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Title: Vote for your favorite horizontal shmup HuCard!
Post by: fragmare on January 08, 2012, 10:21:30 AM
If I've missed any, let me know.  Some games on here are kind of stretching the bounds of shmupdom (Mr. Heli, Veigues) but I'll include them anyway.  I didn't include Salamander, as it has vertical stages.
Title: Re: Vote for your favorite horizontal shmup HuCard!
Post by: Black Tiger on January 08, 2012, 11:24:50 AM
Aeroblasters
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Post by: roflmao on January 08, 2012, 11:38:32 AM
I think I'm going to have to go with Air Zonk.  Aeroblasters is a close second in my book.  And for nostalgia's sake, R-Type gets an honorable mention for getting me hooked on the system in the first place.  But overall, Air Zonk wins it for me.

Great poll, btw!
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Post by: BlueBMW on January 08, 2012, 11:52:26 AM
Aeroblasters and Air Zonk are definitely good, but Parodius Da! takes the cake for me.
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Post by: fragmare on January 08, 2012, 11:52:56 AM
I had to go with Aldynes.  R-Type and Parodius are pretty close, and Aeroblasters is great 2-player fun, but Aldynes just has this original, hardcore, gritty feel to it that I love.  It almost feels like a spiritual precursor to Gate Of Thunder and some of the same people worked on both games, iirc.  R-Type flickers a bit too much so that it affects the gameplay a little bit, and Parodius and Air Zonk are awesome but I've never been a big fan of cute-em-ups.  The no-gravity levels in Aeroblasters kind of drag it down, for me.
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Post by: Mishran on January 08, 2012, 01:05:41 PM
I have to go with Air Zonk. Aeroblasters is a close second.
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Post by: Tatsujin on January 08, 2012, 03:30:37 PM
Since there is no multiple choice, I have to stick with R-Type :)
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Post by: spenoza on January 08, 2012, 04:04:17 PM
AeroBlasters did it for me. The only think I didn't like about that game was the flicker, something Chris C. could probably resolve with a SuperGrafx upgrade similar to what he's got in the works for R-Type.
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Post by: SMF on January 08, 2012, 04:05:29 PM
R-Type for me, Air Zonk is a close 2nd.
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Post by: nectarsis on January 08, 2012, 04:07:58 PM
Parodius Da!, followed by Air Zonk, Aldynes, and Veigues Tactical Gladiator.
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Post by: andrew23 on January 08, 2012, 05:07:15 PM
I'd have to say Aero Blasters, I really like this one.
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Post by: Keranu on January 08, 2012, 06:21:33 PM
I voted Saint Dragon just because I don't expect it to get any votes, plus I think it's a cool game. 8)
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Post by: fragmare on January 08, 2012, 08:07:49 PM
Who the hell voted for W-Ring?  lol
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Post by: munchiaz on January 08, 2012, 08:16:30 PM
air zonk for me.
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Post by: Tatsujin on January 08, 2012, 08:17:30 PM
Who the hell voted for W-Ring?  lol

It's not such a baddie :)
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Post by: Keranu on January 08, 2012, 08:31:46 PM
I thought about voting W-Ring, I kinda like that one too.
Title: Re: Vote for your favorite horizontal shmup HuCard!
Post by: PunkicCyborg on January 08, 2012, 09:07:11 PM
Parodius Da! or GTFO
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Post by: SignOfZeta on January 08, 2012, 09:12:43 PM
You missed Hanatakadaka!? so I'll vote when that gets added to the poll.

Failing that, Aeroblasters.
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Post by: Keranu on January 08, 2012, 09:17:33 PM
You missed Hanatakadaka!? so I'll vote when that gets added to the poll.
Ooooh good one! That just might get my vote too.

Would Genji Tsushin Agedama count as a horizontal shooter? Same sort of league as Veigues.
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Post by: Samurai Ghost on January 08, 2012, 09:47:24 PM
PC Denjin/Air Zonk for me. One of my top games for the PC Engine. Love the gameplay, graphics, music, sound, characters, everything! Perfection!!
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Post by: Necromancer on January 09, 2012, 03:26:16 AM
I voted for Air Zonk with Dead Moon a close second.

You missed Hanatakadaka!?

