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Pew pew pew, just like the good old days. The 1001  list is a mostly chronological trip through video gaming. While it appears here and the...

Is that a warm, welcoming glow, or a hot, dangerous one? Source // PlayStation Gravity. Love it or hate it, it's here to stay, and as s...

Intelligent design? Source // Square Enix The last time I played  Space Invaders  was extreme, by which I mean I played Space Invaders Extre...

"There's no escape from the Nebulox." Back on the Nintendo 64, there was an on-rails shooter by the name of Sin and Punishmen...

Time goes by, so quickly. You learn an awful lot over the course of playing far too many videogames, and one of those things is that RPGs a...

Those guys have got a rough deal. Back in the early days of video games, you couldn't avoid a space shooter of one kind or another, be ...

[COM: (Farbs) Help me. Help us all._________________________________] Out in the emptiness of space sits the Nemesis, a ship that cannot be ...

Less 'Save the world', more 'Make some music'. Space Invaders . Absolute classic. Nobody is going to forget it in a hurry. ...

Retro Evolved Harder? Source // Microsoft I played Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved  and had a mix of ups and downs before concluding that it w...

Finally, an HD remake of an Amiga game. Source // PlayStation This must be the 'spherical worlds' section of the 1001  list, as Supe...

I guess you could say it was... riffing on the genre... Hmm? It's hard to find a more colourful shoot 'em up than Every Extend Extra...

"An experience so classic it's practically coin-operated." That's not a quote from a reviewer up there. That's how Con...

"We're in a tight spot." Why do all shooters have to be the same? They don't, right? Surely we can chuck something ...

Speed! More speed! The 1001  list isn't perfect. It can't be. Nobody would be able to agree on the contents of the list if th...

I see you... Another shoot 'em up, but this one - this one  - is the one you've got to play. You've got to play all the o...

"The drifting specks of light soothe the darkness in my heart..." You just can't keep the space shooter genre down, can...

"For every age there is a time of trial." Source // PlayStation When I made the decision to stick with Ratchet  over Jak ...

We're not going to be described as either, are we? When I started this challenge for myself, I went through the whole 1001  list ...

In Soviet Russia, countries invade U.S.! Source // Moby Games When someone says ' Freedom Fighters ', someone else replies ...

We'll meet again someday soon. The shoot 'em up genre may not grab everyone's attention, but it still manages to see some...