What are the best shoot em up games in ST?

[doncleth]

Just following up on the "Best Racer" and "Best RPG" topics. I'm new to ST gaming and I've just started playing Xenon2.

 

Any other recommendations?

[Han]

Xenon 1 is good fun... And I remember that I really liked Sidewinder. Probably because you could change the graphics in this game. And I turned all the enemy sprites into Commodore items, like Amiga Balls, Commodore logos etc

 

And lets not forget Plutos... pretty miserable graphics, but brilliant game play. And it supported 2 players simultaneously...

[Maarten Martens]

Wings of Death, Lethal Xcess, Stardust, R-Type, Zero5 (alhtough it is 3D)...and many more I seem to forget now...

 

Maarten

[Inky]

What? No Xenon2?

 

That's prob. hands down the best shooter on the ST, with Laamatron up there as well.

 

If you're looking for a platformer shooter, Baal is good.

[doncleth]

Thanks for the leads guys.

 

Is the 1943 (or 1944) on ST any good? I remember playing it in the arcades and it was a lot of fun.

[Goochman]

Goldrunner is a good one

[Atari Smeghead]

And lets not forget Plutos... pretty miserable graphics, but brilliant game play. And it supported 2 players simultaneously...

 

I enjoyed Plutos also, but I only had the demo of it. Never knew it supported 2 players simultaneously.

 

Another game that you could play two players simultaneously was Blood Money!

Another good shooter, from Psygnosis.

The premise of money falling out of the enemies after you destroyed them was brilliant.

[Ayreon]

Ofcourse wings of death and Lethal Xcess are the best vertical shooters. Xenon 2 obviously is a great one as well.

 

I always liked return to genessis. Can't remember much of the game itself but the music + the sampled "Return to genessis"voice is just unforgetable.

Dogs of war is a nice shooter. TNT was pretty great for it's days. Leaving terramis is a good one as well.

Don't forget Stardust wich is a great astroids like game

[Maarten Martens]

Hi guys, you can check out the review section of "The ST Graveyard" (see link in my sig) for reviews (and loads of screenshots) of Xenon, Xenon2, Goldrunner, Return to Genesis, Wings of Death, Lethal Xcess and many more!

 

Hope you like it!

 

Maarten

[Inky]

Anyone played Stargoose? How is it?

[Han]

Anyone played Stargoose?  How is it?

 

Yeah I played it back in the days. It had nice graphics and was pretty weird. It had some sort of isometric 3D landscape if I remember correctly. But I lost interest in it pretty quickly.

[sonnenhexer]

Return to Genesis was great, but Xenon 2 was my favorite.

 

Michael

[Sega Ages]

Among conventional shoot-em-ups, Xenon II: Megablast kicked it in style.

 

And for a less conventional shoot-em-up, one of my favorite ST games ever... the superbly designed Paradroid 90

[The Eidolon]

I don't know if you count it as a shoot-em-up, but OIDS would get

my vote for one of the best. The pace is a bit more subdued than

most shoot-em-ups, but the gameplay is great.

 

--The Eidolon

[Saikyo]

I too would say that Plutos is one of the best but my joystick is not very good

so it hurts my hands when I fire!

 

Also I dont know if this is classed as a shooter or not, but PANG is very cool also!

[lkermel]

Is it me or Gradius never got released for any Atari machine ?...

It was available for the C64 and even the Sinclair Spectrum but I've never seen a version for the Atari ST, or 800 xl ... especially as Konami games were released for the Atari 2600 (pooyan, Marine Wars, Strategy X)

 

do you know why ?

[dma]

lkermel : I've never seen any Konami game converted on ST.

 

My favorite shooters on ST are Wings of Death for ST and Stardust for STe.

[dmunsie]

Ah man, I played this one old school game a while back on the ST/Ste called "Frantick" and at first I was like, what the... and then several hours later I'm downing cokes, eating pizza trying to finish this thing and then it happend, I finished it and saw a picture of the designer of the game at the end!!! I'm like, jeesh what an ugly mug!!!

[Inky]

Ah man, I played this one old school game a while back on the ST/Ste called "Frantick" and at first I was like, what the... and then several hours later I'm downing cokes, eating pizza trying to finish this thing and then it happend,  I finished it and saw a picture of the designer of the game at the end!!! I'm like, jeesh what an ugly mug!!!  

 

 

 

Frantick IS good. I just never had the $$$ to register it back in the day...

 

I also suggest people check out the other games by the author... His conversion of Berzerk is VERY good..

 

 

I wonder who wrote those?

[Godzilla]

my favorites are still star glider 2 and carrier command (even though they have a whole entire 'nother aspect to them, I still love just playing them as mindless blasters, (Since I've already beaten them enough times :-) ))

[Serblander]

My all time favourite (Car)-shooter is Overlander

 

Han wrote:

Inky wrote:  

Anyone played Stargoose? How is it?  

 

 

Yeah I played it back in the days. It had nice graphics and was pretty weird. It had some sort of isometric 3D landscape if I remember correctly. But I lost interest in it pretty quickly.

That pretty much sums up my thoughts/experience with it

[Han]

My all time favourite (Car)-shooter is Overlander    

 

Han wrote:

Inky wrote:  

Anyone played Stargoose? How is it?  

 

 

Yeah I played it back in the days. It had nice graphics and was pretty weird. It had some sort of isometric 3D landscape if I remember correctly. But I lost interest in it pretty quickly.

That pretty much sums up my thoughts/experience with it

 

Yeah, I really wanted to like the game.. but there was nothing to hold your interest... apart from the initial weirdness

[miker]

Z-OUT is good - the horizontal type of shooter.

 

And of course i liked Wings of Death & Lethal Excess - these games ROCK!

[GrandviewCoin]

So why has no one mentioned Typhoon Thompson?

 

great shooter..

 

Space Harrier?

[Han]

Typhoon Thompson was brilliant... I almost finished it...