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Topic: Horizontally scrolling shoot em up

	Amiga Reviews: Overkill
		Although the new game has been tarted up with layer upon layer of scrolling parallax backgrounds and the ship under your control can pick up a number of power ups to increase your chances of success, the basic gameplay is almost exactly the same as the aging coin op classic.
		Once they have achieved this objective, it is then up to you to steer the assault craft back to the waiting marine, pick them up to the next crystal to be disposed of.
		This is, of course, easier said than done, as the aliens have a number of tricks up their sleeves, not least of which is the ability to mutate into even more hideous and dangerous opponents once they have digested the nearest Trilithium crystal.
	amigareviews.classicgaming.gamespy.com /overkill.htm (1558 words)

	Defender - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Defender is a horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game created by Williams Electronics in 1980.
		Instead of the standard 'Up, Down, Left, Right' system, it had a 'Reverse' button to toggle the player's horizontal direction, a Thrust button to move in that direction, and a joystick to move up or down.
		There was also a Fire button for shooting, and a Hyperdrive button which teleported the player to a random position in the level.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Defender (665 words)

	R-Type - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is a vertically-scrolling shoot 'em up, and is notable for the feature of aimable, blaster-equipped pods (similar to Bits) which the player can launch at enemies.
		Gallop: Armed Police Unit (also known as Cosmic Cop outside of Japan) is a horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em up, released in the arcades in 1991.
		X-Multiply is a horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em up, released in the arcades in 1989.
	open-encyclopedia.com /R-Type (2164 words)

	Scrolling shooter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Horizontal and vertical scrollers are the most common, and have become well-defined subgenres in their own right.
		Almost all horizontal scrollers view the player's avatar from the side, and present the level in cross-section, such that the player appears to be flying 'through' something, such as a landscape or a mothership.
		In horizontal scrollers, these enemies present more of a challenge, as they are usually in a difficult position for the player to shoot at, but still fire back.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Scrolling-shooter.htm (1490 words)

	R-Type (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		(also known as Cosmic Cop outside of Japan) is a horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em up, released in the arcades in 1991.
		Mr Heli No Dai Bouken, also known simply as Mr Heli, and sometimes as Battle Chopper outside Japan, is a horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em up released in arcades in 1987.
		Dragon Breed is a horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em up, released in the arcades in 1989, in which the player flies a large, Chinese-style dragon.
	hallencyclopedia.com /R-Type (3590 words)

	R-Type Final Information
		It is a vertically-scrolling shoot 'em up, and is notable for the feature of aimable, blaster-equipped pods (similar to Bits) which the player can launch at enemies.
		X-Multiply is a horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em up, released in the arcades in 1989.
		Dragon Breed is a horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em up, released in the arcades in 1989, in which the player flies a large, Chinese-style dragon.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/R-Type_Final (3407 words)

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		Abuse Abuse was a platform shoot 'em up, relea...
		Alpha Beam A side-scrolling shoot 'em up with a dec...
		Attack of mutant camels 2 A strange shoot 'em up, in which you mus...
	www.planetfreeplay.com /games/Shoot-em-up/0/?pfp=072a1bbdebb2b638c5bd57058ec19eb7 (188 words)

	Encyclopedia: Zero Wing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Like other shoot 'em ups of the time, it featured no real plot, except to distinguish that the player is a lone hero who will save the universe from bad guys.
		However, it enjoyed a degree of success in the arcade, and was thus ported to the PC Engine and Sega Mega Drive (Genesis) in 1991.
		As per other shooters, the aim of the game is to shoot all other enemies that appear on screen and avoid crashing into bullets, enemies, or foreground scenery.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Zero-Wing (1441 words)

	/pub/cbm/vic20/games/unexpanded/ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Seven ring-type enemies bounce around overhead your base that moves horizontally on the bottom of the screen.
		Shoot the enemies on the left, until they explode.
		Shoot enemy droids and avoid they and their bullets.
	www.zimmers.net /anonftp/pub/cbm/vic20/games/unexpanded (1182 words)

	Scramble - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Scramble is an early horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up, arcade game.
		The game was developed by Konami, manufactured and distrubuted by Stern and was released in 1981.
		Players control a spaceship and guide it over mountainous terrain avoiding missiles launched from the planet surface and attempt to destroy oil containers to top up their own supply, without which the player's ship crashes.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Scramble (106 words)

	Shoot 'em Up
		The scrolling shooter usually has the player(s) moving automatically through a level at a mostly fixed speed.
		Most horizontal shmups are played on a horizontally oriented screen, but there are a few exceptions - such as Darius, which uses more than one monitor to create an extremely long playfield, and Stinger, which uses a vertically oriented screen.
		Tube shooters comprises of games where players move forward through a "tube", essentially a 2D scrolling shooter plane rolled into a cylinder or extended to a three dimensional volume.
	www.gametoplay.freegames.eu.com /games/Shoot-em-up.html (738 words)

