24th January 2007, 6:27 PM
SHoot-eM-UP is the way it's explained. And I didn't make it up; the term has been around for years. It's kind of a silly term, but since "shooter" has been taken over by FPSes, the side/forward-scrolling ship-shooter genre needed a new name...
for instance, http://www.shmups.com
for instance, http://www.shmups.com