List of Arcade Exclusives

[MinuteFong]

This lists arcade shmups that have not been ported to home consoles or handhelds, nor as official MS-DOS/PC releases (MAME emulations are not included).

Ports to 1980s home computers *only* are listed separately at the bottom.

Initial list compiled based on the hard work of fans at shmups.com, wikipedia, youtube, KLOV and hardcoregaming101.net - cheers!

Where a game is followed by one or more asterisks, please refer to footnotes.
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19xx: the War Against Destiny (GameTap only)
1944: the Loop Master (GameTap only)
1945k III

Air Attack
Air Duel
Air Gallet
Air Raid / Cross Shooter
Arbalester
Ark Area
Armed Police Batrider
Armed Police Unit Gallop
Ashura Blaster

Battle Bakraid
Bermuda Triangle (World Wars)
Black Heart
Blast Off
Blue Hawk
Bombs Away
Boogie Wings
Brave Blade

Change Air Blade
Cutey Fatty
Cybattler
Cyvern: The Dragon Weapons

D-Day: The Last Day
DaiohDangar - Ufo Robo
Dangun Feveron * (but just announced for PS4, ETA winter 2017)
Dariusburst Another Chronicle
Desert War
Diet Family
Dimahoo
DoDonPachi II: Bee Storm
Dogyuun
Double Wings
Dyger

Eight Forces
Equites
ESP Ra.De. *
Explosive Breaker

Final Star Force
Finalizer - Super Transformation
Fire Barrel
Fixeight
Flower
Flying Tiger
Funky Bee **

Gaia: The Last Choice of the Earth
Galmedes
Gigandes
Gratia - Second Earth

Gulf Storm
Gulf War 2
Gunnail

Hammer Away (unreleased )
Hacha Mecha Fighter
Hotdog Storm

Ibara Black Label

Koutetsu Yousai Strahl

Lethal Thunder
Lightning Fighters/Trigon ***
Lock On

Macross Plus (because the PSX Macross Plus is a different game)
Mad Shark

Meta Fox
Metal Hawk
Mission 660
Mission Craft
Mystic Riders

NebulasRay
Nostradamus
Nova 2001

Omega Fighter/Omega Fighter Special (fundamentally the same game)
Out Zone

P-47 Aces
Pilot Kids
Plus Alpha
Pollux
Progear No Arashi*

R-Shark
R-Type Leo
Rafflesia
Rapid Hero
Red Clash
Red Hawk / Stagger I
Red Wyvern
Regulus
Rezon
Ryu Jin

S.A.R - Search and Rescue
S.S. Mission
Sand Scorpion
Saturn
Sengeki Striker
Sen Jin - Guardian Storm
Silver Millenium
Sky Adventure
Sky Alert
Sky Smasher
Sky Soldiers
Space Bomber
Spectrum 2000
Star Fighter (1990/Suna/Korea, not the Western home computer game)
Storm Blade
Strikers 1999 (aka Strikers 1945 III)
Super Dimension Fortress Macross (unrelated to similarly-named console games)
Super Dimension Fortress Macross II
Super-X

Tatakae! (Fight on!) Big Fighter
Tenkomori Shooting (aka Variety Game: Tenkomori)
Thunder Cross II
Thunder Dragon
Thunder Dragon 2
Time Pilot '84
Tobe! Polystars
Trigon/Lightning Fighters ***
Turbo Force
Turtle Ship
Twin Action
Twin Eagle II - the Rescue Mission

U.N. Defense Force Earth Joker
U.S. Navy (Carrier Airwing)
UFO Robo Dangar
Ultra X Weapon

Valtric
Varia Metal
Vasara
Vasara 2
Vastar
Vimana
Viper Phase 1*****

War of AeroWhizz (aka Twin Falcons)
와이번윙즈 (Wivern Wings) / Space Opera: Wyvern Wings
Wonder Planet
Wyvern F0

