Amazing SHOOT EM UPS of the 80s and 90s

BTW, ZUN has joined hands with CAVE to release a killer SHMUP on smartphones -- Touhou Gensou Eclipse. It's been 2 months. And it still rules.

Not only was this a wonderful mini documentary, but a passionate recollection of shooters and their roots. This was a beautiful video

WOW!

Awesome video. Thanks for creating this. I lived those times. I've played those titles.

/tear

shooting game never die! 😊

Shmup Junkie, you’re one of the BEST shooter enthusiasts that I’ve ever seen! And that Zak Vortex track took me back to the 80’s. We need a Ray’s Arcade Chronology review from you soon! Rayforce and Raystorm are my favorite Shooters ever.

Brilliant, just brilliant video

Sharing your video. You described it perfectly. This video brought a tear to my eye. As if you pulled a piece of my childhood heart onto the screen.

I love your channel a lot, thank you for your videos

it's a 20-minute video and it takes you 10 minutes to get to the fucking games fuck off

What a love letter to the genre, as is every video you make.

This is gonna be a long shot, but what’s the one where your special ability absorbed all enemies bullets on screen and shot them back?

You sum it all up so well. I felt the same. Couldn't say it better.

This video is a masterpiece, you got it dude ! Congrats

Thank you, looks the business 👌 just subscribed, right up my street this, used to love whip rush, quality game!

2D shooters is the term i use.
I don't like "shmups" term, it seems to be clumsy.

Great vid! But I think you missed the main reason for the dimishing popularity of shmups in the late 90s: with home consoles getting farther and farther from the arcade experience, people started prefering longer games for home consoles. The PS1 and PS2 eras valued game length A LOT. Which is why it was prime time for RPGs, and longer, more cinematic games like Zelda, Metal Gear Solid, survival horrors. Shmups are shorter games by nature.

you need some unreal engine developers and a team ...if you make a team I want a spot

God that voice is annoying

Have you tried Change Air Blade on MAME?

computer games are shooters

Gonna be a weird furry gramps still loving and sucking at shmups.
But a very happy one.

I am with you

No offense to your name, but I never understood why people stopped saying shooter and started saying shmup. I just don't like that word

Great vid, some glorious games...in my area of the UK we called them scrolling shoot em ups from the mid to late 8o's , I think I first heard the term shmups in the 90's. I don't ever remember ever just calling them a shooter.

Great compilation 👌and review. Some great games. The only thing missing would be the amazing 8 bit and 16 bit shooters on the home micros like the C64 and Amiga. Probably not well known outside of Europe but Armalyte, Enforcer, Katakis, probably all make it into the top 5 list of 8-bit schmups.

Project sylpheed is the epiphany of space shooters in my opinion.

True all that 😁All the new games are such a disappointment, but those games never die.

I cant wait for the all snes shumps review

pulstar is just fun

Im more or less into every genre,so tell me do u guys like xevious?

Thanks for making this AMAZING video!!!

The first time I came across the term SHMUP was in the Zzap 64 issue 3 (I think) review of Dropzone, and because I have dyslexia I read it as SHUMP and for years thought SHUMP was short for shoot em up

The popularity of shmups was dwindling in the mid to late 90’s? Did not know that. Explains why they catch a pretty penny on the market these days, most of them, not all of them thankfully. But if you ask me, most STGs from arcades that were released in the late 90’s and beyond are pretty much perfect (just a shame they weren’t as popular as they are now because the renaissance happened in the 2020’s and I took notice of that) as I say for modern fighting games. I also beg of more J-Fighters of the 2D variety to be released on 9th gen consoles.

Thanks!

Toilet Kids...an early 90's console game with projectile dookie and flying weiners...
Calling Angry Video Game Nerd...come in Angry Video Game Nerd...this is not a drill...this is an emergency...

I'm looking for a shooter game (not first person) that is not well known but I remember playing as a child (80s-90s). All I remember is was mostly gray and walking through doors killing stuff. It was gory. Something that comes to mind are words like maximum overkill. I'm sorry for not remembering much. I can't find it!

Damn that was a God Level nostalgia trip! Awesome video!!!

I prefer 2D shooter and FPS. I hate saying Schmup. It might look good on paper but it’s an ugly word.

Absolutely Great video 👍

🙂👍🇧🇷

That intro hit me hard bro! What a time to truly be alive

Great anthology. Congrats from Brazil 🇧🇷 my friend.

My Top-3 shmups of all-time are Blazing Lazers (TG-16), R-Type (TG-16), and Thunder Force II (Genesis)...there may be many others that might be better but those are my "go-to's."

I introduced my wife to shooters and she currently loves playing Dodonpachi, Raiden, Cyvern and several others. She gets excited when we can play a new one, thanks for making this great video!

As a c64 kid I'm pretty sure we called them shoot 'em ups to go along with beat 'em ups and jump'n'runs. Shooter would be something like a run and gun or lightgun shooter back then

You forgot one step in between Big Trouble in Little China and Life Force. You had to Kung Fu your brother for a bit. THEN play video games. :D Could never watch that movie without a few matches afterward.