Summer Carnival '92: Recca

[Anonymous No.2709164]

I know about Recca itself, it's on the 3DS eshop even, but what exactly was the "Summer Carnival '92" event? I've read that it was a tournament and that Recca was made for it, but that's about it.

Anyone got anymore info? Has anyone else played Recca? It's pretty insane.

[Anonymous No.2709350]

In 1985, Hudson started an event called the Caravan, a Summer Carnival where Japanese gamers would come together and compete to get a high score in a designated game. It started with the game Star Force, then other games like the Star Soldier series. which popularized the Caravan idea that you can find in a lot of shmups.

Eventually other companies started their own Summer Carnival event. Naxat did it, and the game they used for the competition in 1992 was Recca.

I agree, it's a great game. One of the best NES games, and probably still the best console shmup I can think of.

[Anonymous No.2709383]

I love RECCA, but it has forced me to realize just how bad I actually am at video games.

[Anonymous No.2709393]

>>2709164
It's a series of pc engine games. Recca was the only exception that was developed on the NES. Btw Shinobu Yagawa of Battle Garegga and CAVE fame worked as a programmer on this game.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/company/13001-naxat-soft

[Anonymous No.2709396]

>>2709164

[Anonymous No.2709401]

>>2709164
Is this game considered an easy or hard shmup?

You seem to get a lot of free lives. And I've noticed that the upgraded Laser weapon and Auto pods can lay waste to normal enemies pretty well.

[Anonymous No.2709406]

>>2709396
>ALZADICK
>Al za dick
>All the dick

[Anonymous No.2709412]

>>2709401
It's weird, there's a second loop but it requires you to enter a code to access it. I'd say the "secret" loop is pretty arcade hard.

[Anonymous No.2709525]

i never heard of it till the emulation fad came along cause it was some weirdo jap game that no one in the us ever played and when i first played it it blowed my testicals off with the grafix and fastness but upon playing it further it wasn't allt hat special just your typical pew pew pew blippin and bloopin aliums game lol :D

[Anonymous No.2709539]

>>2709525
Lmao thanks of your input. It's true.

[Anonymous No.2709547]

>>2709525
Ironic shitposting is still shitposting.

[Anonymous No.2709549]

>>2709547
He's right, once you get past the novelty of playing a bullet hell on the NES the game is pretty run of the mill. Still a good game, though.

[Anonymous No.2709570]

>>2709549
Bullet hells in general are a run of the mill genre, regardless of platform.

[Anonymous No.2709574]

>>2709570
Yeah, but it's impressive that they managed to pull it off on the old NES hardware.

[Anonymous No.2709628]

>>2709570
i prefer recca to most arcade shmups. with recca you can at least improvise. just blast normal enemies and use the shield/bomb for bosses.

but arcade bullet hell shmups require too much memorization and dedication to be good at a 15-30 minute game.

[Anonymous No.2709643]

>>2709383
Well that's a shitty measure. That's like failing to bench-press 1200 pounds and concluding you're a weakling.

[Anonymous No.2709796]

>>2709164
Best game of all time.

>>2709401
Shit's hard as fuck.

[Anonymous No.2709823]

>>2709628
Only if you go for a 1cc. Just try winning while using continues in the single digit and you'll be fine.

[Anonymous No.2709853]

>>2709823
>in the single digit

So using 9 quarters is okay?

[Anonymous No.2710658]

>>2709549
>pretty run of the mill

You realize this game came out in 1992 right? It's in the title. On fucking NES.

It's like saying Super Mario Bros. 1 is a run of the mill game now that there are millions of platformers out there.

[Anonymous No.2710679]

>>2710658
Right, so almost 10 years later it had better be impressive. SNES and Genesis were already out the gate. This was a swansong for a dead console.

