one of my new favorite sites to waste time at…shmups! its a site for classic shoot’em-ups (shmups, duh), and i can’t help but get nostalgic going thru some of the classics. and when i say classics, i mean classics of my era. i’m not talking about dinky atari or collecovision. we’re in the sega genesis, snes, and dreamcast era. definitely a formative era of gaming. i was a big fan of the side-scrollers back when i had a sega genesis (1st gen too). thunderforce iii, gaiares, hellfire, and one of my all-time favorites to this day, musha, one of the best shooters…evar. i fucking hate that i sold my entire genesis collection. wtf was i thinking?!?! what makes it even more painful was that i used to enjoy taking out the box art and replacing it with my own hand-drawn versions…golden axe, altered beast, revenge of shinobi, streets of rage. god i wish i still had those. now all those memories are relegated to uploaded videos on youtube.
i’ll admit, i shed a tear watching the intro and ending. *sniff*
Your console gaming era was a little short 😛
Thats pretty badass that you drew your own boxart, I would have liked to see those.
Altered beast…so awesome. You ever fire up any emulators? Between Halo 1 and 2, and after pretty much, thats what I would use my old modded xbox1 for. Even catching up on some arcade classics with MAME
i dont count consoles after dreamcast b/c my attention trailed off afterwards…my best memories are from my genesis. ;p
i thought about getting emulators…but theres just something about holding the old-school genesis controllers. and i actually do have a drawing i did based off the musha boxart i drew hanging in my room at my parents house. ill need to go get that next time i visit…
Post it up if you do 😉