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-{{trope}}
-Once a staple of the gaming industry, [[Horizontal Scrolling Shooter]] games are rather rare since the latter half of the 1990s.
-As the name suggests, the game's playfield [[Auto Scrolling Level|constantly scrolls horizontally]] over the course of a level. The view can either be side-on or top-down, depending on the developer's choice. The most common use of such an engine has been for games with some kind of spacecraft either flying over a landscape or through an installation, with unbreakable obstacles that would kill the player either on contact, or by blocking the craft.
-Most such games had the player collect health, lives and weapons as powerups in the levels, although some allowed the player to make purchases with their points between levels.
-Complexity varies by having different numbers of layers of parallax and in some cases, transparency effects, such as translucent explosions.
-Compare [[Vertical Scrolling Shooter]].
-{{examples|Examples:}}
-* ''[[Air Zonk (Video Game)|Air Zonk]]''
-* ''[[Akai Katana]]''
-* ''[[Altitude (Video Game)|Altitude]]''
-* ''[[Area 88]],'' also known as ''U.N. Squadron'' in the US. One of the few [[Licensed Game|Licensed Games]] to not suck
-* ''[[Assault Suits Valken (Video Game)|Assault Suits Valken]]''
-* ''[[Bio-Hazard Battle (Video Game)|Bio-Hazard Battle]]''
-* ''[[BIOMETAL (Video Game)|BIOMETAL]]''
-* ''Blast Works''/''TUKIMI Fighters''
-* ''[[Blazing Star]]''
-* ''[[Boogie Wings]]'' (''The Great Ragtime Show'' in Japan)
-* ''[[Border Down]]''
-* ''[[Chimera Beast]]'' (unreleased)
-* ''[[Cobalt (Video Game)|Cobalt]]''
-* ''[[Fantastic Night Dreams Cotton (Video Game)|Cotton]]''
-* The ''[[Darius (Video Game)|Darius]]'' series.
-* ''[[Death Smiles]]'' series
-* "Dr. Phlogiston Saves the Earth" from [[Fun Orb]]
-* ''[[Einhander]]''
-* ''[[Eliminate Down (Video Game)|Eliminate Down]]''
-* ''[[Gaiares]]''
-* ''[[Gradius (Video Game)|Gradius]]'' series
-* ''Gundemonium'', ''Gundeadligne'' and ''Gundemonium Recollection'' from the ''[[Gundemonium Series (Video Game)|Gundemonium Series]]''
-* ''[[Heavy Weapon (Video Game)|Heavy Weapon]]''
-* ''[[Hydorah]]''
-* ''[[In the Hunt]]''
-* ''[[Iwanaga]]''
-* ''[[Jets N Guns]]''
-* ''[[Metal Black]]''
-* ''[[Otomedius (Video Game)|Otomedius]]''
-* ''[[Parasite Strike (Video Game)|Parasite Strike]]''
-* ''[[Parodius (Video Game)|Parodius]]'' series
-* ''Parsec''
-* ''[[Phalanx (Video Game)|Phalanx]]''
-* ''[[Prehistoric Isle]]''
-* ''[[Progear]]''
-* ''[[Pulstar]]''
-* ''[[Really Big Sky (Video Game)|Really Big Sky]]''
-* ''Revenge Of The Mutant Camels'' (yes, really)
-* ''[[RPG Shooter Starwish]]''
-* ''[[R-Type (Video Game)|R-Type]]'' series
-* ''[[Scramble (Video Game)|Scramble]]''
-** ''Super Cobra'' (which uses the same engine)
-* ''[[Shark Attack (Video Game)|Shark Attack]]''
-* ''[[Soldner X]]''
-* ''[[Stargunner (Video Game)|Stargunner]]''
-* ''[[Steel Empire (Video Game)|Steel Empire]]''
-* ''[[Steel Saviour]]''
-* ''[[Submarine Attack]]''
-* ''[[Suguri]]''
-** ''[[Sora (Video Game)|Sora]]''
-* ''[[Thunder Cross (Video Game)|Thunder Cross]]'' and sequel
-* ''[[Thunder Force (Video Game)|Thunder Force]]'' (early games include top down multi-direction level)
-* ''[[Trouble Witches]]'' series
-* ''[[Vacant Ark]]''
-* ''[[Vanguard (Video Game)|Vanguard]]'' (which also had some vertical and diagonal scrolling)
-* ''[[Wings of Genesis]]''
-* ''[[Xexyz (Video Game)|Xexyz]]'' (only one in three levels)
-* ''[[Zero Wing (Video Game)|Zero Wing]]''
-{{reflist}}
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-[[Category:Horizontal Scrolling Shooter]]
-[[Category:Trope]]