![]() ![]() Sometimes the aim is to reach an ending, but usually it’s about racking up a high score. Shooters usually see you making your way through carefully planned stages, grabbing power-ups, blasting everything in sight, and taking down huge bosses. It’s certainly the first one of its type that I remember seeing, and it’s an idea that took some time for me to warm up to. At least, I think this is where it was born. Thus, the competitive shoot-em-up was born. Shoot-em-ups were always reliable earners in arcades, and competitive puzzle games had caught fire in the wake of Puyo Puyo. ![]() It’s an unusual game to be sure, but it’s not hard to see what inspired it. It was a 1996 release, and it would end up being the final game released on the system by developer ADK before they moved on to supporting SNK’s handheld NEOGEO Pocket. Unlike many of the games we’ve seen in the ACA NEOGEO line-up so far, Twinkle Star Sprites arrived several years into the life of SNK’s console. Twinkle Star Sprites ($3.99) is a rare shoot-em-up that chooses violence between its players, and that’s exactly what makes it so great. Competitive one-on-one fighters are another natural fit. Some genres lend themselves more naturally to one style or another, of course. Others, like King of Fighters and Samurai Shodown, were competitive games. Some of those games, like Metal Slug and Sengoku 3, were cooperative in nature. If I can tie a common thread between all of the NEOGEO’s most popular games, that thread would be named “games you can enjoy playing with a friend". ![]()
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