mediaman(watcher)13,

Hi Watcher, many of those abandonware shmups should work on your computer. Many date back to the 1980's and 90's. Also those found over on Caimans. I bet you can get most if not all of them to work. Since Rudy died over a decade ago, there has been no new games added to the site. It was kept live by Rudy's family in memory of him because of the tireless work he had done accumulating the thousands of games from virtually every genre of arcade game.

sailorbear510 aka Jason,

Thank you for your feedback Jason, also the heads up on Castle of Shikigami 2; I didn't know the developer had released a sequel to the original Castle of Shikigami which you can find HERE (it's half the price of the sequel).

Caladrius Blaze is an excellent shmup and was on sale with 85% off over the Black Friday sales. I highly recommend it, but if you are thinking of buying it, I'd wait until the Christmas Steam sale where it will likely be repeated at 85% off again. The Christmas sale starts in fifteen days from December 22nd - to January 5th.

Space shooters are one of my favourite arcade genres; over the years I've been here I've posted several threads over in the giveaway forums listing many of the games from my favourite genres, including Shmups. With that in mind, check out an old space shoot em up thread from several years ago over in the giveaway game forums that lists lots of free and commercial (mainly on Steam) Shmups HERE.

Also, when I used to post regular freebies over in the game discussion forums, I posted links to a free retro shmup some years ago HERE; i.e. a game called Hypersuper Cannon on the Good Games to Grab thread Week 237. Plus, you'll find 32 pages (467 games to choose from) of abandonware shmups; many of which are retro shmups from various consoles HERE. A lot of them will require various emulators to work, but those are easily found on the net and in my opinion are well worth the effort. There's nothing like some of those retro shooters from days gone by. :)

You can find several space shooters on most of the free game sites that most of the giveaway community are familiar with, such as our friends over on MyPlayCity e.g. Airforce Missions, Alien Riposte, Cosmic Jumble, Cosmic Proof, Dark Orbit, Galaxy Battles, Galaxy Guard, Helicopter Game, Last Pilot Vs Machine Aliens, Mars Rescue, Sky Goofers and Space Courage. Also on Toomky games e.g., Air Conflict 1 & 2, Alien Intruders, Invasion, Space Shoot, Space Robot, Stellar Interface and Super Shooter.

Gametop is another free game site that has been operating for around 18 years and has some excellent shmups, e.g. Star Defender 2, 3 & 4, Alien Wars, Air Assault, Desert Hawk, Star Sword, Deadly Stars, Galaxy Strike, Air Attack, RIP 3, Dark Matter, Star Gunner, Big Air War, Helicopter, Critical Damage, Shoot'n'Scroll, Star Shooter, Tachyon Project, Star Rage, Submarine vs Invaders, Annihilator Retro Classic, Alien Terminator Deluxe and Gal-X-E

There are other free game sites such as FreeGamePick and you'll find some shmups free on Steam as well. There's a shmup wiki that lists hundreds of free to play Space shooters in alphabetical order HERE and over 550 free Shmups (Space invaders, shmups and space shooters) and Space over on Caimans HERE, HERE and HERE.

I used to pay $19.99 for many of my arcade games prior to the financial crisis back in 2008, when the price of casual arcade games crashed. Some of the titles above such as the Star Defender series I paid almost $60 for the three mentioned above; which you can now get for free and others like Alien Wars and RIP 3 (an arena shmup). You can fide all three of the RIP series as a trilogy for £3.99 on Steam HERE.