Vote on the worst shooter for Neo Geo

[mainman]

I mean it does suck, but in a sucky sucky $5 dolla sort of way

Than why do you play for LONG TIME.

 

[BIG BEAR]

Captain Tomato is an insult to the hardware and consumer 19 years after the release of the hardware.
It is on the level of a Home brew masquerading as an official release.
BB

 

[Neo Alec]

Most of the later non-fighter releases on the Neo are kind of sad. Nightmare in the Dark gets a lot of love, but it's still just a 20-minute single-screen Bubble Bobble clone with only five stages. Pochi & Nyaa feels well-made, but fails at gameplay. The quality of those late Visco releases just doesn't surprise me.

 

[HeavyMachineGoob]

All I know is Prehistoric Isle 2 is not only ugly but the "music" is absolutely horrendous. It blows me away that anyone was lining up to buy AES conversions of it back in the day.

Also Strikers 1945 Plus uses clip art and fonts from Microsoft Power Point, that is inexcusable.

 

[neo_mao]

Y’all fools are foolish, Ghost Pilots is not that bad.

And that dude who voted for ASO2 should be slapped and banned.

 

[city41]

Tomaday was the SOTM a while back and I came to enjoy it. A lot of shooters take putting hours into them to see their potential.

 

[Burning Fight!!]

Y’all fools are foolish, Ghost Pilots is not that bad.

And that dude who voted for ASO2 should be slapped and banned.

Yes, no, absolutely

 

[GhostSeed]

Also Strikers 1945 Plus uses clip art and fonts from Microsoft Power Point, that is inexcusable.

Is there a side by side example of this?

 

[Burning Fight!!]

Is there a side by side example of this?

I think he means word art, you know, on the plane logos

 

[wyo]

Neo Strikers is the worst Strikers but still not the worst Neo shooter

 

[_rm_]

I can understand most of the people arguments, but include Zed Blade??? C'mon. The game isn't terrible and Manabu Namiki's OST alone makes it almost instantly better than all other titles on the list

 

[simioni]

River Raid>Ghost Pilots

 

[Heinz]

I'm glad you didn't include NAM-1975 or else I'd have to murder you.

 

[Ralfakick]

I'm glad you didn't include NAM-1975 or else I'd have to go back to this hell again

Fixed it for you

is Ninja Commando technically a shooter, or would you say it has more in common with a game like Commando or Ikari. It’s kind of a hybrid run and gun.

Also is Twinkle Star Sprites a shooter with puzzle elements or a puzzle game with shooter elements? I would say more of a shooter but it does have Bust A Move style puzzle competition. Not that TSS would get voted as worst shooter on the Neo.

 

[Burning Fight!!]

The mere consideration of NAM-1975 casts a shadow of doubt over the credibility of this thread

My point here (aside from the implied endorsement of NAM-1975) in this thread is including Nam as a "shooter" is fucking dumb because we know what genre we actually came to talk about here. Putting Ghost Pilots and NAM-1975 in the same conversation is like comparing Dynamite Duke to Rayxanber 3 or Spinal Breakers to Raiden II.

Which begs the question: WTF is Ninja Commando doing here, does it even auto-scroll, per the thread's criteria?

 

[HeavyMachineGoob]

Have either of you even played Ninja Commando? It absolutely auto-scrolls, vertically, the characters cannot shoot sideways or behind plus the default attacking method is shooting projectiles.

It is functionally equivalent to other vertical shooters like Aero Fighters, except it has an elaborate ninja theme with characters walking on the ground rather than flying, still plays the same.

If Gun.smoke on the NES is a vertical scrolling shooter, which it is, then Ninja Commando counts even more.

 

[LoneSage]

Have either of you even played Ninja Commando? It absolutely auto-scrolls

It is functionally equivalent to other vertical shooters like Aero Fighters, except it has an elaborate ninja theme with characters walking on the ground rather than flying, still plays the same.

I read this and made a face

Bud, Ninja Commando does not auto-scroll.

The game is one of a kind, taking inspiration from Mercs-esque games and shmups. Having elements of both while being neither.

 

[Technos]

I voted Captain Tomaday, but Ironclad sucks balls.

What’s the deal with Saurus? Shock Troopers is so good, and has such nice sprites. The rest of their catalog is booty pre-rendered stuff that no one really likes.

 

[Burning Fight!!]

Have either of you even played Ninja Commando? It absolutely auto-scrolls, vertically, the characters cannot shoot sideways or behind plus the default attacking method is shooting projectiles.

It is functionally equivalent to other vertical shooters like Aero Fighters, except it has an elaborate ninja theme with characters walking on the ground rather than flying, still plays the same.

If Gun.smoke on the NES is a vertical scrolling shooter, which it is, then Ninja Commando counts even more.

I'll accept Gun.Smoke philosophically as a shmup but it doesn't feel like it when you have your "ship" walking on solid ground (save yourself the trouble and don't mention Mr. Heli please lol) and your "ship" is a person shooting other people. But anything else is a bit of a stretch IMO.

I'm glad Sage confirmed Ninja Commando didn't autoscroll, I thought I was going crazy for a moment.

 

[LoneSage]

I literally just played it thirty minutes ago to confirm I wasn't crazy either.

 

[LoneSage]

What’s the deal with Saurus? Shock Troopers is so good, and has such nice sprites. The rest of their catalog is booty pre-rendered stuff that no one really likes.

They must have been enamored with Donkey Kong Country.

 

[HeavyMachineGoob]

I reviewed a YT longplay on it, no I don't have my AES 161 cart on hand, ok so I was wrong that it autoscrolls, it is therefore more like shock Troopers or Commando or Ikari Warriors.

I could have sworn it autoscrolled... maybe it's one of those Mandela effects.

 

[Neo Alec]

Have either of you even played Ninja Commando? It absolutely auto-scrolls, vertically, the characters cannot shoot sideways or behind plus the default attacking method is shooting projectiles.

It is functionally equivalent to other vertical shooters like Aero Fighters, except it has an elaborate ninja theme with characters walking on the ground rather than flying, still plays the same.

If Gun.smoke on the NES is a vertical scrolling shooter, which it is, then Ninja Commando counts even more.

Have you played it? I recently got it on NGCD.

What you're describing is a very different game.

 

[HeavyMachineGoob]

I have played it tons before, have owned two copies of it for MVS, but then the universe changed on me and now it doesn't autoscroll.

 

[Johnny16Bit]

I voted Captain Tomaday, but Ironclad sucks balls.

What’s the deal with Saurus? Shock Troopers is so good, and has such nice sprites. The rest of their catalog is booty pre-rendered stuff that no one really likes.

I find Ironclad pretty awesome actually. It has the same kind of "best of this and that tribute" mix as Shock Troopers (it's mostly the same team IIRC), solid gameplay mechanics, an excellent scoring system, first rate sound track, plenty of levels... It's pretty much A Tier in my book - but the pre-rendered graphics are what they are. Not sure they're any worse than Pulstar's or Blazing Star's though?