Summer Carnival '92 - Recca (Famicom)
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Oooh forgot to mention some!
Nemesis 1 and 2 (GB) The music is AMAZING.
Project S-11 (GBC) Great game! Aleksi Eeben and Purple Motion did the music.
Raystorm (PSX) There's an HD remake of this for XBLA and PSN. Too bad I own neither of those consoles 
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Michigan
enso wrote:
Summer Carnival '92 - Recca (Famicom)
^^^this! and:
Gun Nac (NES)
S.C.A.T (NES)
Darius Gaiden (Sega Saturn)
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Minneapolis
Umm... nobody likes Squoon for the NES? It's an amazing game!
Also, Aero Fighters 2 is excellent, as is ASO 2 (Alpha Mission 2), both of which are for the Neo Geo.
Lastly, everyone who likes shmups MUST play Bangai-Oh! for the N64.
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enso wrote:
Gotta put Samurai Zombie Nation out there...
I have to play that!
This is my favorite NES shmup:
Really fun with 2 players.
Nice music too.
Last edited by Awol (Feb 3, 2010 11:23 pm)
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I've never really played any NES shmups.
Alex Mauer did suggest this one to me not too long ago:
Guardian Legend (NES). It's sort of a hybrid between a shmup and a zelda game. Pretty badass in my opinion.
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New York, NY
Eliminate Down (Genesis)--I actually had to go play this game for a minute just thinking about it. So badass.
Darius Gaiden (Saturn) for the music, graphics and multiple routes.
Thunder Force III (Genesis), because I still don't understand why people like IV better.
Radiant Silvergun (Saturn)
Axelay (SNES)
I would say Metal Storm (NES), but I suspect that's "borderline"/run-n-gun.
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I love shmups. My faves are:
- ikaruga
- all gradius games including V
- all rtype games including Final
- all thunderforce games excluding VI
I know, pretty standard sort of selection, but that's ok.
Long live shmups!
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Newcastle, UK
Radiant Silvergun
Ikaruga
R-Type
All of the Touhou games, my favorite probably being Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
Gradius
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I just tried Flying Shark on my Atari STE. It's really hard! I think I'd be better with a D-pad rather than a joystick though. 
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Vancouver
[sarcasm]Anything Touhou ^___________________^ Y[/sarcasm]
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New York City
I'm giving a bash at SALAMANDER COLLECTION on PSP, it has Salamander, LifeForce, Salamander 2, Xexex and the MSX Gradius 2 with revamped graphics (a.k.a. NEMESIS '90 KAI on teh Sharp X68000).
It's a pretty fucking cool compilation, I recommend it to any shmups fan.
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South Dakota
Zanac (fav game of all time too)
Zanac NEO
R-Type series (SMS, SNES, GB, GBA, PS2 versions)
Gradius series (Lifeforce included)
Paradius (various versions (I have never laughed when playing a shooter before these.))
Robo Aleste
Ikaruga (Never got to play Radiant Silvergun alas. whaaaaa!)
Mars Matrix
Axelay (mmmmm)
Thunder Force IV and V (3 never grabbed me and 2.... ugh)
Project S-11 (Hell yeah arlen!)
Warning Forever
Xyanide
Einhänder
Many many homebrew and indie ones and so many others...
Ones I HATE!
Darius (FISH?? REALLY? Argh!)
Raiden (I don't hate Raiden, but I don't like it either.)
99% of all Bullet Hell shooters (................)