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Though not the first game to scroll horizontally, it created the genre of horizontal scrolling shoot 'em ups. It inspired the development of other games and was followed by sequels and many imitations. Ports were developed for contemporary game systems, most of them by either Atari, Inc. or its software label for non-Atari platforms, Atarisoft.
Scrolling shooters are a type of shoot 'em up game that emphasizes fast-paced shooting on a large scrolling playfield with many enemies. Scrolling shooters are further divided into horizontal (side view) and vertical (top view) shoot 'em ups, but there are also some borderline cases like alternating horizontal and vertical stages in Konami 's ...
Scrolling shooters include vertical, horizontal, and multidirectional scrolling games. In a horizontally scrolling shooter (sometimes called a horizontal shooter or side-scrolling shooter ), the action is viewed from the side and scrolls right-to-left, left-to-right, or both.
Initially envisioned as a vertical-scrolling shooter and intended to be their last game, Progear was created by CAVE as a collaboration with Capcom and served as their first horizontal-scrolling shooter title, with bullet dodging and enemy destruction being the main focus while adapting the company's shoot 'em up gameplay style in a horizontal ...
Shoot 'em ups were popular throughout the 1980s to early 1990s, diversifying into a variety of subgenres such as scrolling shooters, run and gun games and rail shooters. In the mid-1990s, shoot 'em ups became a niche genre based on design conventions established in the 1980s, and increasingly catered to specialist enthusiasts, particularly in ...
Koutetsu Yousai Strahl (鋼鉄要塞 シュトラール, Steel Fortress Strahl) is a horizontal scrolling Shoot 'em up developed by UPL in 1992. Story
Battle Mania Daiginjō [a] is a horizontal side-scrolling shoot'em-up released by Vic Tokai for the Mega Drive in 1993. It serves as a sequel to the original Battle Mania, which was released in North America under the title Trouble Shooter.
The series has been seen by critics as important and influential for the shoot'em up genre, inspiring games such as R-Type, Thunder Force and Darius, as well as setting the template for horizontal-scrolling shooters as a whole. It is Konami's most successful shooter series and one of the company's core franchises.