What's you're favorite 2D shooter?

Post by **racketboy** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 7:52 pm

Honestly, I really suck at most shooters.
I think they are really cool, but I just don't have the skill.

I did enjoy Zero Gunner 2 (Dreamcast) a lot since I actually get pretty far on it.

Post by **prophet138** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 4:45 am

all 3 raiden games, and the king_Ikaruga

Post by **racketboy** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:40 am

Ikaruga owns me.
I have it for the Gamecube (plus a Dreamcast rip), but I can't even get past the 2nd level.
I need to play it more though

Post by **prophet138** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 11:59 pm

i only have the dreamcast rip now, like a chump i sold my gamecube version for like $15, i'm a dumbass. I want to get the cube version again tho, it's so much smoother with the analog stick, i played the hell out of that game on the cube, i remember the first time i got to level 5 it was just so damn cool looking, ...oh how i miss it

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Post by **jemsic** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 4:40 am

I like zero gunner 2 and of course ikaruga. I can get really far on ikaruga. I could've kicked myself after seeing gc ikaruga at toysrus brand new for $10, and passing on it cause I had no idea what it was...

Post by **dna299** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 7:24 pm

Sexy Parodius on the saturn and most any PC Engine shooter

Post by **whupthewickedwurm** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 3:03 am

Like a chump, I sold my copy of GC Ikaruga too. I'm a dumbass... I should've waited a few years for it to reach ridiculous prices on eBay and THEN sold it.

I hated that game so much. I really wanted to like it but I just couldn't, no matter how much I played it. It's actually one of the only games I ever disliked enough to sell. I kept SHAQ FU for a longer time than Ikaruga!

The first level boss is really cool though. And I did feel bad after I sold it, because I normally TREASURE(no pun intended) all of my games and this one time I was forced to do something ugly and just downright dispicable by selling it. It's like how I imagine a cop must feel when he has to shoot someone for the first time... it was a necessary action but I hated having to go through with it. My innocence died that day. A piece of ME died that day.

I still wonder to this day, if that game has ever been able to forgive me. I can almost hear Ikaruga telling me, "You sold me! How could you sell me! I trusted you! I LOVED you!"

Damn you Treasure for putting me in that situation.

OK, I'm mental.

Here's my list of faves:

Raiden 2- I used to have the OST, it was awsome.
MUSHA
Lightening Force
R-Type
Thunder Force 5
Keio Flying Squadron
Soukyugurentai
Donpachi
Dodonpachi
Robo Aleste
Lords of Thunder

I would really like to check out some of the PC-Engine shooters like a Gate of Thunder, Spriggan and and those Star Soldier games.

I played Gunhed and Soldier Blade and I really liked those ones.

I haven't really played Air Zonk but it has one of my all time favorite video game tunes. I wish I could get an mp3 of it somewhere...

Post by **ravenmgs** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:03 pm

The Aero Fighters series all the way.

Post by **whupthewickedwurm** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 5:33 pm

ravenmgs wrote:The Aero Fighters series all the way.

Yeah those were some good ones.
The idea of a shooter with a ninja pilot is just plain awsome BTW.

Post by **Majors** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:25 am

dna299 wrote:Sexy Parodius on the saturn and most any PC Engine shooter

Parodius on a Express rocks.

So many shooters, but I'll go with R-type on SMS.

What about fav shooter on individual systems? Arcade and consoles.