Focus on: The history of Shoot 'em Up games

An exploration of the history of the Shoot 'em Up game from 1962 to today. A definition of what constitutes a Shoot 'em Up game is given, and then the milestones and some of the other branches of the shooting game are shown – with footage of 38 games and always in the context of the time. **Legal information:** The gameplay for Galaxian was taken from the Crozza Games remake available under http://pjsfreeware.synthasite.com/. The Speed Race flyer (https://strategywiki.org/wiki/File:Speed_Race_flyer.jpg) was uploaded by user Namcorules (https://strategywiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:Namcorules&action=edit&redlink=1) to StrategyWiki, and is used here under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/). The PDP-1 running Spacewar! (https://search.creativecommons.org/photos/e53ac0a8-ecb0-440c-84f6-57d825c00ddb) was photographed by Joi Ito (https://www.flickr.com/people/35034362831@N01) and is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0