Black Flag NC
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Help me out with some shootersI love shooters or shoot-em-ups or shmups or whatever you call them. These games were everywhere back in the 16bit days. R-type, Gradius, Lifeforce, love it all. Anyone else? Got any recommendations? I have a PS2, Xbox, and SNES here in Utah. Back home in North Carolina, I have a Dreamcast, Genesis, Virtual Boy(ha!), and Game Boy Advance. In 6 months I'm moving back and will have all my video games in one place. Know of a forgotten gem for any of those systems? Let me know. 
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Splodge
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For Dreamcast, I'd recommend Ikaruga.
For SNES I'd say UN Squadron, Aero Fighters, Super R-Type, Strike Gunner STG.
If you like shmups I'd seriously recommend getting a Turbo Grafx 16 / PC Engine. It can be pricey but if you get one with the CD drive, it's fairly easy to burn discs for it (not that I condone that). That was pretty much the console for Shoot-em-ups. On that I'd recommend Raiden, Tiger Shark, Avenger, Gate of Thunder, Rayxanber. It also had the best home version of R-Type.
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kakashi1049
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Rainbow six lock down for the xbox
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Black Flag NC
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I've been looking into getting U.N. Squadron off of ebay. Aero Fighters must super rare cause it's selling for $100 bucks or more! I have Super R-type (although I prefer R-type III) for my SNES and Tiger Shark for my Genesis.
Thanks guys!
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Splodge
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I forgot about R-Type III. You're right, it is a much better game. The level design is really amazing.
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Talonluck
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Aero Fighters is rare. Good luck with that one. Ikaruga as mentioned is great as well, also I believe it is available for the xbox.
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Black Flag NC
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Ikaruga looks awesome but it's only for the gamecube in the U.S. What were the odds of Nintendo landing a third party exclusive? Just my luck!
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Talonluck
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If you've got a 360 its coming to Live's Arcade eventually.
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Black Flag NC
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OK, after you guys help along with the folks at shmups.com I have the following shooters:
Castle Shikigami 2-PS2
Shooter: Space Shot-PS1
Mobile Light Force-PS1
R-Type Final-PS2
Xyanide-Xbox
Phalanx-GBA
Gradius Galaxies-GBA
Super R-Type-SNES
R-Type III-SNES
Fire Shark-Genesis
Sol Divide-PS1
Mobile Light Force 2-PS2
UN Squadron-SNES
Super Earth Defense Force-SNES
Gradius III-SNES
Silpheed: the Lost Planet-PS2
D Force-SNES
Not bad for a guy on a budget without importing. Still wanna get Raiden III (PS2), Gradius V (PS2), and Thunder Force V(PS1). Thanks for the help, friends!
Oh yeah, if you want a cool compilation, Taito Legends 2 is wonderful. Metal Black, Gekirindan, Darius Gaiden, G Darius, Gun & Frontier, Insector X, and Raystorm are on there and I got it for 10 bucks. Talk about a shmup deal!
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Splodge
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I just bought "R-Type Complete CD" for the PC Engine on eBay. I had a pirate copy for a while but I liked it so much that I had to buy it for real. Actually I don't mind dying in that game because you get to hear a cool guitar riff when you run out of lives.
That's a really good collection Black Flag.
One shmup I've been playing alot of recently is "Gate of Thunder". You have to check it out. It's on the PC Engine / Wii Virtual Console. If you don't have either there's a pretty good legal PC Engine emulater for PC (MagicEngine) which will boot original PCE discs.
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Black Flag NC
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Oh man, I love R-Type. My favorite shooter of all time. I've heard Gate of Thunder is good. I actually got Raiden III on PS2 a few days back.
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Black Flag NC
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OK. Got Gradius V today and I'm in love! It made me change my freakin avatar!
Much like R-type Final, it's a perfect balance of old school 2d gameplay with brilliant 3d graphics. Huh huh, me likee things go boom. Highly, HIGHLY recommended.
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teh2Dgamer
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Don't forget Einhander, and G Daruis on the PS1.
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Black Flag NC
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Dude, I picked up Einhander at a little video store in Illinois for $10! Original case and book!
Also got Gekioh: Shooting King there as well. Got get moved into my new place to try them out.
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teh2Dgamer
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| Black Flag NC wrote: | Dude, I picked up Einhander at a little video store in Illinois for $10! Original case and book!
Also got Gekioh: Shooting King there as well. Got get moved into my new place to try them out. |
Gekioh is another one for the PS1 I forgot to add, but it looks like I don't have to anymore.
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Black Flag NC
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Just got Giga Wing for the Dreamcast. Dude, why do people put this game down?
It's great! Sure they give you infinite continues, but any shooter fan knows it's all about the score not finishing the game. The bullet reflection, hordes of enemies, and a killer soundtrack? Capcom got it right with this one.
Now I need to get Giga Wing 2.
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