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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Muchi Muchi Pork + Pink Sweets collection. Played MMP before, not Pink Sweets. Well, let's see how that went: Credit fed my way through, I got to Stage 6 and thought "Wow what an insane final stage" and then Stage 7 started.

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One nice thing about setting a new hi score in a a game you used for practice and you never released and you have no intention of releasing is that it's always a world record, and no one but you can beat it.

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Top 5 Pac Moment. Will Ospreay is standing on the ramp with a microphone, Pac comes from the back La Parka style but instead of with a chair he hits Will with a Poison Rana. Rest in Peace. And to Pac as well.

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today I learned, that in the Crimzon Clover folder, there are pdfs explaining the superplay replays along with a few more for detailed mechanics and scoring tips. Even giving you the exact wave order for Time Attack. The enemies have freaking names...... It's a whole shmup strategy guide!

A screenshot of a pdf page from a Superplaycommentary for Type-I Original Arcade for Crimzon Clover

A screenshot of a pdf document showing the composition and order of enemy waves for Time Attack mode of Crimzon Clover

A screenshot of a pdf showing enemies from stage 1 of Crimzon clover with pictures, names and points values.

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Bad Computer @badcomputer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Razing Core for SEGA Master System is now available. The full version and demo are here: badcomputer0.itch.io/razing-core

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Went to burger king and saw that if you get a specific burger you get a dragon ball figure. I was torn between Picollo and Goku but settled on Goku. He had black hair on the picture so who the hell is this bootleg ass? I could have had Picollo, he was cool in dragon ball abridged.

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I only watched one video on Touhou and it poisoned my recommendations on youtube to not show me any shmup stuff anymore, just Touhou. It thinks I care about the characters, the world, the lore. All because I thought watching Jaimers clear lunatic on the EoSD remake would be fun... :'(

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I just got the 1-All in DFK 1.5, not fulfilling requirements for a second loop. Still, unthinkable to me, even just a year or so ago, when I last tried and barely made it through Novice 1.5 Sadly steam didn't record sound for this game, so I'll have to go back in to record the replay another time.

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Found in the gallery of 2024 NES shmup Changeable Guardian Estique

An image of a rough sketch of one of the characters of Changeable Guardian Estique with very crude, likely mouse drawn, text that says "STOP ILLEGAL COPY! You are in CRIME!"

There is also Japanese text on the corner, maybe a signature.

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I just randomly remembered that when I actually went to the US people were dumbfounded by the concept of mustard in a tube. Where else do you put it? Sandwiches? You eat it??? At least we don't have truly demented stuff like spray cheese.

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chiba_latte @chibalatte.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Someone is into shmups at the local rescue

Screenshot of cat adoption page with multiple cats with shmup names (Gradius, Raiden, Twinbee, Garegga)

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hello, I'm not American, but this is how I talk, apparently.

A heatmap showing what my dialect is most like. It highlights the northeast in particular. Most of the rest is very cold, save for the western edge where it gets slightly warmer and for some reason Hawaii is also very warm.

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I tried out Like Dreamer. And man, the game on Maniac doesn't -really- go until the final stage. But then it does go pretty hard. I almost switched to Expert, but I feel I may regret that.

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i have been saying this @negatendo.loggedoff.art · 01/09/2026

reject complex character driven games with "lore" and sexualized fan art embrace playing shmups for high score and drawing the little spaceships in the margin of your notebook

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

1st Clear was Viper, went down to the last hit of my last life. Today, got 2Miss with a clutched final boss. Vid goes from me losing my last bomb that life to clearing. Shmuppin' crazy style. I was almost a little worried. I was actually going for a no miss because it seems hard but attainable.

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

AEW INTERNATIONAL CHAMPION DONQUIXOTE DOFLAMINGO

AEW Wrestler Kyle Fletcher making his entrance in Doflamingo (One Piece) gear.

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Buried this in my replies, sorry, here it is out in the open.

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It is done. BLUE WISH Desire, Original mode, All ships cleared. Yeah, of course I have a spreadsheet. Incomplete as it may be, I have it.

Excerpt from a spreadsheet that shows my shmup clears, showing only the five Original Mode clears for BLUE WISH Desire, one for each of the ships.

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My Truxton Extreme review has awards both for being helpful and being funny (they are not laughing because I'm funny, they laugh at me because they think I'm comically wrong) I feel like both making people mad enough to try and own me and having people think I'm correct means I win at reviews.

Basic stats for my review of Truxton Extreme showing that 9 people found this review helpful, and 5 people found it funny.

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Everything I hear of the new DFK release tells me there's no reason not to keep playing the almost a decade old steam port instead. New version has: 1.5 + an extra stage Battle Royale AI translation Old version has: 1.5 (+ Novice Mode) 1.51 Four (4!) Aranges (+1 Novice Mode) Training Mode Replays

Steam Page for Dodonpachi Ressurrection Reignite. Reviews sit at Mostly Negative. Released 27 Aug 2026 (today....)

Steam Page for Dodonpachi Ressurrection.
Reviews sit at Overwhelmingly Positive
Released 14 Oct. 2016

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

What a run. Was real tired and figured I'd just get a quick one in. I almost lost my first life, but my Observation Haki kicked in, and I held on for it for longer than I usually do. youtu.be/HBElF7X-wrY

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BLUE WISH Desire 1cc - [PC] - Twinkle / Original

YouTube video by Shmups 4 Fun

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Hold on... there's a stage extend in Blue Wish Desire here? How do I even trigger it? it's not on the shmups wiki. Did it happen because I hypered on top of the treasure? it didn't release any medals at least. So perhaps... Knowing how to get one extra life would make the game so much easier.

