Shoot-em-ups Making A Comeback On Xbox Live Arcade?

September 14th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

It looks like I’m going to have more to look forward to playing on my Xbox 360 than Halo 3.

My favourite games genre when I was growing up was shoot-em-ups like Raiden, Slapfight, Nemesis and R-type. I loved these games but they seemed to fall out of favour when the consoles became popular. I’m hoping to move to a bigger place next year and one project I want to take on is buidling an arcade cabinet to house a MAME emulator running all my favourite games.

However, it looks like shoot-em-ups could be making a comeback on Xbox Live Arcade. Kotaku has tracked down a number of cool shoot-em-ups, including Triggerheart Exelica and Ikaruga. The latest is Hudson’s Omega Five pictured below, that looks just gorgeous.

Omega Five

I can’t wait to make to play Omega Five!  I don’t know what it is about shoot-em-ups, but over the (many) years of playing them I seem to have developed certain ways of flying, that allow me to create gaps in the missiles that I know will be there because of the way I have drawn fire to other areas of the screen.  Anyone watching me play would think my moves unbelievable, but somehow I just know where the gaps are going to be.

Any other shoot-em-up players out there?

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  1. 1

    Comment by Chris on 14 September 2007:

    Looking forward to Xenon II appearing on there

  2. 2

    Comment by Bush Mackel on 14 September 2007:

    Right here buddy! The last one I downloaded though was Gradius on the Wii VC. On the 360, I’ve been way too consumed with Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

  3. 3

    Comment by Tom on 16 September 2007:

    Nice game! Thanks!

  4. 4

    Comment by Game-Arcade on 21 November 2007:

    Cool game. R-type kind of games are great

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