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unusual facts about Hit 'Em Up


Baracka Flacka Flames

On January 26, 2011, the channel released Hit 'em Up, a parody of Tupac Shakur's Hit 'Em Up. On December 21, 2011, I Run the Military was released.


Argenis Reyes

On July 8, 2008, Reyes collected his first major league hit at Shea Stadium against Jack Taschner of the San Francisco Giants.

Arsys Software

The viewpoint switches between several different perspectives: a 2D top-down perspective while flying, a side-scrolling view during on-foot outdoor exploration, a fully 3D polygonal third-person perspective inside buildings, and arena-style 2D shoot 'em up battles during boss encounters.

Beat 'Em Up

Art Collins, Pop's manager, said on the work: "I'm not saying this is another Raw Power, but if Raw Power is a true Iggy album, then this is another true Iggy album".

Bill Koski

In his one starting assignment, his second Major League appearance on May 5, 1951, Koski lasted 4⅓ innings against the New York Giants, gave up four hits, six bases on balls and four earned runs, and took the loss in an 8–3 defeat at the Polo Grounds.

Bill Voiselle

He also was on the end of a $500 fine from Giants manager Mel Ott for allowing St Louis Cardinals batter Johnny Hopp to get a hit on an 0-2 count during a June 1 game at Sportsman's Park.

Brothers in Arms: Art of War

Art of War is chiefly a top-down shooter, featuring 13 missions in 3 campaigns, including Operation Market Garden. The game also includes parachute missions, rail shooter plane, tank and boat missions, as well as a destructible environment.

Chick Tricker

A longtime member of the Eastmans, Tricker had made a name for himself as a well known Bowery and Park Row saloonkeeper who first came to prominence in a brawl against "Eat 'Em Up" Jack McManus, a former prizefighter and Bowery bouncer at McGurk's Suicide Hall. After insulting several dance hall girls as the Paul Kelly's club New Brighton, McManus confronted Tricker at Third Avenue and Jones Street and shot him in the leg.

Clean Asia!

Clean Asia! is a freeware vertical shooter video game by Jonatan "Cactus" Söderström, an independent video game developer from Gothenburg, Sweden.

Colony 7

Colony 7 is an arcade shooter game by Taito Corporation released in 1981 that is in many ways a combination of two of the most popular shoot 'em up games of the time, containing elements of both Taito's own Space Invaders and Atari's Missile Command.

Conflict: Online

Conflict: Arcade is an offline top down shooter created by Rhys Andrews, and members of the now nonexistent GameCave Productions. The project started mid-2005, influenced by games such as Soldat, Unreal Tournament, America's Army, TimeSplitters, and Call of Duty.

Cyvern: The Dragon Weapons

Cyvern: The Dragon Weapons is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up released in 1998 by Japanese company Kaneko.

Die Hard Trilogy

Die Hard 2: Die Harder is presented as an on rails-shooter, where the player must stop terrorists who have taken over Dulles Airport from the second film.

Don Mueller

He earned the nickname Mandrake the Magician for being adept at consistently putting the ball in play and delivering hits through the infield.

Dynamite Düx

Dynamite Düx is a side-scrolling 'beat 'em up' arcade game, created by Sega AM2 and released by Sega in 1988 for their successful Sega System 16 arcade board, the same board that was used for hits like Golden Axe and Altered Beast.

Fantastic Voyage: The Greatest Hits

It includes the track "Aw Here it Goes" he contributed as a main theme to TV series Kenan & Kel, as well as "Hit 'Em High (The Monstars' Anthem)", a soundtrack to Space Jam film.

Firetrack

Firetrack is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up computer game programmed by Nick "Orlando" Pelling and released for the BBC Micro and Commodore 64 platforms in 1987 by Electric Dreams Software. It was also ported to the Acorn Electron by Superior Software in 1989 as part of the Play It Again Sam 7 compilation.

Fly Fighter

Fly Fighter is a platform/shoot 'em up video game developed and published by Digital Magic in 1989 for Amiga computers. The game was also re-released as Scorpion, with another title screen and another order of levels.

Ganbare Neo Poke-Kun

He would begin simply, creating his own versions of Pong and Breakout, and would gradually move up to historical sims (a'la Nobunaga's Ambition), shoot 'em ups, and fighting games. The game used the Neo Geo Pocket Color's internal clock to control the speed at which Neo Poke-Kun created games, when he slept, when he went to work, etc.

Gekido

Gekido (known as Gekido: Urban Fighters in Europe) is a beat 'em up for the PlayStation game console. The game uses a fast paced beat 'em up system, with many bosses and a colorful design in terms of graphics. The game features the music of Fatboy Slim and Apartment 26. Marvel comic book artist Joe Madureira also contributed. A version of Gekido was also released on the Game Boy Color in Europe.

