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2 unusual facts about shooter game


Shooter game

Notable examples of the genre include Ubisoft's Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon series and Bohemia Software's Operation Flashpoint.

Most commonly, the purpose of a shooter game is to shoot opponents and proceed through missions without the player character dying.


Bonanza Bros.

Bonanza Bros. is a shooter, platform game where taking the role of one or both of the brothers, Robo (1P, red) and Mobo (2P, blue) (Mike and Spike in some PAL versions), who were modeled after The Blues Brothers.

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.


see also

Burning Heat

"Burning Heat" is the theme song of the first stage of the arcade shooter game Gradius II, composed by Konami Kukeiha Club.

First to Fight

Close Combat: First to Fight, a Squad-based military first-person shooter game created by Destineer Studios

Neuroevolution of augmenting topologies

The first video game to implement cgNEAT is Galactic Arms Race, a space-shooter game in which unique particle system weapons are evolved based player usage statistics.

Pneumoconiosis

In the widely acclaimed Puzzle/Shooter game "Portal 2", former CEO and founder of Aperture Science Laboratories, Cave Johnson, purportedly contracted and died of lunar pneumoconiosis after prolonged exposure to the moon rocks he was using in teleportation technology research.

Tekkaman

Uchū no Kishi: Tekkaman Blade, a scrolling shooter game based on the 1992 anime series, released in 1993.