I run different initiatives around STG/shmups/Shoot 'em ups, trying to consolidate communities and help gamedevs, publishers, content creators and shmup fans.
@MysteriumSolis
@gunsnrosesgirl3
Yeah I was about to mention this. My hometown, we used to do this a lot when I was growing up. It's magic when you try to dive or kayak through a lake with hundreds of fish moving around in their own biofluorescent aura. Truly a spectacle.
We should celebrate Hamster. They've been doing GOD's work for Arcade Gaming in the past decade and I'd argue they're as important (if not more important) than heavy hitter companies doing similar stuff.
Happy 10th Birthday to Arcade Archives!
アーケードアーカイブスは、本日2024年5月15日で10周年を迎えました。これまで支えていただいたみなさま、本当にありがとうございました。まだまだいきます!これからもよろしくお願いいたします!
Arcade Archives celebrates its 10th anniversary today!Thank you very much everyone!
#アケアカ
The run has happened... Sairyou has told us to wait until the video is ready. I repeat... the Inbachi Clear Run has been achieved.
@ifc_srh
you're a legend!
I absolutely loved Rapid Teload/Gunners Heaven. Super recommended for run n gun fans. It is not up to the quality of Gunstar Heroes, Metal Slug or Contra; but it is very enjoyable. It takes a lot from Treasure’s games with a spin off their own. PS1 (I now play it on my RG35XX).
Not a shmup at all but screw it, this game deserves some attention. To put it quite simply, if you like F-Zero and other low g racers then you should at the very least try the demo at Steam Next Fest.
Aero GPX participates in Steam Next Fest with a new public demo on June 10th.
Aero GPX releases in Early Access on August 6th.
See you on the starting grid!
Released on July 22nd 2004, Gradius V celebrates its 20th anniversary today.
The game was developed by Treasure and its soundtrack composed by Hitoshi Sakimoto (FF Tactics/Radiant Silvergun).
Gradius V was a fun, gorgeous, and very challenging experience.
Gameplay by PEG
After what feels like more like 2 decades in the making, legendary artist
@shigatake
(of Vanillaware/Dragon’s Crown, Muramasa, Kumatachi, Odin Sphere and even Astlibra fame) is finally releasing DEVIL BLADE REBOOT!
📆 May 24
🔗
Go wishlist the game.
People in the comments (and quotes) for this post can't understand why someone like us (shmup fans) would absolutely LOVE this. It looks like a new PowKiddy device, which just happens to be my dream device to play both arcade shmups and other retro games.
There's a big overlap on shmup players and rhythm games players but this is probably the most insane take I've seen and it looks VERY fun. Does anyone know what game this is?
"The indie game I'm making and 3 inspirations for it" trend is one of the best inventions I've seen in a while, just searching for that sentence will net you a ton of results and I'm finding a ton indie games I would otherwise lot have been interested before. Wish it had a hash#
Probably the best original shmup on the DS, or might even be the best shmup originally made for portable consoles (pre-switch) if it wasn’t for DariusBurst coming out that same year for the PSP.
Metal Torrent is a shmup STG by Arika released for Nintendo DSi in 2009. A nice DSiWare minigame by the creators of Ketsui Death Label for Nintendo DS.
For all Space Harrier fans (or any fans of On Rail Shooters really), we now have - ASURA THE STRIKER - demo available on Steam. The game looks and plays great. It comes with a personal recommendation.
Such a cool detail, the kind of thing that elevated Takatsuna Senba as a designer… for the uninitiated, you can destroy the boss by taking down the dam behind it so the water takes care of the enemy.
We're apparently getting Mushihimesama's first spin off ever thanks to G-MODE Archives, CAVE's 2004 『虫姫さま外伝 シンジュが森の迷い子』/ Mushihimesama Gaiden: Shinju ga Mori no Mayoigo. At price of 1500 yen (~12 USD), this is a cheap price for something that was considered lost
Due to the expiration of the license agreement for the Nintendo Switch version of “Mushihimesama”, sales of the downloadable version on the eshop will end on August 10, 2024 JST.
If you purchase “Mushihimesama”before sales end, you can redownload and play it even after delist.
Remember last year when GANABLADE came out of nowhere and gave many of us one of the best "COMPILE at home" experiences in a while?
Well... Turns out the Liao Kai Kai (LLK) is cooking a new RUN'N'GUN.
