2D shoot em ups

davecarter · 13 Sep 2006 at 08:55

Chaos said:
Have a look here -

http://www.classicgaming.com/shmups/xenocidefiles/pc.html

Cheers Ill have a trawl

DJammyRasta · 13 Sep 2006 at 09:23

hahahahaha xenon 2 had some of the most pimpin music in any game, i used to love that.. will definitely check this out when i finish work today if its any good

james.miller · 13 Sep 2006 at 09:33

the xenon2 music always used to remind me of a song by the stone roses. i cant remember what it is now....

edit: ah it was the chorus in 'fools gold'.

markyb · 13 Sep 2006 at 10:05

Tyrian

Great game, Used to play it when I was at school on my Pentium 75mhz

Use Dosbox to run it, There are some great classic games on that site. All run within Dos (Dosbox) for windows xp.

Duouk2000 · 13 Sep 2006 at 13:14

You can get some good Shmups for pc from play-asia like Raiden 3 and Metal Slug 5.

Velocity219e · 13 Sep 2006 at 14:01

I know its not on the PC but I think that Ikaruga needs a mention simply because its one of the best games of its type

I have the dreamcast version and love it, and am trying to find it on the Gamecube :\

incidentally I think I had Raptor working under XP without any troubles ...
another great game

davecarter · 13 Sep 2006 at 16:22

Duouk2000 said:
You can get some good Shmups for pc from play-asia like Raiden 3 and Metal Slug 5.

cheers raiden 3 looks awesome

Chaos · 13 Sep 2006 at 17:17

joeyjojo said:
Cheers Chaos, but its not them. Was for PC, mid-late nineties.

Tiger's Bane ?

Edit: pah think thats a horizontal shooter.

joeyjojo · 13 Sep 2006 at 18:14

Chaos said:
Tiger's Bane ?

Nope, not it

I'm sure it was tiger something. Something to do with tiger. Had really nice graphics for the time, really polished. Can't remember anything about it though

Keep suggestions coming

Cheers

Also Tyrian was by Epic Megagames?! Gotta get me that, anything Epic is quality.

Also (2) this Ikaruga looks awesome! Gonna try and find a copy.