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Gunstar Green wrote:I always preferred the 2600 port to the arcade game as well. It's one of my nostalgic favorites. I remember actually being kind of disappointed the first time I played the arcade version.

So much cool stuff to do in the 2600 port -

- Exploiting some sort of bug in the Mountain Zone involving the E-pods to have extra power-time left in the first Rainbow Zone. I think it involves shooting as many Harley rockets as you can in a short period of time, something about ending the wave early before the next E comes out, because the wave won't end until the E leaves the screen, allowing you to hang back and take it!

- Shooting through the cracks in the Stripe Zone to take out the forcefields and a lot more

- Seeing if you can take out all the Romeda rockets in the Bleak Zone after the snakes without missing one

- Holding that one shot to destroy the Gond at the very last second for big points.

Vanguard II dropped the ball big time. That's pretty obscure too. I know of only one port on the PSP (SNK Arcade Classics 0). Could be included on the list!

Do you guys know any good shmups on the GB? Any generation.

oxymoron wrote:Do you guys know any good shmups on the GB? Any generation.

Solar Striker
Galaga
R-Type 1,2, DX
Nemesis
Sagaia
Gradius
Gradius interstellar Assault

More GB:
Parodius
Quarth
Starhawk

It expands with GBC and GBA.

DocHauser wrote:This gets a brief mention in the Undiscovered Shmups article, but there's not much info about it, so...



Sideline (PC-DOS, Union Systems/EMAG Software, 1996)

http://youtu.be/euFXFuU3zAU

http://youtu.be/IQmQ-9t7aAY

A long-lost PC shmup, seemingly developed in Taiwan, which also got a European release, but...only in Poland.

Anyway, thanks to some sterling detective work by folks over on shmups forum, a demo version was unearthed, and eventually a full version. No links for the full version, but you can check out the demo if you go to the thread...

Heads-up! The original producer of the game was tracked down and he gave us permission to distribute the game's full version, on the condition that no profit is made from it. So now everybody can enjoy it.

What are some disc based shmups on the PS3?

oxymoron wrote:What are some disc based shmups on the PS3?

Under Defeat
Ketsui

Thats all I know of. If you are going to get one... get Ketsui.

dunpeal2064 wrote:

oxymoron wrote:What are some disc based shmups on the PS3?

Under Defeat
Ketsui

Thats all I know of. If you are going to get one... get Ketsui ...or Under Defeat.

fixed.

Never knew you liked UD enough to put it on par with Ketsui.

dunpeal2064 wrote:Never knew you liked UD enough to put it on par with Ketsui.

Mike got really really obsessed w/ UD for a while there. He was something like Top 10 in the US if I recall.