History VideoGame / ShmupsSkillTest

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''Shooting Ginou Kentei'' (シューティング技能検定), also known by its English title ''Shmups Skill Test'', is a VerticalScrollingShooter MinigameGame by Triangle Service, originally released in 2006 as part of the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 port of ''VideoGame/{{EXZEAL}}'', another shoot-em-up by Triangle Service.

''Shmups Skill Test'' has had multiple rereleases on different platforms, including [[UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame arcade hardware]] (two, in fact; the later of two uses a horizontal monitor orientation, has some new minigames, and supports up to 4 players), the UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}} as part of the ''Shooting Love. 200X'' CompilationRerelease, and on Windows via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} as part of the ''Shooting Love 20XX'' series of Triangle Service ports.

''Shooting Ginou Kentei'' (シューティング技能検定), also known by its English title ''Shmups Skill Test'', is a VerticalScrollingShooter MinigameGame by Triangle Service, originally released in 2006 as part of the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 port of ''EXZEAL'', another shoot-em-up by Triangle Service.

* RushBoss: One minigame has you destroying a boss named Larilari. You either kill it in about a second with sufficiently fast ButtonMashing, or get killed because you didn't fire fast enough, fired before the core turned red, or [[WhatAnidiot rammed into it]].

* HoldTheLine: Many minigames, such as "Bullet Bullet Bullet" and "Dodge", require you to survive for as long as you can. If you get to level 100, the minigame will finish with the highest possible marks. "Protect the Earth from Meteors!" also requires you to do just that until level 100.

-> ''Some say you’re only as old as you feel. {{Shmup}}s Skill Test says you’re only as old as you shoot! Shmups Skill Test is a clever way to evaluate your shmup skills in the form of a "gamer age". Challenge and unlock shoot-’em-up-based minigames in a gauntlet of shmup nostalgia goodness.''

** "Tank Tank Tank" features a pen of cows, a nod to ''VideoGame/{{Raiden}}''[='=]s animated background cows that appear in [[OnceAnEpisode one stage of every game]]. ''Un''like the ''Raiden'' cows, however, they can be [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential knocked over by shooting them]] for an insignificant amount of points.

''Shmups Skill Test'' has had multiple rereleases on different platforms, including [[UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame arcade hardware]], the UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}} as part of the ''Shooting Love. 200X'' CompilationRerelease, and on Windows via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} as part of the ''Shooting Love 20XX'' series of Triangle Service ports.

* ButtonMashing: Some minigames offer a rapid-fire button, but many others do not. The ones that don't either don't have shooting as the main focus (such as the "Dodge" and "Bullet Bullet Bullet" minigames), are focused on precision shooting ("Drop Time Bombs!"), or are intended to test your rapid-firing ability (such as "Meteors" and ''8-Bit'').

* ShoutOut: "Tank Tank Tank" features a pen of cows, a nod to ''VideoGame/{{Raiden}}''[='=]s animated background cows that appear in [[OnceAnEpisode one stage of every game]]. ''Un''like the ''Raiden'' cows, however, they can be [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential knocked over by shooting them]] for an insignificant amount of points.

* ButtonMashing: Some minigames offer a rapid-fire button, but many others do not. The ones that don't either don't have shooting as the main focus (such as the "Dodge" and "Bullet Bullet Bullet" minigames), are focused on precision shooting (''Drop Time Bombs!''), or are intended to test your rapid-firing ability (such as "Meteors" and ''8-Bit'').

* ProductionThrowback: "See It Through!" uses the same grid formation of tanks that first appeared in an optional segment of ''ΔZEAL''[='=]s second stage, another Triangle Service game, right down to the "WARNING!" prompt that shows up before the tanks appear.

As the title implies, the game is a test of the player's ShootEmUp abilities, offering a randomized selection of minigames for the player to go through with each playthrough. In one minigame, you're destroying tanks shooting at you to the tune of ''VideoGame/{{Raiden}}''-esque music, in another you're dodging spinning balls as long as you can, in yet another you're trying to shoot meteors to prevent them from destroying the Earth, and so on.

* ShoutOut: "Tank Tank Tank" features a pen of cows, a nod to ''VideoGame/{{Raiden}}''[='=]s cows that appear in [[OnceAnEpisode one stage of every game]]. ''Un''like the ''Raiden'' cows, however, they can be [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential knocked over by shooting them]] for an insignificant amount of points.

* RewardingInactivity: If you stop playing for several days, then pick the game back up, you'll get the "Long Time No See" achievement, which is also earnable on Triangle Service's other Steam ports.

* BulletHell: Primarily in the ''Bullet Bullet Bullet'' minigame, which pits you against a [[VideoGame/DonPachi Hibachi]] {{Expy}} who shoots out patterns of ever-increasing difficulty until you hit level 100 or die, whichever comes first.

* ButtonMashing: Some minigames offer a rapid-fire button, but many others do not. The ones that don't either don't have shooting as the main focus (such as the ''Dodge'' minigames), are focused on precision shooting (''Drop Time Bombs!''), or are intended to test your rapid-firing ability (such as "Meteors" and ''8-Bit'').

--> ''(in ''See It Through!'')'' "You didn't see it through"

** If you fail ''Drop Time Bombs!'' by shooting the rocket until it's destroyed, you get to watch it spectacularly explode while the game informs you, [[WhatTheHellPlayer "This is a tragedy!"]]
** If you fail ''Protect the Earth from Meteors!'' by allowing the Earth's HP to drop to zero, you'll see the Earth turn red and explode, with the same "tragedy" line from above.

* TankGoodness: ''Tank Tank Tank'', ''Tank Tank Tank Tank Tank'', and ''See It Through!'' all feature tanks as enemies.

-> ''Nice Trope!''