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It's likely a similar situation as short stories, short short stories, novels, and novellas. There will be different conventions in how tightly the game (or story) is crafted. With short short stories, every word matters, whereas in a novel, not so much. So different scale comes into play here with caravan shooters versus regular shooters. That's why although they are similar in some ways, just as short stories and novels are both similar in many ways, there are also differences to consider.

That's because the game was designed as a caravan shooter. Were the others designed to be caravan shooters too or were they just designed to be technically and graphically impressive shooters?

Oh I never said that being a caravan shooter would diminish the quality of the game, rather my point was that it's like comparing guavas, pomelos, and oranges. They're all quite lovely fruit, but they're just quite different things. As such, Gloves might find pomelos and oranges to be inferior to guavas, if his personal preference isn't as keen towards citrus fruit, but that doesn't mean that pomelos and oranges are shit by any means, or should be seen as inferior, as they're kick ass in their own way.

Ah I see, I guess some of the earlier homebrew that was done using Family Basic also wouldn't count then. I saw the vast majority of people voting on games released over a decade ago so I didn't realize that there would be a timeline cutoff point. I mean, neither indie nor homebrew have anything to do with the term "aftermarket" in terms of their meaning.

Wasn't Blade Buster designed to be a caravan shooter though? Basically it's like a NWC cartridge, only as a shooter. When reading Glove's assessment of the game compared to the other recent shmups coming out, I immediately thought to myself that some of the criticisms were likely because he was comparing his preference for caravan shooters to regular shooters. I mean, if I prefer the setup of the NWC cartridge, Super Mario or Rad Racer by themselves would pale in comparison...

Here's my list of indie and homebrew game picks, in no particular order. A Hole New World Abbaye des Morts Gruniozerca 3 Huang Di Lin Baned the Opium Master Chu & the Drunkard Hu Skate Cat Thunder Warrior Thunderbolt II Trophy

Can anyone name any game that is better than NES Super Mario Bros. 3? Nope.

Also another question for @Seth : it's not clear, are we supposed to be voting on our favorite indie games or our favorite homebrew games? Or we can vote on either?

That's quite strange as there's a ton of talk on other forums about the shmup offerings coming out. I'm not a shrimps guy personally (I prefer roaches), but surely some of the recent shump homebrews are worthy of a vote? Never said or alluded to any game being better or worse than Blade Buster. You totally missed the point.

The game was released in 2011 or whatever, as a ROM, though from my understanding the author did give people their blessing. I feel it's sad that we've been doing homebrew this long yet in 2024 so many of the games being mentioned were around in the NA days. To me it demonstrates that either homebrew hasn't come that far since about 2014 or so, or that people aren't playing the new games. And that I feel to be quite sad.

Have you tried any of the homebrew, indie, or aftermarket shooters that have been released over the past few years, generally coming out of Japan? Seeing Blade Buster on the list is really sad, imo. Let's throw Battle Kid up on the list too along with Solar Wars and call them hidden gems.

On a different note though, it would be nice to see votes for more recent games than Star Keeper and other old ones that have been around forever

Oh I didn't see that rule, in that case please disregard my vote.

Vote: Mr Lee's Alishan Tea Collector Unique theme, fun gameplay reminiscent of early Famicom / NES games, with hints of Donkey Kong 94 thrown in.

Sadly Gettysburg isn't so interesting to me without Chinese on the box. The thing is, I grew up from around that area, hence why I was initially drawn to it. Still interested in Castlevania though.

Ok maybe my inbox was full when you sent me a message, I just looked today and didn't see anything, sadly, though I still will apologize for the seemingly rudeness on my part, though it wasn't intentional. Anyways, things on my site (www.maliscash.com) are for trade. If there was something else that you wanted, I have other unlisted things too, I'm sure you know my collection better than me

I know I've shown these before, might as well show them again.

There's a bootleg of this game that's been translated into Chinese. The box focuses on Hitler.

I found this today in a bunch of scrap, bootleg Sega game. I guess it didn't have a battery as... well just look at the picture to decide for yourself what's going on. Maybe @SNESNESCUBE64 would find this amusing.

I'll have to check my inbox, I don't recall seeing a message

Does Gettysburg have any Chinese on the box? Like on the back or anything? It and Castlevania monopoly, I'd trade you things for those two if you want.

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As a whole, I really dislike cover bands. I've been stuck hearing mediocre music all afternoon as the restaurant down the street has been hosting some live music. These musicians have some talent, but it gets really tiring to hear the same handful of covers over, and over, and over. In my opinion, the performance would be so much more memorable if these musicians decided to slowly start introducing their own music into the set, and then do originals, working their way up to all original music with the occasional cover. It's very rare that I see a cover band do it well. Most of the time it just sounds cheap and sucks, or sounds alright but is boring. Throw in a looper machine and oh man, just shoot me.