hanks to MC Wilson's unbelievably brilliant suggestion we will be designating March as National Shmup Month. As part of the Shmuppreciation, we'll be having a little competition. I'm still working out the rules for this, but please feel free to make suggestions below.
Here's what I'm thinking so far:
The hardcore shmuppers at shmups.com generally define beating a shmup as 1CCing it. 1CC is defined as clearing the game without using all your lives, aka no continues. This also assumed to be done with default settings so no changing difficulty, number of lives, etc.
Now, getting good enough to do that would take way more than a month in most cases. So how about we see how far we can get on one credit by the end of March in a particular game? If people aren't keen on that, maybe we can limit the number of continues or something.
MC has nominated me to choose what game each participant will play, so I need to know what shmups you own. Please post and list what shmups and systems you own. I'm only counting traditional shmups, meaning vertical or horizontal scrolling so no rails shooters (Panzer Dragoon, REZ), hybrids (Philosoma, Xyanide) or run'n guns (Contra, Metal Slug). Please also list what your shmup preference is: Vertical or Horizontal scrolling. If you'd like me to suggest a new game for you to go out and purchase for the competition, I'd be happy to. Just give me the price range you're looking to spend.
If someone wants to participate, but doesn't really own any shmups to play and has a PC capable of mild gaming; there are a number of freeware PC shmups I can assign.
Since there's no way we can really judge who's the best when comparing completely different games, this is pretty much just for fun.
You have until February 28th to decide to join in.
More info to come as I think of it and update...