Arcade Games

[Dreddz]

What the heck is a shmup. Sounds like an insult. Crazy kids and your new fangled lingo

Try and pronounce shmup out loud and you'll probably guess what it means :P

[Quindiana Jones]

Nope. Shmup just sounds like shmup to me.

[scrumpleberry]

Shootemup?

[Madame Adequate]

Shmup is an insulting term that should only be used when you wish to denigrate the great genre of shoot-'em-ups.

[Lionx]

YouTube - Raiden Fighters Jet Ixion Part 1/2

^ This is a Shmup...

[Quindiana Jones]

Oh, so we're talking like Vic Reeves now!? OK, yeah I get it. Clever.

Kinda like snln.

[Madame Adequate]

Side-scrolling beat-'em-ups forever. Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Streets of Rage, Golden Axe, all that jazz.

You forgot Final Fight >

I wasn't listing every single one.

[Creeping Shadow]

2D fighters. I will go into an arcade and if there are no 2D fighters around I usually just leave. Thats why Im glad for the selection at my local arcade. (Street fighter III, Melty Blood, Capcom vs. SNK 2, SNK vs. Capcom.) I have wasted many quarters there.