Apart from a focus on shooting lots of enemies, this genre scrolls on a fixed axis, either automatically (like Xevious) or by player input (like Defender).
tag : #scrollingshmup games : 269
Scramble
Scramble, March 1981@987
Life Force
NES 1987@1454
1943: The Battle of Midway
Arcade 1987@411
Hybris
Amiga 1987@2
Menace
Amiga 1988@1685
R-Type I
PC Engine 1988@2573
Truxton
SEGA Genesis 1989@1451
Battle Squadron
Amiga 1989@3
Twin Hawk
Arcade 1989@1778
Gun-Nac
NES 1990@1922
Carrier Air Wing
CP System 1990@2611
W Ring: The Double Rings
PC Engine 1990@2625
GG Aleste
Game Gear 1990@2892
Crisis Force
NES 1991@1363
Super R-Type
SNES 1991@231
Vimana
Toaplan Version 1 1991@1779
Dogyuun
Toaplan Version 2 1992@1462
Raiden Trad
SNES 1992@1796
Batsugun
Toaplan Version 2 1993@1446
Mahou Daisakusen
Toaplan Version 2 1993@1447
R-Type III: The Third Lightning
SNES 1993@181
Sylphia
PC Engine CD 1993@3238
Gunbird
Arcade 1994@1003
19XX: The War Against Destiny
CP System II 1995@2824
Twin Cobra II
Arcade 1996@995
G-Darius
PlayStation 1998@1407
Armed Police Batrider
Toaplan Version 2 1998@1127
Dimahoo
CP System II 2000@2838
Espgaluda
Arcade 2003@1456
R-Type Final
PlayStation 2 2003@42
Raiden III
PlayStation 2 2005@1619
Deathsmiles: Deluxe Edition
Xbox 360 2007@272
Guwange
Xbox 360 2010@354
Solace
Windows 2010@203
Jamestown
Windows 2011@332
Sine Mora
Xbox 360 2012@431
Dariusburst Chronicle Saviours
PlayStation 4 2015@1633
Hyper Sentinel
PlayStation 4 2018@2029
Flight of Pigarus
SEGA Master System 2018@3285
R-Type Final 2
PlayStation 4 2021@2795
1993 Space Machine
Steam Deck 2022@3324
Cygni: All Guns Blazing
PlayStation 5 2024@4363