Yōjūden aka Youjyuden

Zero Gunner
Zing Zing Zip

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Only ported to home 1980s home computers (no console ports):
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Blasteroids
Dragon Breed
Juno First
Xtom 3D (Korean Windows port. And it's really 2.5D, like Raystorm)

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Notes
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* early 2000's mobile phone ports only
** not to be confused with the casual RPG
*** there are two differences between Lightning Fighters and Trigon (ref:  http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/konami ... oters4.htm )
***** Viper Phase 1 New Version is not a US exclusive. The US releases of both are different from the Japan releases, current known difference is looping. Other releases might be different too. The Raiden Fighters games also have similar differences, and it is known that the Asian releases are based on but slightly different from the US releases.

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Controversies:
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The games below may or may not be exclusives, you decide : -
- Darius: see http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/darius/darius.htm for differences between the arcade Darius and the various ports.
- Gstream 2020: the original is unported, but there is a 360 port in the form of the 'improved' DeltaZeal (in Shooting Love 10th Anniversary)
- Some Visco games have apparently received PC ports in Korea.
- Battle Bakraid unlimited version is a bug-fix/unlock version
- Ibara Kuro is a remake of the PS2 arrange version
- The USA twin arcade version of Fire Shark, which has no checkpoints in 1P, is exclusive. Mega Drive and even Genesis versions are both based on Same!Same!Same! (JP version).

[AntiFritz]

What about Ibara Kuro: Black Label?

Edit: Or Progear no Arashi?

[Wonderbanana]

Thunder Cross was ported to PS2.

[MinuteFong]

What about Ibara Kuro: Black Label?

Edit: Or Progear no Arashi?

Thanks, can't believe I missed Progear - it's one of those with the early mobile phone only ports. Also added Black Label, I originally thought it was the same as PS2 Arrange but it's not...

Thunder Cross was ported to PS2.

Thanks, fixed!

[Hagane]

Some Psikyo games: Strikers 1999, Pilot Kids, Zero Gunner.

Grid Seeker, Ryu Jin and Asuka & Asuka (and maybe some other Taito game I'm missing) have been included in the Taito Legends/Memories compilations for PS2.

[Skykid]

Hacha Mecha Fighter

[MinuteFong]

Some Psikyo games: Strikers 1999, Pilot Kids, Zero Gunner.

Grid Seeker, Ryu Jin and Asuka & Asuka (and maybe some other Taito game I'm missing) have been included in the Taito Legends/Memories compilations for PS2.

Great, thanks. Added: Strikers 1999/1945 III, Pilot Kids, Zero Gunner. Removed: Asuka & Asuka, Fighting Hawk, Grid Seeker, Halley's Comet, Megablast as they appear on Taito Memories/Legends. But: I can't see Ryu Jin on any Taito Memories/Legends listings, can you confirm which one?

Hacha Mecha Fighter

Cheers, added.

[KAI]

Ryu Jin is not included in any compilation.

[Hagane]

You are right, I don't know why I thought otherwise.

[SuperDeadite]

+ Fire Barrel
- Gemini Wing has an awesome X68000 port.

[Dave_K.]

GStream G2020

[Grant_W]

I've had more screen names over the years because I post so infrequently that I forget logins, passwords and creation accounts. Guess I'll start over again.

Anyway, Capcom"s Eco Fighters was released on Capcom Classics Collection Volume 2 for PS2 and Xbox and on Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded for PSP.

[MinuteFong]

+ Fire Barrel
- Gemini Wing has an awesome X68000 port.

Done

GStream G2020

and done.

Also removed Eco Fighters (Capcom Classics collection)

[BulletMagnet]

GStream G2020

That one's coming to the 360 soon, though!

Game Paradise: Master of Shooting!

This one was ported to the Saturn.

Also, not sure if it counts, but some of the Irem stuff was bundled and released on PC within the past few years.

