well, it was pretty fun)

Major Stryker (DOS, this game wasn't so great imho, but you might like it. I think it's a bit of a raiden type game, or at least tries to be.. not manic at all. Got some nice story bits :O)

Demon Star (Windows. Apparently the sequel to Raptor, from the same developers Mountain King. It's really not anywhere near as good though... Raiden clone)

Raiden I/II (Ports of the arcade games... which is good because mame can't run them... I think you can get these off of HOTU, fyi...)

Kiloblaster (DOS, same developers as Overkill, but if I recall it had much nicer graphics and stuff... shit these games are old man, I kinda miss em...)

Solar Winds (DOS, another EPIC MEGAGAMES title... it's a 360 shooter if your into that... lots of story elements... Quite similar to the newish game Starscape, but I liked Solar Winds better because I think it's prettier and has more depth... just my opinion...)

Starscape (WINDOWS... just mentioned this game above heh... It's basically like Solar Winds but it sucks ass kinda, and it's got 3D stuff... Personally I don't think the 3D was an improvement in this case! Also the story is very much not-interesting)

Fire Fight! (WINDOWS!! another Epic Megagames title, this one was a LOOOOT of fun for me

It's another 360 shooter, and you can even play it on a network with friends

The music is kick ass, when I was on vacation in the USA a couple years ago I got a copy of this game on CD and i actually listened to it in my CD player quite a bit because the tunes are really kick ass

Anyway, it's not really very arcadey, but if you're willing to play Thunderforce with the over head levels, this is pretty similar, just more forgiving health-wise, less forgiving ammo-wise, and much much prettier

it's also got some various mission objectives and the like... give it a shot.. you can get this from HOTU, and also a hacked version with additional levels)

Zone 88 (DOS, when I bought this years ago it didn't work on either of my 486 computers, but apparently it's really good.. go figure. If you can get it work, you should let me know what its like I'd be curious)

ummmm that's pretty much all I can come up with off the top of my head... guess that's not that many. There are so many old DOS shooters but they really didn't stand out enough and it was really hard to tell them from one another... maybe i'll go through my backup CDRs some time and list a bunch of other ones that probably aren't even worth mentioning

SFKhoa · Post by **SFKhoa** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 12:13 am

1. Samidare [particularly EXTRA STAGE]
2. Nomltest
3. Every Extend

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 12:30 am

Raptor rekindled my interest in shooters nearly a decade ago.

Andi · Post by **Andi** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 12:49 am

Star Goose. It's an old DOS game with some very cool and attractive EGA graphics. Very different from any other shooter I've ever played too.

Bar81 · Post by **Bar81** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 2:21 am

Kamui

And if you have the proper MIDI hardware the original MIDI soundtrack still rocks the house; vastly superior to the other options including the ogg. The updates also nicely cleaned up several issues like the pause before the bosses and some graphical effects.

Might have sourced new copies, keeping my fingers crossed.

MadSteelDarkness · Post by **MadSteelDarkness** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 3:25 am

I've said it before, and I'll say it again:

anything by Kenta Cho.

zimmy · Post by **zimmy** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 3:58 am

I haven't played too many PC shmup, but of the ones I've played, I gotta go for Xtom 3D by Jamie System. Forgot the website(just google it), but I still have the demo and its fairly fun. Theres nothin that original about the gameplay, but its different ships(3 in all, only 2 in demo)are distintive, as one ship(the Xtom)could use bombs and has machine guns that fire autofire at near enemies, and the Warlock has three different selectable attacks, a normal shot, some sort of homing thingy, and a sheild thingy(sometimes fun, but overall useless I find). But what I really love, is the cinimatic presentations of the levels, as the 3D engine isnt used too much for gameplay, but the scripted sequences in 3D are quite awesome, and it just adds a lot to the game. Besides, I think PC shmups could learn a thing or too from heavily scripted shmups like this one and others in the arcades/consoles.

Klatrymadon · Post by **Klatrymadon** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 8:45 am

Thanks Kiken/Magnet.

