Recommend me Trippy + Difficult Arcade Shooters

I used to always be on the lookout for extremely colorful fast-paced games.

Here is what I've come up with.

Ikaruga

The main game mechanic in this blisteringly hard 2-D flight shooter is this: enemies fire either black projectiles or white projectiles. Your ship has the ability to alternate between black or white at will in order to make yourself invulnerable to projectiles of the corresponding color. There are a lot of projectiles to avoid.

[youtubehd]v7bmTmc9F6s[/youtubehd]

Are you telling me there was a real arcade game called WAR TWAT?

  On 3/22/2011 at 1:10 AM, Coalbucket PI said:

Are you telling me there was a real arcade game called WAR TWAT?

I wish. Nah, it was an Indie developer recently. I should've said. Arcade-Style shooters.

Hey Wall Bird, do you have a link for PC? Willing to give that a shot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFBiqw_ceFA

doesn't get much more colourful than jikkyou oshaberi parodius. not exactly fast paced but its incredibly hard. also just fucking bizarre. disco dj penguins, santa claws on a unicycle juggling chicken legs... the second boss is a giant schoolgirl. another one is a boob ship. i dunno, it's out there. and fun.

I used to love the hell outta this game (probly need a saturn emulator to enjoy it nowadays)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgeUXUbvSck

Geometry Wars (trippy as it gets, good on 360 and DS)

Psyvariar 2 (if you can get a good DC ROM pleeeease let me know)

Rez (classic)

Gradius V (more spacey but the weapons are awesome)

Silpheed (not to difficult and really nice smooth graphics)

Steel Dragon EX (high speed arcade shmup)

Castle of Shikigami 2 (very playable but very challenging)

Ikaruga (the pinnacle but very hard)

Space Harrier (timeless)

  On 3/22/2011 at 1:24 AM, luke viia said:

I used to love the hell outta this game (probly need a saturn emulator to enjoy it nowadays)

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgeUXUbvSck

 

 

I actually still have a Saturn lying around, but all I can find on ebay are Japanese imports (not compatible on the American consoles). I'll find an emulator one of these days.

Another game I recommend is Space Phallus. It used to be extremely difficult, but sadly, the developer dumbed it down. Dicks everywhere.

NSFW!

sin and punishment 2 if you've got a wii. same people who made ikaruga iirc. more of a rail shooter but p. fun.

bit.trip fate as well.

neither are really what you're REALLY looking for but they're both superb.

Anything by Jeff Minter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r24RtI9NigU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UfB1_Jznvg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLCs_75t91U&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMmBktfP3jQ&feature=related

I could post pages of his stuff.

warning forever!

  On 3/22/2011 at 1:41 AM, Dirty Protest said:

Anything by Jeff Minter

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r24RtI9NigU&feature=related

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UfB1_Jznvg

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLCs_75t91U&feature=related

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMmBktfP3jQ&feature=related

 

 

I could post pages of his stuff.

Thank you so much. I'm so excited to play these.

  On 3/22/2011 at 1:44 AM, Murveman said:

Thank you so much. I'm so excited to play these.

Even when his games are shit theyre worth giving 20 minutes too, just for the music and light show. I grew up on Geff Miner and his lamas =)

Mars Matrix for Dreamcast

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-KYmntH1s8

Jamestown: the hardcore shmup set in 17th-century British colonial Mars

http://www.finalformgames.com/uncategorized/final-form-year-one-where-were-going/

jamestown looks amazing oh man

No one has mentioned:

Super R-Type

The R-type series is good. Darius is a similar title.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-77wzXOKtZ0

You can get it for MAME. I've never played with 3 screens (like it's supposed to be played).

i used to play this game a lot in computer class in highschool

http://ww6.freearcade.com/Areaflat2.jav/Areaflat2.html

  On 3/22/2011 at 2:23 AM, yek said:

i used to play this game a lot in computer class in highschool

 

http://ww6.freearcade.com/Areaflat2.jav/Areaflat2.html

Me too Yek! AreaFlat 2 and JetSlalom were my favorite back in the day. It's such a short game though.

POLYBIUS

  On 3/22/2011 at 2:42 AM, Murveman said:

  On 3/22/2011 at 2:23 AM, yek said:

i used to play this game a lot in computer class in highschool

 

http://ww6.freearcade.com/Areaflat2.jav/Areaflat2.html

Me too Yek! AreaFlat 2 and JetSlalom were my favorite back in the day. It's such a short game though.

i forgot about jet slalom. gonna check that out right now

Charlie Sheen 3000

  On 3/22/2011 at 3:11 AM, Calx Sherbet said:

Charlie Sheen 3000

I prefer Mel Gibson Safari 3

http://martypoom.tripod.com/

  On 3/22/2011 at 12:51 AM, Murveman said:

I used to always be on the lookout for extremely colorful fast-paced games.

Here is what I've come up with.

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x7naspEhD8

Had the honor of playing Robotron on an actual arcade system in New Jersey

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsKbsXnb04M&feature=related

Another Williams Electronics Title, and Sequel to Robotron. Entirely different gameplay.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thVwP2-zCkI

Found it on that IndieGames website. Obviously Robotron inspired. Piss poor video quality.

 

Other titles I'm fond of are...

-Cactussquid's Clean Asia and Seizuredome

-Williams Electonic's Defender

-Stern's Berzerk and Frenzy

-Wizard of Wor can get pretty trippy as hell.

-Major Havoc

-Tac/Scan

 

 

I'm assuming you've played amplitude then?

  On 3/22/2011 at 4:29 AM, dr lopez said:

  On 3/22/2011 at 12:51 AM, Murveman said:

I used to always be on the lookout for extremely colorful fast-paced games.

Here is what I've come up with.

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x7naspEhD8

Had the honor of playing Robotron on an actual arcade system in New Jersey

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsKbsXnb04M&feature=related

Another Williams Electronics Title, and Sequel to Robotron. Entirely different gameplay.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thVwP2-zCkI

Found it on that IndieGames website. Obviously Robotron inspired. Piss poor video quality.

 

Other titles I'm fond of are...

-Cactussquid's Clean Asia and Seizuredome

-Williams Electonic's Defender

-Stern's Berzerk and Frenzy

-Wizard of Wor can get pretty trippy as hell.

-Major Havoc

-Tac/Scan

 

 

I'm assuming you've played amplitude then?

I've been kind of stuck on PC shit, so no. I have do have a PS2, though.