Your Top 3 Genesis Shmups

[BrianC]

I often wonder what an R Type game on Genesis would have been like. TG-16 and SNES had them and too bad Genesis missed out.

It's not quite the same, but at least you can play the SMS version on Genesis with a PBC. Not as good as some other versions, but still very good, especially for the hardware.

[Thunderblaze16]

Sega genesis game called,

MEGA R-TYPE!!!

[criddo91]

1. MUSHA
2. Gley Lancer
3. Thunder Force IV / Lightening Force

Other favourites: Truxton, Hellfire, Raiden Trad, Sol-Deace, Gaiares, Thunder Force III, Eliminate Down, Verytex.

[old man]

Elemental Master
Thunder Force IV
Battle Mania 2

[Curryman123]

GaiaRes--All around well balanced and very fun shooter.
Bio-Hazard Battle--addicting as all hell
Lightening Force--Cool game

[OverDrone]

Twinkle Tale is technically an over head run and gun, like Mercs for example, with the only shmup elements coming into play at the boss battles.

Elemental Master and Undead Line are both pure shmups though because of the forced scroll, despite the 'walky' themes. Panorama Cotton is a rail shooter.

Or at least that's how they'd be classified over at shooting game HQ shmups.com. Hennyway, my top three is undersided until I play the rest of the stuff I missed out on years ago, but one pleasant surprise was Gaiares, at the time confined to NTSC territories, wheres mediocre shooters like Arrow Flash made it to PAL instead. Great, deep hori with buckets of strategy that plays a bit like a cross between Gradius and R-Type, but without the 'space cow' syndrome that afflicts the aforementioned games (you can control your speed using a button from the get go ala TF, Aleste etc.
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I can make it to the end of stage 5/1 credit but that's where the difficulty starts to show it's teeth a bit

[RRR]

Battle Mania 2
Thunderforce 3
MUSHA

[The Coop]

Thunder Force IV
M.U.S.H.A.
Thunder Force III

[Bloodreign]

Thunder Force IV/Lightening Force
Darius II
Fire Shark

[Kogen]

#1 - MUSHA

#2 - Fire Shark

#3 - Vapour Trail

[poperamone]

I know im gonna get some flaming but for me Xenon 2 megablast is one of my faves. think it is mainly the awsome soundtrack

[The Jackal]

Describe it as best as you can Jackal, I may be of some use to remember the game.

Okay, then: You were in a ship and had to shoot other ships. Oh yeah, and it was in space. Do you know it?

[Kogen]

Divine Sealing?

[Kollision]

Twinkle Tale is technically an over head run and gun, like Mercs for example, with the only shmup elements coming into play at the boss battles.

There's a whole stage that flows like a true vertical shmup in Twinkle Tale.

my picks

Thunder Force IV
Zero Wing
Darius II

[djshok]

1 - Thunder Forcer IV aka Lightening Force
2 - Battle Mania Daiginjou aka Trouble Shooter Vintage
3 - Steel Empire

Gleylancer and Undeadline would come in 4th and 5th respectively, but OP only wanted top 3.