Shoot Em Up – Page 2 – The Retro Gaming Treasury

Starsceptre – High grade shoot em up hits the Apple Store

On March 4, 2019March 5, 2019 By Neil G

There are some seriously good shoot em ups out there, games such as Gradius, Super Aleste, R-Type, and Raiden to name but a few. But finding a decent shoot em up for an Android or iOS based device isn’t as easy. Thankfully Richard Morgan was on hand to help, as he has […]

Redshift – World XXI Soft announces a ZX Spectrum Scrolling shooter release!

On February 25, 2019February 26, 2019 By Neil G

ZX Spectrum owners listen up! As we’ve just been told by World XXI Soft through their twitter page, that they have now released their previously in development for the ZX Dev MIA Remakes compo, as ‘ Redshift ‘! Yes indeed are you ready to play a rather cool looking scrolling […]

Super Galax-I-Birds – A super duper C64 Shoot em up!

On February 21, 2019February 22, 2019 By Neil G

C64 owners do you fancy playing a rather cool shoot em up where the only goal is to get the highest score against your opponent? Well look no further than Super Galax-I-Birds! A wickedly fast shoot em up by C64 Crap Debunk, that doesn’t just feature a rapid onslaught of […]

RESHOOT R – Richard Löwenstein’s new Amiga game gets a great website launch

On February 12, 2019February 13, 2019 By Neil G

Another Amiga update this week as Richard Löwenstein, the same developer behind the commercial enemy wave blaster on the Amiga called ‘ Reshoot ‘, has launched a new website for his previously announced in development Shoot em up called ‘RESHOOT R’. This game coded in pure assembler language, will almost […]

Neutron – Awesome looking C64 Shoot em up in dev by Sarah Jane Avory

On January 21, 2019January 21, 2019 By Neil G

As many of you know by now, the ex-SEGA game developer and author: Sarah Jane Avory is working on a fabulous RPG for the C64 called ‘ Briley Witch Chronicles ‘, which by all accounts isn’t just a good looking game, but will have lots of interesting features that is […]

Mike The Guitar – Shooter edition coming to the ZX Spectrum

On January 18, 2019January 18, 2019 By Neil G

Mike The Guitar is back in action for the ZX Spectrum, but this time instead of being a platformer which appeared on both the Amstrad and the ZX, he’s blasting badies in an upcoming shooter! Yes indeed welcome to ‘ Mike The Guitar – The Shooter ‘, the very latest […]

Inviyya – In development Amiga Shoot Em Up gets new footage

On January 3, 2019January 4, 2019 By Neil G

The Amiga is coming in HOT already this year as after already mentioning Hard Copy Party, Rygar AGA, and Trap Runner, along comes another video update for the in-development Amiga shoot em up ‘Inviyya’, which is being developed by TigerSkunk, Triace and Premium for the Amiga 500 and up. This game […]

Sardonic – Another PC game comes over to the ZX Spectrum

On January 3, 2019January 4, 2019 By Neil G

We are not finished with the ZX Spectrum news yet! As moments ago we were told that *ahem* Penisoft had released their ZX Spectrum game of ‘ Sardonic ‘, which looks to be a remake of a PC game they released way back in 2003. Now unlike the Dizzy adventure […]

Flight of Pigarus – High score Shoot em up homebrewed for the Sega Master System

On December 7, 2018December 8, 2018 By Neil G

We haven’t featured a Sega Master System homebrew for ages now, so to change all that here’s a lovely little Shoot em up called ‘ Fight of Pigarus ‘ which was developed by Kagesan. Unlike most shoot em ups with an end goal to kill a boss and go on to […]

The Shoot ‘Em Up Destruction Set – Kick ass C64 games by ALF YNGVE!

On November 29, 2018November 30, 2018 By Neil G

If you fancy a bit of kick ass shoot em up action on your C64 then look no further! As checking through the latest itch.io updates we’ve come across The Shoot ‘Em Up Destruction Set; a seriously cool pack of C64 games from Alf Yngve published by Psytronik. Inclusive in […]

R0x Zero – A gorgeous Atari ST/STE playable demoscene shmup

On November 26, 2018November 26, 2018 By Neil G

It’s easy to forget that the Atari ST has a demoscene since it’s usually the Amiga that get all the demo attention. but take a look at R0x Zero. A brilliant playable SHMUP built into the usual demo fare of scrolling text and bouncing blitter objects. It’s a thing of […]

Aviator Arcade II – An awesome C64 shoot em up preview, final release due soon via RGCD and Psytronik

On November 11, 2018November 12, 2018 By Neil G

RGCD are back with another brilliant C64 tease and unlike their previous shooters, this time it’s a top quality preview for their upcoming shoot em up game ‘Aviator Arcade II’. The first version of Aviator Arcade was released in 2014 as a three level 16kb cart game for the RGCD […]

Inviyya – In development Amiga Shoot Em Up for a pre-Christmas release?

On October 16, 2018October 16, 2018 By Neil G

The Amiga is coming in HOT this week as after already mentioning Magazyn, Invaders and Mini Legion, along comes Inviyya to really open our eyes to a very decent looking game. First announced via the EAB forums in October 2016 this latest update gives us a good glimpse of the upcoming […]

It’s Christmas … Time to Follow that Starfysh

On December 25, 2017September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

25th December 2017 First of all, Merry Christmas (Happy Birthday to me ;o)) and a Happy New Year. This will be my final Blog for 2017, and I have decided to talk about the production of my LATEST game release Starfysh. This is basically a horizontal scrolling shoot ’em up – […]

Cruiser X-79 Update #12

On October 7, 2017September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

7th October 2017 This is a just a quick update. You may remember a couple of days ago, I mentioned about having trouble getting the tape loader to work using multi-load, and the game crashed. I finally managed to get my way around this problem, simply by not triggering RTS […]

Cruiser X-79 [UPDATE 11] – Not much … Or is it?

On October 5, 2017September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

5th October 2017 I really should have back dated this Friday+Saturday last week, as nothing had been done today. I’ve been running late. Anyway, last week, I was doing some brain storming, and slight of hand updating of the game code. Originally Cruiser X-79 used a 3xIRQ interrupt, but since […]

Cruiser X-79 – Update #10

On August 19, 2017September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

19th August 2017 More action has been taking place today. First of all, Saul suggested that I should reduce the animation speed for the aliens and also the explosion. Basically double the delay of the animation. Also I had a go at setting up level pointers, where after each level […]

Cruiser X-79 Update #9

On August 18, 2017September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

13th – 18th August 2017 Not much happened on the game programming front, but at least I made an effort to do something for the production. While I was away from this project for a few weeks or so, I recently received some new graphics for the game. It wasn’t […]

Cruiser X-79 – Update #8

On June 24, 2017September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

20th-24th June 2017 It has been too hot this week, apart from yesterday and today. Despite the really hot UK weather I had recently, still that hasn’t stopped me from doing more on this game project. Quite a big update as well. So then what has been happening this time […]

Cruiser X-79 – Update #4

On April 29, 2017September 4, 2018 By Richard_of_TND

Saturday 29th April 2017 Here comes yet more progress made with this great Commodore 64 game project. The game is starting to work out much better. The player / enemy bullet collision finally got implemented. I did have a few issues with the sprite/charset collision subroutine, so it was time […]