good GB/GBA shmups?

[noiseredux]

For what it's worth, Astro Boy Omega Factor is a great game, aside from genre. That said, the levels that stuck in my mind are definitely side-scrolling, flying, laser-shooting shoot'em'uppers.

But I know the memory an earlier faux paux when I called River City Ransom a 'fighter' is still fresh in memory.... I guess I've just never paid strict attention to video game taxonomy.

ah, no worries about genre classifying... I really don't care, but in this instance I was using "shmup" to describe a game that looks and plays kinda like Darius.

[Anapan]

Here's some more for GBA

Invader - vertical with good music and lots of upgrades. graphics are really bright.

Airforce delta storm - topdown all directions aerial dogfight with excellent graphics.

Ace Combat Advance - same as above, but different graphics

Pocky & Rocky with Becky - taito's zelda-control shinto priestess sorta-shmup.


There's some impressive homebrew Shmups for GBA if you're got a flashcart.

Uranus Series - Really impressive homebrew shmups. Uranus Zero is really hard.

BulletGBA - homebrew bullethell with no graphics really. emphasis on bullet patterns.

Vulkanon - another homebrew by the same guy - bullet hell type.

SuperWings - homebrew with a gameboy mono look. Good control and gameplay.

[noiseredux]

oh yeah, Rocky & Pocky with Becky has been on my want list for a WHILE.

[k.vlaros]

Is 1942 for GBC any good?

[Hobie-wan]

Solar Striker is a very early GB game. It's very basic and I don't care for it much.

Project S-11 for GBC is a fun little shooter. It has fantastic 8-bit music.

Actually, I saw a complete copy of this at a store near me. If the game interests you, maybe I'll go pick up the boxed one for myself and trade you my cart only? The label is a little worn, but its not too bad and the game works just fine.

Here's another vid with just music.

[noiseredux]

Invader looks amazing!! Does anyone have a copy FS/FT?

[noiseredux]

so I actually did a brief rundown of 4 GBA shmups on my blog:

http://www.rfgeneration.com/blogs/noise ... s-1341.php

including Invader which I love. However, the comments left on my blog led me to investigate the cart a bit further, and it seems that maybe the game is a lot more rare than I previously thought?

[dsheinem]

so I actually did a brief rundown of 4 GBA shmups on my blog:

http://www.rfgeneration.com/blogs/noise ... s-1341.php

including Invader which I love. However, the comments left on my blog led me to investigate the cart a bit further, and it seems that maybe the game is a lot more rare than I previously thought?

Looks like I'll have to check out Iridion II. I just assumed it was like Irirdion 3D, which I hated.

[noiseredux]

Looks like I'll have to check out Iridion II. I just assumed it was like Irirdion 3D, which I hated.

oh yeah, quite different. I dn't really have an interest in Iridion 3D.

[GSZX1337]

Hey buddy, there's one screaming omission from your list, and it's a real cracker:

Astro Boy Omega Factor. A truly great game.

And if you want to take a slight left turn, I dug playing through and getting 'all golds' on Medal of Honor Infiltrator. Another deviation from the norm would be the Metal Slug series- I want to get the US GBA version eventually.

I agree about R-Type, the ship is rather large - or is it that the tunnels are often confined - but I give it a sentimental handicap as I played it to death on NES as a kid. And eventually I want to find Gunstar Super Heroes, but I'm not sure if it's actually all that great (I just like the screen shots I've found).

Astro Boy is a shmup? I had no idea. Thought it was a platformer. Hmm.

It's overall a platformer, but there's shmup segments.

As for recommendations:
Battle Unit Zeoth