[Anonymous No.2710697]

>>2710679

Recca is better than every SNES or Genesis shmup. In fact most 16-bit auto-scrolling shmups for home consoles really weren't that great. You had stuff like Twinkle Tale and Pocky & Rocky that was really good, but as far as auto-scrollers go games like Thunder Force 3-4 or MUSHA were the best you could find, and they weren't better than Recca.

The important part here is that Recca is an actual game with bullet hell patterns and concepts in 1992 before the idea was popularized in arcades later with games like Dodonpachi and Batsugun, before the guy who worked on Recca went to work with Raizing on Battle Garegga and Armed Police Batrider, and then with CAVE on other bullet hell games. I can't think of single bullet hell game on 16-bit consoles.

[Anonymous No.2710715]

>>2710697
(cont.)

I mean look at this. Show me a game for 8-bit or 16-bit consoles that has patterns like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kfr-QFudqk&t=9m18s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XtvQImuORI&t=0m15s

[Anonymous No.2710716]

>>2710715

Since linking to a specific part of the video doesn't seem to work with 4chan embed, you can go to 9:18 in the first video, and 0:15 in the second one.

[Anonymous No.2710965]

>>2710697
>leaving out thunder force 2.

[Anonymous No.2710975]

>>2710965

Not an auto-scroller, Thunder Force 2 was more of a multidirectional shooter like TF1 or Alien Syndrome where you can go all over the place.

It's also decidedly not as good as Thunder Force 3 or 4, so it wouldn't fit since I was naming some of the best auto-scrolling shmups on 16-bit consoles I could think of.

[Anonymous No.2711005]

>>2710658
Batsugun came out in 93 on arcades.
Don't get me wrong, Recca is a technical feat considering the hardware it is on, though.

[Anonymous No.2711023]

>>2711005

Yeah I know. Still a year later, and on hardware that made it much easier to make ridiculously fast games with a huge amount of bullets on screen.

I don't think Batsugun had much to do with popularizing the bullet hell trend anyway, but it's definitely one of the first that could actually be considered one.

[Anonymous No.2711127]

>>2710715
>All of that flicker
Jesus

[Anonymous No.2711137]

>>2711127

Yeah, there's no way they could render that many bullets on-screen on a NES without magical trickery like that.

[Anonymous No.2711148]

>>2710715
>Hardly ever having to move after you're powered up during the actual stages
God I fucking hate Recca.

[Anonymous No.2711154]

>>2710715
GREATEST GAME OF ALL TIME!

[Anonymous No.2711160]

>>2711154

Can you find another 8-bit or 16-bit console game with bullet curtains, and humonguous speed with barely any slowdown like that? I think not.

[Anonymous No.2712060]

>>2710975
It is an auto scroller on the majority of the levels. Also it's certainly better than 3 although with 4 it's definitely better than 2.

[Anonymous No.2713527]

>>2711127
Shit was unnoticeable on a CRT, emulatorfag. I bet you love smoothing filters and widescreen hacks too.

[Anonymous No.2713980]

More gets...

[Anonymous No.2714023]

>>2709350
>In 1985, Hudson started an event called the Caravan, a Summer Carnival where Japanese gamers would come together and compete to get a high score in a designated game

Sounds like a nerd fest LMAO

[Anonymous No.2714026]

>>2710658
You realize starting a sentence with "you realize" and ending it with "right" makes you sound like a cunt right?

[Anonymous No.2714031]

>>2714023
best kid of fest there is ;)

[Anonymous No.2714032]

>>2714031
Yeah cause it means lots of nerds to beat up.

[Anonymous No.2714040]

>>2714032
don't be a big bully >:(

[Anonymous No.2714579]

>>2713527
>CRT
>Emulatorfag
Are you implying you can't play emulators on a CRT?

[Anonymous No.2714981]

>>2710697
It's not better than Super Aleste or TF4

[Anonymous No.2715039]

>>2714981
Super Aleste is the most overrated console shmup.

[Anonymous No.2715062]

>>2715039
says who?

[Anonymous No.2715440]

>>2714579
No, but he surely doesn't since he is so butthurt about the flickering.