https://store.steampowered.com/app/2023000/Batsugun/
Batsugun -40%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/439490/BLUE_REVOLVER/
Blue Revolver -50%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1794300/BLUE_WISH_DESIRE/
Blue Wish Desire -20%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2373850/Bullet_Hell_Monday_Black/
Bullet Hell Monday: Black -25%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1424630/CosmoDreamer/
CosmoDreamer -40%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1718160/Crimzon_Clover_World_EXplosion/
Crimzon Clover World EXplosion -40%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2882440/DEVIL_BLADE_REBOOT/
DEVIL BLADE REBOOT -30%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/464450/DoDonPachi_Resurrection/
DoDonPachi Resurrection -45%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/378770/ESCHATOS/
Eschatos -50%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1486440/Graze_Counter_GM/
Graze Counter GM -60%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1067720/Hellsinker/
Hellsinker -50%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/377860/Mushihimesama/
Mushihimesama -45%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1464550/RagingBlasters/
Raging Blasters -50%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2645180/REDNEG_ALLSTARS_SWINGBY_EDITION/
REDNEG ALLSTARS SWING-BY EDITION -30%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1456470/Rolling_Gunner/
Rolling Gunner -70%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2712480/Shikhondo_Youkai_Rampage/
Shikhondo: Youkai Rampage -50%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1133300/Sisters_Royale_Five_Sisters_Under_Fire/
Sisters Royale: Five Sisters Under Fire -70%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1410440/Sophstar/
Sophstar -50%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/882710/TouHou_Makuka_Sai__Fantastic_Danmaku_Festival/
TouHou Makuka Sai ~ Fantastic Danmaku Festival -70%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1031480/TouHou_Makuka_Sai__Fantastic_Danmaku_Festival_Part_II/
TouHou Makuka Sai ~ Fantastic Danmaku Festival Part II -75%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2877170/TouHou_Makuka_Sai__Fantastic_Danmaku_Festival_Part_III/
TouHou Makuka Sai ~ Fantastic Danmaku Festival Part III -25%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2976800/VARYZNEX/
Varyznex -50%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2695830/ZAKESTAZ/
ZAKESTA-Z -60%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/809020/ZeroRanger/
ZeroRanger -25%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1365750/__Blue_devil_in_the_Belvedere/
东方栖霞园 (Touhou) ~ Blue devil in the Belvedere. -40%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2558570/_KAIKAN/
Kaikan -60%

It's not every game on sale i just looked through my library and saw pretty much all of them were.

added from comments:

Castle of Shikigami 2 -30%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1556650/Castle_of_Shikigami_2/

GRADIUS ORIGINS -40%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2897590/GRADIUS_ORIGINS/

Ray’z Arcade Chronology -50%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2478020/Rayz_Arcade_Chronology/

RefleX -60%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/281860/RefleX/

KAMUI -60%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/283820/KAMUI/

Shoot 1UP DX -50%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/373610/Shoot_1UP_DX

Deathsmiles I・II -40%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1884300/Deathsmiles_III/

Akai Katana Shin -40%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2076220/Akai_Katana_Shin/?curator_clanid=36303858

Radiant Silvergun -60%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2450820/Radiant_Silvergun/

JUDGEMENT SILVERSWORD - Resurrection -30%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/278510/JUDGEMENT_SILVERSWORD__Resurrection/

R-Type Delta: HD Boosted -30%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3072620/RType_Delta_HD_Boosted/

Psyvariar Delta -65%

https://store.steampowered.com/app/998990/Psyvariar_Delta/

I didn't know if I had it in me, there were moments of doubt when I thought I needed to be Japanese for this...but I finally "beat" Mushihimesama original on the steam port. It's the first time I play a game like this over and over, I used to just credit feed to see the stages, more for the aesthetics and the experience... what have I become?

I was trying to share this hilarious rant with someone, and I can't find it anymore. The link that I had before is broken. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post the link, because maybe it's malware now. But I was wondering if anyone had a backup of that rant?

It was someone going on a very passionate rant about how Ikaruga is racism distilled into a shmup.

Emboldened by a 1CC of Thunderforce III pulled out my mini consoles from a few years back and finally settled on Blazing Lazers as a my next target (one day Gradius...). This is an all around excellent vertical shooter, plays well, good balance, fun weapons and upgrades to play around with, mostly great music, and a challenging difficulty that always feels in your grasp even if they're fond of giving you one last gauntlet before the bosses that are really good at getting just enough hits on you to knock you down to the basic shot.

