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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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Looks quiet here. (startrek.website)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) by RavenFellBlade@startrek.website to c/shmups@lemmus.org
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Howdy. I hope things pick up around here. I'd like to stay off Reddit, but there's not a lot of other places to talk about niche games these days!

Hope to find some new folks to discuss some great games!

I've been taking heavy advantage of the Switch e-shop summer sale to grab a ton of stuff for pennies on the dollar.

Edit: Since someone asked, list of all of the stuff I grabbed in the sale. Andro Dunos 2, Hazelnut Hex, Dimension Drive, Drains, Jet Lancer, Graze Counter GM, Under Defeat, GunVein, Ikaruga, DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou, Radiant Silvergun, R°Type Delta HD Boosted, R°Type Dimensions EX, Red Raptor, Red Death, Project Starship, Project Starship X, Risk System, Sherlock Holmes and the Devil's Daughter, Eschatos, Waifu Uncovered, ZPF, Overdriven Evolution, Grood, Sophstar, Q-Yo Blaster, Freedom Finger, Devil Engine Complete Edition, Shinorubi, Blazing Chrome, Remote Life, Terra Flame, Star Gagnant, Null Drifter, Toaplan Arcade Collection Vol 1, Toaplan Arcade Collection Vol 2.

Everything but DDP SDOJ and Devil Engine were at least 50% off, most under $5.

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[–] RavenFellBlade@startrek.website 1 points 8 hours ago

A lot, I'll post the list when I'm off work. Pretty great selection, though.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

Nice wachu get?

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 day ago

Growth is exponential (probably closer to a logistic growth instead but details), so keeping a healthy influx of posts should help engage people more, and by consequence more people should start posting. It's an exercise on patience in the beginning, but nonetheless important.

I'd help but haven't played much and focus capacity/incapacity sure don't help at finding what to post.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Welcome! We're small, but devoted :D

I just picked up Baroque Shooting Reversed on the Switch sale, and I'm looking forward to digging into it when I have time.

[–] RavenFellBlade@startrek.website 2 points 8 hours ago

I was considering that one, too. Baroque was such a weird game. I never got too far in it, but I was also weirdly obsessed with it for a bit.