Favorite Retro SHMUPS

What are your favorite retro SHMUPS?

Some of mine are:

-Radiant Silvergun (Saturn)

-Ikaruga (Gamecube)

-Gradius V (PS2)

-Raiden II (Arcade)

-UN Squadron (SNES)

-Raystorm (PS)

Mine is an import called Paroius. It plays just like Gradius, but the enemies and backgrounds are crazy and nonsensical.

Mine is an import called Paroius. It plays just like Gradius, but the enemies and backgrounds are crazy and nonsensical.

Bubble_Man

Gradius V on PS2 is absolutely brilliant (and should be given that it was created by Treasure).

Starforce (arcade) - very oldskool, but great.

Super Aleste (snes)

Ikaruga

Any R-type game (other than that psp nonesense and r-type leo).Delta and Final are great.

Xenon2 (back in the day this was amazing, although a little dated now)

Slapfight

X-multiply

Border Down

Bangai-o

Under Defeat

Zero Gunner 2

I love the ones that were mentioned, but for me, the best 8 bit SHMUP ever made is Power Strike 2

Musha!

Axelay on SNES, Twin Bee on NES, Thunder Force IV on MD/GEN, Fantasy Zone on SMS.

And if they count Space Harrier and After Burner II.

Einhander

Raiden 2

In the Hunt

Ikaruga

1941: Counter Attack

Soldier Blade

Bangai-o

I can't believe I forgot Bangai o! I have never owned the original N64/Dreamcast version, but the few times I've played it were all I needed to make it one of my favorite SHMUPs :P

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Mine is an import called Paroius. It plays just like Gradius, but the enemies and backgrounds are crazy and nonsensical.

WAJ

Gradius V on PS2 is absolutely brilliant (and should be given that it was created by Treasure).

Starforce (arcade) - very oldskool, but great.

Super Aleste (snes)

Ikaruga

Any R-type game (other than that psp nonesense and r-type leo).Delta and Final are great.

Xenon2 (back in the day this was amazing, although a little dated now)

Slapfight

X-multiply

Border Down

Bangai-o

Under Defeat

Zero Gunner 2

Yes, I had a typo. Periods go inside of quotation marks like "this."

Thunder force 3 then musha

Admittedly, there's a lot of shoot-em ups I want to, and need to play. Especially on Genesis and Saturn. I really want to dive into the Thunder Force series more.

Atari 2600:

• Phoenix

Commodore 64:

• Blue Max

NES:

• Dragon Spirit: The New Legend
• Gradius 1 & 2
• Legendary Wings
• LifeForce
• Star Soldier

SNES:

• Aero Fighters
• Gradius III
• Raiden
• Super R-Type

Sega Master System:

• Cloud Master
• R-Type

Sega Saturn:

• Darius Gaiden

PS1:

• Einhander
• G-Darius
• Thunder Force V

TurboGrafx-16:

• Blazing Lazers
• Lords of Thunder
• Super Star Soldier

Blazing Lazers from the NEC TG-16. my favorite retro SHMUP

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[QUOTE="Bubble_Man"]

Mine is an import called Paroius. It plays just like Gradius, but the enemies and backgrounds are crazy and nonsensical.

Bubble_Man

Gradius V on PS2 is absolutely brilliant (and should be given that it was created by Treasure).

Starforce (arcade) - very oldskool, but great.

Super Aleste (snes)

Ikaruga

Any R-type game (other than that psp nonesense and r-type leo).Delta and Final are great.

Xenon2 (back in the day this was amazing, although a little dated now)

Slapfight

X-multiply

Border Down

Bangai-o

Under Defeat

Zero Gunner 2

Yes, I had a typo. Periods go inside of quotation marks like "this."

Life force by far ^^

R-type!

I like the Mastersystem version the most although the c64 version is good too.

Armalyte, Uridium, Agony, Xenon II, X-out, Commando. I remember a game on the Genesis called Hellfire which was impossibly difficult, but fun as hell.

1941 counter attack, side arms hyper dyne and ikaruga

Life force by far ^^

Valknut4

I like Life Force too. I remember playing it on my Famicom when I was little and being scared of the "brain with arms" boss :P

Would Gun.Smoke for the NES count?

I loved that game.

Would Gun.Smoke for the NES count?

I loved that game.

GamerEye

Same here. Another game that's better on NES than arcade :D

Oh man... there are sooo many awesome retro shmups... Some of my favourites are:

- Battle Garegga

- Ikaruga

- ESPGaluda

- ESP Ra De

- Life force / Salamander

- M.U.S.H.A

- DoDonPachi

- Battle Mania Dai Gin Jou

- Thunder Force IV

- Lord of Thunder

- After Burner

- Giga Wing

- Raiden Fighters

- Armed Police Batrider

- R-Type Leo