Oct

Japan: History of Shooting Game (English sub) pt. 1/3

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This is a French documentary from Gameone covering the evolution of the shmup genre.

English translation is by KrgFn:
http://shmup.canalblog.com/

Duration : 0:9:31

Technorati Tags: bullet, cave, curtain, danmaku, documentary, donpachi, gameone, gradius, Grev, history, ibara, japan, konami, manic, shmup, shooter, stg

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Oct

Kamiha (Compo Version) — First Two Stages; No-Miss!!

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This is Kamiha, presented by Tom Beaumont (aka Mokona) as another pretty good entry into the Shmup-dev Competition 2k7 Round 2.

This game takes on the spirit of a Cave/Takumi shmup with a mix of DoDonPachi combined with the SHEER bullet intensity of Mars Matrix and just crammed them all up with an early ’90s arcade graphical look, too, so manic shmup fans should feel pretty much at home with this one!!

Here, I perform a no-miss play through the first two stages that are actually featured in this demo, plus do witness my amazing use of the Crosshair Targeting System in which you throw one of your available options into your targeted position to hit some enemies, destroying the out of them and turning their own shots into green gems that are then “vacuumed” to you automatically!!!

At the end of my play, please stay for the “How-to-Play” manual that is included in this game, where it shows you fully how to play Kamiha and how your weapons work as well!

To have a shot at downloading this game, please go to the site address:

http://www.shmup-dev.com/forum/

…and so far, you MUST be registered in the forums there to access the download.

Thanks so much once more, and enjoy them all in this vid!!! ^-^=b !

Duration : 0:5:21

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Technorati Tags: 2, 2d, 2k7, cave, compo, Kamiha, Mokona, pc, Round, shmup, Shmup-dev, shooter, shooting-game, Takumi, vert, vertical, windows

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Oct

Space Bomber All Clear World 1

Posted by John as Shmups

Use second button from bottom right to view in proper aspect ratio.

Space Bomber is a parody type shmup produced by Psikyo. The storyline is pretty bizarre, and involves Bill Clinton fighting off invading aliens.

Your fighter has a space invaders type shot and a grapple hook for capturing enemies to use as powers or bombs. Scoring involves bombing multiple enemies at once for mad points. There’s no bullet clearing or invincibility granting weapons like those found in the standard shmup though, save for the turtle and armadillo powers.

World 1 is very easy like the first stage of most shmups. The overall difficulty of this game isn’t very high, but it should definitely not be underestimated.

Duration : 0:3:19

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Technorati Tags: bomber, clinton, psikyo, shmup, space, spacebomber

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Oct

MUSHIHIMESAMA FUTARI Ver.1.5 stage 5 boss[ultra]

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A replay that I found on a japanese site. This is said to be the hardest boss in shmup history… as far as I know, no one ever has beat this boss without continues. this is probably the nightmare of all shmup players…
download link
http://rapidshare.com/files/12549775/ul5boss.rar.html

Duration : 0:4:59

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Technorati Tags: boss, cave, FUTARI, MUSHIHIMESAMA, shmup, shooter, stg, ultra, 虫姫さまふたり1.5

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Oct

Shmup – Exception Full Run on Excess Difficulty: Stage 1

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This is a doujin Shmup game where you just bascially shoot cubes and cuboids. Simple game, nice music and its fun.

Doing a full run on it on excess difficulty. My PC cant handle insane number of objects on this difficulty, so hope you dont mind some of the slow parts. I also turned off openGL.

Stage 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMFOfD5_Iog

Stage 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PInteh6JKkw

Stage 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTkc2dDPCJU

Stage 5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFeD9RXMfNA

Game Website:
http://i-saint.skr.jp/exception/

Duration : 0:5:39

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Technorati Tags: doujin, exception, game, primitive, shmup, video

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Oct

Midwest Gaming Classic: Worldwide SHMUP Open

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My trip to the Midwest Gaming Classic 2008 includes footage of vendors, the gaming museum and the Worldwide SHMUP Open tournament.

Duration : 0:8:25

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Technorati Tags: 5200, Atari, Classic, FM, games, Gaming, Lynx, Marty, MGC, Midwest, NES, retrogaming, shmup, SNES, SuperGrafix, Towns, video, videogames

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Oct

Bullet Shmups Ep.1 – Torus Trooper (PC)

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Youtube greatly reduced video quality because of the high framerate.

Each Episode will feature gameplay from a different bullet shmup game, on it’s hardest difficulty. Not familiar with what a bullet shmup is? Wikipedia has the answer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_hell

Not familiar with the object of Torus Trooper? Here’s another Wiki link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torus_Trooper

This game is freeware and can be downloaded w/out purchase here:
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/windows/tt_e.html

Small download, roughly 6MB. It’s easy to install, just extract the files to a directory of your choice.

Duration : 0:5:43

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Technorati Tags: bullet, hell, pc, shmup, shootem, torus, trooper, up

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Oct

Last Resort (Neo Geo; 1992)

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Recorded with Neo Geo Home Cartridge System w/capture card
Excellent shmup, but you’d swear by the way this plays, you’d think you were playing R-Type. That’s because some ex-IREM employees also happened to be on SNK’s development team when they made this game.