	Windows - Arcade - Space shooters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This is a scrolling shoot-'em-up in which you must defend Planet Gaia from the relentless...
		You are traveling in space and your mission is to clear various parts of the galaxy that...
		This is a futuristic 3D shooting game that takes place on the moon.
	bvn.games.tucows.com /arcade_spaceshooters_rating.html (687 words)

	Darius (game) - TheBestLinks.com - Anime, Binary tree, Computer game, Fish, ...
		Darius is a series of horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up computer games produced by Taito.
		The original Darius, released in arcades in 1986, was unique in the fledgling genre for having a game screen three times longer than the usual size, and thus requiring three screens to be arranged side-by-side in order to play.
		Like most horizontally scrolling shooters, the gameplay takes the form of a number of levels with a boss at the end.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Darius___28__game__29__.html (277 words)

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		Episode V: Battle for Hoth A horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up, b...
		Fireworks 2 A shoot 'em up which was a little more a...
		Gamma Bros A polished shoot 'em up, in which you ta...
	www.planetfreeplay.com /games/3/70/?pfp=f70738e3c6054646fdf6cc11fe34c5b1 (196 words)

	Scramble
		This is one of the earliest horizontally scrolling shoot-em-up games set across 6 levels, each with a slightly different type of enemy to avoid or destroy.
		You can shoot them or bomb them, but they are difficult to avoid if you get too close to them.
		Survive and you're on to stage 3: this time fiery comets are blazing their way towards you horizontally at random heights.
	tips.retrogames.com /gamepage/scramble.html (749 words)

	Amiga Reviews: R-Type 2
		R-Type II was the arcade sequel to one of the most popular scrolling shoot-'em-ups in the history of video-gaming, and on first appearance was the subject of some disappointment.
		There are six levels of horizontal parallax scrolling action, which bears more than a passing similarity to R-Type.
		To be sure, it features parallax scrolling which was absent in the precursor, but apart from that, the game play is slow and sluggish.
	amigareviews.classicgaming.gamespy.com /rtype2.htm (2616 words)

	X2 - Playstation Review
		Back in the heyday of the Amiga, Team 17 released what was arguably the best horizontally scrolling shoot-em-up of the time, Project X. The developers, although pleased with their work, weren't entirely happy and felt that more could be done with the genre...
		The most impressive effect is during levels that are set on several layers (such as the asteroid field of Level 3) where you start playing normally, then your craft descends into the backdrop and the battle continues on a new playing field.
		The sprite handling in X2 is flawless, but the scrolling, while quite good, isn't as smooth as it could be, although this doesn't detract from the gameplay.
	www.infinitefrontiers.0catch.com /X2.htm (1144 words)

	ipedia.com: Defender Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Defender is a horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game created by Williams Electroni...
		The player is armed with a powerful laser-like weapon which can be fired in a long horizontal line ahead of the spaceship.
		After the success of Defender, there was a successful sequel called Stargate made in 1982, of which 26,000 units were made.
	www.ipedia.com /defender.html (621 words)

	Darius (arcade game) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Darius is a horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up computer game produced by Taito and released in arcades in 1986.
		Uniquely among shoot 'em ups, the game screen is three times wider than conventional size, and the arcade version uses an arrangement of three screens to accommodate it.
		There are two other colours of power-up bubble - white, and orange - which can be obtained by shooting at certain points of the terrain; there are, however, no visual clues as to where these may be in the level.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/D/Darius-(arcade-game).htm (906 words)

	::: larwe.com - rolling thunder :::
		Avoid ducking in to stock up on bullets while there are unfriendlies onscreen.
		The scrolling is slow, the music is pathetic (it's a looped sample of about 7-8 seconds of the arcade music), the sprites and other graphics are smaller, and all of them have blue trousers and purple hoods; there are none of the different enemies you see in the arcade machine.
		Rolling Thunder uses a horizontal low-res monitor, one or two 4-way joysticks with two buttons, and it has a standard JAMMA pinout.
	www.larwe.com /coinop/rolthund.html (887 words)

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		If you can find it, this is a good blaster to use up an hour or two.
		Along with a competent sequel to Menace called Blood Money, DMA came up with the idea of starring dozens of little lemmings that didn't look like lemmings in a scenario which would bring them much pain and suffering.
		You had to get the lemmings to their home without letting them (or a certain number of them..) come to any harm by using various ingenious techniques.
	www.psygnosis.org /history/borrowedtime.html (1333 words)

