PCEngineFans.com - The PC Engine and TurboGrafx-16 Community Forum
NEC PC-Engine/SuperGrafx => PC Engine/SuperGrafx Discussion => Topic started by: fragmare on January 20, 2012, 01:16:40 AM
Title: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: fragmare on January 20, 2012, 01:16:40 AM
Okay, we did horizontal HuCard shmups, now it's time to do vertical HuCard shmups. :) I have a feeling I already know what game is going to run away with this one, but we'll do it anyway. You don't have to own the game to vote for it. If you've played it on an emulator or whatever, that's fine. Also, apparently, nobody can change their votes since I've edited the poll, so make it count.
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: Arkhan on January 20, 2012, 01:28:02 AM
That was hard. I can't pick between twinbee and dragon saber. I went with Dragon Saber.
dinosaurs and dragons kick ass.
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: fragmare on January 20, 2012, 01:32:03 AM
I went with Soldier Blade, the obvious choice. Though, I'll say I like Blazing Lazers nearly as much (yay for Compile games) and Raiden would be close if it weren't for that annoying checkpoint start-back crap. Instant respawns in shmups, please. :)
Oh yea, Detana! Twinbee's up there too. 1941 is good, but seems a little clunky to me. I was also pleasantly surprised by Burning Angels... I can see why it preceeded something awesome like Sapphire.
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: Arkhan on January 20, 2012, 01:36:24 AM
Twinbee is really awesome. I almost want to change my vote now. but, Dragon Saber is so good too.
SoldierBlade is definitely my favorite Soldiergame though.
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: Mishran on January 20, 2012, 01:39:50 AM
Xevious!
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: Tatsujin on January 20, 2012, 01:43:44 AM
And where is the most impressive of all vert shewties?:)
:edith:
Ah ok, hueys only :)
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: soop on January 20, 2012, 01:56:38 AM
Ooops... I picked soldier blade by mistake, I meant to pick Super Star Soldier. Out of all of them though, I've only got SSS, Final Soldier, Gunhed and Cyber Core. And I haven't even played Gunhed.
On that list, I do mean to get Twinbee, Dragon Spirit and Image Fight, maybe a 194x, but there's no point just yet. I haven't even played the SNES Twinbee I got last week.
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: fragmare on January 20, 2012, 01:59:15 AM
What the hell? If i edit the poll just once it makes it so no one can change their vote. :(
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: Arkhan on January 20, 2012, 02:00:33 AM
STOP EDITING HTE POLL YOU POLLSMOKER.
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: nodtveidt on January 20, 2012, 02:04:47 AM
Gunhed, no contest.
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: fragmare on January 20, 2012, 02:09:25 AM
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: Arkhan on January 20, 2012, 02:11:34 AM
mmm do it. i like it.
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: majors on January 20, 2012, 03:55:50 AM
Yeah, this one is hard...Only _one_ pick for "personal" fav? Well, had to go with B'Lazers for shear playtime I put into it. Final and Blade are right next to it (for the time attack mode!). I love me some Dragons and Winbees also, but gotta stick my "guns" (space shooters).
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: fragmare on January 20, 2012, 04:27:07 AM
Wow, if one guy hadn't misplaced his vote, Blazing Lazers would be in the lead right now. I'm tempted to restart the poll and not mess with it so the "change vote" option is still intact.
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: Necromancer on January 20, 2012, 05:35:42 AM
f*ck yeah, Soldier Blade! My second pick would be teh X.E.V.I.O.U.S., obviously.
P.S. - it's 1943 not 1942.
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: SignOfZeta on January 20, 2012, 05:38:07 AM
SSS
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: roflmao on January 20, 2012, 06:16:28 AM
I had to go with Blazing Lazers, though I think it's a tougher call than the horizontal shooters. All of the Soldier games are outstanding.
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: sunteam_paul on January 20, 2012, 06:21:50 AM
Super Star Soldier.
I hated shoot 'em ups before I played this game.
