shoot-'em-up

Example Sentences

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It's very shoot 'em up and it's fun and the action's big and all that, but the movie in and of itself doesn't matter, matter to you, not anywhere in here.

From Salon • Aug. 21, 2021

Instead, we get a poor man’s Contra full of bullet-spraying enemies that would be better suited to a shoot ’em up than a run and gun.

From Slate • Oct. 16, 2020

The game Nishikado was starting to plot out in his mind was Space Invaders, the iconic shoot ’em up that is celebrating its 40th anniversary.

From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2018

In the Martin Scorsese-produced shoot ’em up “Free Fire,” South African actor Sharlto Copley plays Vern, a narcissistic gunrunner in a polyester suit who’s prone to a certain behavioral grandiloquence.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2017

In addition to using their robot friends to solve puzzles, players can change the color of their weapon’s bullets, a feature classic shoot 'em up Ikaruga used to excellent effect.

From The Verge • Aug. 31, 2016