Shoot ’em ups were one of the first video game sensations to sweep through arcades. The novelist Martin Amis became so obsessed with 1978’s Space Invaders he wrote an entire guide/appreciation of ...
Konami has made dozens upon dozens of shooting games in their decades of development and publishing, but unless you were there for it—or are devoted to Hamster’s Arcade Archives series—then you might ...
While you’re unlikely to find any of 2022’s shoot-em-ups—shmups, STGs, whatever you want to call them— on many Game of the Year lists, this last year still had plenty of them to offer. Thanks to a ...