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: nectarsis on January 20, 2012, 06:32:19 AM
Some solid choices up there, but for me it's Soldier Blade VERY easily.
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: spenoza on January 20, 2012, 06:35:06 AM
Lots of excellent titles, but BL is my fave. It was my first on the system and it was the one I always went back to. It let you in nice and easy and then, in the later levels, it tried to eat your face.
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: ccovell on January 20, 2012, 10:10:40 AM
Metal Stoker is not a vertical shooter. It's overhead, but scrolls in every which direction, like arcade Assault. Will there be a poll for "misc/hybrid" shooters like Barunba, Kikikaikai, Metal Stoker, and Salamander? Er... well SideArms and Mr. Heli scroll vertically too... Space Invaders? You shoot "up" into the screen like Galaga '88.
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: TR0N on January 20, 2012, 06:18:32 PM
Voted for blazing lazers does that make me a compile whore :roll:
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: Samurai Ghost on January 20, 2012, 07:03:48 PM
Metal Stoker is not a vertical shooter. It's overhead, but scrolls in every which direction, like arcade Assault. Will there be a poll for "misc/hybrid" shooters like Barunba, Kikikaikai, Metal Stoker, and Salamander? Er... well SideArms and Mr. Heli scroll vertically too... Space Invaders? You shoot "up" into the screen like Galaga '88.
Yeah, I was about to say. Metal Stoker doesn't really belong here.
It was a tough choice between Soldier Blade and Gunhed but went with SB. Gunhed is a great game and I love it, but the majority of the game is so easy it almost gets boring after a while. Maybe I just played it too much?
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: fragmare on January 20, 2012, 08:32:07 PM
Removed Metal Stoker. Glad to see Blazing Lazers gettin so much love! :)
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: SignOfZeta on January 20, 2012, 09:13:19 PM
Wow, if one guy hadn't misplaced his vote, Blazing Lazers would be in the lead right now. I'm tempted to restart the poll and not mess with it so the "change vote" option is still intact.
nah, I wanted SSS
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: csgx1 on January 21, 2012, 05:59:38 AM
I've only played about 5 games on the list. Voted for Soldier Blade, which at this point puts it in the lead.
So Salamander is considered neither a vertical or a horizontal shooter?
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: fragmare on January 21, 2012, 06:04:59 AM
I'd say Salamander is a hybrid. It's kind of both, and it's kind of neither. To avoid complication, I left it off both polls.
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: thesteve on January 21, 2012, 06:18:53 AM
i only have 5 as well. went with BL, tho i would give IF a close second
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: fragmare on January 21, 2012, 06:29:53 AM
Wow, I thought Soldier Blade would take this poll down to China Town. Blazing Lazers is giving it all it wants and then some! :O
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: thesteve on January 21, 2012, 06:45:28 AM
i never played Soldier Blade
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: ccovell on January 21, 2012, 10:03:28 AM
Hard to believe Galaga 88/90 has not gotten more love! lol. Simple as it is, its my favorite for the system. I love it.
It's a great game, and Galaga is one of my all time favorite arcade games, but when I think of the Turbografx, I think of Blazing Lazers. That game impressed the crap out of me when it was released, and was one of the reasons I bought the system over the Genesis. :)
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: BuraiFighter on January 21, 2012, 12:20:41 PM
Always been a fan of the Dragon Spirit games but I love me some Twinbee, I haven't took Detana out my GT for months. I still need to pick up all the Soldier games though, so far I've only played Final Soldier.
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: lukester on January 21, 2012, 12:29:42 PM
I said 1943 Kai, but if Salamander was on the list, otherwise I would change my vote :dance:
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: TR0N on January 21, 2012, 10:54:03 PM
KYokrokrokouyauuauauauauauaakkakakak tiger is awesome.
It's worth getting for the helicopter take-off sound alone.
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: Arkhan on January 24, 2012, 06:07:15 AM
and the music!
