Category: Shoot ’em Up Games

Shoot ’em Up Games

1943: The Battle of Midway – Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)

1943: The Battle of Midway is a worthy sequel of the original 1942 Capcom vertical scrolling shooter. 1943 is one of the many great NES classics and one of the major factors behind Capcom’s early and lasting success.

Action 52 – NES

Nerd Bacon reviewer ChronoSloth takes on Action 52. 52 of the laziest clones in the history of video games await him. Can he run the gauntlet?

Angry Birds Transformers – Android

Angry Birds Transformers attempts to bring a certain level of action-oriented gameplay to the table. In this latest installment, Rovio has morphed the “Angry Birds” themselves into anthropomorphic Transformers, trading in their slingshots for lasers when it comes to popping pigs

Air Fortress – NES

Can you fly, run, & gun down the evil aliens trying to exterminate your species? Air Fortress is a classic shmup/platform NES title worthy of consideration. Featuring excellent graphics, awesome level structure, and top-notch music, Hal Laboratory developed one helluva title.

// N.P.P.D. RUSH // The Milk of Ultra Violet – PC

Platform: PC Developer: Railslave Games Publisher: Kiss LTD. Release Date: February 13, 2014 Genre:  Shoot ‘Em Up Nerd Rating: 3 out of 10 Reviewed by ryanvoid   I’ll admit it: I’m a mark for retro 8-bit gaming. No matter what half-assed premise an indie game offers up (“Imagine Mario if he’d become an accountant instead of a plumber!”) I’ll probably play the damned… Continue reading // N.P.P.D. RUSH // The Milk of Ultra Violet – PC

Giga Wing – Dreamcast

Platform:  Sega Dreamcast Developer:  Takumi Publisher:  Capcom Release Date (NA):  July 19th, 2000 Genre:  Shoot ’em up, manic shooter Nerd Rating:  5.5 out of 10 Perhaps you’re asking yourself just how this fierce SHMUP made it on my radar; then again, perhaps you aren’t.  The beginning is as good of a place as any for the story… Continue reading Giga Wing – Dreamcast

Ikaruga – PC

Platform: PC Developer: Treasure Publisher: Treasure Release Date: February 18, 2014 Genre: Shoot ’em Up Nerd Rating: 9 out of 10 Reviewed by Proto Joe Ikaruga is a 2001 vertical shoot ’em up originally created for arcades by Treasure, the same Japanese development team behind classic titles like Radiant Silvergun (Reviewed by Nerd Bacon’s Nike Halifax!)… Continue reading Ikaruga – PC

Radiant Silvergun – Xbox 360

  Platform: Xbox 360 (XBLA) Developer: Treasure Publisher: Microsoft (XBLA port) Release Date: September 14th, 2011 Genre: Shoot ’em up Nerd Rating: 9 out of 10         Treasure your Treasure games—especially if one of those games is Radiant Silvergun, because it’s worth like a million dollars and you’re a jerk for not… Continue reading Radiant Silvergun – Xbox 360

Aero Fighters – SNES

Many remember this game in the arcades, some had the pleasure of playing the vertical scrolling shooter, Aero Fighters, right at home on the SNES!

Burning Force – Genesis

Reviewing Burning Force for the Sega Genesis Platform: Sega Genesis Developer: Namco Publisher: Namco Release Date (NA): 1990 Genre: Shoot ‘em Up (Shmup) Nerd Rating: 4 out of 10 Reviewed by NerdBerry Burning Force hits the screen with a powerforce unparalleled by most Shmups. Instead of sporting the traditional left to right side scrolling 2D visual… Continue reading Burning Force – Genesis

Sol-Feace – Sega CD

Platform: Sega CD Developer: Wolf Team Publisher: Sega Release Date: October 1992 Genre: Shmup, shooter, horizontal shooter Nerd Rating: 7 out of 10 *See bottom of review for cheat codes. Screw battletoads… This might be the hardest game EVER made.  Read on and you’ll see why. Immediately following the developer’s introduction, Sol-Feace kicks off the… Continue reading Sol-Feace – Sega CD

Strikers 1945 – PlayStation / Arcade

Nerd Bacon’s Nerdberry reviews one of the most hardcore shmups on the Arcade, Strikers 1945. Short on quarters? Pick up the PlayStation version instead, reviewed right here.