Shmups

Shmups

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

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Bullet hell

Video games; Shmups

A subgenre of shmups that is mostly popular in Japanese and doujin shmups. These games will flood the screen with hundreds of bullets at once but make the characters hitbox very small to balance ...

Bullet cancelling

Video games; Shmups

When a player removes bullets from the screen in some fashion. Some games may feature a shield or absorption system that allows for bullet cancelling.

Bomb

Video games; Shmups

A special weapon with variable effects, usually it is a kind of "panic button" that will clear the screen of all bullets and deal heavy damage to all enemies.

Bullet

Video games; Shmups

The basic projectile attack used by the player and enemies alike. Touching a bullet with the player's hitbox will cause the player to take damage.

Base point value

Video games; Shmups

Refers to the value of an action before a scoring multiplier is applied.

Bomb stock

Video games; Shmups

The number of bombs currently available to a player.

An underlying system in many games that adjusts the difficulty based on how well the player is doing. Players may wish to perform badly at certain sections in order to keep their rank down and make ...