30 Essential SNES SHMUPS (From Classics to Overlooked Games)
987Though the Sega Genesis was particularly well-known for its shoot-em-ups, these 30 Super Nintendo classics (and overlooked games) were exemplary entries in the genre.
Of all the classic game genres, very few remain as cutting-edge as the automatically scrolling shoot 'em up. While it is true that there are handful of big-name shmup franchises that landed on the Super Nintendo early on that had slowdown, these are actually a minority and the issue can be overblown. However, when you had the right developer, the Super Nintendo was still capable of delivering some fast-paced action.
In reality, the Super Nintendo (and its Japanese counterpart, the Super Famicom) has some top-notch exclusives and a deep bench of respectable shooters that give Sega’s 16-bit shooter lineup a run for its money. Sega’s Genesis might have had the faster CPU to give it that “blast processing” making it more natural for shooter developers to get solid performance, but Super Nintendo programers eventually learned how to optimize their code and creativity to make use of the SNES’s hardware.
In this video we go through the history of Super Nintendo in search of the most extraordinary shooters ever released for Nintendo's 16-bit console, demystifying its bad reputation in this genre and demonstrating that it could compete head to head with consoles specialized in shmups such as the Sega Genesis or the PC Engine.
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Games Featured
0:00 Intro
0:26 1990 Gradius III
1:32 1991 Super R-Type
2:04 1991 Darius Twin
2:41 1991 Earth Defense Force
3:27 1991 Thunder Spirits
4:08 1991 U.N. Squadron
5:04 1992 Phalanx
6:00 1992 Flying Hero: Bugyuru no Daibouken
6:37 1992 Imperium
7:43 1992 Space Megaforce
8:24 1992 Strike Gunner STG
9:50 1992 BlaZeon: The Bio-Cyborg Challenge
10:24 1992 Cosmo Gang: The Video
10:55 1992 Firepower 2000
11:28 1992 Acrobat Mission
11:59 1992 Axelay
12:33 1993 R-Type III
13:05 1993 Pop ‘n’ Twinbee
13:42 1993 Tekkaman Blade
14:15 1993 Aero Fighters
14:50 1993 Super Nova
15:24 1993 BioMetal
15:57 1993 Chō Jikū Yōsai Macross: Scrambled Valkyrie
16:30 1993 Star Fox
17:05 1994 Gokujou Parodius
17:43 1994 Märchen Adventure Cotton 100%
18:32 1994 Kaite Tsukutte Asoberu: Dezaemon
19:08 1995 Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius
19:51 1996 Spriggan Powered
20:45 Outro
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