PALGN writes: "Let’s face it – Australia misses out on a lot of great games, particularly if distributors consider a title to be too obscure. This is understandable in terms of business practice, but frustrating for those on the hunt for such games, especially if they are unable to shop online. The shmup (short for shoot ‘em up) is a good example of an entire genre that suffers from this. It is quite a niche market just about anywhere outside of Japan and not just Australia. It is quite rare to see a shmup on a store shelf here, with only a handful of titles, such as Ikaruga and Soldner X, being available for digital download. But it seems as though this perspective is slowly shifting, with the recent release of Death Smiles in the USA and the region-free Mushihimesama Futari on the Xbox 360."
Cave has a mega collection of shooting games according to Amazon Japan, which is taking reservations for the Cave Shooting Collection. This bundle includes 10 games plus downloadable content on seven DVDs.
Prima Games looks at the best from the hardcore "shmup" developer.
ahem. well... is a game where we throw millions beans at once towards you and you need to dodge them all. in short a mess because i don't see where i am going all i see are hundred of colors messed up all over the screen.
“Shmups” or Shoot’em Ups are games that involves you flying some sort of shiplike object while shooting enemies and dodging bullets. This all began towards the very beginning with games like Gradius and Lifeforce and eventually it grew into various subgenres like the vertical kind and the type where the screen is all flooded with bullets.
before fps came on the scene. So many good shmups past and present and I hope....the future.
I can see a revival of the space shooter with a new r-type or gradius or darius, or thunderforce (my personal fav) or ....
the list goes on. It would be a nice break from the over crowded first person shooter market.