	Bioship Paladin - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bio-ship_Paladin is a horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up computer_game from the late 1980s/early 1990s.
		It originated in the arcades and was later ported to the Sega_Megadrive.
		The player flies a spaceship (specifically, a bioship) which has the standard forward guns to be found in all horizontal scrollers, but it also possesses a weapon that can be manually targeted with a crosshair, in the same manner as in the game Missile_Command.
	www.indexsuche.com /Bio-ship_Paladin.html (183 words)

	T.A.C.G.R. - R-type
		A horizontally scrolling shoot em up is what we have on our hands.
		Help is at hand though as the amount of power ups that are scattered around are enough to keep any trigger happy fanatic going.
		So for the game alone, it boasts a lot, the arcade did and it lived up to it, but the CPC version of it is a little disappointing with Captain Speccy getting his mits on this one.
	tacgr.emuunlim.com /downloads/filedetail.php?recid=768 (600 words)

	R-Type 3 (PC) - Review - Possibly the best 16bit shoot em up
		This game for up to two players was developed and published by Irem.
		For those who still don't know what I am raving about - R-Type is a horizontally scrolling shoot em up game and it became the benchmark that all other shooters were measured against.
		All you have to do is shoot everything that moves (and many things that don't) and try not to die.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /pc-game/r-type-3/247225 (681 words)

	The Killer List of Videogames> - Last Resort
		A horizontally scrolling shoot-em-up where one or two players pilot spacecraft armed with lasers and an external spherical drone.
		The player must guide their spacecraft across horizontally scrolling cityscapes and wastelands, disposing of hordes of enemy spacecraft (some metallic, some organic) including huge mid- and end-level guardians.
		Some common games show up as very rare here because collectors don't want them (they are common because arcade operatos might be sitting on tons of them in warehouses), while some fairly scarce games are grabbed by collectors every time they show up.
	www.klov.com /game_detail.php?letter=L&game_id=8393 (546 words)

	Agony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Even though most enemies shoot at you the biggest danger is actually having them fly into you.
		Keeping your weapons powered up is a must if you want to complete the game.
		It feels different then most shooting games but there are some very nice touches, but I feel just too relaxed playing.
	www.angusm.demon.co.uk /AGDB/DBA1/Agony.html (483 words)

	Bio-ship Paladin -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		(Formation consisting of the set of horizontal lines composed of pixels that is used to form an image on a CRT) Raster, standard resolution
		(additional info and facts about Bio-ship Paladin) Bio-ship Paladin is a (additional info and facts about horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up) horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up (additional info and facts about arcade game) arcade game from 1990.
		While the game is essentially a standard horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em up, it has an innovation that makes it unique in the genre.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bi/bio-ship_paladin.htm (228 words)

	Amiga Reviews: R-Type 2
		R-Type II was the arcade sequel to one of the most popular scrolling shoot-'em-ups in the history of video-gaming, and on first appearance was the subject of some disappointment.
		There are six levels of horizontal parallax scrolling action, which bears more than a passing similarity to R-Type.
		To be sure, it features parallax scrolling which was absent in the precursor, but apart from that, the game play is slow and sluggish.
	www.classicgaming.com /amigareviews/rtype2.htm (2616 words)

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		Players assume the role of a fighter pilot during WWII and shoot down enemy planes, boats and other assorted structures.
		A horizontal shoot 'em up where the player role play a cybernetic tick character in a post apocalyptic world.
		This is a side scrolling shooter game where you can team up with a partner to kill as many aliens as possible.
	coinopexpress.com /products/pcbs/pcb/Koutetsu_Yousai_Strahl_(Air_Pla... (447 words)

	Amiga Reviews: P47 Thunderbolt - The Freedom Fighter
		Extra weaponry is made available as you bring down enemy helicopters, with bombs, spray missiles, speed ups and directable fire and even extra lives left in the air for you to fly into.
		Speed ups are crucial because your P-47 is a sluggish beast, whilst directable fire is of the greatest benefit for combat allowing you to chuck out bombs in any direction you choose to fly.
		Jaleco's coin-op is another horizontally scrolling shoot-'em-up and realism has nothing at all to do with it.
	www.classicgaming.com /amigareviews/p47.htm (1139 words)

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		Shoot your ball into the the chain to destroy the alien balls.
		Shoot down the UFOS before they get to you.
		Fly your jet through the skies, shoot down enemies with gattling gun, use bombs to destroy helicopters and bosses.
	www.classic-consoles.com /categories/5/arcade.html (621 words)

	Ilyad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The game is the classic horizontally scrolling shoot'em up in the R-Type, Project X genre.
		The game scrolls at a fairly slow pace but is pretty smooth and enemies will attack you from both sides of the screen.
		It's a better then average shooting game and you won't be disappointed purchasing it.
	www.angusm.demon.co.uk /AGDB/DBA1/Ilyad.html (319 words)

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