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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.
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.
Bullet hell (弾幕, danmaku, literally "barrage" or "bullet curtain"), also known as manic shooter, [1] is a subgenre of shoot 'em up video games with large amounts of projectiles the player is required to dodge. Introduced in 1993 with Batsugun and initially limited to vertically scrolling shooters, bullet hell elements were later added to ...
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 Axelay
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.
Xevious is a vertically scrolling shooter. The player controls a flying attack craft, the Solvalou, to destroy the Xevious forces plotting to take over Earth. [ 3 ] The Solvalou has two weapons: a zapper that fires projectiles at flying enemies [ 4 ] and a blaster for bombing ground installations and vehicles. [ 4 ]
Power Strike II is a 1993 vertically scrolling shooter video game developed by Compile and published by Sega.Part of the Aleste series, the game takes place across the seas and skies near Italy during the 1930s, with the player assuming the role of a Pothunter piloting the Falcon Flyer aircraft to shoot down sky pirates, former pilots that turned to air piracy for survival as result of the ...
Tyrian is an arcade-style vertical scrolling shooter.It was developed chiefly as a homage to the works of Compile, particularly their Zanac series.. The player controls a space ship fitted with different weapons (front and back, linked to the same button, and up to two external pods with their own buttons) and other equipment.