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/etherva... (Trial)
2) Cho Ren Sha 68K
http://www2.tky.3web.ne.jp/~yosshin/m...
3) PatriotDark
http://temperancelance.orz.hm/web_pd.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/?mtnrty1iiyw (Alternative Link)
http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.... (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/ga... (Trial)
7) Touhou Project
http://www16.big.or.jp/~zun/html/th08... (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_xgam... (Also check out other games from x.x)
9) RefleX
http://www.siterskain.com/reflex/down... (Trial)
10) Parsec 47
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/...
11) XOP Black
http://rydia.net/udder/prog/xopblack/
12) HELLSINKER
http://www.vector.co.jp/soft/win95/ga... (Trial)
13) Warning Forever
http://www18.big.or.jp/~hikoza/Prod/
14) Banshiryuu C67 Version
http://ss-do.hp.infoseek.co.jp/saku/s... (trial)
15) Zen-Ichi
http://mna.net/equinox/equinox_HTML1/... (Trial)
16) Radio Zonde
http://www.vector.co.jp/soft/win95/ga...
17) Samidare
http://www.rebrank.org/products/smd/d... (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... (trial) (Also check out TWilight refrAIN)
20) Kamui
http://www.siterskain.com/kamui/downl... (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)

• Category

  • Gaming

• License

  • Standard YouTube License

• Music

  • "Edward Carnby (Tiësto Vocal Mix)" by Tiësto presents Alone In The Dark (Google Play • iTunes)