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Scrolling shooters used to rule the roost. Back in the 8 to 16-bit days, a console was in trouble if it didn’t have a good set of scrolling shooters to showcase. Fans just demanded them and developers were all too happy to supply them. It got to the point that we saw quite a bit […]
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Abadox Takes Fans to the Belly of the Beast on Nintendo NES – Today in History – March 9th, 1990
March 8th, 2016 
Carl Williams 
Posted in News, Nintendo 
Tags: Abadox, entertainment system, gradius, Milton Bradley, natsume, nes, nintendo, Parasitis, Prime Dies, retro, retro gaming, retrogaming, scrolling, shooter, side, Transformers 
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New Game: X-Force Reminds Gamers that the Commodore 64 Can Rock Scrolling Shooters
November 8th, 2014 Carl Williams Side scrolling shooters. A genre that used to rule the roost in gaming, no matter what platform you gamed on, there was probably more than a handful of side scrolling shooters (unless it was a 3DO, CD-i or Playdia that is). From the likes of Nemesis II on the Game Boy to Thunder Force III […]
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