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

John — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:41:08 +0000

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

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Bullet Shmups Ep.1 – Torus Trooper (PC)

John — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:39:03 +0000

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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Zillion Beatz shmup on unbelievable difficulty

John — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:54:51 +0000

Super high speed shmup in the Zillion Beat’z BEAT MACHINE MODE on unbelievable difficulty.

Duration : 0:6:28

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