Take a look at G Warrior! (Link in replies)
I'm doing a deep dive on the developer from my most recent shmup obsession: GanaBlade, the COMPILE inspired
#STG
(link below)
Turns out the developer, Liao Kai Kai (LKK) is a Chinese developer who has some previous fangames he's worked on.
Life passes you by fast, I’m still young at 33 but it seems like yesterday when I was 28. Past few years have been quick, but a ton of good things have come out of it. All of the things that have happened with this account and the genre itself being one of those.
Vertical scrolling shoot’em up Super XYX blasts onto Nintendo Switch, PlayStation and Xbox platforms later this year! Are you a fan of the genre…?
(You know we are!)
GET A PREVIEW:
💥
It's still crazy to me that we keep getting new NES games, in a physical format, in the same vein as Recca '92.
On display,
@ls_create
's Over ObJ オーバーオブジェ running on an NES.
Fantastic game from LKK Games.
#GanaBlade
is a new shmup paying homage to COMPILE games such as
#GUNNAC
and
#ALESTE
games. It also homages Salamander, Dodonpachi and others. Difficulties from NORMAL to EX&RETRO (2Loop, No Shop, No Skills, Revenge Bullets)
"Progress Report NES-style shooting game XELANFORCE Developing full force for release on 11/23 (national holiday)! Here is a glimpse of the video of stage 3. Will they make it in time? Contents are subject to change without notice."
#ZeranForce
#RetroGameSummit
Happy New Year to all ship players, arcade enjoyers and otherwise people who follow this account. I hope you're having/had a great day/night with your family & friends. Let's make the best out of 2024 together.
@DominicTarason
It’s odd. On one hand I feel like I’m watching 80s Konami all over again with their tyrannical practices, on the other hand studios evolve and are absorbed… most people don’t know the same guy that directed Zelda Oracle games has been leading the franchise since PH. It’s weird.
Well, that's one way to make an entrance! Extremely hype trailer for this game -Rainchaser Scarlet-
Looks a like a very Chrono Trigger inspired intro to a shmup. Hopefully no inertia in gameplay. Let's see what this game brings.
Welcome to WEEKEND ZAKO RUSH, your Weekly
#STG
News Round-Up.
I will miss some news, take into account this was a 40-post thread already and all my work was lost due to lights going out on my apartment. Words cannot describe how angry I am, but I cannot leave this unattended.
BOOTH have announced that with the permission of
@shigatake
, the creator of the game, they'll be selling an assemble kit of Devilblade's own ship on BOOTH. *Unpainted and unassembled. Free instruction manual is available for download on the same store page
Once again
@de__baf
and
@ReOlifante
have pulled off an insane feat and done what M2 won't. Download the new Great Mahou Daisakusen (Dimahoo) M4 Gadgets for MAME. Please check Olifante's other reverse engineering projects (and use all the YGW game gadgets!)
#STG
#Shmups
Important news that seemed to slip off most people's radar...
#STG
/Shooting Game Builder, the coveted software to develop
#shmups
is coming to Steam with what seems like an apparent English translation.
I... Am unbelievably happy. Not a terrible S-tribute port but an excellent ACA port. Takatsuna Senba's legacy carries on. If you like Battle Garegga, Taito, Takatsuna Senba's work or simply want to marvel at how arcade game presentation & gameplay was evolved... You've got to.
What was once the face of the whole genre and possibly the most remembered traditional STG / Shmup there ever was, Raiden, is now a Twin Stick Shooter.
NGL, I like the idea of having the ships from all previous games like DBCS does, but... not like this
[Raging Blasters] is out! Inspired by Compile shooters like
#Aleste
and Hudson Soft's Soldier series,
#RagingBlasters
is a game you don't want to miss.
RT this for a chance to win a copy of the game! I'll pick a winner at random on Jan 24, 11:30 am EST
@OhPoorPup
If you knew how much the shmup communities have campaigned for this. There’s nothing more egregious to any of us than seeing people refer to arcade design as ‘quarter munching’ without understanding how more than 70% of modern game design principles come from…
I don’t want to sound doomer, but if you go far enough, this describes a ton of the old guard of shmup fandoms. I can even fall into it at times. Part of what I’ve seen in 3 years of doing this is described in this picture though.
