That was some time ago and over the years we have seen many side
scrolling shooters much like my all - time favourite.
It's a horizontal side -
scrolling shooter much like Gradius or Life Force, but the graphics are all done in a style like, well, chalk on a chalkboard.
Not exact matches
There's only so
much you can do with a side
scrolling shooter, especially on an iPhone or iPad but developers Digital Reality have really pushed this genre on the iOS platform.
Crimson Dragon: Side Story goes
much deeper than your average side -
scrolling shooter, however.
This is the feeling I got when I first fired up Earth Wars, where I was expecting a standard Metal Slug style side -
scrolling shooter but the end product was
much different.
Mercenary Kings Reloaded (MKR) is a 2D side
scrolling action
shooter, with the emphasis on the
shooter, with a weapon cache so overloaded Rambo would probably leave half of this gear back home as he would consider it a «bit
much».
Amid all the 3 - D polygon revolutions and flashy new consoles and PlayStation ads with a blocky Russian dominatrix alienating female customers in droves, there wasn't
much room for Metal Slug, a side -
scrolling Neo Geo action /
shooter with a violently cartoonish streak and strictly 2 - D gameplay.
Shoot Many Robots is a run and gun side
scrolling shooter,
much like a Contra or Metal Slug game.
Gradius II contains the same classic side -
scrolling shooter gameplay and familiar level themes (those evil Easter Island heads just keep coming back for more) found in its elder and younger brothers, but the fidelity of this TurboGrafx16 CD conversion delivers high - quality audio along with
much smoother gameplay than that offered by Gradius III for Super NES.
Matterfall is a side -
scrolling action
shooter that a first blush reminded me so
much of Metroid that if not for the name on the banner I would have thought that Sony somehow got the rights to it.