/vr/ - Retro Games

Gradius Gaiden is the best, and I'm tired of pretending it's not.

>inb4 arcade elitists complain that it's too easy
>inb4 Treasure cultists wrongly claim 5 is better

Gradius Gaiden for both questions. Fantastic OST, stages, bosses and aesthetics.

Hello and welcome to /stg/, a thread about the 2D scrolling shooter genre.

Discuss your…
>favorite shmups
>recent acquisitions
>latest accomplishments

Previous thread:
>>/vr/thread/S3728067

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Current happenings:
Raiden V - Director's Cut to come out for PC/PS4.
http://gematsu.com/2017/05/raiden-v-directors-cut-announced-ps4-pc

M2 ShotTriGgers presents their next remaster... Ketsui!
http://www.4gamer.net/games/379/G037921/20170429007/

Degica to localize Castle of Shikigami for Steam.
http://nichegamer.com/2017/05/08/castle-of-shikigami-finally-getting-localized-via-degica/

G.Rev will be releasing Senko no Ronde DUO for PC/PS4:
http://www.dualshockers.com/senko-no-ronde-2-coming-west/

Taito offering up Darius 30th Anniversary for PS4:
http://www.play-asia.com/darius-30th-anniversary-edition-famitsu-dx-pack-3d-crystal-set

Konami put Thunder Cross on the PS4 store:
https://www.famitsu.com/news/201705/25133864.html

New DOJBL world record set by WY:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS_FtpqJ9vc

New Raiden DX OLC superplay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXH2rg3IezM

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Miscellaneous:
Want to be a shmup superplayer? Read Gus' "On Going Full Shmup":
https://pastebin.com/3v6hnDn4

Shmup Collection containing over 9000 MAME romsets:
https://www.mediafire.com/?48812jiax8m1c#nz0227tzb9zor

Decide the greatest shmup developer of all time here:
http://strawpoll.me/4496713

Talk with other shmup players in real-time via Discord:
https://discord.me/shmups

List of the hardest clears, ranked in order of difficulty:
http://www.wikihouse.com/stg/index.php?STG%A5%E9%A5%F3%A5%AF%B0%EC%CD%F7

Play Twinkle Star Sprites online against other people here:
https://www.fightcade.com/game/twinspri

Livestream aggregator for when you wanna watch some shmups:
http://stgrillz.appspot.com

Highscore tables for several shmups. Post your scores!!
http://www.restartsyndrome.com/boardlist.php