A bevy of updates to the Saturn core of the MiSTer FPGA have targeted problems with specific games’ graphics. One prominent one that was fixed recently was Cotton 2, whose VDP2-drawn backgrounds were reported in January as having problems. “I’ve seen that srg320 is working quite intensively on the VDP2 these last days,” said Kubo, […]
Veteran shoot-em-up developers Cave are hitting back the arcades, after almost 8 years of absence, with the release of DoDonPachi Saidaioujou Exa Label, through the exA-Arcadia platform. Every since their first effort back in 1995, with the original DonPachi, Cave have been synonymous with the bullet-hell sub-genre in general and established quite a household name […]
The MSX will be getting a physical version of a recently released shmup game called Uchūsen Gamma. Preorders as reported by ericb59 on MSX.org, are up and buyers can secure a preorder for their MSX, but need to make sure that their MSX has 16K of RAM installed to run this game. Shipments should start […]
A developer who goes under the screen name Coin feeder on the arcade-projects forums has recently revealed that he is developing a new “tate” style shmup game for the Neo Geo MVS. I had the opportunity to video chat with him, and during our conversation he demonstrated a very early version of this new game running […]
A brand new Amiga ‘Shoot’em-Up'(Shmup) game called Reshoot·R has been released for the AGA (Advanced Graphics Architecture) series of Amiga computers. This means owners of Amiga 1200, 4000, and the CD32 are able to play this game with no addon cards, and is developed to run on standard hardware setups. Two Megs of Fast-RAM is […]
I spent several weeks completely rebuilding Project Peacock from scratch, and it’s finally ready. PP is a list of every shoot ’em up, or shooter-element game for the PC Engine platform (minus active indie): PC Engine, TurboGrafx-16, SuperGrafx, PC Engine CD (all variants), and Turbo Duo. Actively sold indie games are purposefully kept off the […]
Devil Engine by Dangen Entertainment is a beautiful new 2D Shoot ’em Up for the Nintendo Switch and Steam. It could be considered as a spiritual successor or genre-piece tribute to the Thunder Force series, at least if their marketing motto “Lightning Strikes Again” is any sign (Thunder Force/Lightening Force reference). My Life in Gaming […]
Starsceptre is a fantastic indie shmup that is in danger of getting delisted from the iOS app store due to low sales. Its developer, Richard Morgan hasn’t made enough to pay for the license fee to keep it on the app store. He has publicly asked for help, and as it’s an excellent retro style […]
