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TUMIKI Fighters Takes Free PC Shmups Higher

Posted by simoniker on from the superfly-guy dept.

drunken-sosage writes "ABA Games released a new freeware PC title a couple of days ago called TUMIKI Fighters. It's a horizontal shoot-em up that allows players to upgrade their ship by 'catching' destroyed enemy ships, resulting in your ship being a bigger target. However, that enemy ship's bullet pattern is added to your offensive arsenal. The author, Kenta Cho, is one of the crème of the crop auteurs of the crowded independent shmup genre - Slashdotters may already be familiar with ABA Games' other freeware PC shooters/utils such as BulletML, rRootage and Parsec47."

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  1. Re:What the...? by EvilMal · · Score: 5, Informative

    The source is included with many of the games and I have compiled at least two of them on my own to play on Linux.

    The latest game is gonna be kinda weird though. I've never touched a D compiler... the source is there, nevertheless.

  2. It runs under GNU/Linux too... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Works great with WInex3.

  3. Re:Shmups? by Leynos · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sorry, but "shmups" was coined in the 1980s by the UK C64 magazine Zzap 64. It's been in use on the Internet amongst the shoot 'em up community since 1997 when it was resurrected by Malc, the founder of shmups.com.

    Wired can't have it I'm afraid.

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  4. For Macintosh users by Stormwatch · · Score: 3, Informative

    Only two of Kenta Cho's games have been ported to MacOS X. You can get them at:

    - http://www.victoly.com/~adam/

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  5. Re:BulletML by samael · · Score: 2, Informative

    Take a look in the folder for TUMIKI - all the bullet definitions are done in BulletML...

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