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Shoot 'em up

Shoot 'em ups (also known as shmups or, chiefly in Japan, STGs) are a subgenre 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…

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Shoot 'em up

Nodes201
Edges200
Triples126
Avg. degree1.99
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related to Run and gun and rail shooters (1980s to early 1990s) · 33
Shoot 'em up → By, Capcom's Commando, Commander, Commando, Commando-inspired, Contemporary, Contra, Data East's RoboCop, First Blood Part II, Front Line, Gunstar Heroes, Ikari Warriors, In, Japan, Konami, Konami's Green Beret, Later, Namco's Rolling Thunder, NES, Nintendo
related to Golden age and refinement (late 1970s to early 1980s) · 15
Shoot 'em up → Atari's Asteroids, Following, Galaxian, Gorf, IGN, In, Its, Namco's Galaxian, Namco's Xevious, Ozma Wars, SNK's, Space Invaders, Spacewar, The Space Invaders, Xevious
related to Origins · 14
Shoot 'em up → America, Brian Ashcraft, EM, England's, It, Massachusetts Institute, Mechanical, Periscope, Sega's, Shooting, Spacewar, Technology, The, Video
related to Emergence of shoot 'em up genre (late 1970s) · 13
Shoot 'em up → Breakout, Eugene Jarvis, It, Japan's Taito, Most, Nishikado, Space Invaders, The, Tomohiro Nishikado, Wells' The War, While, With, Worlds
related to Common elements · 11
Shoot 'em up → As, Characters, Different, In, Large, Lasers, Shoot, Some, The, These, Thus
related to Types · 10
Shoot 'em up → Examples, Fixed, Galaga, Galaxian, Gorf, In Centipede, In Pooyan, Phoenix, Shoot, Space Invaders
related to Definition · 8
Shoot 'em up → Beyond, Formerly, Japanese, Mark Wolf, Others, Some, STG, The
related to External links · 4
Shoot 'em up → Media, Shoot, Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2

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games 'em shoot game shooters space genre scrolling shooter player released subgenre ups also early shooting gun 1985 movement arcade

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Asteroidsinstance ofThe genre was then further developed by arcade hits0.80text
Galaxian in 1979instance ofThe genre was then further developed by arcade hits0.80text
scrolling shootersinstance ofdiversifying into a variety of subgenres0.80text
runinstance ofdiversifying into a variety of subgenres0.80text
gun gamesinstance ofdiversifying into a variety of subgenres0.80text
rail shootersinstance ofdiversifying into a variety of subgenres0.80text
Asteroidsinstance ofbut several inches of vertical motion are also allowed within an invisible box.Multidirectional shooters allow 360-degree movement where the protagonist may rotate and move in a…0.80text
archeryinstance ofdating back to shooting gallery carnival games in the late 19th century and target sports0.80text
bowlinginstance ofdating back to shooting gallery carnival games in the late 19th century and target sports0.80text
dartsinstance ofdating back to shooting gallery carnival games in the late 19th century and target sports0.80text
his own Defenderinstance ofas seen in arcade games0.80text
Robotroninstance ofas seen in arcade games0.80text

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