Who has had shmup-related dreams?

gs68 · Post by **gs68** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 5:43 am

Recently, I dremt Radiant Silvergun was out on GameCube, and I got to rent it. I was so excited because I really wanted this game and there is no way I'm going to get a Japanese Saturn for ~$50 and the game for ~$160.

But alas, it was all a dream. I didn't get RS. RS was not, and will never be, released for GC. I was a bit angry when I woke up.

BUHA · Post by **BUHA** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 5:51 am

i had a dream the other day i was playing some crazy 2 player head to head Einhander game and my brother was controlling a boss someow. it had some cool bullet patterns!

tehkao · Post by **tehkao** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 5:52 am

I regularly had dreams about Thunderforce V, before it was released.

Too bad the actual game didn't live up to my dreams.

theevilfunkster · Post by **theevilfunkster** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 1:25 pm

i had at least 2 dreams where i bought thunder force IV and remember feeling gutted when i woke up and finding out i didnt have it.

i got it off ebay a few days later

Minzoku · Post by **Minzoku** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 3:06 pm

I posted before [previous forum] that I was inside Gradius V

but it was backwards and the background was in front of the foreground, like one of those diorama things in reverse.

Something like that.

Most of my dreams aren't very fun

in a Ring-esque fashion. Only about 1 in 200+ is remotely pleasant.

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 5:22 pm

I actually had a dream involving some parodius penguin boss and a certain belly dancing girl, there was lots of beer, 8 arms and possibly a barfight....can't remember exactly

(well at least the part about the parodius penguin boss is true...

)

FatCobra · Post by **FatCobra** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 7:05 pm

I dreamt that I had a JPN Saturn and was playing Battle Garegga in TATE mode.

I've also had a dream about a made-up shmup, it was kind of like the Mahou games but you could choose between different dragons and WWII aircraft.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 7:19 pm

Someone else once mentioned that they'd dreamed of finding rare shmup titles at random while browsing a store that would normally never have them...I faintly recall something like that from awhile ago. I also think I once dreamt of playing Mushihime (which I've never tried IRL), though obviously whatever I thought I was playing came pretty much entirely from my imagination.

alpha5099 · Post by **alpha5099** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 9:07 pm

I sometimes have dreams where I'm in Japan, and I go to an arcade, and I usually set out to find the latest game, Raiden III or Mushihime or whatever. And what I do find is a game I've played before, but it's some sort of weird revision/hack that doesn't make any sense. Once it was Shikigami no Shiro II with no bullets. A few nights ago it was something like Psyvariar on wobble mode.

Nuke · Post by **Nuke** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 11:09 pm

I'm always hunting for some rare and obscure shmups in strange and neat-looking places in my dreams, and they are always for the Dreamcast, altough in a recent dream I found a strange looking caracter based cute-em-up developed by RaZing for the PC

....and, like always, there were a few copys of Ikaruga floating around, altough with 6 different covers and on the PS2 too.

There was also a wierd horazonal one, wery well hidden, based on Evangelion (altough I could'nt buy that one 'caus I did'nt have enough money

)

marril159 · Post by **marril159** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:25 am

I've only dreamed about shmups once, where I owned some kind of disc that contained every Gradius game released.

EddyMRA · Post by **EddyMRA** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 2:54 am

I dreamed about Raiden Fighters Jet almost regularly for months before I played it for the first time.

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 3:05 am

BulletMagnet wrote:Someone else once mentioned that they'd dreamed of finding rare shmup titles at random while browsing a store that would normally never have them...I faintly recall something like that from awhile ago.

Yeah, in the last "dream" topic, I mentioned dreaming of finding random rare JP games like Steam Hearts and Radiant Silvergun at retail price on the bottom shelf in a Radio Shack-like store. The irony is that I already have the games. Guess the years I spent coveting them along with my recent shooter revival cooked my brains...

King Slime · Post by **King Slime** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 3:42 am

How to know when your life generally sucks is basically when you have video game dreams.
While I never had a shmup dream, I did dream once that I bought Dragon Quest 8. My friend spent the night at the time, and heard me say in my sleep, "I can't beat this Slime boss on Dragon Quest 8." I've also recently had a dream that there were multiple endings to each stage in B.O.B.

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 4:00 am

Earlier this week I recall dreaming about playing a shmup, but the only thing I saw on the screen were some metallic fanblades spinning. Similar to an attack from a boss in Contra Hard Corps.

Diabollokus · Post by **Diabollokus** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 3:20 pm

Think I had one one time.

Was flying an F16 in vertical shmup view in real life graphics I was the pilot and was like dodging shit loads of missiles while chasing a satelite in decaying orbit on a collision course with a city.

turned out I was really drunk and playing deadly skies mission 14 so it sorta came true in a way........

