May the Shmup Be With You

[MiG-31]

Whilst watching A New Hope last night, it became apparent that one of greatest missed opportunities in gaming was the lack of a Star Wars original trilogy based shmup. The Death Star trench run scene is basically the genre's absent father and the amount of ships and situations from the first three films would be wonderful. Obviously it would have to be vert-scrolling with sprites...

[Ghegs]

It has been done, actually, at least sort of. The last stage in Namco's Japan-only Star Wars for Famicom is a vertically scrolling shmup of the Death Star trench run. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XliT7xp3h_8

[MiG-31]

It has been done, actually, at least sort of. The last stage in Namco's Japan-only Star Wars for Famicom is a vertically scrolling shmup of the Death Star trench run. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XliT7xp3h_8

Cool! I was trying desperately to rack my mind if there'd been any scrolling shooting levels in the SNES Super Star Wars games, though I think there were only the semi-first person stages. In Rebel Assault for the Mega-CD, there was at least one level where it's vertical scrolling, with you in a T-16 (?) trainer shooting wamp rats, though it was fairly slow moving, short and most of the time was spent trying not to hit any mountains, if I recall.

[Gunstar Green]

Come to think of it, it is a little odd there hasn't been a serious attempt at a Star Wars shmup.

Even Star Trek had one on the Game Boy.

[MiG-31]

Probably it's a case of the Venn diagrams of Developers and Licensees not really overlapping. For clarification, when saying a Star Wars shmup would be awesome, I of course mean a 32bit era or later arcade perfect bullet hell shooter with sprites so large and wonderful that hot tears of joy stream down ones face! All I wish from a game is that, a la 1945, the end boss of a level is a Super Star Destroyer, whose superstructure transforms into a giant Darth Vader shaped mech.

[marurun]

For clarification, when saying a Star Wars shmup would be awesome, I of course mean a 32bit era or later arcade perfect bullet hell shooter with sprites so large and wonderful that hot tears of joy stream down ones face! All I wish from a game is that, a la 1945, the end boss of a level is a Super Star Destroyer, whose superstructure transforms into a giant Darth Vader shaped mech.

I kinda wouldn't want this at all. I think the 1st/3rd person 3D versions out there are, if simple, otherwise perfect for this,

[TSTR]

Even Star Trek had one on the Game Boy.

What is this of which you speak, and is it any good?

[dsheinem]

http://www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=http%3A ... FID%3D3155

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lego-st ... 69254?mt=8

[MiG-31]

For clarification, when saying a Star Wars shmup would be awesome, I of course mean a 32bit era or later arcade perfect bullet hell shooter with sprites so large and wonderful that hot tears of joy stream down ones face! All I wish from a game is that, a la 1945, the end boss of a level is a Super Star Destroyer, whose superstructure transforms into a giant Darth Vader shaped mech.

I kinda wouldn't want this at all. I think the 1st/3rd person 3D versions out there are, if simple, otherwise perfect for this,

That's fair enough! It was more as a semi-interesting idea, rather than any kind of serious demand. At some point I want to pick up a Gamecube, largely to play Rogue Squadron 2 and 3.

[samsonlonghair]

I bought Rouge Squadron II for gamecube based upon the reviews on this site. Suffice to say I'm not a fan.
http://youtu.be/cDGlN6mluGA