TSR compo vol.5 - shut up and Sprite 'em up - Gaiden

[Cobalt Blue]

very wip:

commander here, read the restrictions for this challenge again and reconsider your craft.

also

Are we only to make something in the style of gradius and the ilk, or are shumps like contra acceptable as well?

by "the shmup genre isnt restricted to spaceships only" i precisely stated that you're free to use whatever sprite may work on a shmup-based gameplay. contra is closer to a platformer than to a shmup.

take Ikari Warriors, for example.