We love shmups here at BSMH. Todays cover art is of an obscure side scrolling shooter called Hellfire. It was developed by Toaplan who made the infamous Zero Wing (“All your base are belong to us“). This cover is really typical for the shootemup genre, but cool nonetheless.
It was originally an arcade game; then later released on both the PC Engine and Sega Genesis … [ Read More... ]
Hiroshi Iuchi, creator of many shootem ups including Treasure’s Ikaruga and Radiant Silver Gun is creating a new shmup for Nintendo 3DS. This new game is called Kokuga and its being release by Japanese game studio G.rev, also well known for putting out shootemups.
Check out this new gameplay video of Kokuga below…
G.rev has also posted this video demonstrating the Kokuga OST by Manabu Namiki…… [ Read More... ]
Ah the glory days… stage memorization… brutal difficulty… continues… Check out this freaky cover art of Irem’s Super R-Type for the Super Nintendo.
You can still play this shmup today, just pick it up at your local used crap store. It’s also available for the Nintendo Wii’s Virtual Console.
So imagine a game with the tag line “A hyper-speed shoot out in space”… A game called Phalanx on the SNES did. What would you imagine?
Well according to some dude who worked at Kemco, you’re wrong. Obviously, its an old hill billy and his banjo. Yeah, maybe they were appealing to America’s grassroots schmup crowd? I think they should’ve been fired.… [ Read More... ]