Console Wars Week 20

The crazy thing here to consider is that Axelay was literally made by Treasure when they still belonged to Konami, they later end up doing some of the best spaceship shooters of all time including Bangai-O, Ikagura, Radiant Silvergun, and Gradius V.

While Truxton was made by Toaplan that became CAVE, the same people that we now owed revolutionary bullet heaven shmup legends such as DoDonPachi, Espgaluda, Mushihimesama, and Deathsmiles, while part of them became Takumi that also gave us the Giga Wing games, and Mars Matrix.

I see some heretics are voting on Axelay over Truxton and I expect a very good explanation.

That is fair, but to be honest I feel fatter ships were popular in that era with certain shooters because it made the game look more prime, expensive, and top tier. It was a mind trick, but bigger sprites always gave the sensation of having extra production value in the game, as silly as that may sound. It all started with Alpha Mission 2, and Toaplan took letters in the matter.

Treasure people such as Noritoshi Kodama, Hideo Ueda, and Kazuhiko Ishida, realized with Axelay they were good enough to fly solo and left Konami as a consequence to do their own thing. So in a way we can say Axelay is some kind of Yoko Ono.

Eh, fair enough.

MUSHA is above both anyway.