Great Looking Amiga Shoot 'Em Ups

[@Peter-MH]

Loved Project X! Along with Xenon 2 and 1943 these were my favourite amiga shooters!

[@root42]

@15:20 "Who wants someone from west Yorkshire talking over some game." -- best self deprecating line ever. Thanks for making me chuckle.

[@Sharopolis]

Thanks!

[@10MARC]

The new Reshoot-R for AGA Amiga's released last year is absolutely gorgeous. It is so great that new software is being released even today! Great video, and great games!

[@kickstart_1.3]

At last, someone who knows what Project X looks like.

[@ridiculous_gaming]

Hybrid was one of the first Amiga games I ever played and it was nothing less than an arcade quality title...it dropped my bottom jaw. I gave my Atari ST to my sister and picked up an A500 two weeks later in 1988. Battle Squadron was also a great addiction.

[@zachreddy]

Project X looks so much like a late-90's Shockwave/Flash game it's kind of impressive.

[@yota7906]

Project X is absolutely the Amiga Shoot-em-up with best graphic and sound

[@cypriotman-fo3qv]

I have played Project X when I was a kid. And I believe it's the best.

[@roartjrhom4932]

As an art and craft teacher and artist! How dare you put down Project X visual! It's one of the most polished game on the Amiga with all those details man! The colours are really vibrant, they compliment each other perfectly. Hehehe...no, you are of course entitled to your opinion even though you are wrong! :-P But at least you see the masterpiece of visual Agony! ;-) ;-) So all in all a great video!

[@PedroFerreira-sx2gd]

Good list. Some games could be there. Xenon 2, banshee, stardust are some that came to my mind

[@McCoy-00]

You’re very criminally underrated.

[@andrealves3104]

Great List! I would also include Banshee (from Core software), altough it's more remembered as an Amiga 1200/CD32 game. And well... I actually like Project X co-pilot announcements. I think it fits well with the eerie isolation a menacing new planet dangers your crew. hahahahahahah

[@cypriotman-fo3qv]

I agree. Those announcements in the game was so cool,and fits the game perfectly. I found it weird that the author complained about it.

[@randywatson8347]

Somd of those tile designs ,details and colorcount looks stunning for it's time.

[@Trick-Framed]

Agony was an incredible game with great music and sound. The palette left much to be desired. Leander was a great one from them too.

[@kuro68000]

Sidewinder was a very solid early Amiga game

[@MortenSlottHansen]

Sidewinder was also an amazing game with killer audio. That game knows how to make an explosion :)

[@ratspike8017]

I completely agree here - Sidewinder was one of the first games I played on my A500, and the soundtrack blew me away! The game was playable, too.

[@BilisNegra]

0:55 I wonder how much of an accurate portrait of the authors is that... Looks like just the same face with two different hairstyles!

[@krissymarklewis1793]

I'm quite proud of myself as I've just played SWIV for the first time in about 20 0dd years and still got 37% through it:)

[@panathatube]

What? No Xenon 2 Megablast!? Great work mate this video brought back memories...

[@BagoZonde]

I need to say that I like the "flying" parts from the Jim Power. The style, music, bosses and visuals are really satisfable in my opinion.

[@CelentAle]

My first year 87 Amiga 500 shot em up, Blood money! 😉👍

[@detthoff]

Yep, that game was huge when released, and loved!

[@maxsmarts8210]

The intro is awesome !

[@turrican4d599]

And Menace!

[@JoseSilva-ep2ww]

Of all the games you pointed out, my absolute favorite is Z-Out. It's brilliant. It's fun and gorgeous to look at. And the soundtrack is so great... The only letdown were the lack of parallax scrolling of the backgrounds during most of the game, but the amiga's computing power wasn't enough for that, it seems.

[@annekariceisnice]

Great vid, looking forward to more Amiga content!

[@epromenator]

Great vid. Looking forward for more Amiga series!

[@Sharopolis]

Thanks!

[@Trick-Framed]

Silk Worm IV was a great game. I liked the side scrollers too like Turrican and Turrican II. Great games.

[@bighairydel]

Another point regarding Agony, It was played in a higher resolution than the standard

[@lustechsource5197]

Cool video. These games definitely concentrated on the Amiga's strengths.

