Oct

Bullet Shmups Ep.1 – Torus Trooper (PC)

Posted by John as Shmups

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

Genetos: Stage 1-3 (Trial Version)

Posted by John as 2d Shooter

OKAY, I’M FINALLY BACK GUYS.

i don’t know why it’s taken me so long to record and post something (almost four months) but hopefully i will be able to get some sort of run going, like i had just before i stopped posting. i have to admit, i feel quite surprised to see that my account broke 50 subscribers while i was away, but it’s awesome all the same.

anyway, this is a game i’ve wanted to record for a little while now, even though it’s just a demo. i also needed something to test out fraps (which i have decided not to switch over to, just because of the amount of hassle it takes to get a video ready for upload compared to growler guncam, despite the pleasing results) so it seemed like a brilliant game to test.

genetos is a 2d shooter where you level up and evolve your ship and the world around you by killing enemies and collecting the blue and green circles they drop to fill up an “experience guage” of sorts, which upgrades your ship to something a little stronger and makes the world around you become a little more difficult as well. i think it’s a very interesting concept for a shooter and hope the full version of the game is just as impressive.

i feel like posting more of this kind of stuff, but i really don’t know — i love this style of game, but i don’t think i’m much good at them, so i feel kind of torn. let me know if you’d like to see more of this thing!

Duration : 0:7:1

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Technorati Tags: 2d, em, galaga, genetos, ikaruga, invaders, pc, shmup, shoot, shooter, space, up

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Sep

Summer Carnival ‘92 Recca サマーカーニバル’92 烈火 NES FC

Posted by John as Shmups

Without a doubt the best and HARDEST shmup on Nintendo’s 8-bit wonder. Probably one of the very first manic shmups that are now more common in today’s breed. This one is definitely not for the one who needs anger managment.

Until Game Reproductions started selling their copies of this, this was one of the rarest games on the console. It had a very limited release in the Japanese market. I think most of the original Famicom cartridges of this were given out in Naxat Soft’s 1992 Summer Carnival shmup tournament. I am not sure.

Duration : 0:8:49

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Technorati Tags: '92, Carnival, em, Famicom, FC, NES, Nintendo, shmup, shoot, shooter, Summer, up, サマーカーニバル', 烈火