Shmups

Shmups

2D shooters in the vein of Space Invaders. Short for Shoot 'em Up.

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Ship

Video games; Shmups

Generic name for the player controlled entity in a shmup, whether it in fact be a plane, ship, person or otherwise.

Chaining

Video games; Shmups

A common scoring system that involves killing enemies in a certain order or in a specific timeframe.

Clear bonus

Video games; Shmups

A score bonus that is awarded for reaching the end of the game.

Moving back and forth from one end of the screen to the other while continuously firing. This ensures that the screen is covered in the player's bullets and prevents the player from staying in one ...

True last boss (LTB)

Video games; Shmups

A special boss that will only appear under certain difficult criteria, such as reaching the end of the second loop without continuing. A very small minority of players will ever even manage to reach ...

Suicide bullet

Video games; Shmups

Bullets that emanate from a destroyed enemy. Can be exceptionally dangerous when dealing with popcorn enemies as they will spawn many suicide bullets and potentially overwhelm the player. Sometimes ...

Tate

Video games; Shmups

A viewing mode that takes up the entirity of a television screen but requires the TV to be rotated 90 degrees. The advantage is that the resulting picture is bigger which makes it easier to ...