New PAL Ps1 Shooters

[garyfoo182]

I posted this on the other forum but no one seems to care and maybe no one actually does but can anyone tell me what the 2d/ pseudo 3d shooters are on the PAL PS1? I especially want to know about recent releases and what they're like?

ZAG

[CosmicMonkey]

Best place to check for anything shmuppery related is Shmups.com. The Xenocide files should have info on all shmups for a particular system.

However, you are limiting yourself with just PAL games. Out of all those PSone games, I know these got UK releases:

Einhander (absolute quality)
R-Types (R-Type 1 & 2 on one disk. Smashing)
R-Type Delta (quality^2)
G Darius (on the hunt for this myself)
N2O (?)
Sanvein (never played it)
Space Invaders (um, it's Space Invaders)
Strikers 1945 II (got this for £3 in Gamestation)


Now if we throw a Breaker Pro (or other method) into the equasion, there's more import shooty fun to be had:

Harmful Park (brilliant, absolutely great. I do love my Cute 'em ups)
Gradius Gaiden (again, quality^2)
Donpachi (mental)
DoDonpachi (even more mental)
Jikkyo Oshaberi Parodius/Parodius Deluxue/Sexy Parodius (my head hurts. wierd, but damn good)
Gaia Seed (looks like it should be running on a MegaCD. Damn good though)
70's Giant Robot Anime: Geppy X (will tell you how good it is when it arrives)
Cotton Original (class. Conversion of PCEngine original)
Marchen Cotton 100% (conversion of SFami game)

Um, yeah. There are more shooters, but the Saturn versions of those are generally considered superior. Have fun.

[Dimitri]

N2O (?)
Sanvein (never played it)

Neither of these are 2D shooters. N2O is more like Tempest and Sanvein is a unique top-down screen-by-screen thing.

Harmful Park (brilliant, absolutely great. I do love my Cute 'em ups)
Gaia Seed (looks like it should be running on a MegaCD. Damn good though)
70's Giant Robot Anime: Geppy X (will tell you how good it is when it arrives)

...and all three of these are incredibly expensive and on my wantlist. Don't forget Zanac X Zanac as well...

Shooter Space Shot is a budget shooter in the style of Einhander or R-Type Delta, couldn't tell you if it got a PAL release, though...not bad at all.

[PS1Expert]

Gaia Seed IS DAMN good! And I have it on ebay at the moment as well.

[CosmicMonkey]

Forgot Kyuiin [vacuum kids]. Cute 'em up with a small boy riding a flying hoover Apparently you can suck-up enemies with the hoover and then shoot them out. Sounds very crazy, but is highly regarded.

On the hunt for a copy now. I reckon I'll go for the Best of the Best rerelease, as it's cheaper and I actually prefer the cover art to the original.

Like I said before, some of the shooters are much better on the Saturn. However, if you don't have a Saturn, then I'd also recommend Soukyugurentai, Thunderforce V and Layer Section.

And if you want some Run n' Gun love, Gunners Heaven/Rapid Reload is a quality game. Can be frustrating, but it's very much Gunstar Heroes for the Playstation.