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Flake wrote:By my thinking, it is almost the exact same concept - guide your character through a storm of bullets while shooting back. Special attacks grant you temporary invincibility and wipe out your enemies.

And you keep getting told to 'shoot the core'.

Sounds like a SHMUP to me, just with a different presentation.

elmagicochrisg wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoot_'em_up

A "shoot 'em up", also known as a "shmup",[1][2] is a game in which the protagonist combats a large number of enemies by shooting at them while dodging their fire. The controlling player must rely primarily on reaction times to succeed.[3][4] Beyond this, critics differ on exactly which design elements constitute a shoot 'em up. Some restrict the genre to games featuring some kind of craft, using fixed or scrolling movement.[3] Others widen the scope to include games featuring such protagonists as robots or humans on foot, as well as including games featuring "on-rails" (or "into the screen") and "run and gun" movement.[4][5][6] Formerly, critics described any game where the primary design element was shooting as a "shoot 'em up",[4] but later shoot 'em ups became a specific, inward-looking genre based on design conventions established in those shooting games of the 1980s.[5]

When I was younger games like Smash TV and Contra were called shoot'em ups. No problem...

final fight cd wrote:after a break from sol-feace, i'm back at it. and i'm not taking no for an answer. it's going down to china town.

mjmjr25 wrote:What SHMUP are you playing now?

RECCA

...now where is the thread for which SHMUP will you never play again?

First response:
RECCA

I can certainly appreciate the intense action and the fact that a game was developed to move that amazingly fast w/no slow-down on an console released 25 years ago. With that said, I can't beat the first board. I can't last 90 seconds. I hate that game.