G-Vector (Saturn)

[Iron Draggon]

I can't believe I finally found a factory sealed copy of this on ebay... and for only $50 too... I didn't think that I'd ever find a factory sealed one for sale...

yeah, Panzer Dragoon in space, without any dragons... this has to be worth owning... seems to be pretty rare too... even used copies are hard to find...

[fishsandwich]

Congrats! I had a hard time finding this game as well. Took me months. It plays a bit like Panzer Dragoon like you said (or better yet, Sky Target) but the damn thing is HARD. I can't make it past the third level to save my life.

A few years ago I made it my mission to get every single shooter for the Saturn... 2-D traditionals like Radiant Silvergun, pseudo 3-D games like Space Harrier (and G-Vector), full 3-D games Wing Arms, Mech shooters like Gun Griffon, FPS's like Powerslave, old arcade shooters like Space Invaders, and various games that didn't quite belong in any of the categories above such as Metal Slug. Here's the compiled list if you are interested. I just realized I never compiled a list of the gun games for the Saturn. I need to get on that.


PURE shooters (vertical or horizontal, sprite or polygonal graphics on a 2-D plane)

1942 (Capcom Generations 1)
1943 (Capcom Generations 1)
1943+ (Capcom Generations 1)
Batsugun
Battle Garegga
Blast Wind
Bokan To Ippatsu Doronboo Kanpekiban (aka Time Bokan)
Chariot (Arcade Gears: Wonder 3)
Choaniki (aka Super Big Brother)
Cotton 2
Cotton Boomerang
Darius 2
Darius Gaiden
Defender (Arcades Greatest Hits: Williams)
Defender II (Arcades Greatest Hits: Williams)
Detana Twinbee Yahho! Deluxe Pack
Dezaemon 2 (aka shooter maker, contains 3 complete shooters)
DoDonPachi
DonPachi
Fantasy Zone
Galactic Attack (aka Layer Section)
Game Tengoku (aka The Game Paradise)
Gradius (Gardius Deluxe Pack)
Gradius 2 (Gardius Deluxe Pack)
Gekirindan
Guardian Force
Gun Frontier (Arcade Gears)
Gunbird
Hyper Duel
Image Fight (Image Fight & X-Multiply dual pack)
In The Hunt
Jikkyou Osyaberi Parodius (aka Parodius: Forever With Me)
Keio Yugekitai (aka Keio Flying Squadron 2 in UK, some platform elements)
Kingdom Grand Prix
Konami Antiques MSX Collection***
Kyukyoku Tiger 2 Plus
Layer Section 2
Life Force (Salamander Deluxe Pack)
Metal Black
Mobile Suit Gundam
Mobile Suit Z Gundam
Parodius (aka Parodius Da!) (Gokujyo Parodius-Da! Deluxe Pack)
Parodius 2 (aka Gokujko Parodius) (Gokujyo Parodius-Da! Deluxe Pack)
Planet Joker
Radiant Silvergun
Salamander (Salamander Deluxe Pack)
Salamander 2 (Salamander Deluxe Pack)
Sengoku Blaede
Sexy Parodius
Shienryu
Sinistar (Arcades Greatest Hits: Williams)
Skull Fang
Sol Divide
Sonic Wings Special (remixed and merged versions of Sonic Wings 1,2, and 3)
Soukyugurentai
Star Jacker (Sega Ages Memorial 2)
Steam Hearts
Strikers 1945
Strikers 1945 II
Super Dimensional Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?
Terra Cresta 3-D
Thunderforce 1 (Thunderforce Gold Pack 1)
Thunderforce 2 (Thunderforce Gold Pack 1)
Thunderforce 3 (Thunderforce Gold Pack 1)
Thunderforce 4 (Thunderforce Gold Pack 2)
Thunderforce Arcade (remixed Thunderforce 3) (Thunderforce Gold Pack 2)
Thunderforce V
Vulgas (Capcom Generations 3)
X-Multiply (Image Fight & X-Multiply dual pack)

*** Konami Antiques MSX Collection contains PORTS of classic shooters for the old Japanese MSX computer, a platform similar in capabilities to the Colecovision. They are essentially Saturn ports of MSX ports of arcade games. Gradius, Gradius 2, Salamander, and Parodius 1 appear in arcade-perfect form on other Saturn compilations.

Gofers Ambition
Gradius
Gradius 2
Salamander
Parodius
Time Pilot
Sky Jaguar
Super Cobra




QUASI-3D SHOOTERS (with limited movement, sprite or polygon based))

Afterburner II (on US Sega Ages CD or Japanese stand-alone disk)
G-Vector
Galaxy Force II
Night Striker S
Panzer Dragoon
Panzer Dragoon Zwei
Sky Target
Solar Eclipse
Space Harrier (on US Sega Ages CD or Japanese stand-alone disk)




FULL 3-D SHOOTERS

Black Dawn
Black Fire
Darklight Conflict
Independence Day
Shockwave Assault
Star Fighter
Stellar Assault SS
Thunderstrike 2
Wing Arms



MECH 3-D SHOOTERS

A.M.O.K.
Bulk Slash
Ghen War
Gun Griffon
Gun Griffon 2
Krazy Ivan
Mechwarrior 2
Mobile Suit Gundam Gaiden #1
Mobile Suit Gundam Gaiden #2
Mobile Suit Gundam Gaiden #3
Robotica
Virtua On: Cyber Troopers (quasi shooter/fighter)
Virtua On: Cyber Troopers Netlink Edition (quasi shooter/fighter)



