Shoot 'em ups are a subgenre of action games. There is no consensus as to which design elements compose a shoot 'em up; some restrict the definition to games featuring spacecraft and certain types of
Japanese players at a shoot 'em up arcade in Akihabara, Tokyo (2017)
Shooter video games, or shooters, are a subgenre of action video games where the focus is on the defeat of the character's enemies using ranged weapons given to the player. Usually these weapons are f
Space Invaders (1978), an arcade video game that defined the shoot 'em up genre