Toaplan 2 arcade hardware.Isn't that what Dogyunn, Truxton 2, Batsugun, and all of Raizings games(apart from Souky) run on?
shmuppet
Supergun/JAMMA.
Not counting conversions of arcade games, the PC-Engine family gets my vote for fave home system(s).
Parodius series Scoreboards - Oh teh insanity
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Toaplan 2 arcade hardware.
light from a dead star
I am a shmup noob. I own more shmups for Dreamcast than any other console and I have enjoyed them more, so that's my pick.
I enjoy modern shmups more than Genny/PCE ones. There are a bunch of Saturn/PS1-2 shmups I want to get and that could sway me eventually.
The Dro
Saturn.
This genre arguing is another reason I refuse to use the term "shmups". Back when they were called by their perfectly fine original name of shooters, rail shooters like Space Harrier could be spoke of in the same sentence. Why did everyone have to follow ECM like the pied piper and rename the genre? I know he didn't invent the term but it seems like he popularized it.
adventurous ball in giddy maze
I picked "shmup" up from Malc of Shmups.com fame. I think people felt the need for a different term for the genre since "shooter" had been usurped by FPS and such.
There's no reason you can't still use shooter to mean shmups, run'n'gun, and Space Harrier-like games. At least on this forum, people would understand what you meant.
Conus nussatella
The problem is that since the advent of Doom, the term "shooter" has come to mean so many different things. Now, flight sims, various platformers, FPSes, gun games, etc. It's tough to differentiate between them without having dedicated vocabulary for each. "2D shooter" works fine, but "shmup" is easier to type.Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater
I didn't pick up the term from ECM either. Actually, this is the first time I've heard of him being given credit for it. I suppose he used to hang out at the Shmups website at the time, so it's not surprising, yeah?
Mind you, "shmup" is a ridiculous sounding word when spoken out loud, so I only use it in writing.
I do wish the term "corridor game" stuck for the FPS genre to make things less confusing. I didn't mean to imply that everyone using the term "shmup" is copying ECM but it just seems like it stuck because of him. Back at GameGO! he mentioned the term originating in the C64 mag Zzap.
Elite Gamer
Even before Doom and all the 3D mucked things up, people were misusing the term "shooter"...for example I remember people calling games like Contra or Ikari Warriors "shooters"...
Right, because if anything validates the existance of a handheld piece of shit, it's taking those shitty handheld games and placing them on a screen big enough so that the inherent flaws of the software is visible to all humans. Including Ray Charles.
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