Thread 12154249

"Games that are like Rolling Thunder" are obviously a genre. Shinobi, ESWAT, Sunset Riders, Ninja Five-O, etc. So why doesn't this genre have a name? They're not really run n guns (except Sunset Riders), they're not really platformers, they're like their own thing but it doesn't have a name.

Cover shooter

>>12154249 (OP)
Elevator Action Returns is the peak

Side-scroller
Action game
Belt shooter
Gunman game

>>12154249 (OP)
Walk n gun
Also you forgot Operation Viper

>>12154249 (OP)
Sunset riders is more like Contra and Ninja five o is just an action platformer

the very slow deliberate shooters usually with some kind of high jump to reach a catwalk or second floor above n gun

>>12154249 (OP)
>Sunset Riders
That one doesn't really fit, it's closer to Contra. Surprise Attack is a better choice for Konami's walk n gun. It's got a Sci-Fi theme and quizzes on Space in between rounds for 1ups, I think you can disable that in the dip switches.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5Eq9oWUrDg

Sly Spy from Data East is another good one though it doesn't follow the Rolling Thunder blueprint quite as close as Surprise Attack. IMO no game exudes big Bond energy quite like this one and that includes the actual Bond games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaiBmvnMyQg&t

>>12154249 (OP)
Jeremy Parish called them "walk and shoot" iirc. I like that.

Thunder from the Down Under-like-avania.

>>12154320
>Belt Shooter
This is a belt shooter.

>>12154249 (OP)
Jump n' pump

>>12154430
>Operation Viper
Also known as Code Name: Viper, or Ningen Heiki Dead Fox.

Anyway, the aforementioned and Rolling Thunder and its sequels are the only viable games in this genre, which we can call Rolling Thunder 'em ups.

>>12155348
Shinobi is fun though and arguably more well-known

Sunset Riders only run when they're on top of bulls. And they can't shoot when they're doing that.

>>12154249 (OP)
can only assume you saw this video yesterday, but if not then he goes over that exact topic in great detail

https://youtu.be/sDa6agrtvlc?si=z-hGePMj2N1jbYsv

>>12154249 (OP)
My favorite genre growing up in the late 80s and I don't give a shit what the genre is called. Why are you like this?

>>12154249 (OP)
Why are zoomers like this? What is this fucking need to categorise everything?

>>12155762
>>12155767
I assume he wants to find more games that are similar

>>12154249 (OP)
I decree they shall henceforth be called KungFuMasterlikes.

>>12155841
Those are a different genre, they are called single-plane beat em ups

>>12154249 (OP)
Aye, I watched that video too. Good shit. Titties are for babies.

>>12154249 (OP)
Action platformer. There's different styles. Up to you whether you want to consider run and gun a subgenre of action platformer or a shooting game.

>>12155959
Tits are just a front butt

>>12155739
These shmup Xers started making some fun videos. It's like they didn't see a youtube video from 2010 until now, just figuring it out as they go along and doing what they want.

>>12155739
What's the music at 22:59?

They're called elevatornobis

>>12154463
Sunset Riders is a mix of Contra and Rolling Thunder. Contra never had upper/lower level switching which is a Rolling Thunder trademark.

>>12156097
It's really not the same thing plus it's missing in like half of the levels, and Contra already featured some kind of level platforming. In Rolling Thunder games the point is that you are completely disconnected from enemies from a different plane, in Sunset Riders it just acts as a big jump with some i-frames.