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: fragmare on January 25, 2012, 01:32:21 AM
Jesus, Soldier Blade and Blazing Lazers are locked in eternal battle like arch enemies! :O
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: Arkhan on January 25, 2012, 01:49:23 AM
Brazing RAZERS
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: soop on January 25, 2012, 01:57:54 AM
I just ordered Dragon Sabre. Hopefully mine gets here...
Actually, I just remembered... I've actually wanted it for about 20 years, since I saw a screenshot on an Amiga advert. Although I think it was called Dragon Spirit on the Amiga.
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: Arkhan on January 25, 2012, 02:15:28 AM
Actually, I just remembered... I've actually wanted it for about 20 years, since I saw a screenshot on an Amiga advert. Although I think it was called Dragon Spirit on the Amiga.
Its called Dragon Spirit on the PC Engine too
Dragon Saber is the sequel. lol
Also, the Amiga sucks. :)
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: soop on January 25, 2012, 02:28:00 AM
Arghh!!! I BOUGHT THE WRONG GAME!!!
lol, sure it will be good anyway :D
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: Arkhan on January 25, 2012, 02:34:23 AM
it's awesome.
don't worry. :)
get Dragon Spirit next. It's a cheapie
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: soop on January 25, 2012, 02:46:07 AM
Oh. I just checked. that IS What I got. *facepalm* Well I guess I didn't realise there were two...
It's worth it for the soundtrack.
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: Bernie on January 28, 2012, 12:23:17 AM
Dragon Spirit and Saber are excellent. I still am partial to Galaga 88/90 though....call me retarded...
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: Samurai Ghost on January 28, 2012, 12:29:12 AM
Was hoping Kyuukyoku Tiger/Twin Cobra would get more love. It's such a great vertical shooter in all aspects and I've probably played it more than most games on the PCE. There's just something about it that makes you want to come back again and again until you one-credit the whole game. Easier said than done though! Such an awesome game but easy to overlook at first.
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: nodtveidt on January 28, 2012, 02:02:02 AM
I was actually tempted to vote for Tatsujin, since it's slightly more fun than Gunhed... but that could just be my sadistic side speaking.
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: Arkhan on January 28, 2012, 05:24:30 AM
Was hoping Kyuukyoku Tiger/Twin Cobra would get more love. It's such a great vertical shooter in all aspects and I've probably played it more than most games on the PCE. There's just something about it that makes you want to come back again and again until you one-credit the whole game. Easier said than done though! Such an awesome game but easy to overlook at first.
I almost voted for that. I srsly did. I love the game, and i also love tiger heri on NES. That game had sweet music.
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: roflmao on January 28, 2012, 12:58:52 PM
Was hoping Kyuukyoku Tiger/Twin Cobra would get more love. It's such a great vertical shooter in all aspects and I've probably played it more than most games on the PCE. There's just something about it that makes you want to come back again and again until you one-credit the whole game. Easier said than done though! Such an awesome game but easy to overlook at first.
I almost voted for that. I srsly did. I love the game, and i also love tiger heri on NES. That game had sweet music.
I agree, it's a great game. As is Tiger Heli on the NES. But I haven't played it a whole lot (yet) so maybe that's why I had to go with BL. I've been playing BL off and on for over 20 years, so that counts for something. :)
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: Digi.k on January 28, 2012, 01:54:50 PM
image fight.. FIGHT! FIIIIGGGGHHHHHTTTTTT!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: esteban on January 28, 2012, 04:45:41 PM
Got Dragon Spirit. It's a nice little game, and very fair. It does show it's age a bit though.
duh, its dragons and dinosaur stuff. its ancient.
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: soop on January 29, 2012, 09:49:34 PM
:D
I'm guessing it was one of the earlier releases though. Yeah, '88. It would be nice to have some kind of pop-up timeline for the PC Engine that works a bit like the dock thing on OSX.
Title: Re: Now, vote for your favorite VERTICAL shmup HuCard!
Post by: rag-time4 on February 01, 2012, 10:20:58 AM
I thought Soldier Blade was pretty boring overall... If SB and Blazing Lazers were the last two shooters on earth i would put most of my time into Lazers