Great 2d Shooters

[yaustar]

Blazing star (Mame) I like the scoring system

 

[Axeman]

The r-type series on the PC engine, and R-type 3 on the SNES are both fantastic. Also, blazing lazers on the PC engine (though I think it has a glitch that stops you getting past level 2?)...

 

[GPJosh]

Raiden 2 Fighters for the arcade, other raiden games and Ikaruga. (Can't play Raiden 2 on MAME because of encrypted sprites)

 

[DaveC]

Space Megaforce (Super Aleste) on SNES was awesome. Tons of mode 7 and no slowdown. It actually runs decent on OpenSNES even with sound.

 

[Tobriand]

I'm a little surprised no-one's mentioned Tyrian yet... god that's a good program

 

[Ringo]

Been playing Gradius V quite alot lately, and damn that game is hard. Makes you wonder... How someone can make a game so anoyingly hard, that still is overly addictive

Also Aeroblaster for PCE. It's called Airbuster for Mame, but I find the PCE version to be better :blink:

Oh yeah. Also Project X for the Amiga.... HARD! Never did get past level 2.

 

[Mark]

It's a good job I checked the first page, I was about to reply with some suggestions.

 

[mattmagoo]

Border Down on the DC was good