My favourite would have to be Ikaruga and to top it off Ikaruga is on xbox live!!! then it would be r-type, i played a bunch of near impossible ones emulated but i cant remember them.
hmm tough one.... well i meant the 'r-type' type games but it seems like most people here would rather talk about their favourite pokemon so we may as well forget this lolz
guess nowadays most of the shooters are FPS, since why you think they made 3D for games? or well... GTA4!!!! Puhahaha
your title is really confusing that's why....did you mean 3rd person shooters? contra/metal slug/raiden project type shooters
i fink he means games like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nscP9QpXoFM ?? i cant play ultra hard or even hard on these games T_T too many bloody bullets everywher
i really like the Touhou series for those games. even though they are really hard and i barely play them i still enjoy playing them from time to time.