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Identikit

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Gradius 3 is incredibly difficult. Did you play it on that new PS5 Gradius Collection that quietly dropped in August? That has the best version, the arcade version. If not I'd recommend picking that up and playing the other Gradiuses.

If emulating, SNES has Space Megaforce (insanely good shooter), Super R-Type, Axelay, UN Squadron. If you want something super difficult, and I mean ridiculous, there's R-Type III.

Two extremely good and extremely obscure/cult classics that might require a little more effort to get running: Turbografx-16 has Blazing Lazers, PS1 has Gradius Gaiden.

Einhander is the other one on PS1 that I'd recommend. I played the PS2 variants of Gradius and R-Type and don't remember either making any real impact.
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I played the SNES version and beat it by heavily using save states and load states lol. nothing special about what I am doing.

I will check those out man. thanks!
 
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SNES shooters were too hard for me. I got R Type 3 with my SNES. Maybe beat 2 levels. Didn’t have the heart to tell my grandmother it was a waste of $40 because I sucked. Badly.

So I’m realizing that I had forgotten how clunky GTA controls can be and 4 has some long ass missions and drives. I’m probably just a shade past half done, but I’m kinda finding it boring?

Goat Simulator has been hilarious. And we’ve been poking that Marvel Cosmic whatever beat em up. I bought the remastered Ghostbusters game for a couple bucks. Kids have liked ghostbusters.
 
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Caeden said:
SNES shooters were too hard for me. I got R Type 3 with my SNES. Maybe beat 2 levels. Didn’t have the heart to tell my grandmother it was a waste of $40 because I sucked. Badly.
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Naw R-Type 3 was just ridiculous. The first level wasn't bad, pretty standard. Then it just puts the pedal to the medal. Level 2 is super hard but a kid with tenacity could get through it eventually due to the infinite continues and continuing from checkpoints. Good luck getting much further though. Level 4 is where it reaches full ludicrous, with molten metal beams everywhere and having to hide in specific spots to be safe. Level 5 is a boss rush, level 6 is another ludicrous level, and then the final boss is like this ten minute long fight that actually gave me severe hand cramps when I tried to do it later on emulator. Yeah, I had to go back later with save states, don't think I was able to beat the game as a kid. Maybe I did once. I think level 4 was my graveyard.

I used Cyclone Force, the blue one, and I think that was the best. Maybe it wasn't and I was nerfing myself...

Space Megaforce (SNES) and Blazing Lazers (TG16) are the two best shooters I ever played, with probably Axelay in third. They're all much easier than Gradius or R-Type. I think I definitely prefer vertical shooters over horizontal.
 
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Rajaah said:
Naw R-Type 3 was just ridiculous. The first level wasn't bad, pretty standard. Then it just puts the pedal to the medal. Level 2 is super hard but a kid with tenacity could get through it eventually due to the infinite continues and continuing from checkpoints. Good luck getting much further though. Level 4 is where it reaches full ludicrous, with molten metal beams everywhere and having to hide in specific spots to be safe. Level 5 is a boss rush, level 6 is another ludicrous level, and then the final boss is like this ten minute long fight that actually gave me severe hand cramps when I tried to do it later on emulator. Yeah, I had to go back later with save states, don't think I was able to beat the game as a kid. Maybe I did once. I think level 4 was my graveyard.

I used Cyclone Force, the blue one, and I think that was the best. Maybe it wasn't and I was nerfing myself...

Space Megaforce (SNES) and Blazing Lazers (TG16) are the two best shooters I ever played, with probably Axelay in third. They're all much easier than Gradius or R-Type. I think I definitely prefer vertical shooters over horizontal.
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Man, I had R-Type on the Master System. Jesus that was maybe 35 years ago. There used to be an arcade cabinet back then as well. Never played any of the others, but I loved it as a kid.
 
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Just bought this for $4.99 and read good things.

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Identikit said:
Just beat gradius 3, a game that I played as a kid but just never beat.

I have been playing through einhander.

This is probably the best space shooter that I have probably ever played so far.

if anyone has some space shootemup reccomendations on retro consoles (up to ps2) I'm all ears. Really never got into this genre.
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Darius Twin was great. UN Squadron isn’t space but was fun, and difficult. Worth playing both of them.

If you have MAME, Giga Wing is fantastic. Bullet hell space shooter where a big part of the game is reflecting bullets back at the enemy with a special ability. Really a fun game. Ikaruga was another cool one where you absorb bullets based on their color and your shield.
 
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