Shmup of the Month Club 2012

[brunoafh]

Crimzon Clover - Hot damn, I loved this game and played it to death when it came out. Would gladly boot it up again.

Great Mahou Daisakusen/Dimahoo -"Dimahoo, released in Japan as Great Mahou Daisakusen, is a medieval-themed shooter." All I needed to know.

Cotton 100% - I've never played any of these games, so I just picked the earliest one of the franchise.

Thunder Dragon 2/Big Bang - It's called Thunder Dragon 2, therefore it's the best choice.

Shienryuu - I wasn't too big on Xexex or Twin Hawk, but I very much enjoy Shienryuu.

Batsugun - I was tempted to vote for DonPachi, as I've never actually played the original, I can't resist throwing a vote out for Batsugun as it's in my top 5 personal favorites.

Varth - Was ExedExes first pick so I wanted to go with it.

Dragon Spirit - Wow, I was surprised to see this game has nearly a dozen ports. I had a lot of fun with this when I had a PC Engine and I'd like to re-visit it and check out the arcade version.

Skonec's Homura - Wasn't familiar with any of these games, but this one looks like the most interesting of the bunch at a quick glance.

Air Gallet - I remember this was the first game hashiriya1 has mentioned.

Chaos Field - I didn't dig too deeply into this game but I thought it was awesome how it was basically 100% boss fights/boss rush.

[dsheinem]

it will be some rich irony indeed if voting leads to everyone picking the one game I selected to put on my list that I least want to play

On the other hand, people aren't picking Xexex, so that's a good thing!

[ExedExes]

Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire - Looks to be in my wheelhouse
Giga Wing - This one barely lost to MM and I'd love to officially do it
Cotton 100% - I like the title? (honestly have no experience with this series)
Gunnail - Out of the 3 NMK choices, that one looked the best
Xexex - KONAMI! Nuff said.
DonPachi - DDP is great, so let's go back to the first one
Varth - It already should have been there!
Zanac - Let's get back to the original after ZXZ
Blue Hawk - Dooyong makes some dang fine stuff in the shmup field
Air Gallet - This also should have been there already!
Galaga - Because I love this game, tons of memories

[brunoafh]

Varth - It already should have been there!

If Varth was your original pick, I will change my vote.

For the record, I see no problem with anyone changing your votes, so long as it's before I do the final tally at the end of the month. Edit the original post you made though, so it'll be easier for me.

[noiseredux]

Varth - Was ExedExes first pick so I wanted to go with it.

Chaos Field - I didn't dig too deeply into this game but I thought it was awesome how it was basically 100% boss fights/boss rush.

I see how it is.

[dsheinem]

Varth - Was ExedExes first pick so I wanted to go with it.

Chaos Field - I didn't dig too deeply into this game but I thought it was awesome how it was basically 100% boss fights/boss rush.

I see how it is.

I changed my vote to Chaos field as well. It's also on the Wii, by the way, bruno.

[alienjesus]

Anyway, here are the member game nominations!
dsheinem - Ketsui: Death Label (Nintendo DS version of Ketsui)
Tyranix95 - Giga Wing (Dreamcast)
mjmjr25 - Cotton 2 (Saturn)
dunpeal2064 - Thunder Dragon 2/Big Bang (Arcade only)
pierrot - Twin Hawk / Daisenpuu (PC Engine, Mega Drive)
foxhound1022 - Raiden 4 (X360)
ExedExes - Varth (PlayStation Portable, Xbox, PlayStation 2)
o.pwuaioc - Star Soldier (MSX, NES)
EllertMichael - Semicom's Baryon - Future Assault (Arcade only)
hashiriya1 - Fire Shark (Mega Drive)
noiseredux - Castle of Shikigami 2 (PC, Dreamcast, GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox)

I dunno if I'm allowed to vote on this as I didnt really particpate last year. Those were the ones I thought looked most fun though, although my particpation will likely be low next year too.

I'm a little sad that the games here seem quite similar here too. This shmup club isn't really big on horizontal shooters huh? I was secretly hoping someone would vote in ProGear so that I could go to the arcade and join in. I've been playing that a lot lately and it's quickly becoming one of ym favourites in the genre.

[mjmjr25]

Pro Gear was my #2 choice for a selection, but I wanted to play something in the cute 'em up, but still not easy genre. So a Cotton / Parodius game was my process for this year.

We do have a Pro Gear Hi-Score thread and if anyone else gets into it, i'd happily join in again. Great game.

I think this voting, particularly vote-changing, is funny - true democracy at work, bargaining for votes, trying to purposely rig-in bad choices.

[o.pwuaioc]

I think this voting, particularly vote-changing, is funny - true democracy at work, bargaining for votes, trying to purposely rig-in bad choices.

The (ancient) Greeks would be proud.

[dunpeal2064]

dsheinem
Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire (PC Engine CD, PlayStation Portable)

Tyranix95
Giga Wing (Dreamcast)

mjmjr25
Cotton Boomerang

dunpeal2064
Gunnail (Arcade only)

pierrot
Xexex (PlayStation Portable)

foxhound1022
DonPachi (Saturn, PlayStation, PlayStation Network)

ExedExes
Varth (PlayStation Portable, Xbox, PlayStation 2)

o.pwuaioc
Dragon Spirit (NES, Amstrad CPC, Commodore Amiga, Commodore 64, Atari ST, PlayStation Portable, Sharp X68000, PC Engine, ZX Spectrum, Wii Virtual Console, X360)

EllertMichael
Dooyong's Blue Hawk (Arcade only)

hashiriya1
Air Gallet (Arcade only)

noiseredux
Castle of Shikigami 2 (PC, Dreamcast, GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox)


Man, no matter what wins, there are some really great games that I did not expect to see here. I am very happy we went with this idea. EllertMichael, I love that you put a Dooyong game in your list, and another shooter I had never even heard of!

Also, Mike, which Cotton game is on the PC Engine? I know its called Cotton: Fantastic Dream or something, but is this a different game from Cotton 100%? I have no experience with the Cotton series but I am looking forward to trying it out.