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Terarin @terarin55.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The cats watching over game development from up high.

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Second place baybeeeeeee Just a tragic reminder not enough people are playing this game. BLUE WISH Desire please buy it, underappreciated shmup store.steampowered.com/app/1794300/...

Leaderboard for Blue Wish Desire's Accel mode (using Blue Desire)
Showing someone in first place with 42,127,550 and in second place me with 8,483,050

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Cleared Blue Wish Desire after a couple tries. Original mode, is, the perfect "Normal" mode for my skill level. Attainable but still takes a few tries. Beat it on my last hit, like the STGods intended. Grade-A shmup. I got 6th in the leaderboards, which is last place :) youtu.be/EzdfO2EUHHI

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BLUE WISH Desire 1cc - [PC] - Viper / Original

YouTube video by Shmups 4 Fun

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Holy shit, Blue Wish Desire is such a hype shmup. Made it to the Stage 4 Boss on one credi on my first go (normal mode) Run came in at a cozy 3cc. I'll definitely play more of this. Such fun dodging.

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

D... Danger Woman Grace Thoruson is real???

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It's just always like this, isn't it.

Two comments in game maker. The first reads "FIGURE OUT WHY THIS ISN'T WORKING" the second reads "Okay, now figure out why it's working"

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Here's a side character who is so far on the side that I'm pretty sure he was only introduced this arc, but maybe he was there before that??? Idk, anyway....

The side character with a strained smile saying "I-I'm the main character... I-I'm not gonna die here..."

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

how I write comments in game maker

The comment:
//I refuse to figure out why this works but it's probably really simple I'm just bad at math

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

showing up to a street fight with my shirt that has the text "huge loser crybaby" emblazoned on the chest

Crazy looking guy with a sledgehammer resting on his shoulder. The text on the t-shirt reads "Weak Person"

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Watch out, we got a badass over here!

A panel from the Manga Out.
A gux with a crazy smile is pointing a gun towards the viewer, the speech bubble reads: "I'm great at first person shooters."

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

No Need For Flowers markets itself as "a new kind of bullet hell adventure" but is a pretty unashamed Touhou-like. Just look at the footage. Don't think this means I don't like it, though. Had a good time so far. 1cc'd Normal first try, will probably play more and try to clear hard.

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Banger language select. At least it's one of the two languages I'm fluent in.

Language select for No Need For Flowers.

It only shows English.

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I wrote a review of Truxton Extreme on steam and someone wrote a chain of comments on it. Thst person seems to have read the words I wrote but not understood the intent behind them. Nothing mean spirited, just weird enough for me to mention it.

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Okay, look, listen. No matter how you feel about anything in this world, putting this at the end of a balls hard shmup is a goated move.

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I think I might be having a stroke. Coverage on Truxton Extreme is really postive, but I play it and, uh... naaaaah. Are there difficulty modes? Do I have to unlock normal mode? I die because I get bored, not because I'm overwhelmed. I'm not an elite try-hard I swear. I just wanna play the game.

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Added a hard mode that basically picks up where "normal" ends. Space is haunted. Letting the player destroy bullets with their jets is how I counter-balance the momentum based movement making shmup style dodging too hard.

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Partly a me-problem, but I never experienced this in other games doing similar stuff. But the power-up pickups in Edens Eclipse look like bullets aimed at me to me. It's especially bad when I'm in a dense pattern (not pictured) and focusing (also not pictured.) Kinda sours me on this shmup.

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Damn, everyone is talking about that Spolous 2. At this point I feel like I have no excuse not to play this completely free game even if Gradius isn't entirely my jam

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

who woulda thunk that making games is fun, I keep adding more stuff. All this spiraled out of the basic game maker tutorial to make an asteroids clone and it's barely still recognizable. What I really want is a vertically scrolling shmup eventually, but I'll use this as my sandbox for a bit longer.

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Game Maker Adventure continues. I added programmer graphics now, so it stops looking like the tutorial this started as.

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

is this what making games is like? am I doing it right???

a screenshot of the event viewer of one object, there are several events in there, there are four with descriptions, they are:
Alarm 0 - Return to Main Menu
Alarm 1 - Timed Rank Increase
Alarm 2 - Spawn new Rocks
Alarm 3 - I forgot why I addedthis, but it works.

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

When I was a kid, there was this boss in The Guardian Legend that was a real difficulty spike and scary too. Floating face, five eyes. Once all eyes are destroyed, all hell breaks loose and more eyes come out of the eyesockets right at you! It's probably the reason I care about shmups today.

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Finished this manga (Blood on the Tracks/Trail of Blood) and it's deeply unsettling emotional horror, despite the pissing scene.

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

ZeroRanger is $8.99 on Steam buff.ly/QTCMjJA Deck playable

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IGgy @iggyigsen.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Redneg All Stars is a fun boss rush shmup but, and I never thought I'd say this, the tiddies on this game are unsettling.

One of the enemy characters in Redneg All Stars, called Merika, shown as she arrives, has breasts about three times the size of her head.

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