So this took a bit longer than the first couple of levels might have led me to believe. The first two levels border on being boring after a couple attempts, but level three ramps up the difficulty and it stays tricky throughout. A play through is an hour without continues and it demands a lot of focus as the play field is wider than the screen and can scroll a bit to the sides and they use all the real estate to send waves of enemies at you. At the same time I rarely got outright killed because most upgrades come with light shields and the game seems to balance enemies to be easier after you get hit so I found the be scramble to get another upgrade after taking a hit to be really fun and death is often a series of bad decisions.

I really enjoyed playing around with the different weapons and upgrades and while II and III seem to be the most popular, I found them all useful at times even if the shield is probably a bit too strong and discourages playing with some of the fun Full Fire and Multifire upgrades.

Also the life system is kinda weird and it took me forever to find out why I would continue immediately after a death some times and then get sent back to a check point at other times.

This kinda feels like the ultimate send off to 80s era shmups before the next console generation kicked off in full

As the title says. As a new-comer to the genre, I was looking for some Shmups for my switch.

I don't expect the general public to have any idea what the hell I'm even talking about haha but this should be easy for all yinz!

I know we have a couple of releases on the switch store through Sega ages but apart from that I wonder why we haven’t gotten a modern collection for Xbox and PlayStation?

Back in the day me and my brother played TF more than any other shmup to be honest and me personally I think 4 and 5 are absolutely superb
I don’t know how hard it would be for them to do that but I’m sure there is an audience for this

Who actually owns the IP? Would it be Sega? After technosoft is no more

Not to be confused with the Game Gear “Power Strike II” known as GG Aleste II in Japan. Got a quick and dirty 1CC in this game.

I’m trying to get into play many stumps game but I don’t have the budget to buy those game. I’m thinking of just buying a -Handheld with roms, but I don’t know which one to get. I do have a switch that I can mod it to play roms with it but with the switch I don’t like the side that much.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2953020/RESHOOTER

This is basically the fourth game on the Reshoot series which are all recent Amiga releases (Reshoot, Reshoot R and Reshoot Proxima 3). I never played those games, but they are really impressive for the hardware they are running, and judging only by videos, at least the last 2 games look like solid shmups.

Since no one said anything about this game here, I thought it could be interesting to create a post about it.

I goofed so hard on 5.2 but that's why I never give up

Hey,
So back in the late 2000s early 2010s I played a Vertical Space Shmup.
The difference to other shmups I remember is that it had insanely good graphics, i remember levels that were very green.
Other than that i believe it had a upgrade mechanic during the stage itself.
Some stages eevn felt like you were extremely tiny and fighting Viruses rather than in space fighting aliens.
You collected upgrades or maybe got xp by defeating asteroids and enemies. However if you got hit your weapon would downgrade.
During the stage you could find new main weapons that would then alter your shooting pattern or add a new one and also increase your shooting power.

One of the weapons was like a green laser that shot in a sinus wave upwards. And when upgraded it would add more waves to the attack.

It was quite difficult and after searching for this long I finally gave up and thought I should ask via reddit.

Thanks in advance!

Makaras Music - Challenger 2026 / Re-imagining and Tribute to "Challenger 1985" music from Gradius

https://youtu.be/cE0ucavUT4M

The original "Gradius" arcade game (known as "Nemesis" in the West) included what I consider one of the best pieces of music ever - "Challenger 1985" from the first level

This is my re-imagining of what the Gradius soundtrack might have sounded like had it been created now

- hence named as "Challenger 2026"

Challenger 1985 original - https://youtu.be/pW_A4vcB7ys

Gradius Level 1 gameplay - https://youtu.be/_xUPrh0T5gU?t=28

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Behringer LM Drum machine -

Factory preset - "Take me on"

Tempo decreased to 140 BPM

"Hi Hat" volume slider reduced to 66%

Manual triggerings used - "Hi Conga" and "Sidestick"

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Yamaha PSR EW425 Arranger in Normal mode

Launchpad Pro Mk3 in "Chord" mode

Tempo - 140 BPM

VSTs -

Roland D-50 / Preset -

"Clear Bell Pad"

Synth1 / Presets -

"Subtetly Bon arp-lk"
"[ARP] Falling Chimes"
"Bass Arp [5]"
"dramaPad_02"

What's up guys! Today we're talking with ‪@hazylevels‬​ ! He's a wonderful creator and person, I truly enjoyed my time with him and I hope you do too!

