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Mr. Sparkle drops by to chat classic, modern, easy, hard, fun, and weird shooters! Alex drops an elbow smash halfway through the episode!
Shmup Wiki - digital library of shooting games, great resource of basic information, strategies, and trivia - https://shmups.wiki/
*ShmupJunkie* - YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@ShmupJunkie) focused on shooting games, with a really active and friendly discord (https://discord.gg/yPKzubzKRW) that has a beginner section, friendly scoring competitions, and strategy discussion - the discord also has a curated list of beginner-friendly shmups at different levels of difficulty https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MZz8Q_8HdGyh2QU9BX4lNgyVAP9JZxxuy_YYbOLf1CM/htmlview
*Jaimers* - high-level player, puts up very high level clears but all videos also include helpful commentary in the description, and often advice/strategies in closed captions (https://www.youtube.com/@JaimersSTG)
*The Electric Underground* - a more in-depth shmup-related resource, also has a very helpful beginner introduction section (https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectricUnderground)
*Boghog* - designed of the excellent Gunvein, really interesting discussions of shmup and action game design (https://www.youtube.com/@boghogSTG)
*Aktane's Arcade* - some very helpful quick start guides, but also more in depth conversations about enjoying and improving at shmups - very interesting stuff on shmup culture and the hobby https://www.youtube.com/@AKTANEARCADE
Rob’s CGP with Aktane https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/classic-gaming-podcast/id783265787?i=1000733070633
Crazy Boss Fight Mr. Sparkle mentioned that Japanese player Sairyou had been the first to 1cc SDOJ - what he meant to say was ‘first to 1cc the game with the true final boss’ - check it out below https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCRI69pQpY0&t=1612s
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