Shmups

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This is a place on Lemmy to talk about arcade, PC, and console shmups/shoot 'em ups/STGs. (We can talk about other arcade-based/scoring genres too, if you'd like.) All experience levels welcome.

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Night Mares, a shmup where you are a horse with co-op capabilities (nationalvelvett.itch.io)

submitted 1 month ago by Elevator7009@lemmy.zip to c/shmups@lemmus.org

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[–] undeffeined@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Whats a shmup, precious?

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

It's a portmanteau for Shoot 'em up, the genre of this game. Basically scrolling shooters like Gradius or Touhou project or 1942.