Top 20 Best Doujin Shmups

A little something I put together. 20 Best doujin shoot 'em up games. These are all games for PC, this is also a tribute to these awesome games.

In no particular order. Only Vertical or partly vertical shooters included since I don't play horizontal shooters much.

In order of appearance. Also added download links to the games or their trial versions.
1) Ether Vapor (Boss rush version)
http://edelweiss.skr.jp/works/ethervapor/download.html (Trial)
2) Cho Ren Sha 68K
http://www2.tky.3web.ne.jp/~yosshin/my_works/download.html
3) PatriotDark
http://temperancelance.orz.hm/web_pd.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/?mtnrty1iiyw (Alternative Link)
http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=25128 (for other downloads)
4) eXceed 2nd - VAMPIRE REX
http://www.tennen-sozai.com/down.htm (Trial) (Also check out eXceed 3rd)
5) Blue Sabers - Operation Orbital hammer
http://freett.com/morikem/soft/dl.html (Trial)
6) MEGLILO
http://www.vector.co.jp/soft/winnt/game/se467501.html (Trial)
7) Touhou Project
http://www16.big.or.jp/~zun/html/th08dl.html (Trial) (You can also find trial versions for the rest of the games here)
8) Blue Wish Resurrection
http://www004.upp.so-net.ne.jp/x_xgameroom/Works/works.html (Also check out other games from x.x)
9) RefleX
http://www.siterskain.com/reflex/download.htm (Trial)
10) Parsec 47
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/windows/p47_e.html
11) XOP Black
http://rydia.net/udder/prog/xopblack/
12) HELLSINKER
http://www.vector.co.jp/soft/win95/game/se324495.html (Trial)
13) Warning Forever
http://www18.big.or.jp/~hikoza/Prod/
14) Banshiryuu C67 Version
http://ss-do.hp.infoseek.co.jp/saku/saku_bsr.html#download (trial)
15) Zen-Ichi
http://mna.net/equinox/equinox_HTML1/Download.htm (Trial)
16) Radio Zonde
http://www.vector.co.jp/soft/win95/game/se313786.html
17) Samidare
http://www.rebrank.org/products/smd/download.htm (Trial)
18) Flying Red Wine Barrel ~ A Diary of Little Aviator
http://daidai.moo.jp/dl.html (Trial)
19) TWilight INSanity
http://www85.sakura.ne.jp/~loop/twins.html (trial) (Also check out TWilight refrAIN)
20) Kamui
http://www.siterskain.com/kamui/downloadfiles/KamuiTrialSetup.exe (Trial)

For more shmups check out
http://shootthecore.moonpod.com/

As requested, here are the tracks used:
#1. Battle Again - Ether Vapor (Boss Rush disc)
#2. Heaven - eXceed3rd OST
#3. 07-DJ Tiesto pres. Alone In The Dark - Edward Carnby (Tiësto Vocal Mix) - Club Life 91 - Best of 2008 (Hour 1)
#4. (Boss music) - HELLSINKER OST
#5. 狂気の女神 - RefleX OST CD 2, Track #15
#6. Innocent Treasures - Demetori (Offering to The Sukhavati) (C75)

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[Cleon0154]

and Ikaruga? :c

[lte7]

@Cleon0154 Treasure doesn't count as indie/doujin nor is Ikaruga a PC game.

[666ironnecro]

Im actually trying to see if i can get ahold of eXceed 2nd - VAMPIRE REX

or the 3rd but unfortunetly i cant read japanese so if any1 can help me with a link or anything to where i can get this, it would be much appreciated.

[lte7]

@666ironnecro If you look at indiegames website you'll see that eXceed2nd - VAMPIRE REX and eXceed 3rd - Jade penetrate are getting localized by Nyu Media along with Satazeus, Ether Vapor HD remaster and two other games I don't know anything about.

[bojo000]

so whats the best game?pls reply

[lte7]

@bojo000 Whatever floats your boat. Crimzon Clover was released a few months ago and is currently my favorite.

[lte7]

@MorichikaRinnosuke17 Yeah that's why I wrote: "Only Vertical or partly vertical shooters included since I don't play horizontal shooters much."

If I did make the video now, I would make it both Horizontal and Vertical (Since I have enough experience from horis from since I made the video). That would mean quite a few new entries to the list and also a few new ones that came out during this time. I might consider redoing the entire list and video sometime if people wanted it.

[Snapscape]

Too many Gigawing clones.

[spriggan10]

If you don't mind my asking, what did you use to capture this?

[matteste]

For me so is Hellsinker and The Tale of Alltynex series my favorites.

[Branches75]

YEA DARK PHOENIX!!! I LOVE THAT SONG!

[SerialGamerOnSDA]

@lte7 Yeah Crimzon clover is just awesome :

- pretty hard

- smart and enjoyable scoring

- really beautifull

one of the best PC shumps in my opinion.

[Raiden7284677]

EXCEED! I like the the sonce game so much! I'm even trying to translate the whole speech to learn more of the plot and characters.