Shmup Ticker: What are you playing RIGHT NOW?

[Sonic R]

Been playing this lately…



I also been playing some NES shooters:

Star Force
Star Soldier

[null1024]

Triggerheart Exelica, Border Down, and Ikaruga. Excluding Ikaruga, I suck at them.

[D3m0nZ]

Triggerheart Exelica, i love this game!

[null1024]

Border Down, Triggerheart Excelica, Final Star Force, and Cotton Boomerang. I'm sucking far less at all of them except Cotton Boomerang. Also, Border Down hates my guts and wishes I would die in a fire, fuck you level 2!

[spadgy]

Back to Deatsmiles, trying again to get used to doing all stages on Lvl 3. I hate it!

[Ninshadow]

Under Defeat finally got to stage 1-4 and got blown up all in 10 seconds.

[Riot Zone]

Fighting Hawk

[spadgy]

Fighting Hawk

I have that on PCB and never gave it enough time. How are you finding it?

[jonny5]

Been playing this lately…



I also been playing some NES shooters:

Star Force
Star Soldier

awesome...i played that one a lot back in the day on my lynx

[Riot Zone]

Fighting Hawk

I have that on PCB and never gave it enough time. How are you finding it?

Oh yeah I love it, one of those classics I never get tired of. I have the PCB too, but I play it more on the Taito memories port for PS2 because I have a rapid Fire ps2 controller! So far I can make it to the last level (final boss) on 1 credit.

[BIL]

R-Type Delta, and loving it. I'd forgotten how quickly the game moves on Bydo. Getting the second Gains to appear in Stage 1 makes me happy every time.

[Marble]

Been giving Axelay at least a couple of credits each day (My SNES has a habit of freezing, though) and played Gunbird 2 a bit earlier. I would die even more often if Tavia's melee attack couldn't cancel bullets.

[Riot Zone]

Been giving Axelay at least a couple of credits each day (My SNES has a habit of freezing, though) and played Gunbird 2 a bit earlier. I would die even more often if Tavia's melee attack couldn't cancel bullets.

My Snes did that too, I got feed up with it and bought one of those Retro Duals on Ebay. Man am I glad I did! Things plays outstanding plus it has S-video! Once you see Axelay in S-vid you will never want to play your composite Snes again.
Thing is badass!

[durias]

Gradius Rebirth

[gs68]

Omega Five and R-Type (via R-Type Dimensions). Got the latter mainly so I can learn to accept R-Type as factually the best sidescroller ever.

It's working. Very slowly.

[ExitPlanetDust]

Soukyugurentai - Saturn

[spadgy]

Fighting Hawk

I have that on PCB and never gave it enough time. How are you finding it?

Oh yeah I love it, one of those classics I never get tired of. I have the PCB too, but I play it more on the Taito memories port for PS2 because I have a rapid Fire ps2 controller! So far I can make it to the last level (final boss) on 1 credit.

Once STGT09 is done, I should return to it - I just got sucked in to buying the PCB because it's so small. I just love tiny PCBs...

[thewestexit]

Mushihimesama Futari ver. 1.5... I am in LA for business and I made it out to Arcade Infinity and finally got a chance to try this game... played for about 2 hours and got a high score on original of 65 mil +, I guess that's ok for a 1st time session eh? I'll be getting a jpn 360 for this when the time comes (I've already got the HRAP EX waiting ).

[yojo!]

I've been playing Gondomania for over a month now. This game is fantastic; The gameplay is like undead line on steroid.

[icbluscrn]

been playing deathsmiles on the 360, Dont like it much but its the only j360 game i have so ill be stuck on it for a bit. with a repose on pce lord of thunder when needed.

[null1024]

Some Senko no Ronde, and Touhou 5. Also, some Varth.

Touhou 5 was pissing me off, because a lot of the time, the game would shoot bullets that were the same color as the BG. Red and white bullets on red and white background. Blue and white bullets against light blue background. They didn't really hit me, but I had to strain my eyes to try to see them.

[TrevHead (TVR)]

Sonic Ironstorm ISAD, ill prolly 1cc normal mode tonight after 1ccing the easier remix mode on default.

Tryed out Recca for the NES, I had planned on playing this for awhile after seeing it on that History of Shmups Vid on you tube.
Even though it was kicking my arse it really is the dogs bollocks. Suprising that the gameplay / scoring is so complex for a game as old. definatley a game that ill be coming back to again and again over the years

[Marble]

Espgaluda. Very impressed with it. I couldn't care less about score at the moment; but the mechanics and and enemy placement, bullet patterns etc. are great, and the audiovisual aspect is amazing. I've no idea how it compares to other Cave games as the only other one I've played is Donpachi (and only one credit).

[pixeljunkie]

playing Galuda 2 until my DFK kit gets here

[clp]

deeply in love with guwange atm and working on shikigami no shiro 3 , playing for score is awesome the suiciding and hi tension max bombs make for the most addictive shiki to date .

[chempop]

Been dabbling too much between games lately, Strikers pt 2, Batsugun, Galuda, Progear, etc I need to focus a bit and get more confident with my new crappy joysticks I've bought lately (mayflash and DC blaze mini twin... bleh)

Those darn angels in Galuda's last stage drive me absolutely nuts

Why is the second boss in Batsugun one of the only parts of the game I struggle with

I really want to beat that evil thing at the end of Mushi before Futari is released but that shield is just so absurd (and I hear common for TLB's in Cave games)

[null1024]

Shoot the Bullet.

If there is a game where 98% of deaths were totally avoidable had you been paying 1% more attention, this is it. The amount of JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, DID I REALLY HIT THAT moments were staggering.

[nZero]

Shikigami no Shiro III (360 version)

I absolutely hate this game. I don't think I've once died and known what it was that actually hit me, unless it was on an early level and I just tried too hard to graze a line of bullets. Visibility and hitbox indication is worse than Mushihimesama, and I'm not even colorblind or anything. If I downed a bottle of tequila and a bowl of Froot Loops(tm), I'd have a better chance at divining hitboxes from the random spew of colors and shapes that would result than I would from attempting to play this garbage. A shame because I like pretty much everything else about it but I don't understand how anyone finds this game playable.

[clp]

Shikigami no Shiro III (360 version)

I absolutely hate this game. I don't think I've once died and known what it was that actually hit me, unless it was on an early level and I just tried too hard to graze a line of bullets. Visibility and hitbox indication is worse than Mushihimesama, and I'm not even colorblind or anything. If I downed a bottle of tequila and a bowl of Froot Loops(tm), I'd have a better chance at divining hitboxes from the random spew of colors and shapes that would result than I would from attempting to play this garbage. A shame because I like pretty much everything else about it but I don't understand how anyone finds this game playable.

man what? the hitbox GLOWS like a spot light and all bullets are easiest to see in any game , your skill needs improvement not the game .

[chempop]

I don't think I've once died and known what it was that actually hit me,

Isn't there a level with invisible obstacles?