[@Sinn0100]

A few things I noticed about many if these games that strike me as very impressive for their time and I have to wonder why they weren't huge in the states. So far I have seen a super sharp color pallet, multi levels of parallax scrolling, real instrumentation (I think), scaling (I think), and transparencies. Remember, that last one was something even a 5th generation console struggled with. The Amiga is looking very impressive indeed.

[@fungo6631]

They were probably PAL exclusive. Not to mention that the Megadrive/Genesis and SNES were more popular in the states.

[@MegaGasek]

There was no transparency, only clever dithering. The real voice samples on Amiga sounded better than on Mega Drive but not better than on SNES. I always thought voice on Mega Drive sounded like people was underwater or drowning or coming from inside a canister.

[@Sinn0100]

​@MegaGasek I'm sorry I missed your post. It really depends on the game. The Genesis had the ability to pull off crystal clear voices. An example of this is ESwat. It's funny, the Genesis produced its best voice work in the first three years it was on the market 1989-1991. Unfortunately, once the Snes launched many 3rd party developers like Capcom did a terrible job bringing games over. As an example of how bad it was...there was absolutely no excuse for SF2SC to sound or look the way it did upon release. If you want to hear what a Genesis can really do check out the fan fix of SF2SC. The voice work is arcade perfect running on a bone stock Genesis. All it needed was the proper sound codec to work right.

[@Sinn0100]

​@@fungo6631 That they were.

[@scottbreon9448]

I can name one top-notch, if NOT arcade perfect conversion on the Amiga... Marble Freakin' Madness

[@off1k]

There's quite a few top notch arcade conversions, Pang and Toki spring to mind, Rodland too.

[@AcornElectron]

I liked first Xenon by bitmap bros. Second one, megablast, was probably the shooter I played most. Project X by team 17 was good too if a bit iffy on some aspects. Keep up the good work fella and stay safe.

[@Sharopolis]

Thanks!

[@zenitpro]

Am I the sole absolute sucker for the early 90's Psygnosis graphical style?

[@Beardodoomus]

Count me in too!! There's just something about Psygnosis and Amiga which is just so satisfying.

[@jpjokela1]

I agree strongly on most points, especially with the omission of Xenon II :) I probably would have left out Project X too, and maybe Agony (on the other hand, this was about "good looking" shooters, which it definitely is) I would have definitely included Banshee and Super Stardust too. Of course there are other great shooters too, but perhaps not for this list... Walker, Cannon Fodder, Virocop, Ruff'n'Tumble, Turrican series...

[@Momoka7]

2:46 Battle Squadron, yeah I remember that game. Played it like crazy with a friend on his Amiga. What you didn't mention is... that is also out on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. 07:42 Swiev was also released on the Super NES, as Super Swiev.

[@will4may175]

Swiv is what sold me the Amiga over the Atari ST, the shop had the game playing on both, and the Amiga looked way better, I ended up having to sell my A500 because in the UK theyr brought out the Pole Tax, I was on the YTS and they expected me to pay £400 a year, sold the Amiga paid the tax and they scrapped the pole tax right after 😢. I still have my Amgia 1200 though, upgraded with a flash drive, 4000 games on it 😊 still going strong.

[@fungo6631]

The hell is a pole tax?

[@will4may175]

@@fungo6631 I meant to say Poll tax, just messed up the spelling, sounds the same tho. Here in the UK in the 80s the Gov thought it a great idea to bring out a Poll Tax, basically it meant everybody 18 or over had to pay it, and it supposed to go on how much you earnt I think, anyway I was on a youth training scheme called YTS a bit like an apprenticship, which only paid up to 32.50 for me per week, except the Poll Tax decided I should pay £379 per yr to it, which was virtually what I got from YTS, Margaret Thatcher was a nasty bitch and I'm glad shes gone, screwed up my late teens with having no money at all, and took away my Amiga.

[@fungo6631]

@@will4may175 That really was fucked up.

[@Midlife_TimeCrisis]

I loved Battle Squadron on my cousin's Amiga.. All I ever had was the halfturd Genesis port

[@giuseppelavecchia775]

AMIGA,il migliore!.video stupendo,si vede bene di cosa e' capace la LEGGENDA !!

[@discostu333]

I remember playing X-Out on a schoolfriend's Amiga and it blew me away. I then went and bought the C64 version but it wasn't as good (obviously).

