Scrolling Shooters S/D

(i googled "genesis shooter")

There was one for NES that I was really fond of...um...AIR FORTRESS!

That's right, it would start off as a scrolling shooter and then you would be a little dude out of your ship Master Blaster-style, floating around Solar Jetman-style.

Search: Ikaruga, Lifeforce, Gradius series, R-Type series, Einhander, Salamander, Dodonpachi

NEver tried, but want to: Radiant Silvergun

will m's picks are all good. i wish radiant silvergun wasn't so impossible to get hold of.

gradius 3 for snes was really good! there is some slowdown when too many sprites are on the screen, but it's not a big deal. i've never seen parodius in the US.

konami's twinbee games are good too.

I've played Raiden several times at arcades -- always a fun one.

all the Nemesis games annoyed the hell out of me.

Blood Money on the Amiga was pretty good too.

As far as SNES Gradius III: it was ridiculous fun. However, get a hold of the arcade verson in wahtever legal or illegal fashion you can, if possible. I believe it's the version on the PS2 title "Gradius III & IV" if you want to eBay it. They left a LOT of the enemies out of the SNES version to make it easier for home audiences. Howeve,r play the arcade version, and you will die every three seconds, like you should if you're playing a shmup.

there was just hundreds on the ole speccy. Rtype was something really special on the spectrum i thought.

I remember project x on the amiga, which looked stunning but was incredibly hard and took ages to load each level.

I spent a fortune on that fucker in the late 80s before I eventually completed it.

Pick it up for RIPPLE LASER!

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Now I wanna check out the PSP port of Gradius V-- first I gotta procure a PSP. Thanks for the heads-up, though!

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Ikaruga: coming to an Xbox near you :O

OH and Trigger Heart Exelica, which is apparently good but I have not yet played.

I should mention I am kind of a giant nerd for shmups.

And I think when Jordan was asking for "dudes" a year ago I didn't realize what he was talking about. Ahh, youth.

One time, one glorious time, I beat Super R-Type on SNES.
All the Gradius games rule as well.

Life Force for NES is really frustrating until you memorize the levels, because the first few times you go through them, walls collapse seemingly randomly in front of you, and you have to know what part of the screen to be in ahead of time. However, once you memorize those parts, you gain that kind of satisfaction only laborious learning by rote can get you. hello ladies...

For horizontal shooters I'd pick Air Buster, and for vertical it would have to be Raiden - the game that got most of my loose change in '91-92.

SALAMANDER!
I spent a fortune on that fucker in the late 80s before I eventually completed it.

Pick it up for RIPPLE LASER!

― Onimo

I just discovered that this is on Virtual Console. Anyone played it? Is it as good as I remember?

It's strange how people complain about games only lasting 10 hours these days when things like Salamander, Project X* and R-Type could be completed in about 20 minutes (after months of swearing).

I think the scrolling shooter may be my favourite game type of the 80s & early 90s.

*ok maybe not Project X - it was rock hard and the levels took a fucking week to load on the A600.