SHMUPS!

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NEOGEO: If you don't like sports games, fighting games and shmups then there's no point buying one of these. Essentially a home version of their arcade machine, SNK's 16-bit console is still hugely powerful today. Sporting a reasonably sized library of extremely good games, the NeoGeo can still outclass the Playstation for sheer arcade fun.

There's some real top class shmups here, including the wonderful Pulstar and it's followup Blazing Star, two Metal Slug games, Last Resort, Alpha-Mission II and the irritatingly fabulous Viewpoint.

GAME	COMPANY	INFORMATION
Aero Fighters 2, aka Sonic Wings 2	Video System	Conventional vert scroller. Plain, simple, but fun.
Aero Fighters 3, aka Sonic Wings 3	Video System	Sequel to the above, and more of the same.
Alpha Mission 2 aka ASO II : Last Guardian	SNK	1991
Andro Dunos	Visco	1992
Blazing Star	Yumekobo	Arcade only. Not as good as Pulstar, though not a true sequel.
Captain Tomaday	Visco
Ghost Pilots	SNK	Average war shmup. Drab and basic.
Iron Clad / Chotetsu Bri'kinger		(Neo-Geo CD only!)
Last Resort	SNK	R-Typeish shmup featuring a long ship and a weapon orb.
Prehistoric Isle 2
Pulstar	Aicom	Rumored ex-Irem members worked on this. Fantastic playability, and the best rendered graphics going!
Strikers 1945+	Psikyo	NeoGeo-only game from the Strikers series. Really good fun and quality gameplay
Twinkle Star Sprites	SNK	Wicked puzzle style shooter. Attack your opponent by wasting chains of baddies!
Viewpoint	Sammy	Isometric shmup, also on the MegaDrive (although the game itself is a pain)
Zed Blade / Operation Ragnarok	NMK	1994

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