[@vix_in_japan]

Apidya's title screen's katakana actually reads Abidya :) It should really read アピヂャ (ignoring the fact it tongue in cheek calls itself Apidya II) - and yes it's one of my favourites on the Amiga, Battle Squadron possibly pips it for me.

[@Sharopolis]

Hey thanks for that!

[@Lucasrainford]

Great list! some absolute classic shmups here. As you said this list could've/should've been longer, I can think of a good few missing from it. Ya gotta check out T-Zer0 in yer next vid :)

[@brownbess]

Just one point: Pedersen & Larsen were Danes rather than Geermans.

[@root42]

Shht! Don't tell people from Schleswig-Holstein!

[@Sharopolis]

Oops sorry! I did know that but for some reason I ended up flubbing it part. I think I was thinking about Rainbow Arts when I said that.

[@RainerK.]

Both countries start with a D.

[@fungo6631]

Fun fact: in slavic languages "Pedersen" means "faggotsen".

[@1st_ProCactus]

With SWIV, you can eject the risk and the game soon stops scrolling but the game does not stop or crash. It waits for the disk tonne pushed back in and continues scrolling again. Also Xout on the c64 was one of the best.

[@joezar33]

I hear "Agony" was expecting a horror theme game .. wasn't expecting a beautiful owl spirit in a fantasy game .

[@Alianger]

Disposable Hero and Agony are the clear winners here. You are missing some games though, the most obvious ones being Banshee, R-Type 1-2 and Turrican 2. Other good looking games: Reshoot R (demo), T-Zero, ​Ultra Violent Worlds, Amnios, Super Stardust Uridium 2, Apano Sin, Phantom Fighter (backgrounds), Pegasus , Overdrive Wings of Death, Mega Typhoon, Frenetic, Gunbee f99 (Twinbee), Lethal Xcess Guardian, Simulcra, Mercenary 3 and Elite II (3D)

[@giovannibenedetto9937]

The problem with Agony was the small play area that, combined with the size of the owl, made hard to avoid enemies' projectiles

[@Alianger]

@@giovannibenedetto9937 This is about the graphics however

[@giovannibenedetto9937]

@@Alianger right, but the small area also affects the graphics (which are impressive anyway, don't get me wrong) when you compare it to a full screen game such as project x. Probably with a full PAL resolution they should have sacrified the parallax and the colours.

[@catoblepag]

I completely agree with your take on Project-X... and I had the same opinion when I was twelve and the game was new. I also didn't like Assassin and Superfrog, for the very same reasons: they all looked very clean, very sleek, but kinda empty and gameplay wise they were - you used the perfect word - insipid. They just had no sense of fun. But when I read all those positive reviews on magazines back then, I wondered if I was the crazy one. ^_^ In hindsight, it's pretty easy to trace the problem to Team 17 being born in the demo scene, and that's how most of their games felt: technical demos. One huge exception is one of my favorite multiplayer games of all time, Worms, but that was created by a different guy, Andy Davidson, and Team 17 produced and published.

[@desiv1170]

Nice list, but.. No Banshee??? ;-) That is probably the most impressive looking "shooter I can't get very far with" (TBF, that is most of them) out there... Ah, just got to the end. Yeah, Banshee I believe required an A1200..

[@thezulover]

Rtype 2 was actually good to play, even with laginess

[@kickstart_1.3]

Wait, I thought SWIV stood for Silkworm in Vertical.

[@todesziege]

Apidya looks to have been influenced by Insector-X, specifically the Mega Drive version, which came out a couple of years prior (though I believe not in Europe). It has a similar style with mutant insects and a mix of super-sized natural environments with sci-fi.

[@Sharopolis]

That's one I've never heard of, but damn it does look similar in places. Maybe Apidya is not quite as unique as I thought.

[@packpock4369]

Mega Typhoon needs a mention it came out in 96 it's more of a bullet hell. Very unique art style, Gryzor today has similar work to what that game looks like. The weirdest thing about the game is it has no music!

[@Sinn0100]

I watching this again....Apidya reminds me of Insector X for the Genesis. Which itself is a very strange game as well. It was a "port" of Insector X in the arcades. Which believe it or not was a cute em' up like Phantasy Zone. Somebody at Sega said "We're not having any of this kiddy nonsense. Let's make it look edgy and cool." The only problem was the developers must have forgotten they were working on 16-bit hardware. The game looks like a 2nd generation Nes game. You should checkout Insector X if only to show that not all shmup's were gold on the Genesis. Addendem- Apidya absolutely wipes the floor with the Genesis "port" of Insector X. They have a similar story and wasp protagonist..