FIRST-PERSON SHOOTERS (Generally Ground Based)

Alien Trilogy
Battlezone (Arcades Greatest Hits: Atari)
Battlesport
Congo The Movie: The Lost City Of Zinj
Doom
Duke Nukem 3D
Enemy Zero (graphic adventure with FPS segments)
Hexen
Machine Head
Magic Carpet
Powerslave
Quake
Shellshock
Space Hulk: Vengence Of The Blood Angels
Tunnel B-1




CLASSIC SHOOTERS (generally one screen, no scrolling)

Asteroids (Arcades Greatest Hits: Atari)
Centipede (Arcades Greatest Hits: Atari)
Missile Command (Arcades Greatest Hits: Atari)
Robotron (Arcades Greatest Hits: Midway)
Space Invaders
Tempest (Arcades Greatest Hits: Atari)
Tempest 2000




QUASI-SHOOTERS (many can be viewed as platform, action, or combat/racing games, but they are more firepower-intensive than most.)

Assault Suit Leynos 2
Burning Rangers
Chaos Control Remix
Commando (Capcom Generations 4)
Contra: Legacy of War
Crime Wave
Crusader: No Remorse
Gunsmoke (Capcom Generations 4)
Loaded
Mass Destruction
Mercs (Capcom Generations 4)
Metal Slug
Prikura Daisakusen
Soviet Strike
Steamgear Mash
Tukai Slot Shooting
Vatlva
Wolf Fang SS

[Iron Draggon]

yeah, I dunno why it's so hard to find this one... and then when you finally do find it, it's cheap! I'm glad it is, but you'd think it would be expensive...

I'm hoping to get Stellar Assault next, but that one is real expensive... and even harder to find... I know where to get it, but I still can't afford it yet...

BTW, thanks for the list... I have all the US released SHMUPS, but I'm still working on getting all the JP released SHUMPS... still a long way left to go...

I think there's something like 60 JP releases, and I'm not quite up to 20 yet... I have most of the ones I want the worst, except the real expensive ones...

[alec]

cool. i just heard of this game some time a few weeks ago. it looks really cool to me. i've seen a video of the gameplay on youtube or google. I want to have one one day. $50 for a sealed one is incredible.

[fishsandwich]

I found that video on youtube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRJcs53nHUg


It's a mixture of several different shooters... lots of Panzer Dragoon (without the ability to move the camera around), Thunderblade, Sky Target, and lots of others. Cool game... just too frickin hard.

[Iron Draggon]

COOL... looks awesome... I can hardly wait till it gets here, so I can try it out...

what's really weird is the seller that I bought my new copy from also had a used copy for sale, and he wanted $25 for it... but Play Asia wants $50 for a used copy... so I guess I just lucked out when I jumped on it... I think I saw it shortly after it was posted... maybe the price was a mistake, and I just managed to buy it before the seller had a chance to correct it... I dunno

[Iron Draggon]

OMG... no kidding about it being hard... I can't even make it past the first level boss yet... but it's sooo coool... definitely worth the money, IMO...

[bangtango]

COOL... looks awesome... I can hardly wait till it gets here, so I can try it out...

what's really weird is the seller that I bought my new copy from also had a used copy for sale, and he wanted $25 for it... but Play Asia wants $50 for a used copy... so I guess I just lucked out when I jumped on it... I think I saw it shortly after it was posted... maybe the price was a mistake, and I just managed to buy it before the seller had a chance to correct it... I dunno

Some sellers actually like to give a fair price. I bought a sealed copy of Alien vs Predator for the Atari Jaguar on Ebay awhile back, for $30 shipped using a BIN, when by all rights it should be significantly higher. I think a lot of it has to do with how much someone originally paid for said game, too. If I invest under $10 in some game that goes for a good price then I can live with letting it go for below market value, depending on the circumstances. In the case of that seller I dealt with, he said he got several sealed copies of AVP dirt cheap ($5 or less) because someone who had a box of copies believed the game was obsolete since a couple versions had been done for the PC. Unless of course that was a story to cover up for him not bothering to check the going rate for the game and he listed it low without checking completed auctions :)

[Iron Draggon]

well I finally made it past the first level boss, but this is clearly a game of memorizing patterns... even with the 9 continue cheat enabled, I still wasn't able to make it past the second level boss after defeating the first level boss without using a continue... what I need is some GameShark codes to defeat this beast... if the bosses get progessivly harder, I'll never beat it otherwise

[Ed Oscuro]

Nice list Fishy, but you're missing Shippu Mahou Daisakusen (of course, it's romanized differently in certain places) and Elevator Action Returns! EAR seems to get better marks from folks than the Mahou Daisakusen games from people (I like both though).

Out of that list, I most want Batsugun and Metal Black (for good measure) at the moment.

[fishsandwich]

Nice list Fishy, but you're missing Shippu Mahou Daisakusen (of course, it's romanized differently in certain places)

It's listed under Kingdom Grand Prix... found it on the front & spine.

Batsugun is AWESOME, one of my all-time favorite Saturn shooters along with Battle Garegga and Sonic Wings.

[dj898]

so is it hard to find?
Dame! I had two sealed copies and opened one to play and subsequently gave it to a friend keeping the sealed copy myself... :(

[Steven]

congrats. I had it for a brief period, but ended up selling it because I just couldn't get into it. If you like G-Vector, check out Night Striker S on Saturn too. Both are similar games IIRC