TerminasluT · Post by **TerminasluT** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 1:23 pm

Ill have to check out all those older DOS shmups, I didnt have a PC back then... Ill need to track some of those down eventually.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention a few really good ones

Jets'n'Guns
Steel Savior
Gochamaze No Arashi ( Great Cave Clone )

And anything by Zun's or Kenta Cho gets a big thumbs up from me!

Dandy J · Post by **Dandy J** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 3:30 pm

Z-Lock is pretty awesome, just came out. Everytime you hit the shot button, the enemies lock to your position, but the more enemies lock to you, the more powerful your shot is. Rivals the better Kenta Cho games IMO.

http://homepage2.nifty.com/isshiki/

Blue Wish is a Cave clone with a fun and basic scoring system. Kind of a mix of Ketsui and Mushihime. Graphics suck but the game is really fun.

http://www004.upp.so-net.ne.jp/x_xgameroom/

dynagod · Post by **dynagod** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 8:05 pm

Dandy J wrote:Z-Lock is pretty awesome, just came out. Everytime you hit the shot button, the enemies lock to your position, but the more enemies lock to you, the more powerful your shot is. Rivals the better Kenta Cho games IMO.

http://homepage2.nifty.com/isshiki/

Blue Wish is a Cave clone with a fun and basic scoring system. Kind of a mix of Ketsui and Mushihime. Graphics suck but the game is really fun.

http://www004.upp.so-net.ne.jp/x_xgameroom/

ive just been playing z-lock the last week or so and i have to agree, its a pretty tight little game. I really like the design and presentation as well as the gameplay. its like a shmup game of chicken

ST Dragon · Post by **ST Dragon** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 8:23 pm

Fourth Generation (1997) by Webfoot Technologies, is another nice DOS shooter that was initially supposed to be released for the AMIGA 1200.
Features some really nice pre-rendered graphics & is playable in WinXP even without DosBox Emu. Of course it will be a bitch trying to configure the sound without the emu, but the game is well worth to track down.

Platypus is a nice horizontal PC cute em up that looks as it’s made out of clay. Reminds me of an old 1997 PC adventure game that I can’t recall its name right now.

shariar07 · Post by **shariar07** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 9:45 pm

Here are some of my favorite PC shmups

1. Angeraze 2
2. Jets'N'Guns
3. Impershiable Night
4. Rally Raid
5. Barrage Tribe
6. Tomak Please Save Earth Again

aesthetik · Post by **aesthetik** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 10:21 pm

Samidare, Imperishable Night, Tumiki Fighters, and Every Extend are some of my favorites.

I have yet to buy Phantasmagoria. I've played the demo and it looks cool so I'll probably pick it up shortly. Also, I can't wait for Every Extend Extra

TerminasluT · Post by **TerminasluT** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 1:11 pm

Played some of Z-lock last night, that is pretty cool ! guess ill put some more time into it this weekend.

Post by **system11** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 3:21 pm

Imperishable Night (and PCB, and EOSD). I even created the infamous:

Touhoucab

TerminasluT · Post by **TerminasluT** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 3:45 pm

that is quite impressive Bloodflowers

I really wish I could do that kind of mod... great work!!!

~Kid Icarus~ · Post by **~Kid Icarus~** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 3:56 pm

Sorry, I have nothing to say about PC shmups. But that is one hot Chun Li.

TerminasluT · Post by **TerminasluT** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 5:37 pm

Yeah she's one hot cosplayer! she's soo my type...

check her out at www.francescadani.com
oupss... seems like the photo/cosplay sections are down for now...

ST Dragon · Post by **ST Dragon** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 6:17 pm

If you like Chun Li, you'll probably like these also:

http://www.geocities.com/st_dragon32/CHUN_01.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/st_dragon32/ChunLi1.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/st_dragon32/ChunLi2.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/st_dragon32/chunblue.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/st_dragon32/chundrawing.gif

http://www.geocities.com/st_dragon32/Chunli3.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/st_dragon32/ChunLi.jpg