Best Cute em Ups Query???... (All Platforms)

[VitaminX]

My question is, Do any of you guys know of any legendary Cute em Ups, across any platform that every collector & hardcore gamer should add to there own personal collections???... Whether it be vertical, horizontal, multi-scrolling, manic/bullet hell, methodical, Rail, 3D shooters etc???... Please add rare Japanese only releases too.

Please I need some more suggestions...

[tom]

Anything with Barbie in it

[kentuckyfried]

Konami's Parodius series seems to fit the bill.

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

Hmmmm ... I'm not sure about any "legendary" ones, but Air Zonk (TG16, Wii Virtual Console) was pretty good from what I can remember.

[bust3dstr8]

This is cool lil' subgenre that I always found to be entertaining.

Here are some off the top of my head,I probally missed a bunch:

Flying Hero
Captian Tomaday
Cotton Series
Parodius Series
Star Parodier
CD Denjin
PC Denjin
Twinke Star Sprites
Magical Chase
Gunbird Series
Hana Taka Daka
Fantasy Zone
Twinbee Series
Akkanvader

[Captain Wrong]

Anything with Barbie in it


Barbie's Magical Shmup Adventure is tits.

[le geek]

Megamania...Old Skool...........FTW............................... Biatch!

[Aussie2B]

TwinBee is the quintessential cute-em-up series as far as I'm concerned. Most others were inspired by that series, anyway.

[josekortez]

Space Invaders '95 is the Parodius of the Space Invaders games. I love it.

[Jorpho]

I think bust3dstr8 pretty much covered everything.

ABA Games (http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/index_e.html) might have some stuff that fits the bill, too. (TUMIKI Fighters in particular.)

Game Tengoku also probably qualifies.

[Trebuken]

More modern one:

Platypus on the PSP.

[fahlim003]

Harmful Park on the PlayStation is quite good and currently, that could be the only one in genre I actually own and enjoy.

[CosmicMonkey]

Definitely Harmful Park. I really enjoyed this game. Also the Twinbee series and Air Zonk.

[SamuraiSmurfette]

Just picked up Cosmogang: The Video for SFC.
Cute galaga-style shmup.
Difficulty ramps up too quickly though imo.

Link:http://arcade.svatopluk.com/namco/cosmogang/

[TurboGenesis]

Even though it is best played with 2 players…

Twinkle Star Sprites is a very fine game offering a cute 'em up enviroment.

[CosmicMonkey]

Twinkle Star Sprites is awesome. I just hardly play it because I can't find anyone who can be bothered to learn the game. I'm longing for some 2 player action!