Hal Dues

He threw his only MLB complete game on July 8 against the Philadelphia Phillies, a six-hit, 8–1 victory at Veterans Stadium; Dues helped himself as a batsman that day, with two hits in four at bats with a run batted in and a run scored.

Hit 'n Run Tour

The events were documented and broadcast on an episode of Gene Simmons Family Jewels.

Jane Stoll

The only regular to have a significant year for them was Evelyn Wawryshyn, who tied for sixth place in the league with a .266 batting average, while ranking among the top ten hitters in stolen bases, hits and 126 total bases.

Johnny Temple

Temple enjoyed his best year in 1959, with career-highs in batting average (.311), home runs (8), RBI (67), runs (102), hits (186), at-bats (598), doubles (35) and triples (6).

Julián Ladera

In the match, Ladera allowed three earned runs on six hits and three walks, while striking out five on a talented lineup that featured Bob Aspromonte, Canena Márquez, Herb Plews, Bobby Smith and Bob Speake, among others.

Kevin Kobel

Kobel held the Yankees scoreless on two hits through seven innings in the rain delayed second game of a doubleheader at Shea Stadium.

Kevin Mench

On July 26, 2006, Mench hit a 2-run double against the New York Yankees, the 50,000th hit in Rangers franchise history; two days later, he was traded to the Milwaukee Brewers along with Francisco Cordero, Laynce Nix, and Julian Cordero, for Carlos Lee and Nelson Cruz.

Kevin Seitzer

Seitzer hit .323 with 15 home runs and 207 hits (tying the MLB record) in his rookie 1987 season and, though overshadowed by fellow rookie teammate Bo Jackson, he was selected to the American League All-Star team.

Mercenary Kings

Mercenary Kings is an upcoming side-scrolling shoot 'em up game developed and published by Tribute Games. The game, created by the team behind Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game, was funded by Kickstarter and will be released for Windows and PlayStation 4 in 2014.

Millennium Soldier: Expendable

Millennium Soldier: Expendable (known as Expendable in the U.S.A. and Seitai Heiki Expendable in Japan) is the title of a shoot 'em up video game that was released by British developer Rage Software for Microsoft Windows in 1998, the Sega Dreamcast in 1999, and the PlayStation in 2000. The remake of the game for Android based devices was released in late 2012 as Expendable: Rearmed.

Perfect Cherry Blossom

British comedian and satirist Charlie Brooker, in his video game review show Gameswipe, presents Perfect Cherry Blossom as an example of the shoot 'em up genre that "masochistic maniacs actively enjoy dipping into".

RayCrisis

The game is a vertically scrolling shooter with a "virus infiltration" theme: the player plays the role of the Waverider computer virus, and the enemies he or she encounters are Con-Human's antibodies, programmed to terminate any virus—including the player—getting inside the supercomputer's system.

Renegade III: The Final Chapter

Renegade 3: The Final Chapter is a scrolling beat'em up computer game released on the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, MSX and ZX Spectrum systems in the late 1980s by Ocean Software under their "Imagine" label.

Super Star Wars

Super Star Wars features mostly run and gun gameplay, although it has stages which feature other challenges, such as driving a landspeeder or piloting an X-wing.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist, released in Europe as Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist and in Japan as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Return of the Shredder is a side-scrolling beat 'em up based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) franchise, and was also the first TMNT game released for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.

The Simpsons Arcade Game

The Simpsons Arcade Game is an arcade beat 'em up developed by Konami released in 1991, and the first video game based on The Simpsons franchise.

The Warriors: Street Brawl

The Warriors: Street Brawl is a beat 'em up scroller video game created by CXTM. It was released on the Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Xbox Live Arcade in Summer 2009. It is based on the 1979 movie The Warriors, which in turn is based on the 1965 novel of the same name written by Sol Yurick.

Touch the Dead

Touch the Dead (titled Dead 'n' Furious in Europe) is a rail shooter/survival horror game for the Nintendo DS developed by Dream On Studio and published by Eidos Interactive under its brand Secret Stash Games. The game's box art was created by artist Arthur Suydam, famous for his work on the Marvel Zombies line of comics.

Trapped in Crime

In addition, the single "Down 4 My Niggaz" is affiliated with Alpha Phi Alpha and was quoted in many later rap songs, such as by Lil Wayne in 2 Chainz' song "Yuck!", by Tyga in Hit 'Em Up, by Future in DJ Khaled's No New Friends, by Kanye West in Blood on the Leaves, and many more.

Tutankham

Tutankham is a combination of maze and shoot 'em up. Taking on the role of an explorer grave robbing Tutankhamun's tomb, the player is chased by creatures such as asps, vultures, parrots, bats, dragons, and even curses, all that kill the player on contact.

Xuan Dou Zhi Wang

Ranked single battles and the option to create rooms to sustain matches are included, as well as single player modes including a 1-player arcade mode and bonus stages of breaking barrels (similar to Street Fighter II) or play an adventure mode resembling a beat 'em up game.


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