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Compare [[Horizontal Scrolling Shooter]]. [[Bullet Hell]] is a subgenre of this.
Compare [[Horizontal Scrolling Shooter]]. [[Bullet Hell]] is a subgenre of this.
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* The ''[[Nineteen Forty Two|194X]]'' series
* The ''[[Nineteen Forty Two|194X]]'' series
* The ''[[Aero Fighters]]''/''[[Sonic Wings]]'' series
* The ''[[Aero Fighters]]''/''[[Sonic Wings]]'' series
* ''[[Fire Barrel (Video Game)|Air Assault]]'' a.k.a. ''Fire Barrel''
* ''[[Fire Barrel|Air Assault]]'' a.k.a. ''Fire Barrel''
* The ''[[Aleste (Video Game)|Aleste]]''/''Power Strike'' series
* The ''[[Aleste]]''/''Power Strike'' series
** ''M.U.S.H.A.'' (a.k.a. ''Musha Aleste'')
** ''M.U.S.H.A.'' (a.k.a. ''Musha Aleste'')
** [[Super Aleste]] (released in the US as ''Space Megaforce'')
** [[Super Aleste]] (released in the US as ''Space Megaforce'')
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* ''[[Astro Blaster]]''
* ''[[Astro Blaster]]''
* ''[[Battle Garegga]]'' and sequel ''Battle Bakraid''
* ''[[Battle Garegga]]'' and sequel ''Battle Bakraid''
* ''[[Blazing Lazers (Video Game)|Blazing Lazers]]''
* ''[[Blazing Lazers]]''
* ''[[Blue Wish Resurrection]]''
* ''[[Blue Wish Resurrection]]''
* ''[[Cho Ren Sha 68 k]]''
* ''[[Cho Ren Sha 68 k]]''
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* ''Enigmata'' and sequel
* ''Enigmata'' and sequel
* ''[[Esp Galuda]]'' and sequel
* ''[[Esp Galuda]]'' and sequel
* ''[[Esp Ra De (Video Game)|Esp Ra De]]''
* ''[[Esp Ra De]]''
* ''[[Flying Shark]]'' and sequel ''[[Fire Shark]]''
* ''[[Flying Shark]]'' and sequel ''[[Fire Shark]]''
* ''[[Flying Tigers]]''
* ''[[Flying Tigers]]''
* ''[[Go Beryllium]]''
* ''[[Go Beryllium]]''
* Some sections of ''[[Gradius (Video Game)|Salamander/Life Force (internationally)]]'' and its sequel.
* Some sections of ''[[Gradius|Salamander/Life Force (internationally)]]'' and its sequel.
* ''[[The Guardian Legend (Video Game)|The Guardian Legend]]''
* ''[[The Guardian Legend]]''
* ''[[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.
* ''[[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 ''[[Gundemonium Series (Video Game)|Gundemonium Series]]''
* ''Hitogata Happa'' from the ''[[Gundemonium Series]]''
* ''Gun.Smoke''
* ''Gun.Smoke''
* ''[[Hellsinker]]''
* ''[[Hellsinker]]''
* ''[[Ibara]]''
* ''[[Ibara]]''
* ''[[Ikaruga (Video Game)|Ikaruga]]''
* ''[[Ikaruga]]''
** ''[[Ikaruga (Darth Wiki)|Ikaruga]]''
** ''[[Ikaruga (Darth Wiki)|Ikaruga]]''
* ''[[Jamestown Legend of the Lost Colony (Video Game)|Jamestown Legend of the Lost Colony]]''
* ''[[Jamestown Legend of the Lost Colony]]''
* ''[[Ketsui]]''
* ''[[Ketsui]]''
* ''Kiloblaster''
* ''Kiloblaster''
* ''[[KOF Sky Stage]]''
* ''[[KOF Sky Stage]]''
* ''Lightning Fighters''
* ''Lightning Fighters''
* ''[[Magical Cannon Wars (Video Game)|Magical Cannon Wars]]''
* ''[[Magical Cannon Wars]]''
* ''[[Mahou Daisakusen]]'' (a.k.a. ''Sorcer Striker'')
* ''[[Mahou Daisakusen]]'' (a.k.a. ''Sorcer Striker'')
** ''Shippu [[Mahou Daisakusen]]'' (a.k.a. ''Kingdom Grandprix'')
** ''Shippu [[Mahou Daisakusen]]'' (a.k.a. ''Kingdom Grandprix'')
** ''Great [[Mahou Daisakusen]]'' (a.k.a. ''Dimahoo'')
** ''Great [[Mahou Daisakusen]]'' (a.k.a. ''Dimahoo'')
* ''[[Major Stryker (Video Game)|Major Stryker]]''
* ''[[Major Stryker]]''
* ''[[Mars Matrix (Video Game)|Mars Matrix]]''
* ''[[Mars Matrix]]''
* ''[[Muchi Muchi Pork|Muchi-Muchi Pork]]''
* ''[[Muchi Muchi Pork]]''
* ''[[Mushihime-sama]]'' (Look here for what may be [http://youtube.com/watch?v=meegHdD0dAk the hardest Bullet Hell Boss ever].)
