| GAME |
COMPANY |
INFORMATION |
| Airrade |
Studio SiestA |
2005 |
| Astro
Asembler |
Crystal
Interactive |
Very
challenging shooter which uses 3-D polygons for many enemies (though
still a 2-D game) |
| Angeraze |
Ohbado |
|
| Baroque
Shooting |
Sting |
|
| Barrage
Tribe |
Twinkle
Soft |
|
| Baryon |
|
|
| Cho
Ren Sha 68k |
Famibe
No Yosshin |
|
| Darius
Gaiden |
|
Win95
Japanese only release. Recently released in the US at bargain price |
| Demonstar |
Mountain
King Studios |
|
| Excess
Fraction |
Twinkle
Soft |
Another
excellent jap only vertical shooter. Lots of manic action in this
one. |
| Earth
Force |
|
|
| Fren-ze |
Hermit Games |
website |
| Gradius
Deluxe Pack |
|
Win95
Japanese only release. Contains Gradius 1 and 2 |
| GR-3 |
Kenami |
|
| Gunner's
Broom |
Studio
B-Room |
If
you don't mind the hentai, this is a cool shooter. Choose levels
from a main world map, and unlock new locations. |
| Idinaloq |
Namikaze |
Excellent
Silpheed-like shooter, complete with intro/ending movies |
| Imperishable Night |
Shanghai Alice |
Easily better than many commercial games, and there's only one fair score to award: 10 |
| Isin
Densin Zero |
Grafix
Soft |
Awesome!
Try the grappling arm on this baby! Anyone have the full game? IMPOSSIBLE
to find... |
| Kamui |
SiterSkain |
Excellent
Raystorm-meets-Soukyugurentai style of shmup. Japanese only. |
| Layer
Section |
|
Win95
Japanese only release, runs waaaaaaay to fast to be playable. |
| Llamatron |
|
Jeff
Minter whacks out a Robotron clone. Manic and fiendishly addictive!
Amiga and AtariST versions available too. |
| Monsterland |
|
Text
based blaster. Oddly addictive, and multiplayer too! |
| Nebula
Fighter |
One
Reality |
Your
basic horizontal shmup |
| Overkill |
|
|
| Project
X |
Team
17 |
Awful
1995 conversion of the Amiga original |
| Raiden |
|
Home
conversion of the seminal verscroller. Average at best... |
| Raiden
II |
|
Win95
Japanese only release, excellent conversion... |
| Rallyraid |
Twinkle
Soft |
|
| Raptor:
Call of the Shadows |
Cygnus |
Earn
money and buy upgrades in this oldschool vertical shmup. |
| Reflex |
Siter
Skain |
A
very nice Layer Section inspired shooter. Even has bits of GigaWing
too! (or was that the other way round...?) |
| 東方文花帖 (Touhou Bunkachou) Shoot the Bullet |
Team Shangai Alice/ZUN |
Unique "shmup" in the popular Touhou series where you shoot with a camera... very fun and intriguing. |
| Sideline |
|
|
| Solaris |
Real
Arcade |
|
| Sonic
Princess |
Software
House Parsley |
|
| Space
Bastards |
|
Download
it from Sir Gogol's homepage, Space Invaders ripoff, with badass
weapons! |
| Space
Tripper |
Pom
Pom |
Pretty
(gfx sense) Uridium clone, with some awesome speed gameplay |
| Stardust |
|
DULL
conversion of the Amiga game. Looks the same but it's way too choppy! |
| Stargunner |
|
|
| Star
Monkey |
Small
Rockets |
Cool
Gradius like upgrades and online hi-score comparisons make this
game a standout in my book (no monkeys harmed in the making either) |
| Starscape |
moonpod |
Udderly
amazing multi directional shmup |
| Steel
Heart |
Twinkle
Soft |
Most
Twinkle Soft games seem the same, but the formula works... |
| Steel
Saviour |
Atlanteq |
Don't
know if the project is still ongoing, but this demo of an Einhander
clone ROCKS! |
| Super
Stardust 96 |
|
Conversion
of the Amiga/CD32 original |
| The
Reap |
Housemarque |
Beautiful
isometric shmup, lovely graphics, brilliant gameplay. |
| Tobi
Divine |
Abopado
Powers |
|
| Tubular
Worlds |
|
|
| Tyrian
2000 |
Eclipse |
I
don't like the use of inertia in this one, very involved with story
and powerups |
| Ultra
Assault |
Small
Rockets |
Two
words: LEVEL EDITOR |
| Xadlak
Plus |
SpriteSoft |
Another
jap only shooter. This one takes elements from RayXanber, among
others. Pretty good fun though |
| Xenon
II: Megablast |
Bitmap
Brothers |
1989.
It sadly misses the excellent Amiga soundtrack which, IMO, was the
best part of the game. |
| Zone
66 |
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