[@gumdeo]

Mega Typhoon deserves a mention. Even though it's from 1996, it was a A500 shooter.

[@104d_3rr0r_vince]

Battle Squadron's main sprite runs at 50 fps. Blitter objects like the enemies at 25.

[@yota7906]

Same as Project X

[@104d_3rr0r_vince]

@@yota7906 True, and like Agony :-D

[@stephenhall2980]

Hate to be that guy but the in game music for z out was done by Rudolph stemper.chris huelsbeck did the intro and end music though.

[@Sharopolis]

Damn, I should have researched more, I just saw his name and assumed he did the whole thing. Thanks for the correction.

[@stephenhall2980]

@@Sharopolis That's ok,sorry for being picky,the music is very much in huelsbeck's style,it could easily be a turrican soundtrack.

[@EpicLebaneseNerd]

every amiga game was a powerhouse of graphics, while me, an ibm pc boy, would cry tears of saltiness when an amiga game was ported to the pc and looked like dog shit on it....how the table have turned and now the pc is the powerhouse of gaming.....

[@NorthWay_no]

I don't know why you think so, but (some of, at least) your _Danish_ friends also did Sword of Sodan and, most important; Datastorm (major crime not including it!).

[@DirkDierickx]

SWIV and Project X are my favs, was surprised to see Project X on the list, but then the bashing began...

[@Alianger]

Had a look at lemonamiga. A few more: Blastar Bridge Strike Fly Harder Saint Dragon Operation Thunderbolt (gallery) Jim Power Quasar Wars Starush Suburban Commando Tommy Gun (gallery/tps) Tubular Worlds Typhoon Thompson Turn 'n Burn (asteroids-like) Wings of Fury Zeewolf 1-2 (3D) Zarathrusta

[@scottbreon9448]

Suburban Commando is a run and gun, not a shoot 'em up

[@Alianger]

@@scottbreon9448 First level is a shoot em up

[@amerigocosta7452]

The title is quite accurate, these games look great (well..to be honest i find SWIV ugly, with its grey/brown hues). Gameplay wise, the biggest problem with many of these is how underpowered you feel at all times, no matter if you upgraded your weaponry or not. X-Out, Z-Out and Disposable Hero are almost unplayable. Project X isn't much better and could have used some music (wasn't it a 1 meg game after all?). Agony is interesting to look at but uninteresting as a shmup. Hybris, Battle Squadron and Apydia are very fine. I guess they are the three Amiga exclusive shmups to recommend to somebody who is new to the Amiga. Wings of Death as well, eventho that is also on the ST (where it is comparatively more impressive).

[@turrican4d599]

What?? X-Out is way too easy!

[@DuckAlertBeats]

Honourable mention to Banshee, at least surely! edit* should have waited till your closing comments before chiming in!

[@Sharopolis]

Yeah that will feature in a 1200 video definitely!

[@DuckAlertBeats]

@@Sharopolis Sweet!

[@player9gaming]

Pretty much all Psygnosis games look like that, apparently Psygnosis art team works with there developers to release high quality graphics with there games. However some games are noted for not playing very well.

[@romaneberle]

no AGA games? T-Zero? Super Stardust? Reshoot / Reshoot R? btw, a few modern games in the works, truly limit-pushing: Boss Machine, Reshoot Proxima III, Hyperborea

[@TaufaAhau]

the term "Euro-Schmuck" is not to be used negatively. schmuck is the german word for jewelry/ornament. this of course references the beautiful graphics of most of the euro high class games from 1987-1990.

[@daishi5571]

I think you'll find he is saying Euro-SHMUP.

[@RainerK.]

Don't like shooters, still watched.

[@fungo6631]

9:28 Uhm, the katakana doesn't say Apidya, but Abidja. The lesson here is that if you gonna use foreign scripts, at least use them properly and don't pull a "Доидлд Тяцмр" (Doidld Tyatsmr).

[@sircathal7505]

You missed T-Zero the best AGA Shooter for fast AGA Amigas and the AGA Version of Dispossible Hero

[@esathegreat]

Project X looks like your typical mid-90s shmup when color restrictions were finally overcome. But just because you now can put 16 million colors on screen doesn't mean you should.