* ''[[Mushihime-sama]]'' (Look here for what may be [http://youtube.com/watch?v=meegHdD0dAk the hardest Bullet Hell Boss ever].)
* ''Noiz2sa''
* ''Noiz2sa''
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* ''[[Prismatic Solid]]''
* ''[[Prismatic Solid]]''
* ''[[Radiant Silvergun]]''
* ''[[Radiant Silvergun]]''
* The ''[[Raiden (Video Game)|Raiden]]'' series
* The ''[[Raiden]]'' series
** The ''[[Raiden Fighters]]'' series
** The ''[[Raiden Fighters]]'' series
* ''[[Raptor Call of the Shadows|Raptor: Call of the Shadows]]''
* ''[[Raptor: Call of the Shadows]]''
* The [[Ray Series]]: ''RayForce'', ''RayStorm'', and ''RayCrisis''
* The [[Ray Series]]: ''RayForce'', ''RayStorm'', and ''RayCrisis''
* ''[[Recca (Video Game)|Recca]]''
* ''[[Recca]]''
* ''[[River Raid (Video Game)|River Raid]]'', one of the first
* ''[[River Raid]]'', one of the first
* ''[[r Rootage]]''
* ''[[r Rootage]]''
* [[Seihou]]
* [[Seihou]]
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* ''[[Soukyugurentai]]''
* ''[[Soukyugurentai]]''
* [[Video Game/Star Force|Star Force]]
* [[Video Game/Star Force|Star Force]]
* [[Star Soldier (Video Game)|Star Soldier]]
* [[Star Soldier]]
* ''[[Strania the Stella Machina]]''
* ''[[Strania the Stella Machina]]''
* [[Strikers 1945]]
* [[Strikers 1945]]
* [[Spy Hunter (Video Game)|Spy Hunter]]
* [[Spy Hunter]]
* "StarCannon" from [[Fun Orb]]
* "StarCannon" from [[Fun Orb]]
* ''[[Sugar Shooter]]''
* ''[[Sugar Shooter]]''
* [[The Tale of Alltynex]]
* [[The Tale of Alltynex]]
** ''[[Kamui]]''
** ''[[Kamui]]''
** ''[[Refle X]]''
** ''[[RefleX]]''
** ''[[Alltynex Second]]''
** ''[[Alltynex Second]]''
* [[Terra Cresta]]
* [[Terra Cresta]]
* [[Tiger Heli (Video Game)|Tiger Heli]]
* [[Tiger Heli]]
* [[Touhou (Video Game)|Touhou Project]]
* [[Touhou|Touhou Project]]
* [[Triggerheart Exelica (Video Game)|Triggerheart Exelica]]
* [[Triggerheart Exelica]]
* Truxton
* Truxton
* [[Twin Cobra (Video Game)|Twin Cobra]]
* [[Twin Cobra]]
* [[Twin Cobra II]]
* [[Twin Cobra II]]
* The ''TWINS'' / ''TWAIN'' series
* The ''TWINS'' / ''TWAIN'' series
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* [[Tyrian]]
* [[Tyrian]]
* [[Under Defeat]]
* [[Under Defeat]]
* [[Warning Forever (Video Game)|Warning Forever]]
* [[Warning Forever]]
* [[Xevious (Video Game)|Xevious]]
* [[Xevious]]
* [[XOP (Video Game)|XOP]]
* [[XOP]]
* [[Zanac]]
* [[Zanac]]


Revision as of 14:19, 8 April 2014

Once a staple of the gaming industry, Vertical Scrolling Shooter games are rather rare since the latter half of the 1990s.

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 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.

Many vertical scrolling shooters were designed for arcade machines with screens taller than they are wide, which causes technical problems when playing them on home systems where TV screens/monitors are invariably wider than they are tall. To accommodate this difference, some home versions have an option to alter the orientation of the video output, requiring the display to be tilted 90 degrees, or, failing that, the player's head; this is known as "tate" mode (not short for "rotate" but the Japanese word for vertical). The alternative, "yoko" (horizontal) mode, allows the display to retain its usual orientation at the expense of having the playing field truncated, zoomed out, squashed or scrolled back and forth.

Compare Horizontal Scrolling Shooter. Bullet Hell is a subgenre of this.

Tropes used in Vertical Scrolling Shooter include:


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