Crop Circles & Shoot Em ups...
 

Swiv was one of the best shooters I had played on the good ‘ol Amiga back in the day. I loved its detailed & varied levels, the numerous enemy waves and the imposing laser beams of the bosses.
However, what I found very noticeable & interesting, were the Crop Circles left behind by an indestructible weird looking ship, as it flew away at the waste-lands in level 2.
This ship was completely different to any other you encounter in the game and its Alien-look & orientation is evident, leaving a direct innuendo of the “origins” of the crop-circles on earth.

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/586...cropcirlce.png

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/4613/swiv11.jpg

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/2206/swiv21.jpg

Interestingly it looked very similar to the actual crop-circles scattered around the world:

The following look ideal for shoot em ups...
This one in particular looks similar to the one in Swiv:

http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/9937/cropcircleu.jpg

This looks exactly like the ship sprite from Crisis Zone on the NES!

http://www.ufo-reports.com/images/HummingbirdCC1.jpg

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/184/crisisforce01.jpg http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/9...sisforce02.jpg

And doesn’t this remind you of the enemy waves in Project X on the AMIGA?

http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...op_Circles.jpg

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/7875/pxlevel3.png

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/687/projectx2.png

So it would seem that many Shoot Em Up artists were influenced by the crop-circles and their mysterious sci-fi themes after all!

Maybe Shmup artists made crop circles ..... {trust noone} shhhhh

Shmup artists/developers are from another planet :D

I think shoot-em-ups are a form of secret government training for the masses to prepare us for the impending interplanetary war...
...that way we're ready to kick some alien but without the mass-panic that would ensue if 'they' came clean.

That's why they look similar:
Crop circles ARE to do with alien visitations
Games designed to train us modelled on 'ET' WILL have close resemblances.

The Last Star Fighter was a documentary you know...




...wibble.

and Wing Commander is really a military training sim disguised as a game :)

Would explain the shit acting :)

And Elite Taught us how to make money out of aliens

Aliens are just friendly turtles in armor (Bubba 'n' Stix)