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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 ''[[Nineteen Forty Two|194X]]'' series
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