Oh I should add that my GF's Daughters friends saw me playing a few and didnt want to try them. I think there is to much going on the screen in terms of enemy bullets making them afraid to try it out. I did get one of them to try out Sky Shark, but he quickly got upset with it.

Yes I have a Japanese Wii and Japanese 60GB BC PS3. it's just very sad that a awesome Genre became a Niche Genre since the 32-bit era in the West. but I have always loved them as well as meany other Japanese niche genres.    

"Spaceship shooter"

What is this Mark lingo? SHMUP! :P

And I'm with Galaki on this one :P

it's like Ninja Gaiden I know people that take one look at the Gameplay and run. 

I think a lot of has to do with people making so many games easier now a days. Back in the Day I would spent months trying to beat games with my step Brother sometimes never doing it. A good amount of todays game hold your hand a lot, so while they may be still hard to a lot of those younger people.It is what they expect and when you see some of these actually really hard games they feel they have no chance.

I could compare this to school to make myself look a little bad. A lot of my professors say they are going to do this or that to make life a little easier for us. But at the same time tell us how they had it. To be honest, I would actually like to know and grow through how hard it was for them having no net for papers, and having to do 50page papers. I dunno if I could do it being how easy I had in my early edu. Some cases easier may be better now, but later will haunt us.

I also had one professor say she did not care about format, or anything else except the content. I think that was really pushing it. As I have a friend who still needs a lot of help just to do a simple paper format. Even when using Noodle tools he still manages to mess up his reference page. I dont blame him I blame the USA school system. Did you know I did a total of one fomal paper up until I hit college. WTF. Was awesome at the time, but I had so much catching up to do, it hurt me a lot in the long run.

More like, we have so much games now that we could just put away the difficult games away and play something else.

Way back then, we don't have much of a choice to either keep trying to beat the game or go out.

I know I should have added SHUMP after I posted the Thread.

I have been watching CGR reviews to much I guess XD

but everybody should because Mark reviews is to awesome to miss!!

Watch his speck cirspview review, so awesome. I'm now getting myself a flask thanks to him.

Yes it was a "SPECKTACTULAR" review.

I think the entire genre is being kept alive in Japan due to the power of moe.