241th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Xbox Year of Release: 2002 Developer: Smilebit Publisher: Sega Would you believe this game is made by the same developers as the previous Jet Set Radio Future? Even odder, they’re also responsible for the upcoming, even other edutainment/survival horror Typing of the Dead. Even more depressing [...]
Posts Tagged ‘shoot ‘em up’
#517 Panzer Dragoon Orta
Posted: 22nd May 2013 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2002, sega, shoot 'em up, smilebit, xbox
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#124 Thrust
Posted: 6th May 2013 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1986, jeremy smith, shoot 'em up, superior software, Various
237th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Various Year of Release: 1986 Developer: Jeremy Smith Publisher: Superior Software Now for a return to old style gaming. Games have for a long time tried to mix realism into their gameplay. Early on, Asteroids introduced inertia and related space flight to the games, and Lunar [...]
236th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1982 Developer: Namco Publisher: Namco There is a big argument for doing games in strictly chronological order, that way we can see exactly who did what first and who influenced whom. Xevious is the earliest example of a vertical shooting game that [...]
#868 Space Invaders Extreme
Posted: 27th March 2013 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2008, action, DS, psp, shoot 'em up, square enix, taito, xbox 360
227th played so far Genre: Action/Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: DS/PSP/XBox 360 Year of Release: 2008 Developer: Taito Publisher: Square Enix Everyone knows Space Invaders, right? It’s a classic, its aliens even adorning the cover of our book. It’s a game that everyone knows and one of the first people will think of when they think [...]
#979 Reflect Missile
Posted: 19th February 2013 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2009, DS, q-games, shoot 'em up
218th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: DS Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Q-Games Sure, we covered some famous games. A few days ago, we had Mass Effect, we started off the iconic Pong, and covered all sorts of big games in between – SimCity, Final Fantasy VII, Portal and more major games. [...]
#891 Captain Forever
Posted: 23rd November 2012 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2009, internet, jarrad woods, shoot 'em up
196th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Internet Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Jarrad Woods One of the nicer things the internet has enabled is the easier creation and distribution of games. It’s easier to create a flash game everyone can see. While this leads to a lot of copies and crud being [...]
#696 Elebits (or Eledees)
Posted: 11th November 2012 by Mulholland in GamesTags: 2006, action, konami, shoot 'em up, wii
193rd played so far Genre: Action/Shoot ‘em Up Platform: Wii Year of Release: 2006 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami For those of you keepin track, it’s been a while since we did a Wii game. Technically World of Goo was one, but it wasn’t a proper one… We didn’t even touch our Wii to play it. [...]
#151 Wizball
Posted: 18th October 2012 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1987, ocean software, sensible software, shoot 'em up, Various
187th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Various Year of Release: 1987 Developer: Sensible Software Publisher: Ocean Software Continuing our run of “wow we’re getting close to 200 games… we need to play more pre-1990 games” we are taking on Wizball. It is our eventual hope that we will play so many of [...]
#396 Bangai-O
Posted: 24th September 2012 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1999, conspiracy entertainment, dreamcast, esp, shoot 'em up, Treasure
181st played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Dreamcast Year of Release: 1999 Developer: Treasure Publisher: ESP/Conspiracy Entertainment More Dreamfest! As the third entry for our Dreamcast weekend, we’ve reached deep into the shoot ‘em up genre to find one that was released on the Dreamcast. Bangai-O is an interesting one. Released in Japan [...]
#66 Bank Panic
Posted: 23rd August 2012 by Mulholland in GamesTags: 1984, arcade, sanritsu, sega, shoot 'em up
173rd played so far Genre: Shoot ‘em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1984 Developer: Sanritsu Publisher: Sega This morning Jeroen accidentally (through a slip of the tongue) coined a term: short ‘em up. I thought he was being clever since there are many shoot ‘em ups left for us to do on this list [...]