Blast Rush Classic

Great sprite graphics, music, and fun gameplay with a different take on a shmup!

It's a wonderful twist on the shmup genre.

Has a few problems. 1. With the emphasis on handling everything with bombs, the game not only doesn't demand skillful movement, it actually may penalize you for trying to weave your way around enemies, because it may activate bullet time, which is a limited resource that activates when the game thinks you need it. 2. The only thing that's realistically going to kill you in this game is something flying into you at 100 mph, probably from off-screen. You easily bomb or side-step anything else. Bomb cooldown period is rarely an issue. There is a ship with a full-screen bomb with a longer cooldown, and that's probably the most interesting way to play. 3. The randomized endurance mode is not anywhere near random enough to keep things fresh.