Scrolling shoot em ups. What happened to them

I enjoy playing old style scrolling shoot em ups now and again. But there doesn´t appear to be any decent ones for the PC, except " Jets "n" guns".

Anyone heard of and newer decent ones.?

the last two cool shooters I saw were

R-Type Final
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and Ikaruga

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Mushihimesama was another crazy one but dunno how old it is

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I think there are two problems here really

1- I think side-scrolling shooters have fairly much been exhausted in terms of what you can do with them

and

2- They are relatively easy for independant operators to make, cheaply or even freeware.

Both of which have kinda killed the commercial demand for them

ush has a point
even i could make a decent side scroller shooter 😬

There's some good freeware ones to get

-Warning Forever
-Parsec47
-Operation SpaceHog

to name a few

Einhander....best side scrolling shooter ever. and still costs 50$ for the ps1 and almost as hard to find as intelligent cube

Originally posted by ragesRemorse
Einhander....best side scrolling shooter ever. and still costs 50$ for the ps1 and almost as hard to find as intelligent cube

granted I'm not a rabid shooter fan... but I didnt like einhander as much as R-type Final and Ikaruga (even though they came afterwards I think)

Mars Matrix
Giga Wing
Project Raiden
Viper Phase
etc. . .

Great games, but times changed. Side scrollers won't bring as much profit as they used too.

Gradius. Always a good pick, even Vic Viper has crap durability. 😛