> Great post. Don't forget the Cotton series of games, and I also recently
> purchased "Castle Shinkagami II" for PS2 which looks kind of like a Cave
> shooter, haven't opened it or played it yet, it was under $20. Similarly, there
> is of course Gradius III/IV for PS2, and Silpheed.
>

Castle Shikigami 2 rocks. Bought the SE on Dreamcast and then ended up buying a couple of copies for PS2 when it came out in the US.. hillariously bad translation mixed with awesome shmup action (seriously, they fixed pretty much all of my complaints with Shikigami no Shiro in the sequel). Goes for less than $10 at Walmart, too.

Silpheed...meh.. I know some people that really dig it, but it's not my cup of tea. At all.

Ditto for Gradius III/IV. Beyond V, I don't much care for the series at all, really. When it comes to horizontal shmups, I'll taken an Irem over a Konami damn near any day of the week :)

> I wish that someone did a spot-on exact port of nearly all of the great Toaplan
> shooters from back in the day, on a compilation collection. That would be
> supremely ace!
>

Oh hell yea, that'd be ninja-tight. A rerelease of Batsugun on Playstation 2 would be awesome.