From the
#WishlistWednesday
post from 2 days agop comes Schildmmaid MX. Finally on Steam with many new features not seen in the original release. Upcoming
#NintendoSwitch
release too, OST has a lot of work from Etrem of Bullet Heaven (YT show) fame. Ez recommendation.
DoDonPachi Resurrection, Espgaluda II, Mushihimesama, and Radiant Silvergun are headed your way! That's right, we will be releasing these four legendary games physically on Switch soon. Stay tuned for more information!
I guess it's time for Shout-out Tuesday. I just want to take some time to mention different content and content creators around
#STG
/
#Shmups
. I'll be covering formats and then link to said content creators, focusing on relatively new ones... here we go. 🧵👇/1
Yuzo Koshiro teasing a new game for
#MEGADRIVE
/
#SegaGenesis
at TGS, a completely new shmup with a new BGM by Yuzo using classic FM synths. Additional information will be available at TGS Happinet's booth on September 23rd.
Now this is a fun concept for co-op I haven’t seen in a while, similar to when you save your buddy in Cuphead, you can save your partner by approaching the spot where they died. I’d love to see this concept explored further, makes it more approachable to play with friends&family
#OperationHighJump
is another run-n-gun in the style of Metal Slug that has been in development for some time now after a successful Kickstarter campaign. Look forward to it if you enjoy run-n-gun games (anyone who follows this account knows I love run-n-guns as much as shmups).
#OperationHighjump-1094% funded on Kickstarter ´22
One of latam’s STG community leaders and lead of STGCvlt is uploading lossless WAV files for STG/Shmup OSTs on his YouTube channel. This is a project I can get behind.
#STG
#SHMUP
#OST
Acabo de crear una sección en el canal de stgcvlt para subir OST rippeados en WAV, con su visualizador y todo el álbum en un solo vídeo.
Cuéntenme que les parece, que les parece la calidad para seguir mejorando.
Lo pueden escuchar acá:
#shmup
#ost
Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads (on a Roku TV), such as displaying ads on the screen when a video game is paused
Pauses could be identified by grabbing frames of the video feed as well as monitoring the audio feed
@MercuryCDX
I despise that generation of gaming and if it wasn't for Platinum Games, FromSoft, Team Ninja, the Indie Game Boom and portables as a whole I would've quit gaming all together.
CAVE Inc. expands deficit with operating losses of 728 million yen in Q3, game sales halved, smartphone game production committee dissolved, Touhou Project licensed new game is under development as scheduled.
This is what I always tell you about...
#SaveCAVE
#BuyCAVE
#EnjoyCAVE
Back in the day, western shmup fans who wanted to use STG Builder to create the games they loved were faced with the reality of a lack of support and proper localization projects that people could use. 2 years ago, developer
@bulostudio
released SHMUP Creator, the rest is history
@DominicTarason
This isn’t a dig at you (I respect you a lot), but rather the topic at large… 85% of the world have no time or energy to subscribe to the political debacles of the western first world. Both extremes are poisonous and the gray areas are extinct (especially in social media).
I'm doing a deep dive on the developer from my most recent shmup obsession: GanaBlade, the COMPILE inspired
#STG
(link below)
Turns out the developer, Liao Kai Kai (LKK) is a Chinese developer who has some previous fangames he's worked on.
I still can’t remember the new name and always think of the old one but anyone who hasn’t yet played
#StarOfProvidence
should give it a shot. It’s one of the only 3 roguelite games I can enjoy. Unlike your usual run of the mill twin stick bullet hell roguelites, D-13 are real stg
@NintyPrime
You don’t need to go super deep, head over to LinkedIn and look at the people employed at Retri Studios, they’re mostly ex Arcane, ex Treyarch, ex Bioware, ex-Western AAA. This might be the most western Nintendo game ever, the most “Western AAA” and the most ambitious Metroid.
The perfect indie release 5 years in the making got ruined by EA releasing the new C&C collections, taking 15 spots from all top lists in the Steam store algorithm. If you like Megaman or Gunvolt, I suggest you play Berserk Boy and if you do enjoy it, please leave a review.
Fightcade has now added lobbies for Batsugun Special Edition, Darius Extra, and the Japan versions of Thunder Cross 1 and 2, for anyone who may be interested in coop play. These lobbies are for Fightcade 2. DDP and ESPRaDe also have lobbies.
