Like the Platform Game, Shoot em ups have become popular with amateur game developers for their relative ease of development. The Ur Example is possibly Space War (although it's more of a one-on-one shooter rather than a shoot 'em up), the Trope Maker is Space Invaders, and the Trope Codifier is Galaga. Space Invaders), scoring systems required to watch what and when to shoot (e.g. It can be as simple as holding down the fire button and never letting go or it can be more complex either due to ship's low firepower (e.g. The actual shooting part can vary in complexity. Many later games end their levels with a giant Boss Battle. Usually, a limited number of screen-clearing Smart Bombs are included to get the player out of a jam in a hurry. Power Ups typically increase the power and spread pattern of the primary weapon, which is usually fired continuously from the start of play until the end. This kind of restrictive use is, however, debated among shoot 'em up fans. For instance, 1943 would fit this description, whereas Geometry Wars would not (it is free-scrolling according to player movement), and neither would After Burner (it scrolls into/out of the screen in 3D). The term shmup is an abbreviation of "shoot 'em up", but is typically used by the fans who coined it to refer specifically to fixed-scrolling shooters that are not three-dimensional. So popular were Shoot Em Ups (and their close-combat cousin the Beat'Em Up) that many computer games magazines of the mid-late 80s took to jokingly appending "'em up" to whatever genre of game they were reviewing-Puzzle 'em ups, platform 'em ups, Quiz 'em ups and so on. Frequently, you're flying a spaceship or some other small craft, but other examples of the genre involve abstract shapes, people walking around with guns or bows and arrows, and so forth.
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