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THE AWESOME GHOST
Oct 21, 2005

This is a great thread. I’ve been playing loads of shmups again because so much are coming to the switch, but I got into the genre because in 2005 that’s what you played for free on your laptop

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THE AWESOME GHOST
Oct 21, 2005

juggalo baby coffin posted:

i loved a game called Tyrian when i was a little kid, are there any more shmups like that where you get to upgrade your ship instead of it being all temporary powerups?

Yup this is its own sub genre “Euro SHMUPs”. Personally loved raptor, but these games usually had huge amounts of enemy HP and a big health bar and were less about the dodging and more about making sure you have the right equipment and load out. Tyrian had a great soundtrack too

https://shmups.wiki/library/Euroshmups

Oddly enough Jets n Guns which was meant to be a retro throwback is now older than Tyrian was when it came out

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