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I am a huge fan of side scrolling shooters like DARIUSBURST SP. While my skills today are nowhere near where they were 20+ years ago, I still enjoy them. The biggest problem I have on mobile platforms is simply finding good side scrolling shooters.
Posts Tagged ‘side scrolling shooter’
DARIUSBURST SP Second Prologue Android Gameplay
January 24th, 2021 
Carl Williams 
Posted in Android, iPhone, News, Portables 
Tags: 2.5d, 2.5D shooter, 2d, 2D shooter, DAIRUSBURST SP, Darius, Dariusburst, side scrolling shooter 
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Earth Defense Force Invigorates the Super Nintendo Shoot-’em-up Genre – Today in Retro Gaming – January 1, 1992
January 1st, 2017 Neil Reive Although the Sega Genesis is well known for its arcade conversions and shoot-’em-ups, the Super Nintendo (SNES) did get a fair share of its own, and on this day in 1992, SNES gamers were blessed with Earth Defense Force (also known by Super Earth Defense Force). Converted from the arcade original, Earth Defense Force game […]
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Posted in Console, News, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Tags: 1992, arcade, Earth Defense Force, January 1st, shoot-em up, side scrolling shooter No Comments »
New Atari Lynx Shooter Weltenschlachter Completed
December 14th, 2016 Carl Williams The Atari Lynx is the recipient of a new side scrolling shooter called Weltenschlachter, say that three times fast, which reminds us of Yar’s Revenge.
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Posted in News, Portables Tags: atari, hand held, homebrew, lynx, side scrolling shooter, Weltenschlachter, Yar's Revenge 2 Comments »
DariusBurst Chronicle Saviours Add Two New DLC packs and Playstation 4 Physical Release Announced
September 18th, 2016 Carl Williams Side scrolling shooters were once the cream of the crop. Man, I remember playing Gaiares, Thunder Force III and IV etc on the Sega Genesis and loving it. Back in the day I was pretty good at side scrolling shooters- today not so much. I call it age rot or whatever but I still give […]
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Posted in Comp, News, Sega, Sony Tags: 8ing, Cave, Chronicle Saviours, Dariusburst, pc, playstation, playstation network, Playstation Vita, PS Vita, PS4, psn, retro, retro gaming, retrogaming, sega, side scrolling shooter, steam, taito, vita, windows No Comments »
R-Type Deluxe In Development for Atari ST, Trumps Original
June 29th, 2015 Carl Williams The Atari ST, and Commodore Amiga, was quite the arcade to home gaming computer, even though it was trumped by the IBM platform. The 16-Bit computer was capable enough to provide quality ports of popular arcade titles such as R-Type. Now homebrew developers are working on improving on the official port that we received so […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: atari, atari st, Axelay, computer, deluxe, gaming, homebrew, r-type, shooter, side scrolling shooter, thunder force 1 Comment »
New Game- Razion Coming to Neo Geo, Possibly Dreamcast Also
September 14th, 2014 Carl Williams The Neo Geo is quite an enigma, moreso than the Dreamcast console. Independent developers and publishers continue to support both consoles but with the Neo Geo it is a price issue and the fans seem to have no problem paying it. Razion is not going to be a budget title by any means, similar to […]
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Posted in Comp, News, Sega Tags: bullet hell, carl williams, dreamcast, DUX, independent, mvs, neo geo, NG Dev, Razion, retro, retro gaming magazine, rgm, sega, side scrolling shooter, youtube No Comments »
New Game: First Turbo Grafx-16 Hu-Card in Over 20 Years Sells Out in Less Than One Day at CCAG
July 27th, 2014 Carl Williams Attendees of the Classic Console and Arcade Gaming Show in Cleveland Ohio this weekend were lucky enough to be attending a landmark event. This is the first time in over 20 years that a Turbo Grafx-16 Hu-Card was made available- Atlantean by Aetherbyte Studios. Atlantean is a side scrolling shooter that features rarities on the […]
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R-Type II II Now Available on Android Thanks to DotEmu
February 12th, 2014 Carl Williams As reported earlier, R-Type II was heading to Android soon. Soon turned out to be today. This port features all of the challenge of the arcade original coupled with many extras for today’s gamer.
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Posted in News, Portables Tags: action, android, arcade, dotemu, google play, irem, port, r-type II, retro gaming magazine, retrogame, retrogaming, rgm, shooter, side scrolling shooter, sidescrolling, space No Comments »
BlaZeon Brings Bio-Cyborg Challenge to Super Nintendo – October 27th, 1992 – Today in History
October 27th, 2013 Carl Williams At a time when scrolling shooters had about three frames of animation for the player ship (resting, moving up and moving down) Atlus saw fit to release a game that featured a tranforming robot/ship that had many more frames of animation. BlaZeon also gave the player slight control over some enemy ships.
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Posted in News, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Tags: atlus, blazeon, Robots, shooter, side scrolling shooter, Transforming No Comments »
