Posts Tagged ‘shoot ’em up’

1014th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: PC/Playstation 1 Year of Release: 1995 Developer: Origin Systems Publisher: Electronic Arts While with a lot of other genres, I tried to finish on a big game of the genre or something like that, for shoot ’em ups my final entry is the only in a […]

#406 Freespace 2

Posted: 8th September 2021 by Jeroen in Games
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996th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: PC Year of Release: 1999 Developer: Volition Publisher: Interplay Entertainment I covered Descent a little while ago as an odd blast from the past. That game got a couple of sequels until we got Descent: Freespace, which started to take place in an open space rather […]

#347 Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter

Posted: 24th August 2021 by Jeroen in Games
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991st played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: PC Year of Release: 1997 Developer: Totally Games Publisher: LucasArts While with some other genres, I seem to be ending on a group of games from a sub genre that I don’t make it to the end, as per my discussion on Tactics Ogre a few […]

#324 The House of the Dead 2

Posted: 18th August 2021 by Jeroen in Games
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989th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1996 Developer: Wow Entertainment Publisher: Sega We’ve had a couple of light gun games left and The House of the Dead 2 is the last one left. We’ve played House of the Dead: Overkill somewhat recently, where we saw that the Wii […]

985th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: PC Year of Release: 2003 Developer: Illusion Softworks Publisher: Gathering of Developers On my quest to slowly round up the duplicate genres that are left, I’m rounding off one of the shoot ’em up list – we’ve still got a bunch of them left and this […]

#291 Virtua Cop 2

Posted: 19th June 2021 by Jeroen in Games
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969th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1995 Developer: Sega AM 2 Publisher: Sega What can I say? I need to get through these light gun games. The CRTs that allow you to play these barely exist anymore, so in this case at least I’m going to play the […]

964th played so far Genre: Platform/Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Playstation 3 Year of Release: 2007 Developer: Insomniac Games Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment We’ve got a nice minor landmark here. While I’ve been avoiding finishing genres, the Ratchet & Clank series is one of the later entries in the “character and sidekick” series of 3D platformers […]

#483 Ikaruga

Posted: 17th May 2021 by Jeroen in Games
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958th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade/Dreamcast/Gamecube Year of Release: 2001 Developer: Treasure Publisher: Treasure I think I’m going to end up getting this wrong and come across it, but if I’m right this is the last Treasure game on the list. From their early start with Gunstar Heroes to their last […]

951th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Gamecube/Playstation 2/Xbox Year of Release: 2003 Developer: Swingin’ Ape Studio Publisher: Vivendi Universal Games I don’t quite know where this game will go. In my head, I’m expecting another action platformer, something Jak and Daxter in gameplay, with more of an aesthetic of Rocket: Robot on […]

#962 Resident Evil 5

Posted: 23rd April 2021 by Jeroen in Games
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950th played so far Genre: Survival Horror/Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Xbox 360/Playstation 3/PC Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom As I’m preparing to play thisย  – probably the last ‘normal’ landmark game before they’re all significant milestones – it’s the last game on the list of the influential Resident Evil survival horror franchise. […]