Best SNES / Genesis shoot-em-ups

[Twinbee]

I have to admit, I'm a huge shmup fan. There's absolutely nothing like performing a flawless run through Radiant Silvergun, Soukyugurentai, even Cotton and Salamander on the X68000.

Unfortunately, my knowledge of shoot-em-ups on Genesis and SNES are somewhat lacking, being more of a retro arcade fan and Saturn fan than anything else. So, I was wondering what the best shoot-em-ups were on either console. I already have Gradius III for SNES, and Thunderforce IV for Genesis.

Thanks in advance

 

[declaration]

get R-Type 3 for the SNES.

 

[Twinbee]

I tried that, I get messed up graphics errors that render the game completely unplayable on OpenSnes.

 

[shotaway]

slap fight (power wing) for megadrive (genesis)

 

[ginzu]

my favourite shoot-em-ups are r-type and thunderforce, they do the work very fine ;D!

edit: if in opensnes it doesn't works... try with r-type running on the PCengine emu!

 

[extremegamer]

The best shoot em up i've played for SNES is Super Earth Defense Force, awesome graphics, awesome weapons, awesome everything, there are very good visuals in this game, like lvl 4 when you are flying past all of those large battle ships and you do flybys by them, awesome, trust me you won't be disappointed on this one.

By the way, if you want to play r-type on snes, download the beta version, it works, but it has graphical errors on the second release.

 

[Twinbee]

By the way, if you want to play r-type on snes, download the beta version, it works, but it has graphical errors on the second release.

Ahh, excellent. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

 

[frolik]

or Super R-Type is good (different to 1, 2 & 3)

 

[Twinbee]

What's so different about it?

 

[Hokutoy]

Genesis - Zero Wing (All your base are belong to us!!! )
Snes - Axelay

Try Pc-Engine emu... LOTS of shotters!

 

[bringoutthegimp]

you cant go wrong with contra

 

[Twinbee]

Doesn't axelay freeze on OpenSnes?

Contra Hard Corps rocked on Gens, though I prefered the Probotector version myself.

And yes, the PC Engine had a lot of great shoot-em-ups on it. Shame there's no CD image support. lol.

SAPPHIRE BABY!

Edit: Zero Wing was a bit poor.

 

[frolik]

What's so different about it?

just is.... try it!

 

[ginzu]

Genesis - Zero Wing (All your base are belong to us!!! )
Snes - Axelay

the old school one, just NICE.

 

[Twinbee]

Trying it. Along with Super Earth Defense Force. Checked the screens out for that and it's not looking too bad!

 

[Twinbee]

Genesis - Zero Wing (All your base are belong to us!!! )
Snes - Axelay

the old school one, just NICE.

Axelay was brilliant. Zero Wing was infamous but... I didn't like the actual game at all.

 

[ginzu]

enjoy

 

[giffel]

you could try the shumps on pcengine...

 

[Twinbee]

I already have.

I used to be an absolutely huge PC Engine fan. Which brings me to another question. Does GPEngine support the SGX roms?

 

[giffel]

ok
I was wondering since your name is twinbee...

Twinbee with 2 persons is nice, too

And no, no sgx roms. There are only 4 sgx games anyway.