23 replies to this topic

[JagWarlord]

Operation Thunder Hurricane!!! Greatest arcade shooter ever!

[ussexplorer]

Operation Wolf. I loved how you could just sit their and shoot things. Once in a while picking up clips and over items. Funny part is that after years of playing that game from my child hood. I didn't become violent and gun anybody down with an uzi.

Laters........

[The Eidolon]

R-Type ate up the most quarters!

--The Eidolon

[sebastius]

1943 anytime

[SteveW]

I used to spend a lot of time in my local gas station playing Legendary Wings and Ajax.

[Major Havoc 2049]

Raiden, Raiden II and Atari Games/Namco's Assualt.

Going old school, Tempest, Galaga, Centipede, Millipede, Defender, Stargate, 1942/43, Vanguard, Star Wars and Time Pilot.

Wish I could try some of the new Raiden games, but they only show up in Japan these days.

[caveman]

If you mean first person shooters, I'm kinda partial to Crossbow or Hit N' Miss. Those are getting the most action on my MAME.

[Megamaniac]

Crossbow...YES! Loved that game.

[JB]

Tempest, GunBlade, and ... does RoadBlasters count?

[liquid_sky]

Dangun Feveron. Its really obscure.. best game youve never played. A shooter with a 1970s disco theme! The music is a blast to say the least, and makes you get really INTO the game.

http://www.vsa-ag.ch...ron/Feveron.htm

and some screenshots here
http://www.classicga...ron/screens.htm

[Famicoman]

Time Crisis 2, or 3

[hanglyman]

1. Tempest!
2. Time Pilot
3. Robotron
4. Galaga

But seriously there are 100s of great arcade Shooters

DAS

[StanJr]

FPS: Crypt Killer, cheesy, pedestrian and loads of shameless fun. My best pal and I sank $40 in quarters in a CK machine one night! Weeeee!

[Inky]

Tempest, Raiden, Gradius, Galaga

[keitaro]

For me old school shooters too! Galaxian,Galaga,Tempest, Moon cresta and vertical shooters like 1943, and Nichibutsu´s shooters(Terra Cresta, Terra Force and UFO robo dangar)

Lets blast!!!

[PaulEMoz]

Star Force for me. I just love that game.

[Big Player]

Robotron 2084

I think it's the best video game ever created, so of course it's my top shooter.

[Xot]

liquid_sky said:

Dangun Feveron. Its really obscure.. best game youve never played. A shooter with a 1970s disco theme! The music is a blast to say the least, and makes you get really INTO the game.  

http://www.vsa-ag.ch...ron/Feveron.htm

and some screenshots herehttp://www.classicgaming.com/shmups/reviews/dfeveron/screens.htm

Looks kickass? Don't suppose you have the ROM....?

[nesfanboy86]

gyruss kicks major ass IMO

[Mr.FoodMonster]

Raiden Fighters

I'm so lucky my local arcade has this one, what a GREAT game!

[NovaXpress]

For gun games, I like Chiller because I'm a sick bastard. Also Turkey Shoot was a classic, it was stuffed with turkey feathers which flew out of the machine when you hit a high score. I never did it. The Operation Wolf and later era all felt the same. It was time for pistols. Area 51 got a lot of play. There's one I played last year which sensed where you stood, you had to duck behind barricades then jump out and shoot. It was amazing.

For conventional shooters, Tempest rules all. Robotron would be the quintessential shooter, except you have to save that idiot family. In Tempest, everything you see is evil and must be killed.

[joeybastard]

Tempest and Robotron

Area 51 and House of the Dead for lightgun shooters

[PacManPlus]

Galaga, Sinistar, Asteroids, Defender

[geosteve]

I'll list 5 in dated order of release, to correspond to passing years

Tempest, Blasteroids, Stun Runner, Raiden 2, Star Wars Trilogy

but there really is a lot others that I could think of too