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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.
Scrolling shooters include 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 scrolls up (or very occasionally down) the screen.
Sol Cresta [a] is a vertically scrolling shooter video game developed and published by PlatinumGames. [1] It is the fifth and final entry in the Cresta series, following the Japan-exclusive 1997 game Terra Cresta 3D for the Sega Saturn [2] [3] and the first game in the series to not be developed by Japan-based studio Nichibutsu.
Pages in category "Vertically scrolling video games" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Flying Shark is a military-themed vertically scrolling shoot 'em up game in which players take control of the titular biplane through five increasingly difficult levels in order to defeat an assortment of military enemy forces like tanks, battleships, airplanes and artillery as the main objective.
Dangun Feveron [a] is a 1998 vertical-scrolling shooter arcade game developed by Cave and published by Nihon System in Japan. Players control a fighter craft and must destroy waves of enemies throughout a series of scrolling stages that increase in difficulty.
SNK's debut shoot 'em up Ozma Wars (1979) featured vertical scrolling backgrounds and enemies, [57] and it was the first action game to feature a supply of energy, similar to hit points. [58] Namco's Xevious, released in 1982, was one of the first and most influential vertical scrolling shooters. [7]
Neo Geo version screenshot. Neo XYX is a science fiction-themed vertically scrolling shoot 'em up game reminiscent of Toaplan and Cave shooters such as Batsugun and DoDonPachi respectively, in which the player take control of a space fighter craft through six increasingly difficult stages in order to defeat an assortment of enemy forces and bosses.