Scrolling shooter

Game genre theme

A shooter sub genre characterized by automatically advancing (autoscrolling) environments, both vertically or horizontally.

1981
games
110
platforms
Gives the impression of constant motion towards the goal, preventing any significant backtracking and limiting chances on full destruction of enemy forces.

The first Scrolling shooter video game was released on November 1975.

Konami, Taito and Sega published most of these games.

Parent group

Shoot 'em up

Child groups

Bullet Hell, Scramble-like

Platforms

Arcade 279
C64 173
ZX Spectrum 115
Amiga 107
Atari ST 90
Amstrad CPC 80
NES 72
MSX 58
MS-DOS 57
PC Engine 57
X68000 55
Windows 47
Mega Drive 44
Saturn 41
Atari 400/800 40
PS 39
SNES 34
GameKing 30
PC Engine CD 26
GB 24
NEC PC9801 23
Atari 2600 21
Dreamcast 21
Switch 21
MSX2 20
Apple II E 18
BBC 18
Neo-Geo 17
GBA 17
Master System 16

By year

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