[Ed Oscuro]

Bermuda Triangle / World Wars - hell, most of SNK's early titles, like Chopper 1, Ozma Wars I would suspect (not Sasuke vs. Commander, that got a hidden port), Sky Soldiers.
T.N.K. III and S.A.R. - Search and Rescue seem close to OutZone...not substitutes for it, though TNK 3 is really nice.

A couple UPL oldies: Nova 2001 and Ark Area. Definitely shootin' games although they appear like arena shooters (but you can fly around and scroll the map freely).

[Skyline]

[I know that Ozma Wars and Sasuke vs. Commander are on PSN, need to poke around and see what else is on there SNK-wise.]

Rafflesia, unless there's some SG-1000 or Mark III port I'm unaware of.

The Semicom shmups, Gaia: The Last Chance of Earth, Wyvern Wings, and Diet Family.
Baryon was a remake of a DOS game so I dunno if that nullifies it.

Explosive Breaker
DoDonPachi II: Bee Storm
Mad Shark
Ultra X Weapon

[Frenetic]

Tenkomori Shooting aka Variety Game: Tenkomori

[IseeThings]

were the Vasara games ported?

[IseeThings]

also Mission Craft...
Silver Millennium
Wyvern F0
Varia Metal?
Double Wings

[BulletMagnet]

were the Vasara games ported?

Nope, those are arcade exclusives too (unfortunately).

[Vyxx]

와이번윙즈 (Wivern Wings) / Space Opera: Wyvern Wings - Arcade (2001)

[IseeThings]

I'd guess
Sky Smasher
and early Seibu Air Raid / Cross Shooter (still not emulated because they put all the gfx in custom modules instead of roms)
Jaleco's Bombs Away (not properly emulated, fails ROM check and enemy bullets are broken..)

[RNGmaster]

와이번윙즈 (Wivern Wings) / Space Opera: Wyvern Wings - Arcade (2001)

On the topic of weirdo psikyo ripoffs, there's 1945k III. Arcade only AFAIK.

[Ed Oscuro]

[I know that Ozma Wars and Sasuke vs. Commander are on PSN, need to poke around and see what else is on there SNK-wise.]

Sasuke vs. Commander has had a port since it was hidden in Guevara on Famicom.

[Despatche]

Not sure I'm comfortable with regarding the SFC version of Area 88 as a "port" or even a "conversion". Same goes with 1943 and some old games like that, of course.

Did the original Macross get a port? If not, it should be here.

Polystars should be under T, for Tobe! Polystars. So sorry.

Not sure it's "Viper Phase 1 USA" so much as it's the "New Version" that was released in quite a few countries. Unless there's something I'm missing?

Comparing Wyvern Wings to 1945k III makes me feel funny.

[MinuteFong]

^^ all edits made except Chopper I (PSP port)

Did the original Macross get a port? If not, it should be here.

AFAIK the original Macross is The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, which has a Famicom port.

[nZero]

AFAIK the original Macross is The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, which has a Famicom port.

Despite having the same name, those aren't even close to being the same game. The horizontal scrolling Famicom Macross game by Namco predates the vertical scrolling arcade Macross game by Banpresto by a number of years. It's also unrelated to the Super Famicom, PCE CD, or PSX/Saturn Macross games.

[AntiFritz]

^^ all edits made except Chopper I (PSP port)

Did the original Macross get a port? If not, it should be here.

AFAIK the original Macross is The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, which has a Famicom port.

It's not based on any arcade game afaik.

Also coincidently the first shmup I ever played.

[MinuteFong]

AFAIK the original Macross is The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, which has a Famicom port.

Despite having the same name, those aren't even close to being the same game. The horizontal scrolling Famicom Macross game by Namco predates the vertical scrolling arcade Macross game by Banpresto by a number of years. It's also unrelated to the Super Famicom, PCE CD, or PSX/Saturn Macross games.

Fixed!

[ChainsawGuitarSP]

Last Duel and Tokio have both been featured on compilations before. Capcom Classics Collection vol. 2 and Taito Memories II vol. 1 respectively. I believe P47-Aces also had a PCE port.