List of shoot 'em up games

A "shoot 'em up", also known as a "shmup"Buchanan, Levi, Top 10 Classic Shoot 'Em Ups , IGN, April 8, 2008, May 26, 2009 or "STG" (the common Japanese abbreviation for "shooting games"), is a game in which the protagonist combats a large number of enemies by shooting at them while dodging their fire. The controlling player must rely primarily on reaction times to succeed.Ashcraft, p. 70Bielby, Matt, "The Complete YS Guide to Shoot 'Em Ups", Your Sinclair, July, 1990 (issue 55), p. 33

Fixed shooters Games where the player stays at a fixed line on the screen.

Beamrider Centipede Millipede Cosmo Gang the Video Galaxian / Galaga series Moon Cresta Space Invaders series

Side-scrolling shooters

Air Buster Air Zonk Super Air Zonk Aldynes Atomic Robo-Kid Barunba Battle Chopper Bio Hazard Battle BioMetal BlaZeon Bouken Danshaku Don Cho Aniki series Coryoon - Child of Dragon Cotton series Darius series Dead Moon (video game) Download Download 2 Earth Defense Force Eliminate Down Fantasy Zone Fantasy Zone II: The Tears of Opa-Opa Super Fantasy Zone Forgotten Worlds Gate of Thunder Gley Lancer Gradius series Gynoug Hana Tāka Daka!? Harmful Park Heavy Unit Hellfire Hyper Duel Hyper Dyne Side Arms Ironclad (video game)

Keio Flying Squadron Kiaidan 00 L-Dis Last Resort Lords of Thunder Macross series (some games) Magical Chase Metamor Jupiter Mystic Riders Ordyne Otomedius Otomedius Excellent Over Horizon Parodius series Phalanx Prehistoric Isle Prehistoric Isle 2 Psychosis R-Type series Rabio Lepus Rayxanber Rayxanber II Rayxanber III Sigma Star Saga Sinistron (video game) Spriggan Mark 2: Re-Terraform Project Spriggan Powered Steel Empire Syd Mead's TerraForming Thunder Force series Trouble Shooter Battle Mania: Daiginjō Uchū no Kishi: Tekkaman Blade U.N. Squadron Zombie Nation

Vertically scrolling shooters

194X series Acrobat Mission Aero Fighters series Aleste series Alzadick Axelay Blazing Lazers Burning Angels Chōshin Heiki Zeroigar Cresta series Crisis Force Cyber Core Dangerous Seed Dragon Spirit Final Soldier Firepower 2000 Flying Hero Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire God Panic: Shijō Saikyō Gundan Grind Stormer The Guardian Legend Gun Nac Gun.Smoke Ikaruga Image Fight Image Fight II: Operation Deepstriker Iridion II

MUSHA NEXZR Override Psychic Storm Psycho Chaser Radiant Silvergun Raiden series River Raid Seirei Senshi Spriggan Soldier Blade Space Invaders '95 Star Parodier Steam-Heart's Strike Gunner S.T.G Summer Carnival '92: Recca Super Star Soldier Sylphia Terra Diver Touhou Project series Toy Shop Boys Truxton Truxton II TwinBee series Twinkle Star Sprites Undead Line Zanac

Multidirectional shooters

Games that allow the player to shoot and move towards differently directions.

Armada Bangai-O Bionicle Heroes (GBA version) Dead Connection Deae Tonosama Appare Ichiban Granada Guardian Force Ikari Warriors Victory Road Ikari III: The Rescue Last Alert Märchen Maze Metal Stoker

Mystic Formula Pocky & Rocky series Shock Troopers Shock Troopers: 2nd Squad Soldiers of Fortune Sub-Terrania Super Smash T.V. Thunder Force Thunder Force II Zombies Ate My Neighbors Xeno Crisis Trax Twinkle Tale

Run and gun platformers

Games that combine shooting with platforming elements.

Alien Soldier Assault Suit series Contra series Demon's World Earthworm Jim series Front Mission series G.I. Joe video games Gunstar Heroes Gunstar Super Heroes Gunners Heaven Journey to Silius Mega Man series Mega Man X series

Metal Slug series Metal Warriors Ranger X Rendering Ranger: R2 Rolling Thunder Rolling Thunder 2 Rolling Thunder 3 Shockman series Sunset Riders Vectorman Vectorman 2

List of shoot 'em up games

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