I don't see Gokuraku Chuka Taisen either, though I'm sure nobody is clamoring to vote for it.
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Post by: Gogan on January 09, 2012, 05:57:30 AM
The lost sunheart...I like to slay angry babies!!
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Post by: PunkicCyborg on January 09, 2012, 06:33:28 AM
The lost sunheart...I like to slay angry babies!!
that was probably my runner up, it's a really weird and funky shooter!
Title: Re: Vote for your favorite horizontal shmup HuCard!
Post by: esteban on January 09, 2012, 01:41:04 PM
Since the horizontal shooting stage from BRAVOMAN was shamefully omitted from this list, I'll have to vote with my heart.

(http://www.wolfgames.com/pcerockon.jpg)
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Post by: thesteve on January 09, 2012, 01:51:21 PM
i had to vote dead moon, tho i havent played much of the list
Title: Re: Vote for your favorite horizontal shmup HuCard!
Post by: Samurai Ghost on January 09, 2012, 02:08:20 PM
Since the horizontal shooting stage from BRAVOMAN was shamefully omitted from this list, I'll have to vote with my heart.

(http://www.wolfgames.com/pcerockon.jpg)


Since the horizontal shooting stage from BRAVOMAN was shamefully omitted from this list, I'll have to vote with my heart.

(http://www.wolfgames.com/pcerockon.jpg)


:head explodes:
Title: Re: Vote for your favorite horizontal shmup HuCard!
Post by: spenoza on January 09, 2012, 03:12:55 PM
Nobody for Coryoon, eh? I guess Air Zonk was a slightly better game using that engine.
Title: Re: Vote for your favorite horizontal shmup HuCard!
Post by: henrycsc on January 09, 2012, 03:15:29 PM
Hana Taka Daka needs to be added.  Great game, but beat out by others.
Air Zonk is superb, so it's got my vote.
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Post by: roflmao on January 09, 2012, 03:37:26 PM
Nobody for Coryoon, eh? I guess Air Zonk was a slightly better game using that engine.

Coryoon is one of those games I'd really like to get, but it looks so similar to Air Zonk I've held out so far.  One of these days I'm sure I'll pick it up and I'll probably love it. :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Vote for your favorite horizontal shmup HuCard!
Post by: fragmare on January 09, 2012, 04:57:59 PM
Added: Hanatakadaka! and Gokuraku!
Title: Re: Vote for your favorite horizontal shmup HuCard!
Post by: RegalSin on January 09, 2012, 04:59:45 PM
They are all pretty nice, to play it just depends on your skill level.

You have Magical Chase on that list but not Burning Angels???? Did you know that game has an built in Vertical mode, unlike other games you have to press the buttons in a specific order in order to use verticle mode. It feels like a real arcade when I see that screen strech.
Title: Re: Vote for your favorite horizontal shmup HuCard!
Post by: SignOfZeta on January 09, 2012, 05:07:53 PM
RegalSin - My favorite new member of 2011.

Seriously, I love this guy.
Title: Re: Vote for your favorite horizontal shmup HuCard!
Post by: nectarsis on January 09, 2012, 05:16:38 PM
How could I forget about Hanatakadaka! awesome game
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Post by: rag-time4 on January 09, 2012, 05:59:17 PM
Since there is no multiple choice, I have to stick with R-Type :)
I felt exactly teh same way! Can we please have like 4-5 extra votes?

I would like to cast a vote for Barunba aka "Spriggan Killer"
Title: Re: Vote for your favorite horizontal shmup HuCard!
Post by: Arkhan on January 09, 2012, 06:43:46 PM
I went with Coryoon because the music is extremely fun, the colors make me happy, and the game makes me go =3

I also <3 Aldynes and Rabio Lepus.
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Post by: Tatsujin on January 09, 2012, 08:32:36 PM
Since there is no multiple choice, I have to stick with R-Type :)
I felt exactly teh same way! Can we please have like 4-5 extra votes?

I would like to cast a vote for Barunba aka "Spriggan Killer"

lol, why is barunba a spriggan killler?
Title: Re: Vote for your favorite horizontal shmup HuCard!
Post by: TR0N on January 09, 2012, 08:44:10 PM
Air Zonk all the way man

Runner ups
Hanatakadaka
Magical Chase
Coryoon
Title: Re: Vote for your favorite horizontal shmup HuCard!
Post by: Arkhan on January 10, 2012, 12:27:10 AM
RegalSin - My favorite new member of 2011.

