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

[bullethell666]

Been filling up on shooters lately and wanted to pick one up. Any suggestions? Twin Bee is pretty fun and cheap as well. Also, how many titles are there all together?

[MrBroadway]

No idea about total numbers, but I've had fun with Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams. My wife likes it, too.

[Jibbajaba]

Does Fantasy Zone count as a Cute-em-Up?  If so, then that.

Or Fantasy Zone II...

[Black Tiger]

There's got to be at least a hundred of them for consoles.

Some of my favorite include:

Fantasy Zone II SMS
Super Fantasy Zone
Keio Flying Squadron
Star Parodier
Magical Chase Turbo
Air Zonk

[WoodyXP]

My favorite is "Jikkyō Oshaberi Parodius" .

Honorable Mentions:

Sexy Parodius
Star Parodier

[schweaty]

some of these aren't cheap, but here's a few:

Star Parodier
Parodius Da
Air Zonk (PC Denjin)
Super Air Zonk (CD Denjin)
Cotton
Magical Chase
Coryoon
Ordyne
Fantasy Zone
Mr. Heli
Cloud Master

[esteban]

L-Dis (not really)

I love too many cute-me-ups....Parodius (series) is so charming (so many little details).

Stinger (NES) was the first one I ever owned, I think...so, that gets a special mention.

Fantasy Zone was first one I ever played, though.  Hmmmm....I think it must have been.




UPDATE:

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


Brought to you by the nullity school of self-promotion

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

[wildfruit]

I only have one. Ordyne. So I'll say ordyne.
I did rent fantasy zone for master system back in the day though. Very enjoyable.

[PunkicCyborg]

cotton

[Jibbajaba]

If you guys haven't tried 3D Fantasy Zone II for the 3DS, you should.

[Pokun]

Sexy Parodius and Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius are my favourites. All Parodius games are great shooters with fantastic humour.

Star Parodier is cool and have great graphics but I expected it to have as hilarious jokes as the Parodius series has and was a bit disappointed. Not a bad shooter or anything though.

[MotherGunner]

Coryoon and Star Parodier for me!

[ClodBuster]

All the Parodius games on the PlayStation, with more emphasis on Gokujou Parodius
and Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius, and less on Parodius Da and Sexy Parodius.

I like Star Parodier. And Pop 'N Twinbee.

I did try to like the other Twinbee games on the PS1, but I couldn't really get into them, which is on the one hand due to their high difficulty, and on the other hand due the bell power-up system that I have a hard time with.

I remember having played Fantasy Zone on the Game Gear twenty years ago, but I can't really judge it.

[EvilEvoIX]

Keio Flying Squadron for me, Sega CD Goodness!

[Digi.k]

My favorite is "Jikkyō Oshaberi Parodius" .

Sexy Parodius

some of these aren't cheap, but here's a few:
Parodius Da
Magical Chase
Ordyne

My faves too.  Also Cotton 2 is beautiful to look at andddd Three Wonders.

Game Tengoku, Twin Bee Yahho and Prikura Daisakusen on the Sega saturn also have cute and colorful graphics.