8th November 2013, 9:41 PM
9th November 2013, 12:18 AM
Don't you consider these games that scroll "up" a different genre than ones that scroll to the side? (As you would say, "obviously".) I may be confusing you with someone else, but I never could understand that, considering you can literally "genre shift" by tilting your TV on its side.
9th November 2013, 12:51 PM
Well, shmups are usually broken down into the vertical-scrolling ones and the horizontal-scrolling ones, but both are kinds of shmups, so I'd say they are the same genre... but yeah, those are the two main categories of the genre. A few games have both directions in them (Life Force/Salamander, for example, or Axelay), but most stick with one or the other.