Favorite Shmup Developer? (Past or Present)

Zun's Touhou makes me happy that someone is still persuing this genre
Treasure's Ikaruga and Radiant Silvergun are just classic.
Taito's Psyvariar 2 however was just something totally new for me.

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Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater

Aicom has done games that weren't for SNK, too. CRV's old thread at digitpress has some investigation on the developer.
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/show...ighlight=aicom

http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Aicom

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Thanks for the info. I didn't realize Aicom had such a history.

This is really interesting. Whatever actually made up Yumekobo it deserves mention in this thread for the awesome Blazing Star:

http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/images...mflowchart.gif

http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index....mflowchart.gif

It is really hard to say. I like most of them.

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Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater

Aicom has done games that weren't for SNK, too. CRV's old thread at digitpress has some investigation on the developer.
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/show...ighlight=aicom

http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Aicom

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That was interesting. Never knew that much about Aicom really.

Didn't know all those basketball games were theirs.

And apparently, they made a Blaster Master game. *shrug*

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Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me

I like shooters that focus more on long, elaborate levels than boss fights, which I guess auto-nominates Psikyo and Compile for me. I haven't played much of Eighting/Raizing's library; so far I like the three Kuru Kuru Kururin games more than any of their shooter offerings. My resume is also pretty thin on Toaplan experience outside of Truxton 2 and Batsugun. Any other Toaplan recommendations?

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The levels are a bit short, but invest in Fire Shark. Excellent, difficult game with cool weapons: red laser whip ftw.
Also try Hellfire: you use the B button to change weapon direction from forward, backward, up and down, and the 4 diagonals.

Those were the Genesis/Megadrive ones, haven't exactly played the arcade ones.

Dogyuun is a good toaplan shmup

I miss Technosoft. :(

Taito and Toaplan are my favs. I just can't get into the bullet hell twitch games that dominate the genre today. I prefer the slower, old school style of games like Fire Shark and Truxton.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

19XX is the only Capcom shmup that holds up all that well.

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I haven't played it in quite some time, but I really liked U.N. Squadron.

Raizing, because Batrider is fucking nuts.

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Originally Posted by Rem

Now that I think about it taito and irem are tied, as layer section and darius gaiden can not be denied.

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Layer Section is one of my all time favorites. I don't know what it is? Perhaps it's the great soundtrack, or the old school sprite scaling? Either way, it's an all around great game!

Earlier tonight I revisted ZanacNeo and was surprised how much fun it is.
Compile definately had a midas touch.

Overall my list might be something like this:
G-Rev
Treasure
Compile
Seibu Kaihatsu
ChoRenSha dude
Triangle Service
Taito
Toaplan
Aicom
Psikyo
Raizing
Konami
Cave
Technosoft
Irem
Video System
Namco
Nihon Bussan
Atari

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Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater

Aicom has done games that weren't for SNK, too. CRV's old thread at digitpress has some investigation on the developer.
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/show...ighlight=aicom

http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Aicom

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Thanks for that link. I remembered the name Aicom in regards to Pulstar, but hadn't realized they also did Viewpoint. Freakin' badassed!