Shmup genre mascot

[EinhanderZwei]

Whenever we hear 'fighting game', we remember Ryu from Street Fighter. Whenever we hear 'platformer', we remember Mario and Sonic. Whenever we hear 'shmup', we remember... whom?

If all the genres have their own most-recognizable-characters, why can't shmups do? Here are my picks:

- Vic Viper
- R9 Arrowhead
- Koyori (?)
- Raiden

[kengou]

For me, what comes to mind is:
Vic Viper
the R-Type ship
the red DDP ship
maybe the Radiant Silvergun ship?

[xris]

The first two that come to mind for me are, Twinbee and Kim De John. I do love me some Shikigami though.

[esreveR]

I think of Vic Viper, and I've never even played Gradius. R-9 Arrowhead comes pretty close too.

As for overheads, though, I think of the Raiden Mk-II. P-38 is also mentionable because many unrelated shmups have used it in one way or another.

And then for Run-N-Gun, I think of Eri Kasamoto, simply because she's always on my mind. Marco fits better though.

[twalden]

Spanky the dolphin

[Dale]

Spanky the dolphin

[Rob]

Captain Uncle

[BulletMagnet]

CATS.

[Limbrooke]

Tasty the dolphin

Not bad. Silver would've been a cool choice too, at least his parrot anyway. Blazers (from SW3) are also cool.

[saucykobold]

[Momijitsuki]

Gonna have to go with Vic Viper as well.

[TrevHead (TVR)]

vic viper and r-9

[chempop]

Power-Up Item

...followed by...

Bomb Item

[Udderdude]

Dodonpachi Commander for president imo.

[emphatic]

The Flying Shark bi-plane.

[Damocles]

Farmer Bob

[Gespenst]

CATS, ZIG, Wayne Bros (Garegga), Moais, Dobkeratops, Gradius Brains, and Keaton (or Mecha Keaton, he's more hilarious).

[CIT]

Pharmer Bob

phixed

[Observer]

A big moai head.
Uo Poko.
R9 and the Raiden ship
Darius Silverhawk and King/Queen Fossil
Ketsui green point cubes
Hibachi (or Evacaneer Doom)

...

Marisa Kirisame and Reimu Hakurei.

(come on, someone had to and I bet you saw 'em coming )

[Ebbo]

[EinhanderZwei]

Yeeeah, he's the man (alien?)

[Evrain]

Sounds strange, but I'll go with the Xenon 2 ship. Seriously, who hasn't played that game, back in the day, with its fiendish third stage?
Of course, after that comes Type A: I only got to see Hibachi during recent days.

And yes, DOOM kicks ass.

[EinhanderZwei]

Sounds strange, but I'll go with the Xenon 2 ship. Seriously, who hasn't played that game, back in the day, with its fiendish third stage?

Xenon 2 was my first game and my first shmup

[Evrain]

Sounds strange, but I'll go with the Xenon 2 ship. Seriously, who hasn't played that game, back in the day, with its fiendish third stage?

Xenon 2 was my first game and my first shmup

Same here

[jonny5]

an explosion.....its really the only constant in the genre

if you are playing a shmup, you can guarantee stuffs getting blowed up

[SFKhoa]

I'm leaning towards Raiden.

[RoninBuddha]

the sad part is some people will agree

[EinhanderZwei]

LOLI ALERT!

[BIL]

[Jeneki]

The happy smiling blue lander mascot character in Compile games. Complete with sound effect for picking one up.