Shoot Em Up Speedruns
4 years ago
Kentucky, USA

What are some Good Shoot em Up games to speedrun?

European Union

Touhou games probably.

United States

Weird take, but Tyrian 2000. Easy to get into. Lot's of menuing though.

Oh, it's also free on GoG.com. D'oh, forgot to mention that.

Edited by the author 4 years ago
Pennsylvania, USA

The Guardian Legend would work, its a hybrid of a shmup and overhead adventure game. That also happens to be one of my favorites. :) Just to note that shmups are rarely ever speedrun material because the majority of them are autoscrollers but technically can be ran. I love shmups but I don't speedrun them personally I 1cc them and no deaths.

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Cumbria, England

If you're including platform shooters or run and gun games I can recommend Mercs (Genesis) and Flimbo's Quest (C64), both of which are fully optimised and under 20 minutes!

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Pennsylvania, USA

Mercs is a great choice I love the arcade version

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Pennsylvania, USA

How about gunstar heroes on expert? :)

Neptunia Shooter. Short (under 9 minutes), very forgiving compared to other shmups, and it even has a speedrun leaderboard in-game!

Pennsylvania, USA

gunforce for the arcade or trick trap would make great speedruns although trick trap is more of a maze game. I did a run of it on my youtube channel along with gunforce 2.