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* ''[[R-Type]]'' skill runs generally involve non-use of the Force Device or Wave Cannon, not killing anything but bosses that would kill you and things that directly obstruct your progress, or some combination of the above. Oddly, the games appear to have anticipated this, since in ''III, Delta'' and ''Final'' the game will give you a Force Device for the final stage of the last boss if you don't have one. Delta and Final also keep track of various handicaps you might impose on yourself, like beating the game without Force or Wave Cannon.
* ''[[Ikaruga]]'', or at least the Xbox 360 version, actually provides for an entire ''scoreboard'' for [[Pacifist Run|"Dot Eater"]] play - meaning you don't fire a single shot, collecting points by surviving and by using your shield to absorb every last bullet you can.
* Many hardcore [[Shoot 'Em Ups|Shoot-Em-Up]] fans attempt to beat Shoot-Em-Ups on a single credit. In fact, one could argue that this is the only legitimate way to beat such a game, since having and utilizing unlimited continues defeats the challenge of avoiding enemies and enemy fire.
* Certain [[Shoot 'Em UpsUp]]s where it's possible (e.g. the ''[[Touhou Project]]'' games) have challenges such as No Horizontal/No Vertical, which, depending on the stage or the game, can be deadly hard, if not outright impossible, even on Easy. Others include no Focusing, which requires innate knowledge of the player's hitbox, 1lc, which is not dying at all, 0b1lc, which is the same thing... but no bombing either.
** For a particularly masochistic challenge, try hacking ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'''s [https://web.archive.org/web/20101226032627/http://www.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Embodiment_of_Scarlet_Devil:_Gameplay#Rank rank] to the highest point, as seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iknyy3R2eA8 here] (or [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRNkJTUInAU worse]) -- Flandre's formerly simplistic non-spell patterns turn into nigh-unavoidable death traps, and her final card is nightmarishly fast.
** Scoring high in the games itself is a Self-Imposed Challenge. Scoring high in ''[[Touhou]]'' involves making things as dangerous as possible: grazing thousands of bullets, often using your bombs to clear away bullets, then ''suiciding'' to reset your bomb count and get even more points. A compendium of [https://web.archive.org/web/20101114000833/http://www.touhouwiki.net/wiki/High_scores world records can be found at TouhouWiki.] If you download the replays on the page, you will be ''astounded'' at the challenges the players put themselves through. The world-record ''Subterranean Animism'' replay by "yukarin" is particularly notable, getting very close to maxing out the graze counter at ''97,585 grazes.''
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