God i hate this term but, whats your favorite "cute- em' up?"

[esteban]

Keio Flying Turd is worse than Turrican. Get over it, folks.

Now, a real cute-em-up like Toilet Kids flushes Keio Flying Turd down where it belongs.

[lukester]

Parodius Da is still fantastic.

I've only beat Fantasy Zone on PC Engine. The turtle boss in the Master System version is impossible.

Fantasy Zone II is way too hard, with very long levels.

[Black Tiger]

Star Parodier excells as fan service, which celebrates the PC Engine and Hudson Soft instead of just trying to be wacky or funny. The game content is rock solid, even if it isn't too difficult or cheap. Being a great tech demo, doing so many of the "impossible on PCE" things which so many PCE games do, is just a nice bonus.

[InfraMan]

My favorite will always be Keio Flying Squadron on Sega CD. Everything about that game just clicks for me... the art style, the music, the characters, the gameplay. It all comes together into a big 'ol ball of happy times!

WERE IN A PC ENGINE SUBFORUM. STOP THIS NONSENSERYYYYYY

Never, sir! I will defend Keio until my dying breath. Have at you!

We should settle this with a fiddle contest!  

[MrBroadway]

You can defend it in console chat. 

[Necromancer]

Somebody sell me a Star Parodier, dammit!  It's also one of my favorites (duh, it's on the easy side), but I sadly don't own a real copy yet.

[Gredler]

I grew up playing Fantasy Zone and have not played a better version elsewhere on actual hardware - the SMS and NES versions were a major disappointment when played after the PCE version (I played it on Turbo back in the day.) I've never played it in arcades, so I can't compare to that, nor any of the spinoff/sequels.

PC Denjin has been a amazing blast since I've picked it up about a month ago. I've played through to King Drool but have yet to defeat him on the easiest difficulty - a shameful welp of a rookie I may be, I still enjoy it

I would say if you have not picked up either of those, you wont be disappointed. I had my copy of Fantasy Zone stolen in middle school, but I will hopefully replace it eventually as I have with the rest of my turbo games.

[esteban]

I grew up playing Fantasy Zone and have not played a better version elsewhere on actual hardware - the SMS and NES versions were a major disappointment when played after the PCE version (I played it on Turbo back in the day.) I've never played it in arcades, so I can't compare to that, nor any of the spinoff/sequels.

PC Denjin has been a amazing blast since I've picked it up about a month ago. I've played through to King Drool but have yet to defeat him on the easiest difficulty - a shameful welp of a rookie I may be, I still enjoy it

I would say if you have not picked up either of those, you wont be disappointed. I had my copy of Fantasy Zone stolen in middle school, but I will hopefully replace it eventually as I have with the rest of my turbo games.

Yes, Fantasy Zone is a game that you can probably trade for here (or get it cheap)...start a WTB/WTT thread and see what happens.

PC Denjin =

[Gredler]

I grew up playing Fantasy Zone and have not played a better version elsewhere on actual hardware - the SMS and NES versions were a major disappointment when played after the PCE version (I played it on Turbo back in the day.) I've never played it in arcades, so I can't compare to that, nor any of the spinoff/sequels.

PC Denjin has been a amazing blast since I've picked it up about a month ago. I've played through to King Drool but have yet to defeat him on the easiest difficulty - a shameful welp of a rookie I may be, I still enjoy it

I would say if you have not picked up either of those, you wont be disappointed. I had my copy of Fantasy Zone stolen in middle school, but I will hopefully replace it eventually as I have with the rest of my turbo games.

Yes, Fantasy Zone is a game that you can probably trade for here (or get it cheap)...start a WTB/WTT thread and see what happens.

PC Denjin =

Thanks Esteban, I will certainly reach out to the community when I am ready to pick it up. For now it's so much fun experiencing all that I had missed with the other games I've tried, and I've flooded my backlog with titles thanks to threads like this and a trigger finger on ebay, that I am forcing myself into a "play what I got" freeze. Fantasy Zone on TGPC16E - great game!

[seieienbu]

Gonna have to go with Cotton as it's the game in this genre that I've played the most.

[Pokun]

Star Parodier excells as fan service, which celebrates the PC Engine and Hudson Soft instead of just trying to be wacky or funny. The game content is rock solid, even if it isn't too difficult or cheap. Being a great tech demo, doing so many of the "impossible on PCE" things which so many PCE games do, is just a nice bonus.

The problem is that it does try to be funny and fails doing so. Or maybe I just expected it be to Star Soldier that Parodius is to Gradius. The PC Engine character is funny and some bosses but mostly it's just cute not funny.

On a side not it is incredibly easy on easy mode. I suck at shoot em ups and I still didn't loose a life until the final stage the first time I played. I died a lot on the mother brain but you get so many extra lives so there's no risk for Game Over. Graphically it's brilliant!

[Jinxed]

Hana taka daka(long nose goblin) is another cool cute em up.

[munchiaz]

There are a lot of great ones on the PCE. Star Parodier is really fun and cute. But a bit easy. I really enjoy the snake boss, when he yells out "yellow snake...come on, redo snake....come on".
Cotton is really good, and its a good challenge. I haven't beaten this one yet.
Can't for get Air Zonk. One of the best cute em ups ever

[Grandiloquence]

So far only played Twinbee. Unless Rabio Lepus counts? Just been trying to get past the first level. Damn this game is hard!

[esteban]

Ha! I feel like there is never a bad time to promote this:

Horizontal cute-em-ups:
http://archives.tg-16.com/complete_list_of_tg16_pce_shooters.htm?col=type&val=hc

Vertical cute-em-ups:
http://archives.tg-16.com/complete_list_of_tg16_pce_shooters.htm?col=type&val=vc


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To be fair to nullity, I am guilty of promoting my stuff long before he arrived here