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The fourth game in the Donpachi series and the first to be ported to the PS2, courtesy of Arika.
Psyvariar: Complete Edition is the PS2 port of the Japanese arcade game Psyvariar. The game includes a leveling system that upgrades your ship and features enduring fights that fill the screen with thousands of bullets.
A vertically scrolling shoot 'em up, from Treasure that features unique polarity-switching gameplay. It is the spiritual successor to Radiant Silvergun.
Sequel to the arcade hit. This game is ever more over the top than the last game, and the new reflect system causes all kind of carnage on screen.
CAVE's first shoot-'em-up to use third-party arcade hardware (and their first side-scrolling shoot-'em-up). It is known for its distinct steampunk aesthetic and its "Gunflyer" supporting ship mechanic.
RayCrisis is the prequel to the original entry in the Ray Series, RayForce.
The game's full name is Mars Matrix: Hyper Solid Shooting. Vertical Spaceship Shooter. The game features frantic gameplay. Projectiles come at you from everywhere. Luckily, the ships have a reflect system to deflect the enemy fire. The game would later get a Dreamcast port.
The fourth main installment of the R-Type series, bringing the shoot-'em-up series into 3D while adding multiple ships to choose from and a superweapon system known as the "Delta Weapon".
Guwange is a vertical scrolling shooter from Cave based on Japanese folklore.
Spiritual successor to Battle Garegga.
Giga Wing is a 1999 vertical shooter from Capcom; it is well-known for the incredible amount of points that a player can collect in the game.
Strikers 1945 Plus was a remake of Strikers 1945 II for the Neo Geo platform. Plus was the only game in the series with a horizonal monitor configuration.
An arcade shooter with disco themed music and graphics.
A scrolling shooter for the Dreamcast, Gunbird lets you choose one of seven characters, from a magician to a combat android, to battle God (oddly an elephant) and his angels (actually an army of frogs).
The fifth game in the Touhou Project, and the last on the PC-98.
This is the fourth official game in the Touhou Project, and it is the first to feature the focus mode, which has went on to become a staple of the series.
Radiant Silvergun is a vertical scrolling shooter with several weapons and a color-based chain system.
ESP Ra.De. is an Arcade Shoot em Up released by CAVE. Known as "ESP Ra.de. - A.D. 2018 Tokyo" outside of Japan.
A vertical arcade shoot-'em-up released in 1997. Filled with tons of bosses, secrets, and styyyyyyyle.
The third game in the Touhou Project series, which is is a versus styled shooter, similar to games such as Twinkle Star Sprites for NEO-GEO.
A vertical scrolling shoot 'em up developed by Cave. A primary originator of the "bullet hell" subgenre.
The second game in the Touhou Project, which introduces the concept of danmaku (a style of shoot 'em up) to the series.
The first shoot-'em-up developed by Warashi and a spiritual successor to the 1993 game Daioh. Pilot the "Burn Dragoon" and defend your far-future colony from the legions of the alien "Shienryu".
Vertically scrolling shoot-em-up by Raizing, noted among hardcore fans for its challenging "rank" system.
Vertical Shmup based on the culture of Japanese Game Centers.
The first game of the DonPachi series.
A rather obscure vertical scrolling shooter, guide your ship in a battle against aliens using three different weapons. This game is known in Japan as V-Five and is also the first game from Tsuneki Ikeda.
A vertical-scrolling arcade shoot-'em-up, heralded as the earliest example of the "manic shooter" (or "bullet hell") sub-genre.
Side-scrolling two player shoot-em-up for the Sega Genesis notable for its eerie biological enemies and organic environments.
Summer Carnival '92 - Recca was only released in Japan, on July 17th 1992. The game is famous for its incredible speed, unique soundtrack, and relentless difficulty. It later was released worldwide on the 3DS eShop.
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