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Shmups

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

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Shmups

Striker

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An enemy that only appears for a short duration before leaving the screen. Players will have to anticipate their arrival and be ready to shoot them down, as they can be worth a lot of points.

Extra mode

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Often presented as a reward for clearing arcade mode, the extra mode is a single very long and very hard stage to challenge the player.

Subweapon

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A secondary weapon at the player's disposal with distinct characteristics from the primary weapon.

Tailgun

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A weapon that fires to the rear of the player's ship.

Autofire

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When a player can hold down a button to keep their ship constantly firing bullets. Older games often did not have this feature and the player would have to press the fire button repeatedly for the ...

Arrange mode

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A bonus mode that has a significant change compared to the regular arcade mode, such as a new scoring system or different attack patterns from enemies.

Autobomb

Video games; Shmups

A system that will automatically use one of the player's bombs (if there are any in stock) when the player is hit instead of causing a death.

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