[@adroharv9213]

Just about all Team 17 games were mostly average in gameplay terms but tended to make good use of the machine. Hybris and Battle Squadron play well

[@Final-Boss-Crusher]

Lethal xcess, wings of death?

[@robertdewar1752]

Some of these games look pretty (Project-X), but boy are they dull (Project-X). From what I could tell, Project-X was a poor man's version of Kjonami's Xenon. Datastorm, was where the fun was at.

[@consty715]

Glad you say shooters oe shoot em ups and not “shmups”. Bloody hate that and that other new one metroidvania or whatever. Ok rant over

[@litjellyfish]

Shmups as a term jas been used for like 20 years now...

[@consty715]

Stefan Holmqvist im old school mate. I don’t use terms like that

[@janikarkkainen3904]

@@consty715 How old school do you go? The word shmup was coined 35 years ago by ZZap magazine in 85, and there are indications it might've been used in arcades as early as 78 when Space Invaders was in its height, and that's as old school as it gets. Any older than that and I'm not sure how many games you could actually even describe as shoot'em ups.

[@MadsterV]

I call them "those newfangled electric toys"

[@Lungoomba21]

11:51

[@breakdancelessonsamsterdam9367]

Can you do a video about psuedo 3d games on the amiga?

[@darkfalzx]

I remember reading a lot of praise for Project X in the Amiga magazines, but somehow never got to play it on that system. Played the PC version, and wasn't impressed at all - figured it was a bad port. Nope. That game was just not great to begin with.

[@roartjrhom4932]

Sorry...the nostalgia might have taken the best of me in my last comment! Still I love the artstyle in Project X!

[@Sharopolis]

Ha Ha, it's fine. Games bring out passionate responses sometimes and I know that a lot of people love Project X.

[@roartjrhom4932]

@@Sharopolis Thanks for understanding! ;-)

8:18 I think it is "Silk Worm In Vertical"

[@off1k]

It means Special Weapons Interdiction Vehicle, it actually says it in the intro.

[@IntoTheVerticalBlank]

Share -can you put up a beginners video to emulating the Amiga? Or recommend one?

[@Sharopolis]

Hey that's a good idea, it's not the easiest thing to get into. When I've made Amiga videos about half the time is spent just getting the games to actually work!

[@IntoTheVerticalBlank]

@@Sharopolis I've been trying for years. I have reams and reams of disk images, etc, but I have never been able to get Retro Arch to recognize any of the kick start disks I have. I think the emulation is better stand-alone, but have never had an Amiga, the sheer amount to learn is daunting.

[@ratspike8017]

@@IntoTheVerticalBlank Hi, I have lots of luck emulating A500 and A1200 games on WINUAE. I always thought that APP was too difficult, but coming back to it years later it was really cleaned up and not very tricky (admittedly I have been along time Amiga fan so know what I am looking at). I believe that Kim Justice is using a UAE setup for her ongoing `play every Amiga game' series...

[@IntoTheVerticalBlank]

@@ratspike8017 I just need the right operating system roms. I have a zip of like 500 of them =)

[@ajsingh4545]

I was expecting to be wowed but a lot of these games actually don't look too hot TBH. Agony and Apidya look nice though.

[@ratspike8017]

I like Project X's graphics, but it was always too darn difficult - just waaaayy too many hits on each enemy needed. If they had made it a bit easier it would be loads better.

[@giovannibenedetto9937]

Project x special edition was a little easier but still way too hard to me

[@pilouuuu]

I think that's a constant with Amiga games. They looked good but they basically unplayable nowadays for all the crazy patience and skills they require.

[@JazzNazz1]

Please please please have x-out and z-out

[@lurkerrekrul]

Gasp! You didn't include Xenon II? Don't you know that you're legally REQUIRED to include that game in any best-of list of Amiga scrolling shooters?!!

[@6581punk]

The A500 looked good on launch. It looks a little more drab now. But compared to the beige and brown C64 it looked fresh. The ST looked good too, a little more radical. The designer of the ST case was ex-commodore. When Tramiel bought Atari a few commodore people loyal to Jack transferred to Atari. Some say they took the designs for a 68000 computer with them, rumoured to be the basis for the ST. Weird when you think about it, the ST could have been from Commodore and the Amiga from Atari if Commodore hadn't freed Amiga from the Atari deal.

