DAIOH and Gekioh Shooting King: Shienryu

[Neo Rasa]

I'm sure everyone here knows about Gekioh Shooting King. It's an awesome PSX shmup that was developed by Warashi and published in Japan/Europe/US at a bargain price.

DAIOH is this 1993 shmup that was developed by Athena and published in US arcades by American Sammy.

DAIOH is basically my favorite vertical shmup ever, it holds tremendous nostalgic and sentimental value for me and I just love the bosses, enemy designs, weapons, etc.

Now, what's the connection with the developers of it and Gekioh?

I've looked around for information on this and can't find any. I ask because several of the levels in Gekioh are literally 1:1 remakes of levels in Daioh, same goes for several of the weapons and most all of the enemies.

What gives? I must be missing something really obvious here.

[Damocles]

Nope, you're not missing anything. Same weapons (depending on region), same style of graphics, even the same Stage 1 boss.

[Ghegs]

Now, what's the connection with the developers of it and Gekioh?

I've looked around for information on this and can't find any.

http://forum.shmups.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1843

[FRO]

Ghegs beat me to the punch

That was my topic from a few months ago.

[Neo Rasa]

Excellent, thanks everyone.

But man I can't put into words how much I flipped out when I brought Gekioh home and played through it. I hadn't played Daioh in like ten years and it all came flooding back into my mind.

Playing it more on MAME, I gotta say I'm impressed with both how well it holds up and with how little people talk about it.