Decent Mid Priced Shooters

[neoretro]

Hi all,

Can anyone recommend some good shooters in the 0-£200 price range?

Looking for Raiden & Bullet hell type stuff as opposed to your Galaga, Galixian, 1942 stuff.

Thanks

Dave

 

[Wurstkopp]

Around 200:

Strikers 1945

Blazing Star(MVS)

Raiden Fighters (only if you're lucky)

Raiden II

Most other good stuff is (way) more expensive.

One of the best shooters is Raiden DX, which can be found for around 250-300 nowadys.

 

[neoretro]

Around 200:

Strikers 1945

Blazing Star(MVS)

Raiden Fighters (only if you're lucky)

Raiden II

Most other good stuff is (way) more expensive.

One of the best shooters is Raiden DX, which can be found for around 250-300 nowadys.

Cheers buddy.

Got all of them but you’re pricing right they were all less than £200 apart from one.

 

[davey d]

Just about everything keeps creeping up in price. Especially anything remotely popular.

You can pickup PGM conversion carts of ketsui, dodonpachi daioujou, and Espgaluda for around £110 off aliexpress. That is about your best bang per buck for a vertical shmup.

Another option for cheap shmups is buying a Taito GNet motherboard that has a mod bios. You can then flash several memory cards with various shmups on the system.

Should be able to pick up a progear conversion cart under £200 too which is a good game

 

[Adamski]

ASO is my recommendation.Vastly underrated game

 

[mysticmonk]

I'll throw Air Buster in, don't think it's crazy money but a great blast, difficult enough in the last few levels and good tunes too

 

[Mark H]

Zed Blade

Prehistoric Isle 2

both MVS

 

[Vamino]

ASO is my recommendation.Vastly underrated game

This.

Brilliant little game.

The hitbox is a bit too big for my liking but even with that I love the game.

It has that Star Force feel and look about it.

 

[Retroman839]

aso

i have an aso 1

and aso 2 is a fav of mine

 

[Mark H]

Viewpoint (MVS)

 

[neoretro]

Two above are both good shouts but have them on AES for my sins.

I should probably say Neo Geo ones can be ignored for this purpose as I’ll have them all on Console or MVS.

Seems like a really hard task this one!

 

[Adamski]

I have the ASO pcb or Arian Mission as it is known by.Its also known as Alpha Mission as well.Confusing!
Its a shooter with some pretty unique features such as collecting parts of your ship to transform into a range of other ships.Tying in to the Transformers craze when it came out maybe?
Unfortunately I brought MY board a few months ago and before I even had a chance to play it,I dropped it and its dead now

 

[ColinD]

Ninja Emaki (It's more run and gun than shooter) is good fun and can be picked relatively cheaply.

 

[phillv85]

Are Mars Matrix and Giga Wing still under £200? There's also Gunbird which was about £80 when I bought it a few years back. There's also Vapor Trail, is that still a cheap one? I'm out of touch with the prices of games since they all started doubling in price each year.

 

[trev1976]

Just about everything keeps creeping up in price. Especially anything remotely popular.

You can pickup PGM conversion carts of ketsui, dodonpachi daioujou, and Espgaluda for around £110 off aliexpress. That is about your best bang per buck for a vertical shmup.

Another option for cheap shmups is buying a Taito GNet motherboard that has a mod bios. You can then flash several memory cards with various shmups on the system.

Should be able to pick up a progear conversion cart under £200 too which is a good game

Great advise here if your looking for quality games on a budgettrev19762020-12-02 17:52:28

 

[mx5dob]

Sonic wings series. 2 & 3 are MVS 1 is Jamma

Thunder Dragon (NMK) and last duel (Capcom) are 2 of my favorite pcbs and are usually under £200
mx5dob2020-12-03 16:06:48

 

[Mark H]

Get a JTAG Xbox 360 with all the Cave shooters & Raiden Fighters Aces (3 Raiden games in 1 and arcade perfect) ?

"beaps" from this forum is your JTAG man !

 

[jlz]

How about:

- gunbird 2
- sengoku blade

Both worth picking up and quite cheap