Best SNES / Genesis shoot-em-ups

[Twinbee]

True,

But Aldynes was kickass.

Twinbee with 2 persons is nice, too

I've unfortunately only played it 1 player.

 

[Axeman]

Yep - r-type 3 (once it works) on the SNES, and r-type on the PCengine (I know thats not in the question, but hey! I love it anyway )

 

[Twinbee]

Agreed.

 

[craigix]

Does Rtype 3 not even work with 16bbp set on?

And I'd also recommend the PCE for shooters.

Oh Power strike/aleste on the SMS is great, rock solid franttic fun, used to be able to finish it on one life back when i was good at games unlike now when i can be beaten by my sister.

-Craig

www.gbax.com

 

[centrlink]

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

Yup, Super R-Type is great. I have vivid memories of picking up the cart in 1991, locking myself in my bedroom with the lights off, and blasting away (not a euphamism by the way ). Love the music, and even the slowdown didn't bother me.

Since the arrival of Opensnes, its been my most played game. So I'd highly recommend it.

I've never played R-Type 3 and look forward to it being functional in Opensnes. I've heard it described as the ultimate 16 bit shoot'em up.

 

[daffyduck]

plenty of snes shmups to be had
although ive no snes emu on to test these so carnt give an answer as to wether they work or not but here goes

spriggan powered very rare game but good
sonic wings ok shmup
blazeon
cosmo gang
axelay
darius twin
darius force
gradius 3
hyperzone
parodius
phalanx
pop twin bee
raiden
r-type 3
super r-type
sonic wings 2
super swiv
thunder spirits aka thunderforce
un squadron aka area 88
super aleste
macross
cotton 100%
imperium very hard to come by but worth the hunt for it as its pretty damn good
Ikari no Yousai much like outzone arcade or ikari warriors
flying hero cartoonie shmup
fuzzy shooting very good and damn hard to find a rare one indeeed even has options like r-type
what about turrican its a shmup
dimension force
theres probs some more strange japanese ones never released

 

[daffyduck]

ill also throw some megadrive ones your way too
some of these are rare and very hard to find.
her goes

eliminate down
gray lancer
Aero Blasters
Aleste
Arrow Flash
Atomic Robo-Kid
Battle Squadron awesome nearly as good as amiga version
Cross Fire
curse
darwin 4081
hell fire
heavy unit
insector x
grind stormer
Herzog Zwei
Gaiares
Gynoug
Raiden Trad
darius 2
Steel Empire
super fantasy zone
Slap Fight best version ive even seen better than arcade
thunder force series
truxton a classic
twin cobra one of my favs
viewpoint shabby version of the neo geo
vapor trail
trouble shooters 2 girls and fire power great game
trouble shooters 2 more of the same
twin hawk
verytex class shmup hunt it down
xenon 2 class soundtrack
xdr
whip rush
zero wing
fire shark
elemental master
bio hazard battle yep bio was a shmup 1st not bad either u were some sort of creature
forgotten worlds wasnt bad either
but if u need to play top class shmups then get mame

 

[Sid Elias]

Oh for God's sake don't forget Gunstar Heroes people.

I know it's not technically a schmup, but who cares, it's awesome.

Alien soldier is pretty cool too.

 

[ralp99]

yeah check out macross scrambled valkyrie on SNES, a pretty good game.

imperium, i loaded it up a couple times and it just looked pretty inferior to all the rest.. yuckkk!

space megaforce/super aleste = my favorite SNES game!!

 

[dannyspencer]

Dunno whether it is just me but i am running r type 3 at the moment on the snes emu for gp32 - snes9xgp - works like a treat. R u guys still have trouble with it working??

yep for me gunstar heroes too!

 

[dazmanultra]

Assault Suits Valken (Cybernator) is an awesome shoot 'em up on the SNES.

 

[lizard808uk]

Contra Spirits on SNES was a favourite of mine, but havent played it yet on GP32, so no idea if it works or how good it is.

"Pariodius Non-Sensical Fantasy" by Konami is another great shoot em up.