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Shoot 'em ups (also known as shmups or STGs) [1] [2] are a sub-genre of action games.There is no consensus as to which design elements compose a shoot 'em up; some restrict the definition to games featuring spacecraft and certain types of character movement, while others allow a broader definition including characters on foot and a variety of perspectives.
A "shoot 'em up", also known as a "shmup" [1] [2] or "STG" (the common Japanese abbreviation for "shooting games"), [3] is a game in which the protagonist combats a large number of enemies by shooting at them while dodging their fire. The controlling player must rely primarily on reaction times to succeed.
In 1993, the studio released Batsugun, an innovative game that, after the first level, featured increasingly complex and hypnotic bullet patterns. In order to make the game more fair to players, only a small part of the player's ship served as the hitbox, rather than the entire vessel itself. This remains a tenet of bullet hell shooters ...
Choro-gon Breath [a] is a 2022 bullet hell shoot 'em up video game, and the first official title to be based on the anime and manga series Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid. Developed by Kaminari Games and published by Bushiroad in Japan and Aksys Games in the United States, the game was released for PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and Windows.
Ikaruga is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up.The game features five stages, three levels of difficulty, and supports single-player or two-player cooperative modes. [1] The player pilots the Ikaruga fighter, moving to avoid obstacles and other danger.
Shoot 'em up is a genre of computer games in which the main gameplay focus is on shooting, such that other aspects of the game are often simplified to facilitate this.
CAVE Interactive Co., Ltd. [a] is a Japanese video game company founded in 1994 by former employees of Toaplan following its bankruptcy. They are known primarily for their "bullet hell" shoot 'em ups; from 1995 up to 2013, CAVE was one of the most prolific shoot 'em up developers in the Japanese market.
Twin-stick shooter is a subgenre of shoot 'em up video games.It is a multidirectional shooter in which the player character is controlled using two joysticks: the first for movement on a flat plane and the second to shoot in the direction the joystick is pushed.