SHMUPS! aka 2D Scrolling Shoot-em-ups. Shmups.com is dedicated to this classic genre, from ancient history (Space Invaders,
Tempest) to grandfather games (
R-Type II,
1941) to golden age shmups (
Tyrian,
Blazing Star) to modern classics (
Radiant Silvergun,
Mars Matrix,
Ikaruga). Most aren't for the PC, unfortunately, but that's what
Mame and
other emulators (
mac too) are for. As for roms,
can't help you there. For PC enthusiasts,
Shoot the Core's PC Shmup listing is the most complete I've ever seen, with many links to download as well. This Thanksgiving weekend, what better to do in your food coma than sit back and blast through a few games in the most enduring video game genre of all time? *CAUTION! These sites took up
five hours of my time last night and I downloaded
42 games.*
posted by BlackLeotardFront
on Nov 23, 2005 -
33 comments
The giant list of classic computer programmers takes you back to a time when one person could realistically author a computer game and have it published. Of course most of the people on this list will have worked on small teams to produce games, but the diversity of the games on these people's resumes is awesome. In particular, I notice Michael Cranford (responsible for The Bard's Tale I and II, the Centauri Alliance, and ports of Donkey Kong and Super Zaxxon) and Robert Woodhead (Wizardry 1-5). As an interesting sidenote, Robert Woodhead went on to
Animeigo, a japanese animation publishing company in the US. What memories of these old sk00l games do you have?
posted by moz
on Jul 6, 2001 -
34 comments
