Whats the shmup that inspired you to get into this hobby.?

[MSZ]

Famicom's Salamander, I was 6 at that time and it was my first ever 1CC.

[Necronopticous]

I've always liked these games, but it was Raiden Fighters Jet in my college arcade that really did it.

[CID]

Gradius 3 on the SNES.

[drunkninja24]

Always been a fan, but never really started to delve deep into the genre until a chap of mine introduced me to DDP on Saturn

from there, it's been a constant descent into madness

[Crazy Climber]

Megamania on the 2600, still HIGHLY playable even by todays standards.


The one that really got me these days though would be Deathsmiles

[finisherr]

Gradius III on SNES. When I figured out how to get SDL MAME to work, DoDonPachi got me hooked.

[STK]

In 2004 I played Esprade on sven666's Neo Geo Candy cab. Since then I have acquired several PCBs in this particular game genre.. Unfortunately I suck at most of the games in my collection since I've been so busy collecting and no time to play. Well, now it's time to play!

[jepjepjep]

Esprade is what hooked me too. I was looking for something different from Street Fighter II to play on my arcade cab since I was mostly playing 1P only. I ended up picking up an Esprade pcb after playing it a little in mame (I liked the graphics better than Dodonpachi).

[malchitos]

I saw a Space Invaders machine in 1980 and it's been a thing with me ever since. I wanted an Atari 2600 because of it, so it lead to my love of consoles. There was a platform game lull for a bit in the NES days till Gradius and Lifeforce came out on it ...then later Blazing Lasers and Thunderforce came out in the 16bit era and really re-ignited my love of the genre and gave us a more specific word for it..Shooters! Till then we just called them arcade style games.

[malchitos]

Damn, I must be the only one who fell in love with the genre playing Space Invaders on my old 2600???
And after that my first gameboy game was...... R-Type. Damn I played it when I was 10 years old and couldnt beat the 4 boss. Took me 2 years to find a way to kill it and to finish the game.
Good old times when I could 1CC Contra III on SNES on VHard dificulty....... Damn aging is getting on my nerves and skills

nope...you ain't the only older peep on here.

[malchitos]

Megamania on the 2600, still HIGHLY playable even by todays standards.


The one that really got me these days though would be Deathsmiles

oh my goodness nearly forgot about that one...I still barely recalled what the activision patch looked like!

[astroid]

Famicom's ZANAC from my childhood! This is the best game ever

[emphatic]

In 2004 I played Esprade on sven666's Neo Geo Candy cab. Since then I have acquired several PCBs in this particular game genre.. Unfortunately I suck at most of the games in my collection since I've been so busy collecting and no time to play. Well, now it's time to play!

Hey man! Never forget your TOAPLAN roots!

[hwl]

R-Type, Sidewinder and Xenon 2 on the Amiga were my first shmups.
I rediscovered the genre about four to five years ago when I was getting into retro gaming and immediatley fell in love with the raw ageless gameplay it offers.

[Dave_K.]

Originally, Stargate in arcades, I played that a lot. But I found a renewed interest in the genre after Ikaruga came out on Dreamcast.

[Hagane]

Back when I was a kid I used to play Galaxian and Exerion a lot in my Famicom, my first console. I also liked Aero Fighters 2 on the arcades, but it was way too hard for me and couldn't even get past the second stage.

I focused on arcade fighting games (on a casual level) and switched to JRPGs when I got my PSX. This continued when I got my first PC and played old stuff on emulators. I started to get bored of them around 2006-2007, and gradually went back to my arcade roots thanks to Kaillera, GGPO and MAME, that got me hardcore into fighting games. Then around 2010 a fighting game friend of mine recommended me some Cave games on MAME, and I started to become interested in playing the genre seriously. Gigawing was the first game I played with a 1CC mindset.

Shortly after I met Psikyo_Ball, who got me into Psikyo shooters, and I got addicted to the genre.

[RaidenViper]

I used to play these type of games all the time as a kid on computers. Back then I referred to them simply as ''Space ship games''.

Years later, I came across a review of this game called Ikaruga...

I discovered Cave by the famous YT video: ''World's hardest video game boss''. So I went ahead and imported Mushihimesama on the PS2. Of course it was not the same game. I don't think the 360 port of Futari was released by the time I watched that video.

[chum]

Embodiment of Scarlet Devil around the end of 2010 is what got me into video games after a long hiatus. Armed Police Batrider blew me away next year.

Didn't really grow up with many shooting games, just some bleh console ones, Gun.Smoke NES was actually the first game I ever beat, like age 5 or something, but that was most probably with continues. dabbled a bit in arcade emulation, but that was just credit feeding. nothing made an impression except for that dolphin... I didn't exactly have the best selections of shmups to emulate.

Apart from a large number of Touhou players

You suck and I hate you

[Squire Grooktook]

Gradius III Snes and G-Darius.

[MJR]

star force (tehkan, 1984)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Force

[R-Gray 1]

The first game that made me like this kind of games was Star Force(Nes)

The game that made me think i really like this genre and i had to find more shmups to play was
Raystorm (ps1)

[casualcoder]

Espgaluda.

I have had many years experience with STGs prior to ESP but it was the first game I played that really got me into scoring.

[AssanCHOP]

UN Squadron and 1944... Gas station by my childhood haunt had them both...

[Sik-07]

Played a lot of Empire of Steel on the Mega Drive as a child, but then didn't touch the genre until discovering Triggerheart Exelica on XBLA, that's what got me hooked, though I don't really like it when compared to the DC port now.

[Shadowduel]

It was Saint Dragon. Played it in local arcade in '94. Still remmeber that wicked boss of stage four. Same year latter I got Neo Geo AES with a few random games and Alpha Mission 2. So that's two shmups that dragged me into the genre.

[Spyke]

Raiden II on PS and Hellfire on MD. But back then I played all sorts of games not just shmups. But when I sort of got fired up on shmups recently they were some of the first games I sought out again.

Ant

[charlie chong]

asteroids and centipede on 2600,r-type on st as well as rubbish games like blood money,xenon etc
then twin cobra ,flying shark etc at the local swimming pool.on megadrive there was loads,hellfire and truxton were definitely 2 of the best.
aeroblasters tunnel level on arcade made a big impression on me.
first modern shooter i remember was gigawing for dreamcast about 2000 era and then i found out about cave and raizing not long after when i modded my sisters old saturn and tried some possible shoot em up purchases out in mame!

[BubbaMc]

Ikaruga pulled me back in

[ACSeraph]

Got hooked as a kid with 1943 on NES (still know the soundtrack by heart), got serious-ish in college with Triggerheart Exelica, and now I'm starting to get for-real-serious because I live near some absolutely hype shmup arcades.

[KidQuaalude]

Space Invaders, Galaxian, Galaga and Star Force were among the first games I played in the arcade. I fell in love with Gradius, R-Type, Salmander after that. Salamander probably being my favourite at the time due to the hoizontal and vertical scrolling levels and 2 player.