Mischief Maker wrote:

I readily admit that War Twat is not a good arcade game and I introduced it on the High Score forum to reel people into the joke.

The first one's main cause of death was the programmers not doing their job with an intuitive hit box

Yeah, that stupid hitbox located dead center of the player's sprite, highlit whenever you're in focus fire. Where on earth could it be?

Maybe your problem is that you're still approaching shmups from the mindset of ten years ago, when they died stateside.