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Bicnarok
From Ganymede
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Location: Cydonia, Mars |
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.?
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Jun 22nd, 2007 09:04 PM |
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Ushgarak
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Location: Chelmsford, Essex, UK Co-Admin |
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
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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
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Jun 23rd, 2007 11:11 AM |
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MadMel
Heh
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Location: Australia |
ush has a point
even i could make a decent side scroller shooter 
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Jun 23rd, 2007 12:36 PM |
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Kazenji
Onyx Prime
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Location: Australia |
There's some good freeware ones to get
-Warning Forever
-Parsec47
-Operation SpaceHog
to name a few
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Jun 23rd, 2007 12:38 PM |
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jinXed by JaNx
Senior Member
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Location: Pittsburgh |
Einhander....best side scrolling shooter ever. and still costs 50$ for the ps1 and almost as hard to find as intelligent cube
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Jun 23rd, 2007 02:43 PM |
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SaTsuJiN
Wielder of Thunder Seal
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Location: The Grand Vestibule |
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)
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Jun 23rd, 2007 07:30 PM |
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Classic NES
Balloooooooooooooon
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Location: The sewers of the Big City! |
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.
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Jun 23rd, 2007 09:50 PM |
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TricksterPriest
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Location: Hiding from The Doctor, shhhh..... |
Gradius. Always a good pick, even Vic Viper has crap durability. 
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