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Blaze of Storm (demo) Caravan Medalists
🥇hobsec
🥈sundray

Game of the Month
Medalists for June:
🏅: Sundray (1cc, Mild)

Medalists for April:
🥇: ErableEreinte
🥈: hobbssc


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This is a place on Lemmy to talk about arcade, PC, and console shmups/shoot 'em ups/STGs. (We can talk about other arcade-based/scoring genres too, if you'd like.) All experience levels welcome.


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This community is kindly hosted at lemmus.org and follows the rules of that instance, which are:

  1. Be a good neighbor
  2. No porn uploads

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- Shmups Wiki
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- STG Discord

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From the description:

Bullet hell shmups, rail shooters, run 'n' gun... THESE NAMES ARE INCONSISTENT AND CONFUSING. In the first episode of the Belmont Index, let's look through history to definitively categorize the industry's first genre.

Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
06:31 - PART 1: Fixed, Area, & Tube
14:51 - PART 2: Top-Down, Platforming, Gallery, & Rail
27:50 - PART 3: Shmups
37:00 - What's Next?

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