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 5:37 pm

I've had dreams that are just pictures of bullet sprays. generally happens when I'm playing a game that I'm really enjoying and trying to figure out and I force myselve to go to sleep. Psyvariar 2 I saw bullet sprays, Ikaruga I saw enemy patterns, I've also had Bust a Move dreams where I'm popping bubbles.

BUHA · Post by **BUHA** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 9:50 pm

I had another one last night where i was playing Gradius IV, except it looked REALLY weird. And it had the options like Gradius V, and it was just really weird.

I also have dreams where I'm playing Pac-Man, and if I play too many puzzle games I play them in my dreams, too.

druuna · Post by **druuna** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 10:13 pm

Mushi on DC.....this what I call a "dream that will never come true"

alpha5099 · Post by **alpha5099** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 10:38 pm

I had a shmup related dream last night. But I forget what it was. Is it possible I had a dream about having a shmup related dream?

Fighter17 · Post by **Fighter17** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:47 pm

I have many shump dreams before. One dream was I was the pilot in Gradius V in Sonic world!!!! I destory Dr. Eggman with my lasers and I helped Sonic save the day, in my Vic Viper!!!

Once time, I dreamed about going in a flea market, finding a used Saturn for $20, and find a TurboGrafx-16 with the CD attachment for $30, with Lords of Thunder for free!!!

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 7:19 pm

Woke up from a dream this morning about Giga Wing. On some mix of the air base level and something else I approached shooting this enemy closely and it popped out 4-5 large medals and then another +40 million (!!!!) medal with like an emerald interior. Ignoring the mathematics of it all, the multiplier jumped to 10 billion. It seemed pretty damn real (I even took a picture of it with a digital camera because I couldn't believe it), so imagine my disappointment when waking up. I've played the game for about a few hours almost every day for a month, so it's invading my dreams.

Similarly I've had dreams of experiencing success in Psikyo loops (like Gunbird 2, in disbelief at how easy it is around 2-4). I find arcade cabs here and there (Dragon Blaze, Burning Force). I've also seen a remade version of Thunder Force III super widescreen a la Darius, and I remember how awesome Hydra/Gorgon was. I want that game.

alpha5099 · Post by **alpha5099** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 8:20 pm

Last night I had a dream about DoDonPachi, no doubt from reading 8.5's story. But I was playing as Beltiana from Batsugun, and I seemed to stuck on some endless loop of trying to beat the level 2 midboss without dying or using bombs. When I finally did, the rest of level 2 wasn't anything like it should have been. It was more like the city level from Sonic Wings Special, with bigger buildings and DDP tanks.

adam76 · Post by **adam76** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 10:32 pm

Not strictly a dream i know, but i woke up the other morning humming the second level music from Zero Wing! Bizarrely, i had'nt played the game for weeks-God Bless yer Toaplan!

icepick · Post by **icepick** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 12:35 am

Now that you mention it; I had a "dreaming binge" last night, and one of the segments involved something like a "Skonec Store" or something like that... It was very brief, and I don't remember much about it, but it really stood out.

And now I check the site, and skonec.com is down. Hmm.

(Somewhat-related; It's so weird how after playing a shmup for an hour or so, you'll see instant bullet patterns streaming across the inside of your eyelids for at least fifteen minutes afterwards.)

it290 · Post by **it290** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 1:44 am

Well, I decided to order a Hori RAP stick a little while ago. I was heavily anticipating trying that baby out... so I went to bed and had some dream about using the stick. When I woke up from the dream, the UPS guy was knocking at the door with my stick in hand! Talk about sweet dreams..

Bydo Dragon · Post by **Bydo Dragon** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 3:41 am

I do!

Actually had one a few weeks ago...I dreamed they made a Biometal II, and there was some huge argument about whether they should or shouldn't luse 2 Unlimited music for the US soundtrack...nevermind that 2 Unlimited hasn't existed for almost a decade now...

Tomtom · Post by **Tomtom** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 6:59 am

Last night I dreamt I was playing Guwange. I nearly no-missed to the last stage, but the fifth bosses fast arrow-like pattern got me at the last minute.

PATHETIC.

alpha5099 · Post by **alpha5099** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 5:53 pm

Second night of shmup related dreams in a row. Very odd.

This time, I bought a Game Gear off some cute girl, and it came with a shmup. It wasn't one of the Aleste games though. It was a side-scroller. The ship looked like the ship from Gaiares, the first level was in a mine reminiscent of the mine level in Sonic 2, and when I got a shield, I was surrounded in lightning. It was sort of egg shaped, but not perfectly so; lightning at the end of the ship flew off like a comet's tail.

deadninja · Post by **deadninja** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 12:56 am

Bullet sprays are actually common in many of my dreams. For instance just a few weeks ago I dreamt that I was walking through my workplace, deftly cutting left, right, around numerous blue and pink patterns originating out of the walls.