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Bullet Hell

Game genre theme

A sub-genre of shmup where the whole screen is literally filled with projectiles, usually with the main challenge being avoiding those bullets (often by recognizing/memorizing firing patterns) rather than destroying enemies.

143
games
20
platforms

Alternate names: Manic shooter, Curtain fire, Danmaku, 弾幕, Maniac Shooters

Deathsmiles Mega Black Label (Arcade)
Deathsmiles Mega Black Label
ARCD 2008-10-10
Fast Striker (Dreamcast)
Fast Striker
DC 2010-12-21
DonPachi (Arcade)
DonPachi
ARCD 1995
Mushihime-sama (PlayStation 2)
Mushihime-sama
PS2 2005-07-21
GRIKARUGUN (Linux)
GRIKARUGUN
LIN 2007
Ikaruga (Arcade)
Ikaruga
ARCD 2001
Mushihime-sama (Arcade)
Mushihime-sama
ARCD 2004
Muchi Muchi Pork! (Arcade)
Muchi Muchi Pork!
ARCD 2007-04-26
DoDonPachi Dai-Fukkatsu (Arcade)
DoDonPachi Dai-Fukkatsu
ARCD 2008-05-22
DoDonPachi (PlayStation)
DoDonPachi
PS1 1998-09-10
DonPachi (PlayStation)
DonPachi
PS1 1996-10-18
Sine Mora EX (Nintendo Switch)
Sine Mora EX
SWTC 2017-Q3

The first video game about Bullet Hell was released in 1993.

Cave, AMI and Atlus has published most of these games

Parent groups

Scrolling shooter, Shoot 'em up, UVL: Tags that may need renaming

Related site

Bullet hell at Wikipedia

Platforms

Linux 47
Arcade 37
X360 12
PS2 10
Windows 10
Dreamcast 5
Mac OS X 3
Saturn 3
iOS 2
PS4 2
PS 2
Mobile 2
Flash 1
PS Vita 1
BSD 1
GameCube 1
Switch 1
NEC PC9801 1
Xbox 1
PS3 1

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