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This is a place on Lemmy to talk about arcade, PC, and console shmups/shoot 'em ups/STGs. (We can talk about other arcade-based/scoring genres too, if you'd like.) All experience levels welcome.

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This community is kindly hosted at lemmus.org and follows the rules of that instance, which are:

Be a good neighbor
No porn uploads

Links:
- Shmups Wiki
- Shmups Forum
- STG Discord

Shmup Deal Trackers (not affiliated):
- PC shmup tracker
- Console shmup tracker

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Weekly open thread for 7 February 2026 (lemmus.org)

submitted 2 months ago by sundray@lemmus.org to c/shmups@lemmus.org

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Another week in the books! And another week to check in and see what we're all playing!

I've just started back into Blue Revolver. I'm a little rusty, but it's good to be back.

Have a good weekend!

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[–] pasdechance@jlai.lu 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Toaplan collections are both -35% on Switch... I might be getting 16 more games to annoy my family with!

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cool! I'm tempted myself.

[–] pasdechance@jlai.lu 2 points 2 months ago

Ah jeez Gunvein is discounted too for the first time on Switch. Hard to choose.