My favorite shmup of all time is a pre-OSX Mac game called BulletEx. It was made by a Japanese guy and was a ton of fun to play. Vertical scrolling, great pixel graphics and music, very challenging, and no need to bomb ground baddies
You can still find it to download but it hasn't been updated for modern operating systems, which sucks 'cause I'd play that again in a heartbeat.



I just wish we had gotten there earlier so we could have seen what games they'd had.