#oneaday Day 90: Shoot, Shoot, Shoot!

This weekend Chris and I recorded a new episode of The MoeGamer Podcast, and it's a good one that I'm excited to share with you all!

It's currently rendering the video version as I type this, so that should be ready by the morning, and the upload should hopefully be done by lunchtime or so. There will, of course, be a post on MoeGamer to share the episode when it's up.

The episode is on the subject of horizontally scrolling shoot 'em ups, a longstanding favourite genre of mine — though, as I discuss on the show, one that I kind of discounted as something of a "lesser" experience for a good few years during the late 8-bit and early 16-bit computer eras.

It's kind of interesting to me how things like this have ended up in the long run. I vividly recall games magazines complaining about games being "just another shoot 'em up" well into the 1990s, but now, the shoot 'em up is absolutely a beloved — if somewhat niche-interest — genre that is very well-regarded and respected.

Okay, some of the "just another shoot 'em ups" that were released throughout the 8- and 16-bit eras really were worthy of just being dismissed, but I have a funny feeling that there are a lot more interesting games that I passed up on in those periods than I might have originally given them credit for.

Oh well, no time like the present to investigate, is there? You can count on some of that investigation occurring through a combination of the Shmup Essentials column on MoeGamer, and the Atari A to Z videos on YouTube. Besides some of the favourites I discuss on the upcoming podcast, I'm sure there's plenty of cool games just waiting for me to discover…

For now, though, I think it's bedtime. It's 1am; after finishing off the podcast earlier I thought I'd have a quick go at Death End Re;Quest just to say that I've at least started it, and I'm thoroughly interested in what's going on with it. But more on that another time.

Hope you had a pleasant weekend, and that Monday is good to you!