Posts Tagged ‘shoot ’em up’

#979 Reflect Missile

Posted: 19th February 2013 by Jeroen in Games
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218th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: DS Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Q-Games Sure, we covered some famous games. A few days ago, we had Mass Effect, we started off the iconic Pong, and covered all sorts of big games in between – SimCity, Final Fantasy VII, Portal and more major games. […]

#891 Captain Forever

Posted: 23rd November 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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196th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Internet Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Jarrad Woods One of the nicer things the internet has enabled is the easier creation and distribution of games. It’s easier to create a flash game everyone can see. While this leads to a lot of copies and crud being […]

#696 Elebits (or Eledees)

Posted: 11th November 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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193rd played so far Genre: Action/Shoot ’em Up Platform: Wii Year of Release: 2006 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami For those of you keepin track, it’s been a while since we did a Wii game. Technically World of Goo was one, but it wasn’t a proper one… We didn’t even touch our Wii to play it. […]

#151 Wizball

Posted: 18th October 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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187th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Various Year of Release: 1987 Developer: Sensible Software Publisher: Ocean Software Continuing our run of “wow we’re getting close to 200 games… we need to play more pre-1990 games” we are taking on Wizball. It is our eventual hope that we will play so many of […]

#396 Bangai-O

Posted: 24th September 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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181st played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Dreamcast Year of Release: 1999 Developer: Treasure Publisher: ESP/Conspiracy Entertainment More Dreamfest! As the third entry for our Dreamcast weekend, we’ve reached deep into the shoot ’em up genre to find one that was released on the Dreamcast. Bangai-O is an interesting one. Released in Japan […]

#66 Bank Panic

Posted: 23rd August 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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173rd played so far Genre: Shoot ’em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1984 Developer: Sanritsu Publisher: Sega This morning Jeroen accidentally (through a slip of the tongue) coined a term: short ’em up. I thought he was being clever since there are many shoot ’em ups left for us to do on this list […]

#748 Crackdown

Posted: 11th August 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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170th played so far Genre: Adventure/Shoot ’em Up Platform: Xbox 360 Year of Release: 2007 Developer: Realtime Worlds Publisher: Microsoft This is so strange. Whilst on the train to Brighton we were talking about the possibly upcoming Sony answer to Super Smash Bros. and what characters would be included and we got onto the topic […]

#114 Ikari Warriors

Posted: 3rd August 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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167th played so far Genre: Shoot ’em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1986 Developer: SNK Publisher: Tradewest Do you know what this game signifies? We have now covered 1 in 6 games on the list! Woo! This is a bit of a mini landmark so it’s fair that this game is also a mini […]

#59 Jetpac

Posted: 6th July 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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160th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Various Year of Release: 1983 Developer: Tim and Chris Stamper Publisher: Ultimate Play The Game Following Galaxian and Space Harrier, we finish the shoot ’em up weekend with this game. I know it took over a week for it to go up, but we don’t generally […]

#125 Space Harrier

Posted: 2nd July 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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159th played so far Genre: Shoot ’em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1985 Developer: Sega Publisher: Sega 15% of games on this list are shoot ’em ups. Since this is not a genre either of us usually think of when it comes to picking games we are probably going to splurge on these every […]