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RetroforceGO! Episode 32: Shmups

3:07 PM on 01.14.2008   |   Dyson

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Welcome back to another Monday! As you're reading this, I'm passed out from a long night of reminiscing about old shooter games and countless hours of sound editing. Thankfully, due in large part to the magic of the Internet, my complete lack of consciousnesses won't keep you from enjoying the latest episode of RetroforceGO! Can you all say "Thank you Internet?"

I knew you could.

Highlights! 

  • This show is almost two hours long, but it's spoiler free
  •  How many dolphins this week? That's right, five
  • BEST WEEK EVAR!! x 2 = The Week of WIN
  • Shirtless Chad? Be still my heart
  • "Gracial fortwess"
  • Omega 5, 'nuff said
  • Rev writes the best letters
  • Shmup time!
  • Please hold for Colette's Retro Fashion Moment
  • Heed my call, dear lord Topher
  • What the f*ck is Toho?!
  • Cute-em-ups is a cool word

Still with us? Good. I'll be awake in an hour or so, so please throw down some lovely comments in the comments section so I can enjoy your opinions as I  enjoy my first glass of Diet Pepsi and a bowl of Lucky Charms -- breakfast of champions, I tell ya'. To get a hold of the show, check out our sexy link right here and if you have any suggestions, praise, criticism, or topic ideas; please email the crew here. (FYI, criticism will probably be ignored unless written in haiku form.)








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tsunamikitsune's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 15:05
tsunamikitsune
AWESOME, I've been looking forward to this. I love SHMUPS!
AgentMOO's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 15:05
AgentMOO
Oh shit! 5 dolphins? I'm listening to this right away
Einhander's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 15:06
Einhander
Crap; have to wait until the morning commute to listen to this podcast of win.
njsykora's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 15:10
njsykora
Downloading now and should be done by the tiem I'm out of the bath. That is a picture of win by the way.
Colette Bennett's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 15:13
Colette Bennett
God, some days I love this podcast so much my face hurts.
big filth's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 15:15
big filth
"Gracial fortwess"

so

hot.
JTHomeslice's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 15:20
JTHomeslice
Shritless Chad? PICS. NAO.
Darren Nakamura's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 15:25
Darren Nakamura
Awesome, because I haven't wasted enough time today. I have to UPS my old Rock Band guitar back but I can't do it until I hear some Retroforce!
JTHomeslice's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 15:32
JTHomeslice
From what I read on (ugg) Gamefaqs, there is a digital version of the letter and there is a little bucket of water you click on to reveal the code. Pretty cool.
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 15:37
king3vbo
This sounds like the greatest RFGO EVAR
maxio098ui's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 15:39
maxio098ui
omg been refreshing the page for this one
Excel-2011's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 15:50
Excel-2011
I've been holding out on watching one of these things for a long time now. There is absolutely no way I can be excused for missing this one.
Excel-2011's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 15:51
Excel-2011
And it's a shame that I almost didn't recognize Time there.
kwaselow's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 16:53
kwaselow
About chad running around his apartment shirtless... pics or it didn't happen.
A New Challenger's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 16:56
A New Challenger
King Of Fighters is indeed the mashup game with Art Of Fighting and Fatal Fury characters, among originals and others. There's actually a more recent fighter, Neo Geo Battle Colosseum, that also has like Metal Slug characters and stuff.

Yes, Dan is a ripoff of Ryo/Robert Garcia from Art Of Fighting/King of Fighters (he has Robert's haircut.) There are some fantastic jokes related to this throughout Capcom and SNK games, as well as the crossover games.
Torzelan's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 17:24
Torzelan
Will be a good listen tomorrow at work. There better be some mushihime talk in there!
A New Challenger's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 17:27
A New Challenger
Hey Colette,



Big enough?
the dez's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 17:29
the dez
criticism in haiku

-the size of this cast
-is linked to its quality
-but please have mercy
A New Challenger's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 17:31
A New Challenger
By the way, that image was originally hosted on www.msxarchive.nl . Not mine :)
Darren Nakamura's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 17:41
Darren Nakamura
I just downloaded Omega Five and played it while listening to the entire episode. I got to the boss of stage four.
kwaselow's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 17:43
kwaselow
I know you said not to do this, but...

OH YOUR GOD, I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU DIDN'T MENTION CHRONO TRIGGER!

wait, what? Shoot 'em ups? Oh

*slowly walks away with head hung in shame*
Suff0cat's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 17:45
Suff0cat
Hey Retroforce crew.....SHUT THE FUCK UP! kthx






Just kidding, talk as long as you want. I can't explain it, but you always manage to be entertaining and fun to listen to. I just dread the day that you run out of Retro stuff to talk about :(
kwaselow's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 17:47
kwaselow
whoa, whoa, whoa... Topher's the only one who knew about the Space Invaders coin shortage?

SHAME
Kyuzo's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 17:55
Kyuzo
I don't mind the long episodes, I look forward to Retroforce every monday! Great episode btw, I've got many new Shmups to play now :)
A New Challenger's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 18:20
A New Challenger
"Anything that says Konami on it."

