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The main section for this categoryis in the article shoot 'em up, in the section titled Scrolling shooters. Scrolling shootersinclude vertical and horizontal scrolling games or combinations of both orientations. In vertically scrolling shooters(or "vertically scrolling shoot 'em ups" or "vertical scrollers"), the action is viewed from above and ...
Defender is a horizontally scrolling shooter developed by Williams Electronics in 1980 and released as an arcade video game in 1981. The game is set on either an unnamed planet or city (depending on platform) where the player must defeat waves of invading aliens while protecting astronauts. Development was led by Eugene Jarvis, a pinball ...
Centipede is a 1981 fixed shooter arcade video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. [8] Designed by Dona Bailey and Ed Logg, it was one of the most commercially successful games from the golden age of arcade video games and one of the first with a significant female player base. The primary objective is to shoot all the segments of a ...
Wolfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software and FormGen. Originally released on May 5, 1992, for DOS, it was inspired by the 1981 Muse Software video game Castle Wolfenstein, and is the third installment in the Wolfenstein series. In Wolfenstein 3D, the player assumes the role of ...
Mode (s) 1-2 players alternating turns. Missile Command is a 1980 shoot 'em up arcade video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. and later licensed to Sega for Japanese and European releases. It was designed by Dave Theurer, who also designed Atari's vector graphics game Tempest from the same year. [ 2 ]
A vertically scrolling video game or vertical scroller is a video game in which the player views the field of play principally from a top-down perspective, while the background scrolls from the top of the screen to the bottom (or, less often, from the bottom to the top) to create the illusion that the player character is moving in the game world.
Arcade system. Capcom Z80, [ 8 ] PlayChoice-10. 1942 is a 1984 vertically scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Capcom for arcades. Designed by Yoshiki Okamoto, it was the first game in the 194X series, and was followed by 1943: The Battle of Midway. 1942 is set in the Pacific Theater of World War II, and is loosely based on ...
Sabotage is a fixed shooter video game for the Apple II written by Mark Allen and published by On-Line Systems in 1981. Gameplay Gameplay screenshot. The player controls a gun turret at the bottom of the screen by either keyboard, paddle control, or a single axis of a joystick. The turret can swivel to cover a large area of the screen, but ...