Hey I've been postponing the (not so) weekly zako rush due to so many things happening in these last few days as well. I've been less active recently due to personal things to deal with (mostly job related) and the fact that... today is my birthday.
We are still a small niche, so much so that we can count the amounts of official info resources with our hands. This article must have take a long while to write
@SupercancelHGJ
, I’m glad you get to write about this on a reputable venue. Keep ‘em coming!
#STG
#Shmup
My first article for
@timeextension64
took me literally ages to complete. A brief history of CAVE and the Donpachi series. If you’re at all interested, please throw me a retweet. I’d appreciate the share. It was a labour of love!
#shmups
#stg
#gaming
Should also mention this is the first time the 3 screen version of Darius 2 is ever ported as far as I know. More reasons to be excited. Fantastic news!
Words cannot suffice to understand how much buzz
@ifc_srh
's Inbachi Clear is doing right now. Yahoo News for starters and now it even made Ikeda tweet again. You're a legend.
If you like shmups and have a
#NintendoSwitch
then you owe it to yourself to try Eigengrau. Possibly the shmup with most creativity poured in it in years. It oozes creativity in a way that will surprise you with every stage.
A love letter for the unreasonable passion behind shmup fandom. This has been a great video by
@electric_mini
/ Mark. A fantastic look at many of the notable community members in the shmupdom.
Oh dang, Tevi is out now. Successor to the cult hit bullet hell metroidvania Rabi-Ribi. It looks pretty neat.
Also, I think this fourth screenshot here might be the single highest concentration of Character Design I've ever seen in my life.
In a sea of Metroidvanias & Open Worlds games, I see a strong revival of Arcade games and console games from the 90s. I'll do a thread about this topic because I feel there's a lot to talk about. STG/Shmups, Belt Scrollers/Beat em ups, On-Rail Shooters/3D STG, 3D platformers, etc
OUT NOW! Rocket Knight Adventures: Re-sparked! is available NOW for Nintendo Switch™, PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, and PC via Steam®.
Learn more -
#RocketKnightAdventures
We updated Sophstar to version 1.11
* Fixed bug with level 5 background
* Fixed wrong frame animation showing when ship enters screen after losing a life
* Fixed bug with bonus pickups not awarding the right amount of points on Advanced score mode
* Added "nonsense" video filter
#好きなシューティング10あげて趣味を晒す TOP 10 FAVORITE Shmups (in no particular order)
DariusBurst CS
Darius Gaiden
Salamander/Life Force
Mushihimesama
Dangun Feveron
Armed Police Batrider
Touhou: Imperishable Night
ZeroRanger
Sonic Wings/Aero Fighters
DoDonpachi
#好きなシューティング10あげて趣味を晒す (10 shmups favoritos)
Gradius V
DariusBurst CS
G-Darius
R-Type Delta
Eliminate Down
Cambria Sword
Eschatos
Alltynex Second
Star Fox 64 (Lylat Wars)
RayStorm
Not entirely Shmup related but I figure most people interested in the genre would also like this. Developers of Indie Gem “Shinobi non Grata” have just announced a new mecha run n gun game called The Scramble Vice. SNG was a great indie hit this year, pretty sure TSV will be too.
Fantastic game in my opinion, been playing since yesterday and can't stop. Will appeal to both beginners and veterans, especially if they're fans of COMPILE games.
GanaBlade is a cool new indie shmup STG by Liao Kai LKK GAME released in 2023. Check it out if you like Compile and PC Engine shmups 🔗🧵👇
Gameplay by
@QuakedoomNukem
Do gallery shooters count as STG/Shmups? I’ll leave that debate to you but I want to highlight this game as
@ZenoviaLLC
is the dev of one of my favorite new fresh 2D action games in the past few years and this is looking amazing. You’ll be interested if you’ve played Wild Guns.
Another small preview of our next game NEON INFERNO! Play as a criminal in a future New York City, dodging and deflecting enemy fire between two simultaneous planes of side-view action. Steam page coming soon, follow us for updates!
#wip
#screenshotsaturday
#pixelart
#ドット絵
You know that I'm a fan of Takatsuna Senba's work. Today I want to celebrate the 29th Anniversary of
#MetalBlack
! (No official date, we only know it was November 1991). The game that defined what
#Darius
would become and the direction
@TaitoCorp
and
@grevUST
would develop
#STG
.