Radiant Silvergun, The Sega Saturn’s Crowning Jewelįor gamers all over the world, Radiant Silvergun quickly became the target import game to buy. The result was Radiant Silvergun – a shmup that turned the head of gamers, even ones with no particular affinity for the shmup genre, that made a brief appearance in Japanese arcades in 1998 before being ported over to the Sega Saturn later that year with an additional story mode.Īnd it was on the Sega Saturn that Radiant Silvergun secured a spot in gaming history.
Japanese game developer Treasure sought to explore the shmup genre and release an arcade shooter that felt true to the genre, while incorporating some of the innovative gameplay elements they had worked into their previous games. Įven console-specific shmup games tend to be the most challenging amongst their peers. This premise hasn’t changed much, as shmups in the modern day have grown exponentially harder yet, with the popularization of Cave’s model of “bullet hell” shooter, and fan games like the many iterations of Touhou.
With the earliest shmups being among some of the most classic arcade titles, the genre has always existed with one purpose in mind: to steal your pocket change. The genre has, since the earliest days of arcades, been chock-full of the absolute highest ratio of difficult games to easy ones anywhere to be found in gaming. When someone mentions the “shmup”, or shoot em’ up genre, the first instinct of most gamers is to take a step back and cower.
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