[@atarijaguarsgarage8873]

I thought Amiga shmups would do look better....just going by Lionheart graphics ;-)

[@meetoo594]

No mention of sidewinder? for shame..

[@thereasonforyou7048]

Battle Squadron made it a bit better ??? Battle Squadron did it 3 times better than Hybris !

[@philoffhistree]

i always thought it was X out not cross out, especialy with the follow up being called Z out cross out makes no sense at all after z out came out

[@andiarrohnds5163]

agree with you.. the narrator of this video sounds like a real tosser

[@malad1]

Think they called it Z-Out cause most people pronounced the X in X-Out (going with Z in the sequel possibly as a bit of a joke). However if you listen to the sound sample in the intro of X-out it actually says cross out.

[@Nianfur]

No Xenon II? The shame!

[@Sharopolis]

I put that in my last Amiga video. The general consensus was that it's rubbish game and I was a moron for including it, so I'm leaving it well alone! I like it though.

[@Nianfur]

@@Sharopolis It's in my to 10 games list. It's a shame people have an issue with the Bitmap Brothers art style I guess... Also, what about Stardust, Super Stardust, and Sidewinder II?

[@drzeissler]

Xenon2 ?

[@turrican4d599]

You forgot Xenon 2!

[@spellenberg]

The creators of Hybris are Danish not German;-)

[@philoffhistree]

was that remark about team seventeen and who wants to hear someone from Yorkshire talking over a game a snipe at old style gaming channel LOL

[@Sharopolis]

No it was a swipe at myself! I wish Old Style Gaming nothing but the best!

[@oktawianc7456]

Where is Banshee? That game crash all titles from this material.

[@Bt3615]

I think the video is more about the Amiga 500 era while Banshee is for the more advanced Amiga 1200 and CD32.

[@oktawianc7456]

@@Bt3615 Probably. But movie title don't mention it.

[@scottbreon9448]

Banshee requires AGA, which means basically a 1200

[@oktawianc7456]

@@scottbreon9448 A 1200 is still Amiga.

[@liefacts3000]

Shout out to west Yorkshire. Not as good as south Yorkshire but hey ho.

[@mattsmedley.onehandedgamin9029]

Just a shame that you don't stop to draw breath & just keep talking throughout the entire video. We never get to hear what the games actually sound like, & the amiga did great sound/music.

[@MIKIEC71]

SWIV looks like an ST port - dodgy scrolling and dodgy gfx :(

[@perihelion7445]

The scrolling is dodgy not because it's an ST port but because the entire game loaded as you went so the jerking scrolling on occasion is the drive accessing the disk.

[@krysfox5941]

I never understood why on amiga they never managed to make a shoot em up game (with a ship sprite) vertically or horizontally with several levels of paralax scrolling and this in 50 fps, don't tell me that it's due to the limitation of the amiga because if we take the example of turrican I, there is a stage where the sprite flies with its jet pack like a vertical shoot'em up, and we can clearly see the enemy sprites in the foreground + a scrolling in the background acting as scenery + a second scrolling and all in 50 fps, why the hell have some developers or programmers wanting to make a shoot'em up game never thought of taking inspiration from the technique used in the turrican I stage to create a shoot'em up game where the sprite would therefore be a ship, damn it!!!! Seeing shit with only one scroll or two sometimes, in 25 fps on some games, is really shameful on an amiga. Jim power is also a good example, in the stage where the character flies with his jet pack in horizontal shoot'em up mode on several scrollings in 50 fps, why once again has this technique never been inspired by this to create a shoot'em up game with a ship sprite?!!! Oh yes I know! ... the fault of the European know-how who did not know how to make Japanese style shoot'em up games at the time and who never had the presence of mind to think of using the techniques of the Turrican I and Jim Power stage to make a ship game so much that the Europeans were blocked and limited in their visions and creations of things on a ship game with the so-called technical limitations of the Amiga but without asking themselves the following question: "Ah? But hey?!! Look guys! In the Turrican stage 6 and 8, the character flies on several planes vertically in 50 fps, why not use this technique for a ship game that we could create (with a ship sprite therefore)?..." These idiots of Europeans never thought of it, damn it!!!! Project X is the worst shoot em up game that is too way European. I repeat again, the shoot'em up stages of Turrican I and Jim Power prove that it was possible to make a shoot'em up game (with a ship sprite therefore) on several scrolling in 50 fps.