Ep - 106 Shoot em up or Shmup whatever!

Introduction

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Housekeeping

Sam: Now Streaming Battle Network 4 Blue Moon!

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FilmLogic: Mission Impossible and Fall movies

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The Price Is Retro

If this is your first time playing Price Is Retro, here’s how we play. I’m going to list off 4 or 5 games and everyone has to guess how much the lot is worth in total. Whoever is closest to the actual value wins that round! Everyone has a list and everyone guesses on each other's list. At the end, the player that won the most rounds wins the episode! But watch out for the robot Deus Guess Machina! He averages all of our guesses together for his own guess

 

Sam’s list

John’s list

Mike’s guest list

Trivia Card

 

Show Topics

 

What’s the Deal with Shmups?

Sub-topic Smorgasbord

• Sam: how the TG-16 mini and sunk cost fallacy convinced me to give the genre more attention

• Side-scrolling vs vertical scrolling

• Multidirectional shooters

• Difficulty: are shmups too hard to be approachable?

• Which games are a good gateway?

• Solar Striker

• UN Squadron

• Twinbee

• Blazing Lasers

• Soldier Blade

• Salamander/Life Force

• Einhander?

• Shmups on NSO

• Gradius

• Pop’n twinbee

• Star soldier

• S.C.A.T. (Special cybernetic attack team)

• Super E.D.F.

• M.U.S.H.A

• Zero Wing

• Super Fantasy Zone

• Other games of interest:

• Ikaruga

• Radiant Silvergun

• Gradius

• Darius

• Raiden

• R-type

• Lords of Thunder

• Twinkle Star Sprites

• Parodius

• Cho Aniki

• Cotton Series

• Playing shmups through emulation/remasters: things to keep in mind

• When to use rewind/save states

• Turbo

• Controllers, esp. For arcade games

• Shmup Levels in other games

 

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