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Forging a genre
By definition, "shooter" is the one that shoots, and "to shoot" is the act or process of firing a projectile weapon. With this in mind, creation took its course. The player became "the shooter", the person that controls the projectile weapon. Simple, yet accurate, the name of this genre will fool no one. The game starts in most cases imediatly, taking almost the same time as a trigger takes to get pressed. The action flows fast, and the progression is fairly intuitive in most cases. In just a few minutes, or even seconds, the player can adapt or master most of the gameplay variations of a game like this.
In the oldest of genres in video games, evolution has always been present. The shooters have evolved over the years, forming sub-genres and creating several other game types with well-defined particularities. One could argue about the origins of the shooters that we have today, but there can be no denial that Japan has always had a big part in the development of the genre.
From Japan came well known and established franchises, from many of the big names in the industry, like Konami, Sega, Capcom, Taito, among others. But the origin of the genre was not forged in a big office floor of a Multi Million Dollar company. Nor was it created in the land of the rising sun.
By definition, "shooter" is the one that shoots, and "to shoot" is the act or process of firing a projectile weapon. With this in mind, creation took its course. The player became "the shooter", the person that controls the projectile weapon. Simple, yet accurate, the name of this genre will fool no one. The game starts in most cases imediatly, taking almost the same time as a trigger takes to get pressed. The action flows fast, and the progression is fairly intuitive in most cases. In just a few minutes, or even seconds, the player can adapt or master most of the gameplay variations of a game like this.
In the oldest of genres in video games, evolution has always been present. The shooters have evolved over the years, forming sub-genres and creating several other game types with well-defined particularities. One could argue about the origins of the shooters that we have today, but there can be no denial that Japan has always had a big part in the development of the genre.
From Japan came well known and established franchises, from many of the big names in the industry, like Konami, Sega, Capcom, Taito, among others. But the origin of the genre was not forged in a big office floor of a Multi Million Dollar company. Nor was it created in the land of the rising sun.
Xbox Live Arcade Shmups
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 1942 Joint Strike |
 Aegis Wing |
 Defender |
 Duality ZF |
 Guwange |
 Ikaruga |
 Infinite Shooter |
 KOF - Sky Stage |
 Omega Five |
 Radiant Silvergun |
 RayStorm HD |
 Sine Mora |
 Strania |
 Triggerheart Exelica |
 Trouble Witches Neo! |
 Xevious |
 Zeit 2 |
Xbox Live Indie Games Shmups
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 A Shooter |  Akujin |  Aliens go Boom |  Allied Assault Squadron |
 Astero Defender |  Avatar Squadron |  Birth Order |  Border Wars |
 Cannon #12 |  Chain Crusher |  Defender of Zorgaba |  Distant Galaxies |
 Divine Justice Zero |  Dogfight SKETCH! |  Dragons Vs Spaceships |  ETMD |
 Fatal Abyss |  Flying Zombie Invasion |  Game Type |  Graviton AI |
 Guns Loaded |  Heavy Payload |  Heavy Payload 2 |  Hypership Out of Control |
 Hypership Still Out of Control |  Ignition Force |  Iron Core 4 |  Isagoras |
 Jet Star Universe |  Joint Strike Future |  League of Planets |  Leave Home |
 Lethal Judgment |  Lethal Judgment Origins |  Lewjmele |  Magnetic Defender |
 MechFish |  Mega Shooter 11 |  Milie & Telly |  Monsters in Neon Space |
 Nano Doc |  Nano Squad |  Oh Noes!!1 |  Orbitron Revolution |
 Overdriven |  Overkill |  Pacific Wings |  Paper Sky |
 PerturBirds |  PewPewPew... |  Pixelosity |  Platypus |
 RedShift |  Retro One |  Retro One - Part 2 |  Retro One Part 3 |
 Hangman's Revenge - Return of the Noose |  Revolver 360 |  Shoot 1UP |  Smouldering Skies |
 Spitfire |  Star Crisis |  Starfighter |  StarWings |
 Super Killer Hornet |  Sword & Magic |  Tester Phase One |  Ultimate Sacrifice |
 Vampire Rage |  Vector Force |  Vega Magnitude |  Vorpal |
 Warbirds at Work |  Warhounds |  WispLisp Array of List |  X Over |
 Xeno Waster |  You Will Die |  Zulu Hour |
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