Favorite Shmup Developer? (Past or Present)

[J2d]

Pretty much, some nice tunes and decent atmosphere here and there though.

[arjue]

I played Batrider again last night. Fuck i'm shit at that game, but I totally love it.

[Shou]

some family trees...

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Irem -------------------> SNK
Taito ------------------> G rev
Video System ----------> Psikyo

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TOA PLAN
--------> Gazelle ---> Cave
--------> Takumi
--------> Cave

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Compile ----> Raizing ---------> Cave
KID -------->

[Tain]

Is the second Cave under Toaplan a typo? I thought Raizing branched from Toaplan.

[Crafter]

Treasure, Cave, Raizing.

[Frogacuda]

Is the second Cave under Toaplan a typo? I thought Raizing branched from Toaplan.

Yeah, Razing has a lot more in common with Toaplan than Compile. They only picked up 2 or 3 minor players from Compile.

[bVork]

Raizing's explosion style, bomb shard system, and psychotic ranking are all taken from Taito's Gun Frontier. Shinobu Yagawa also previously worked on Recca for Famicom, which has a lot of Raizing elements like medal chaining, the aura charge, and weapons similar to the kind that show up in later games.

As for my favourite developers, tough to say. I'd have to go with Toaplan. I love Twin Cobra and Fire Shark and Batsugun.

I really hate chaining scoring systems, so I have never been enamoured with Cave's games. Taito's RayForce and G-Darius are awesome, but most of their other shooters are pretty poor. Compile levels put me to sleep. Raizing's rank drives me nuts and their games have some of the most obtuse scoring systems on the planet. I can see G.Rev and Triangle Service going places, but each company has only two shooters to their name so I can't really point to them as consistently excellent developers yet.

[Low]

Speaking of G.Rev, their next work should be unveiled this week or so. *-neo

[Shou]

Yeah, Razing has a lot more in common with Toaplan than Compile. They only picked up 2 or 3 minor players from Compile.

Garegga was developed by main heads from Compile (Musha Aleste) and KID (Recca).

[Frogacuda]

The main heads of compile stayed at Compile until the end, as far as I know. The people that went to Raizing were new guys from the MUSHA team that never worked on the older Aleste games, if I recall correctly.