i am playing a ton of scrolling shooters for reference. does anyone have recs? i appreciate both messier games which have flair (metal black, darius gaiden) and really technically focused, detail oriented projects (ddp, raiden ii etc.)

@lorenschmidt I'm not a big shmup guy but I thought Einhander was great. I haven't revisited it to see how it holds up but Gunhed/Blazing Lazers seemed great to me in the 90s. Also Raptor and Tyrian are kind of weird PC offshoots but have some neat stuff.