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As the name suggests, the game's playfield constantly scrolls vertically over the course of a level, giving a top-down view of the action. The most common use of such an engine has been for games with some kind of spacecraft or plane, although a number of games were based on roads with the player controlling a car.
Most such games had the player collect health, lives and weapons as [[Power
Complexity varies by having different numbers of layers of parallax and in some cases, transparency effects, such as translucent explosions.
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Compare [[Horizontal Scrolling Shooter]]. [[Bullet Hell]] is a subgenre of this.
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* The ''[[
* The ''[[Aero Fighters]]''/''[[Sonic Wings]]'' series
* ''[[Fire Barrel
* The ''[[
** ''M.U.S.H.A.'' (a.k.a. ''Musha Aleste'')
** [[Super Aleste]] (released in the US as ''Space Megaforce'')
* ''[[Armed Police Batrider]]''
* ''[[Astro Blaster]]''
* ''Astro Menace'' [http://www.viewizard.com/]
* ''[[Battle Garegga]]'' and sequel ''Battle Bakraid''
* ''[[
* ''[[Blue Wish Resurrection]]''
* ''[[Cho Ren Sha 68 k]]''
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* ''[[Dragon Spirit]]''
* ''Enigmata'' and sequel
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Flying Shark]]'' and sequel ''[[Fire Shark]]''
* ''[[Flying Tigers]]''
* ''[[Go Beryllium]]''
* Some sections of ''[[Gradius
* ''[[
* ''Gunroar''
* ''[[Highway Hunter]]'' is a powerups-only example that uses a car. Classification as [[Nintendo Hard]] is quite likely, especially given the fact that you can't save your game.
* ''Hitogata Happa'' from the ''[[
* ''Gun.Smoke''
* ''[[Hellsinker]]''
* ''[[Ibara]]''
* ''[[
** ''[[Ikaruga (Darth Wiki)|Ikaruga]]''
* ''[[Jamestown
* ''[[Ketsui]]''
* ''Kiloblaster''
* ''[[KOF Sky Stage]]''
* ''Lightning Fighters''
* ''[[
* ''[[Mahou Daisakusen]]'' (a.k.a. ''Sorcer Striker'')
** ''Shippu [[Mahou Daisakusen]]'' (a.k.a. ''Kingdom Grandprix'')
** ''Great [[Mahou Daisakusen]]'' (a.k.a. ''Dimahoo'')
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Muchi
* ''[[Mushihime-sama]]'' (Look here for what may be [http://youtube.com/watch?v=meegHdD0dAk the hardest Bullet Hell Boss ever].)
* ''Noiz2sa''
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* ''[[Prismatic Solid]]''
* ''[[Radiant Silvergun]]''
* The ''[[
** The ''[[Raiden Fighters]]'' series
* ''[[
* The [[Ray Series]]: ''RayForce'', ''RayStorm'', and ''RayCrisis''
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[r Rootage]]''
* [[Seihou]]
* The ''[[Shikigami no Shiro]]'' trilogy
* ''[[Soukyugurentai]]''
* [[
* [[
* ''[[Strania the Stella Machina]]''
* [[Strikers 1945]]
* [[
* "StarCannon" from [[Fun Orb]]
* ''[[Sugar Shooter]]''
* [[The Tale of Alltynex]]
** ''[[Kamui]]''
** ''[[
** ''[[Alltynex Second]]''
* [[Terra Cresta]]
* [[
* [[Touhou
* [[
* Truxton
* [[
* [[Twin Cobra II]]
* The ''TWINS'' / ''TWAIN'' series
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* [[Tyrian]]
* [[Under Defeat]]
* [[
* [[
* [[
* [[Zanac]]
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