Episode 164 - Mr. Sparkle (Shmup Enthusiast)

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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 -

**ShmupJunkie** - YouTube channel () focused on shooting games, with a really active and friendly discord () 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

**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 ()

**The Electric Underground** - a more in-depth shmup-related resource, also has a very helpful beginner introduction section ()

**Boghog** - designed of the excellent Gunvein, really interesting discussions of shmup and action game design ()

**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

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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