Of course, a few people would leave Konami in the early 90s to form Treasure.
Guagloves's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 18:22
Guagloves
Awesome episode! I am totally getting Gradius on Virtual Console right now.
Wedge's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 18:27
Wedge
I'm sure this is going to rule. When I listen to it tommorow c.c'.

Oh, and just because I forgot to mention it last week...

ROCKET LOUNGER!
Civnerd's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 18:32
Civnerd
for me the first shmup, well first arcade game I've had the chance to play was in 1979 in japan when I visited my dad, and it was space invaders, and it was 100 yen coins that we bowled into the cabinet in the hotel we were staying at..... back then 100 yen was about 25 cents! lol. Great times.
Imako's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 20:40
Imako
I really got into shumps last year after playing Guxt, which I would whole-heartedly recommend to any new comers to the genre.
postman's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 20:54
postman
Finally, some love for my favorite genre........

Be sure to check out Ether Vapor and Genetos for some of the best doujin new releases!

(Topher I'm lookin at you!)
Cataract's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 21:17
Cataract
Well then, anyone know where I can get some decent SHMUPS for free? Especially danmaku, I've always wanted to try some of those.
postman's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 21:29
postman
Try here:

http://shootthecore.moonpod.com/database.php
Chad Concelmo's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 21:30
Chad Concelmo
@trydizon,
OMG AMAAAAAAZING! HA HA HA HA HA HA! :) :) :) :) :)
A New Challenger's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 21:41
A New Challenger
Somehow I forgot to plug Cho Ren Sha 68k in the preshow thread. That is an excellent free dojin shooter. There's nothing particularly unique about the gameplay, but it's polished and fast and difficult without being bullet hell, and the music kicks all kinds of ass. The only real knock on it is that there's only one scrolling background that scrolls at the same speed for the whole game, but the music is so good and the enemies and patterns are unique enough to distinguish the levels from each other. I've never beaten it, but I instantly fell in love when I first downloaded it.
Mr Lazy's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 22:18
Mr Lazy
http://www.jimmyr.com/blog/img/1107_10_344_2007.jpg
Puppy Licks's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 22:43
Puppy Licks
these podcasts are pure win :D
and how can I get the closing song? I must have it!
Knivy's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/14/2008 23:07
Knivy
I don't know the names of most of the shumps I used to play as a kid =(. But I do play a lot of them on the VC now =).

@Rev
Killing Floor for UT2k4. Also, I bought every zombie book I could afford from Borders =P.
Cutie Honey's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/15/2008 00:25
Cutie Honey
Durrrr, I believe it's pronounced Touhou!
Topher Cantler's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/15/2008 01:37
Topher Cantler
I pronounced it Touhou. :P

I reeeaally hope you're not saying "tow how" or "too hoo"
Red TheHaze Veron's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/15/2008 03:00
Red TheHaze Veron
oh wow. 160 kbps for a podcast? must you make the download slower for us all???
Fading Star's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/15/2008 03:08
Fading Star
"Please hold for Colette's Retro Fashion Moment"

Okay.
LethalHairdo's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/15/2008 04:27
LethalHairdo
Again you all win at life. ::Rushes off to play Section Z::
Einhander's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/15/2008 07:41
Einhander
Now that Action/Adventure, Fighting and Shmups have been covered......... are we going to get an RPG episode? A Genesis episode?
Savant's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/15/2008 09:47
Savant
*Needs to get on RFGO... once he has a working headset*

RetroForce is chock full of delicious win. :D
Irvine_frost's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/15/2008 10:43
Irvine_frost
i wish there in an alternate universe, everyday there will be a new retreforce go podcast.

i´m practically in the other side of the world, but i hear you guys every week. keep it up!

i was wondering, have you have considered making a beat em'up episode?
Topher Cantler's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/15/2008 11:11
Topher Cantler
@Einhander- We already did an RPG episode. :)
Starman's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/16/2008 00:23
Starman
Anyone know any good Shmups for the DS? i know of Nanostray only, and i hear nanostray 2 is coming out soon! is there any other then that?

You guys talked all about the old ones and a few new ones but i didn't hear anything about nanostray :( that was a really good ds game!
Hitogoroshi's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/16/2008 14:55
Hitogoroshi
"Rocket Lawnchair!"

Finally got to finish out the awesome episode!

Just a FYI. Twinkle Star Sprites was originally on the Neo Geo so if you want to try it out just fire up your favorite not emulator. One of my all time favorite games.
PsychoSoldier's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/17/2008 15:26
PsychoSoldier
Okay about the King Of Fighters is a mash up of old games that SNK had. Like Athena is a charatcer from a old SNK game called Psycho Soldier. Ryo Sakazaki is a rip off Ryu, even one of his move is the dragon Punch. Also the move Chad was talking about is Ryo's Tiger Flash is the english name of the move, the japanese name is kyouken, I think that's how you spell it, he also has a dark side called Mr Karate. kinda like Evil Ryu.
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