Seriously, I love this guy.

my guess is his TV fell over.
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Post by: geise on January 10, 2012, 12:57:55 AM
Hehe...and on his head. 

It was very hard for me but I voted for Air Zonk.  It was a tough choice between  Air Zonk, Aero Blasters, R-Type, and Coryoon.  I went with what I play the most.  It might've  been Coryoon if I owned it.  :cry:  One of these days...
Title: Re: Vote for your favorite horizontal shmup HuCard!
Post by: Necromancer on January 10, 2012, 01:16:58 AM
You have Magical Chase on that list but not Burning Angels???? Did you know that game has an built in Vertical mode, unlike other games you have to press the buttons in a specific order in order to use verticle mode. It feels like a real arcade when I see that screen strech.

Just what every good horizontal shootie should have - verticality.
Title: Re: Vote for your favorite horizontal shmup HuCard!
Post by: Arkhan on January 10, 2012, 01:28:22 AM
You have Magical Chase on that list but not Burning Angels???? Did you know that game has an built in Vertical mode, unlike other games you have to press the buttons in a specific order in order to use verticle mode. It feels like a real arcade when I see that screen strech.

Just what every good horizontal shootie should have - verticality.

Like I said duder, his TV fell over!

Title: Re: Vote for your favorite horizontal shmup HuCard!
Post by: RegalSin on January 10, 2012, 01:43:35 AM
Or maybe I am one of those techno hoars, who just tilted his display panel.
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Post by: Arkhan on January 10, 2012, 01:48:33 AM
Or maybe I am one of those techno hoars, who just tilted his display panel.

That's the professional way of saying your TV fell over.

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Post by: geise on January 10, 2012, 02:38:34 AM
Regalsin, you know Burning Angels is a vertical shooter and this is the survey of horizontal shooter? You know what you mean by vertical?  This is a very serious question indeed.
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Post by: RegalSin on January 10, 2012, 04:01:32 AM
 :roll:Vertical is the position my joystick stays after seeing a woman with a big pair of handwarmers, and hair that over shadows the moon.
Title: Re: Vote for your favorite horizontal shmup HuCard!
Post by: Arkhan on January 10, 2012, 05:03:05 AM
:roll:Vertical is the position my joystick stays after seeing a woman with a big pair of handwarmers, and hair that over shadows the moon.



i loled.
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Post by: fragmare on January 11, 2012, 10:48:01 PM
Wow, Air Zonk ran away with it.  I would have expected something more serious like R-Type to take it, honestly.  BTW, who's the other person who voted for Aldynes?  You, my friend, are a kindred spirit! :D
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Post by: Tatsujin on January 11, 2012, 11:08:02 PM
Yeah, and R-Type is far 2nd :)
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Post by: soop on January 12, 2012, 12:00:41 AM
PC Denjin for me :D  Loved it since I saw it in a magazine all those years ago!
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Post by: roflmao on January 12, 2012, 12:09:28 AM
I'm a little surprised Magical Chase isn't getting more love.  Perhaps the 2 people that voted for it are the only 2 on the forums that actually have it? :D
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Post by: Arkhan on January 12, 2012, 12:32:11 AM
Air Zonk isn't even that good.  It gets boring.

Coryoon is the same game with dragons and fruit.

I love fruits.
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Post by: IRuu on January 12, 2012, 01:09:48 AM
I love R-type but yeah I'm kinda surprised R-type didn't take this. Still need to get through Air Zonk though -_-
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Post by: soop on January 12, 2012, 03:44:21 AM
Air Zonk isn't even that good.  It gets boring.

Coryoon is the same game with dragons and fruit.

I love fruits.

NOOOOO!!!!

I think Air Zonk is one of the less boring shooters.  The partnerships mix it up at least; I get sick of the shooters that require you to memorize which power-ups to collect/never die (like Super Aeleste).  Nothing fun about taking on a boss with a pea shooter.
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Post by: Black Tiger on January 12, 2012, 04:45:19 AM
I'm a little surprised Magical Chase isn't getting more love.  Perhaps the 2 people that voted for it are the only 2 on the forums that actually have it? :D

It's a single favorite game poll. I love Magical Chase, but there are so many great horizontal shooters for PC Engine that it isn't my favorite above all else.

