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Re: man, the C64 had all the cool shoot em ups
« Reply #14 from previous page: November 24, 2010, 04:13:43 AM »
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While the PC-Engine has some ok shooters I wouldnt say theyre any better than what's available elsewhere. Graphics, sure, theyre better than c64 shooters, but the games themselves are no better on average. Theyre mostly generic eastern style with nothing to make them stand out from others of the same style.

Yes, that's right, some people do have different tastes.....


I think maybe someone hasn't played many PCE shooters.

Sinistron, Dead Moon, Lords of Thunder, Forgotten Worlds, and Cotton are all distinctly different.

Blazing Lazers, Steam Hearts, Override, Image Fight,  and Sylphia are too also different.


This is just the icing on top of the cake that is PCE shooters.

If they're generic eastern style with not alot making them stand out, how come the europeans kept trying to jock the style, albeit poorly.

Menace is a good example of how NOT to copy a shmup concept.
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Re: man, the C64 had all the cool shoot em ups
« Reply #15 on: December 03, 2010, 04:03:03 PM »
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Oh hell yes, Cotton is awesome. I'm not even a big shmup fan (R-Type excepted) and I love Cotton.
Everyone loves Cotton.  its like, a rule.
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Re: man, the C64 had all the cool shoot em ups
« Reply #16 on: December 04, 2010, 03:10:58 AM »
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Fantasy Zone is another good one.  I forgot that one got ported to PCE.
I'm surprised there was never a PCE Twin Bee game.


http://pcengine.co.uk/HTML_Games/Twin_Bee.htm

derp. :)
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Re: man, the C64 had all the cool shoot em ups
« Reply #17 on: December 04, 2010, 03:41:46 PM »
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Ah so that's a real Twin Bee shooter afterall.  For some reason I thought PCE game was a platformer like the Super Famicom game.


nope

but rainbow bell adventures is pretty hood gangsta.   I like that game.
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