It's not quite as polished as something like Streets of Rage 4, but the occasional glitches aren't nearly enough to soil what is otherwise a highly enjoyable game. The Kunio-Kun series has been incredibly popular in Japan since it first debuted back in It was not until the release of River City Ransom: Underground in though that the series really began to gain traction in the west.
River City Girls, which released two years later, marks a continuation of that progress and is considered by many to be the best that the series has to offer. With its fantastic spritework and fast-paced gameplay, it's difficult not to fall in love with this stunning beat 'em up brawler. It's fun to play, littered with fantastic humor and features the perfect soundtrack for kicking ass and taking names. What's more, its availability on current gen consoles makes it easily accessible, which just isn't the case for many of the genre's other top offerings.
The company held the licences to some of the biggest and most popular franchises around and, unlike in modern times, used them to great effect.
As a result, there were plenty of fantastic Konami titles to be found in arcades throughout the decade, with X-Men being one of the very best. Speaking of Storm, you could control her, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Wolverine, Cyclops, and fan-favorite Dazzler as they attempt to take on Magneto. At one point Street Fighter II was to be a Final Fight sequel, until it was reworked into the legendary 1 on 1 tournament fight it is known as today.
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Excellent article, a small suggestion would be to use more flattering pictures of these games. Many of the newer ones as you know can be quite good looking when viewed farther away.
Regardless, you wrote a very good article for beginners, great work. This article is awesome. Let me count the ways… The structure is excellent, really carrying the article along nicely to its logical conclusion. The writing is also top notch, the best on the site to date. It covers some niche titles and companies as well as the major players. Massive quality title. Very complete. I think there is a sub-type that is important enough to mention: the gravity shooter Thrust, Solar Jetman, and versus games with gravity like Gravity Force.
The writer s have a lot of talent and potential so it seems like a good opportunity for constructive criticism. And then in the Essential Home Systems it said that the most desirable acquisitions would be highlighted. I am a casual fan of shooters, sticking to mainstream console releases with some of the more obscure titles here and there on NES and SNES.
All that said, it was a really good piece and I picked up a lot of little nuggets of information. Hello all, and thanks for reading — as the very end of the article says, a good deal of the credit goes to my fellow denizens of the shmups. I added the bold for the home systems section. Bringing over all the italicized titles BulletMagnet put in will take me an hour at least — I might have to revisit that later. Its good to finally see this published BM! As a fellow fan who is knows there is a lack of any comprehensive info on the interwebs for the genre its good to have this here to use as a link for STG noobs.
Thanks for all the work you put into this as its something im sadly too lazy to do myself. I think the best part of the article is that as well as informing younger gamers about the genre it also points out to older gamers who might have played Gradius or Raiden back in the day that the genre has evolved, it isnt the old simple blast em up that they remember, instead modern shmups are very deep and challenging not just in survival play but also in the complex scoring mechanics which have top notch balancing that puts most other games to shame.
About the pictures, it seems that you want to include zoomed in pics to show off the pixel artwork as well as zoomed out in all their spendor.
Thanks for this article, I found it very informative and a pleasure to read. Keep up the good work, I love these s! Amazing article. Easily my most beloved video game genre, and it means a lot to see it get the respect it deserves here.
Speaking of the shmup resurgence, I highly recommend checking out Jamestown. American made with a Japanese heart. Windows only, which I feel adds to its quirky charms. Absolutely great article, one of the best ever here and I have pretty much enjoyed most of them. I made sure I was on UTF-8 as the html specifies in the header, but on firefox and chrome for mac, firefox and IE7 on pc it was all funky.
Yeah, something must have messed up all the apostrophes and quotation marks. I think I fixed them all, but there might be some random characters messed still — lemme know if you spot them. Growing up, I was always one of those people who sucked at video games.
Give up after the first bullet takes you out one hit?!?!? Then about a month ago, a love of retro gaming and all things obscure, fond memories of how cool Bonk looked in the commercials, and a lack of decent NES titles led me to get Magic Engine.
It was love at first sight. The colors, the speed, the sprites… Unfortunately, for someone who sucks at video games a love affair with the shooter-heavy PC Engine is bound to be short lived. I made a visual companion guide of shoot em ups using this guide. If you are interested please check it out.
Difficult, oh yeah. Punishing, frustrating at times. As difficult, punishing and frustrating but enjoyable nonetheless were many of their cousins from Japan and USA.
Brilliantly crafted, Left 4 Dead 2 is a drop-dead simple concept, executed perfectly. A team-based shooter with a realistic bent. It also looks and sounds astonishing, and no other game has so vividly portrayed the horrors of war. Some of them let you leap high in the air, others ping enemy positions, while ultimate abilities can damage enemies through walls and clear out entire areas. It's more colorful than CS:GO, but the clean visuals prove that the emphasis is on substance over style.
Its short stint in Early Access is a testament to how much polish Riot put into its design, and how balanced its maps and heroes are. Both will only improve over time. Ever since its debut as an expansive Half-Life mod, the Counter-Strike series has constantly stayed on top of the competitive shooter scene. Each map is meticulously crafted to allow for myriad tactics requiring varying degrees of skill, and the lovingly modeled guns in your expansive arsenal all have minutiae in their firing rates and recoil that can only be learned through experience.
CS:GO's skill ceiling is practically in the stratosphere, and it puts equal emphasis on cooperative teamwork and heroic moments where you get all the glory. Current page: Page 1. Get the best gaming deals, reviews, product advice, competitions, unmissable gaming news and more! Page 1 of 3: Page 1 Page 1 Page 2 Page 3. Samuel Horti. See comments. Gaming deals, prizes and latest news. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands.
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