arcade shooters
Light gun games
Arcade shooters are video games emphasizing fast-paced shooting action, originally designed for coin-operated arcade machines.
The term covers various subgenres: run-and-gun games like *Metal Slug*, light gun games like *Time Crisis*, and bullet hell shooters with overwhelming projectile patterns.
The arcade style prioritizes reflexes and pattern recognition over story or strategy: I grew up on arcade shooters at the pizza parlor.
- bullet hellGenre of dense-projectile shooters
- top downFrom highest to lowest
- joystickTilting lever for control
- fire buttonControl that fires weapons
- quartersAssigned living accommodations
cabinet · pixel · boss · powerup · lasers · spaceship · aliens · scrolling · dodge · highscore · continue · game over · extra life · waves · turret · neon · reflexes · 1942
- Shoot-'Em-Upsbullet hell, side-scrolling, barrage, hitbox, grazing
arcade shootersvisual novels
Text-heavy illustrated games
puzzle games · simulation games · idle games · card games · sandbox games
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