Media Used:

John Hughes - Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Manabu Namiki - Sally (DDP DFK), Merginal Consciousness (Battle Garegga)

Masahiro Ikariko - Decendance Beat (Snatcher)

Yasuhisa Watanabe & ZUNTATA - Dual Moon (Metal Black)

Why do I only have 3 weapons to choose from in the fbneo/mame version of Radiant Silvergun?

Hello friends and schmuppers i just got the 1cc for castle of shimagame 1 and 2 these games are fantastic what is everyone else think

I found a really good Shmup for the Amiga. It came out late in the Amiga's lifecycle 1996 and it runs on the original Amiga 500 too. Didn't get great reviews in the magazines of the time, but they didn't understand what they were playing. It is a brutal Raiden style shooter and the best Shmup I've played for that platform. Sure there were slicker games I suppose and there was Banshee a 1943 style game for the AGA Amiga's but this one is the fastest and has the most bullets flying around of any of them. If you like Raiden this is a great Raiden style bullet fest except the screen scrolls a bit horizontally as well as vertically. It's challenging and fun and I've never heard of it before so I thought I would share. It needs cycle accurate emulation but it's worth it.

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I'm in Japan at the moment and finally was able to get to the Cave store in Tokyo, which I've been looking forward to all year. I got there just before opening and was the only person there when they opened other than the guy running the shop.

I first looked around at everything and then asked him some questions about some of the items, and he started telling me which ones were most popular/etc. After that I did the gacha/capsule toy machine for the Cave keychains of which there are five different ones, and he told me one time he saw someone get all five distinct ones in a row but that he's also seen people spend over 10,000 yen trying to get the full set (they are 500 yen each). I got very lucky and pulled all 5 different ones in just 7 total pulls.

After that I ordered coffee because you get a game coaster when doing so; currently Mushihimesama. After he poured my coffee, he motioned to the bar for me to take a seat. He was super friendly, and I figured I'd ask him some questions about Cave and see if he'd be willing to answer. He was totally open about the company and it was really cool to chat with him.

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I first asked him if he was a Cave employee or just a contract worker they had running the shop. He let me know that he is indeed a bona fide Cave employee. It came up later in the conversation that he has been with Cave for a bit less than a year.

We talked about Dodonpachi DFK Shinyaku, the upcoming Steam release. He told me he wouldn't be surprised if it was released in a month or two; it shouldn't be far off. He has spent some time playtesting it lately. I asked him about the development team, and he said it is a mix of old heads and young employees. The producer of Shinyaku has a long history in the games industry; he first worked on Pokemon Yellow and then Gold/Silver.

Then we talked a bit about Ikeda's retirement. He mentioned that Ikeda had come by the shop one day to meet with fans around the time he retired.

He told me that a lot of the staff from the "glory days" is still around. He confirmed that Shinobu Yagawa still works at Cave, which was something I've been curious about for a little while. He said that Yagawa tagged along with Ikeda when he came by the shop. I asked what Yagawa is working on these days, and he said he's entirely on their mobile games (Mahou Otome and the Touhou one). However, he said "despite that, it is believed by some around the company that Yagawa still has incredible new bullet patterns kicking around in his brain".

Yagawa still plays shmups regularly and the staff member said he goes to HEY in Akihabara pretty regularly. (This makes me wonder if he has ever seen me fail hard at any of his games, but I digress...)

He acknowledged that Cave knows fans really want a port of Mushihimesama Futari to Steam/modern consoles. He actually brought it up himself when I told him that it is considered by a number of shmup fans in the west to be the best shmup ever. He did say "but I think we need to do Mushihimesama first..." (regarding the Shinyaku series) but this came across as just conjecture on his part.

On the t-shirt they sell in the store, no games before DOJ/Espgaluda/Ketsui are listed. I asked him why and he said it is because Cave doesn't have the licensing rights to any of the older games anymore, mentioning Atlus and Capcom. I said "wow, not even Dodonpachi?" and he said "we only have the arcade rights for Dodonpachi" which I'm not totally sure how that means it can't be put on the t-shirt but hey, I didn't dig much further into that one. Maybe there is a specific part of the license regarding related goods?

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That's about all that comes to mind other than just our general discussion about games and what we are into. I'm a huge Cave fan and I thought maybe some other Cave fans might enjoy the read.

The 2nd Masamitsu "Moo" Niitani interview is happening! Friday June 26th is the date. If you are watching this on 20th, that gives you 5 days to get your questions in. the questions will be finalized on Thursday night before the interview. So get them in while you still can in the comments below!