Yes I am well aware that in genre dick terms Space Harrier is a "rail shooter". The issue with that is you run into a bunch of games that are not like Space Harrier, in that you aren't moving some sort of on-screen avatar. I don't wanna play a light gun shooter or a full motion video shooter. I want to play games like Space Harrier, the best game. Here's a list of those, basically.
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John The Baptist Stars. Buck Rogers aka Zoom 909 cried out in the wilderness, it prepared the highway for our dear lord and savior the Harrier of Space. It has some interesting, surprisingly good home conversions for its vintage.
"As many stars as there are in the universe, and the universe is infinite." My entire brand. The single greatest video game ever made that isn't called Katamari Damacy. Bewildering, dangerous, joyful, violent. That people were able to live in the era of Space Harrier is a gift. Every port is good, even the ones that are not.
Keeping Up With The Joneses Stars. Namco is sorta my brand (shoutouts to Namcompendium.com which I really should update) but by 1986 Sega had just about lapped them arcade tech-wise. This clawed back some territory, even if it is a bald faced spin on Space Harrier. Never re-issued or compiled, alongside a lot of their late 80s/early 90s output.
Not Enough Space Harrier Stars. Yeah as a fairly early brave attempt at Space Harrier on the Famicom it's neat. Props to Nasir Gabelli aka Square's 6502 wizard for making this run as smooth as it does. The problem is this is basically a platformer with sparse Space Harrier elements, and the platforming is riddled with blind jumps and bullshit enemy placement.
