> Thanks for all the great info.

Mike, no problem at all...glad to be of assistance. However, you might want
to go over to [http://allsoft.scei.co.jp/index.zolar] for a definitive
listing of all of the shooters which were released on the system. This is
Sony's site, and it has records for ALL of the PlayStation releases (first
and third party)...and you can search by "shooter." While it will give you
3D shooters and I believe light gun and first person shooters...you can
easily differentiate which ones are which. For most of the games, they have
the covers and backings, so you can check that out also. Also, I also highly
recommend going over to [www.shmups.com] if you have any additional questions
regarding shooters on the system or just shooters in general...lots of
knowledgeable folks hang around on the forum...and some of them collect the
PlayStation versions of multi-system shooters. Myself, I'm a Saturn whore
(when I'm not doing my PC Engine thing) and have all of the 2D shooters
released on that system, yet I have 34 2D shooters for PlayStation, so I'm
apt to throw it a bone from time to time. Speaking of, later on this month,
Hamster will be releasing Moon Cresta (the old Nihon Bussan arcade game) and
D3 will be releasing Gatchaman: The Shooting for PlayStation in Japan...both
2D shooters. Apparently, Gatchaman was developed by Warashi...of Shienryu
fame. They are both "budget" releases (I believe they are 1500 and 2000 Yen,
respectively), so they won't set you back hardly any green. NCS
[www.ncsx.com] is accepting pre-books for both titles...I confirmed mine the
other day.

- Grant