No other HuCard shooter has affected me the way Aeroblasters has from the first time I played it. The Genesis and arcade versions are cool games, but there is something special about the Turbo version that makes it so much more than the sum of its parts.


I wonder what percentage of the games in the poll the average voter has actually played? I'm guessing that Air Zonk is also the most played game in the list.
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Post by: Mathius on January 12, 2012, 03:47:27 PM
Hard choice. Went with Download. Love me some cyberpunk!

Parodius Da! would have been a close 2nd.
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Post by: Arkhan on January 12, 2012, 04:08:33 PM
Hard choice. Went with Download. Love me some cyberpunk!

Parodius Da! would have been a close 2nd.

downroad is teh SHITZ
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Post by: Mathius on January 12, 2012, 04:11:41 PM
Hard choice. Went with Download. Love me some cyberpunk!

Parodius Da! would have been a close 2nd.

downroad is teh SHITZ

Yes sir it is! :D
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Post by: Mishran on January 12, 2012, 04:23:53 PM
People have great taste in shooters on here. You pimps are awesome! Cheerz! :clap:
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Post by: fragmare on January 12, 2012, 05:09:24 PM
I'm a little surprised Magical Chase isn't getting more love.  Perhaps the 2 people that voted for it are the only 2 on the forums that actually have it? :D

Well you don't have to own the game to vote for it.  I've only ever played most of these games on an emulator, but Aldynes still takes the cake, for me.
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Post by: Arkhan on January 13, 2012, 02:18:30 AM
I've played every game on this list, and Im not a big fan of horizontal shooters really.

it takes alot to really like one.  

Why wasn't paranoia on there? It's my favorite of favorites.

and, Mr. Heli barely counts.  That game's totally different,and awesome!
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Post by: Necromancer on January 13, 2012, 03:15:39 AM
Why wasn't paranoia on there? It's my favorite of favorites.

It is on there.  Laerns to raede annd googelerin fro comptenest!
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Post by: Arkhan on January 13, 2012, 03:19:13 AM
oh. im retarded. I read too fast and saw Ps and skipped onward.
WHOOPSIEDOODLES.

i change vote nao

ok wait, Fagmare didn't set it up to allow vote changes

WAY TO GO. jerk.
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Post by: fragmare on January 13, 2012, 06:14:25 AM
oh. im retarded. I read too fast and saw Ps and skipped onward.
WHOOPSIEDOODLES.

i change vote nao

ok wait, Fagmare didn't set it up to allow vote changes

WAY TO GO. jerk.

What?  I'm sure i checked that option when i created this poll.  :/
Maybe it's because I added two games after I created the poll.
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Post by: ddd1234 on January 15, 2012, 11:25:17 AM
Sinistron
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Post by: HercTNT on January 15, 2012, 11:54:09 AM
Air zonk is my favorite. 
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Post by: lukester on January 15, 2012, 01:10:44 PM
I personally would have gone for 1943 Kai(Original Stages!! :D). Though, out of all the choices, I picked Mr. Heli. I got it with my original system, and have loved it to this day. Parodius is great, but honestly, the SNES version is better, is is way too solw for me. Air Zonk is amazing, but something feels missing ](*,). Aeroblasters is great, but too hard. Obey PC Engine! :twisted:
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Post by: esteban on January 16, 2012, 02:25:07 PM
I don't get this fawning over Air Zonk.

I love the game, but others are more worthy of being a proper shooter.

:)
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Post by: soop on January 16, 2012, 11:41:35 PM
I don't get this fawning over Air Zonk.

I love the game, but others are more worthy of being a proper shooter.

:)

I'd say that for a system arguably overloaded with shooters, Air Zonk is very accessable and innovative, plus it uses some neat hardware tricks, and is very polished.
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Post by: Arkhan on January 17, 2012, 12:39:47 AM
oh. im retarded. I read too fast and saw Ps and skipped onward.
WHOOPSIEDOODLES.

i change vote nao

ok wait, Fagmare didn't set it up to allow vote changes

WAY TO GO. jerk.

What?  I'm sure i checked that option when i created this poll.  :/
Maybe it's because I added two games after I created the poll.


DID YOU CHECK THE BOX AGAIN FAGLER
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Post by: Terminarcade on January 17, 2012, 03:30:12 AM
Voted of Download, just a personal fav of mine.