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Shoot em up2/17/2023 ![]() Against a primitive vector starfield, students controlled 2 skeletal spaceships, firing upon one another while getting sucked into the gravitational field of a blazing sun. Their creation, Spacewar!, is now regarded as the original shoot ‘em up. ![]() campus in 1961, where students commandeered the first user-oriented computer, the PDP-1, to design something the world had never seen: a computer game. It all began in a musty computer lab on the M.I.T. Yet over thirty years later, the simple shoot ‘em up, or “shmup” as it’s casually called among fans, has evolved into countless, wildly creative forms. In the classic version of this beloved format, a solo player mounts a defence against hordes of opponents with nothing more than a spaceship, a laser gun, and a joystick. But in shoot ‘em ups, the original and most popular video game genre, the right ammo and a couple of extra lives just might get you to the end. ![]() an entire alien army and the odds aren’t looking too good. ![]()
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