I need help locating all Arcade SHMUPS

[Berty]

Hi,

for those of you who dont know me, i am a Ph.D student at Griffith University Australia. At the moment, i am working on a history of vertical and horizontal shooters. I have located many vertical shmups from the arcade but i feel that i am still missing some. I was hoping that some people may be able to take a look at an excel file i have (dont worry, no macros or viruses) and correct and mistakes or ad any additional Arcade Vertically Scrolling SHMUPS. So far, i have listed 222 verticall scrolling shmups from 1978 till today. Full credit will be given to anybody who can help me out. To get the excel file, please email me or PM me (the file is 85kB)

Cheers,

Berty

 

[Runik]

If you don't mind reading french, you can try this site

They have 480 shooters listed 😉

 

[Berty]

Thankyou!

 

[Curtis]

What kind of PHD involves <s>playing</s> researching games? Sign me up! 😀

 

[Berty]

As soon as i tell people what i do they think that it is just all about stuffing around playing video games. FYI, i have completed a Bachelors Degree in Popular Music (which i had to work my ass of to get into), then i did an honors degree in Pop Music, i got first class honours for (also had to work my ass off) and now im doing my Ph.D in popular music as well. I was originally only going to be creating a video game soundtrack and then writing about the processes of semiotic selection, but i have decided to act as producer of a whole game.

Studying video games is very difficult, despite what you think. Mainly due to the fact that there is little "legitimate research available and the methodologies being used to examine video games are horrible in the fact that they dont consider the role of the active spectator (or the gamer.)

I have to deal with cultural theories, like the postmodern, structuralist and post structuralist moethods. as well as dealing with rhizomatic narrative. It is a pain in the ass.

Lastly, you get idiots who work in the film industry who think they automatically know everything there is about video game narration etc and you as a academic have to deal with these wankers all the time.

Sorry for the rant, but it pisses me off that video games arent taken more seriously. Just look at the attention films are getting know, to see how long it will take video games before they are accepted as forms of artistic expression

 

[Curtis]

I see I mashed the red button there. Sorry.

I'm part way through my Computing Honours degree at UTas. To be honest I probably end up playing more games than you do. 😉

 

[racketboy]

btw, this is another great site -- good msg board too

 

[ExCyber]

More fuel, this time from an arcade-exclusive source. Typing "shooter" into the search engine yields 412 titles. Some of them are undoubtedly extraneous, but the majority seem to be actual shooters.