Horizontal and Vertical Scrolling Shooters!

Originally Posted by Megalith Beast

Xenon 2 (megadrive) - This one is probably below average I think! First of all, it featured one pretty lame music track that repeated over and over, which was incredibly annoying. Secondly, the rate at which you fire is just, horribly slow, you end up missing half the enemys. It was just a pretty dull game! But...there were some cool powerups, you could get bullets and lasers firing everywhere!

You're an idiot.

Sorry, but you are.

Fair enough the Megadrive version of Xenon 2 was pretty wanky. It was a poor copy of the awesome Amiga version which was one of the finest scrolling shooters ever made. The "Lame music track" was called Metablast by Bomb the Bass and was possibly the first piece of computer game music produced by "serious" musicians and represented a huge leap forward in the mainstream acceptability of computer games. Also, it's an incredible tune.

The game itself borrowed from R-Type and so on but was graphically very impressive on it's first release and never suffered from any slow down. It's a seminal piece of gaming history and you're an idiot.

Other scrolling shooters I've enjoyed over the years were Apogee's "Raptor, Call of the Shadows" which while a little repetitive after a while was certainly frantic enough to keep you interested.

SWIV was another awesome Amiga game, especially two player (Sucked to be the jeep though).

Anyone who owned an Acorn Archimedes computer will surely agree that Nevryon was one of the finest games ever made for any computer.

More recently, Alien Hominid is the only scrolling shooter worth playing on modern consoles but it is fucking awesome. ^_^

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I guess I just get bored with normal scrolling games. AH had a sense of humour about it which keeps it interesting, I found. Also, it's super fun with two players.

There's nowhere I can't reach.