{"id":1626,"date":"2007-10-14T22:44:21","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T01:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2007-10-23T09:49:59","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T12:49:59","slug":"shoot-em-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1626","title":{"rendered":"Shoot-em-ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">E<\/span>arlier this <a href='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1627' rel='attachment wp-att-1627' title='Salamander!'><img class=\"alignright\" src='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/salamander_bad.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Salamander!' \/><\/a>week, we were looking for co-op type of games for the XBOX: we weren&#8217;t looking for the typical &#8216;splitscreen&#8217; first person shooter, so Halo and that kind was out. Eventually we settled on <a href=\"http:\/\/mkmonks.com\/\">&#8216;Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks&#8217;<\/a>, which allows 2 players to work their way through all the levels. This ended up to be quite fun but at times, say uh, tedious and repetitive. I noticed that there aren&#8217;t too many co-op games out there: a good reference I found in this About.com posting, <a href=\"http:\/\/xbox.about.com\/od\/toppicks\/tp\/toptencoop.htm\">&#8216;Top Ten Best Co-Op Games on XBOX&#8217;<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>This also reminds me of the question asked at the local EB Games: where are the typical <em>Shoot-em-ups<\/em> arcade games for the XBOX. I mean, games in the style of Salamander, Nemesis (Gradius as many other people may know this game for) and R-Type. Glancing through a short-list of games (all of them tagged as &#8216;shoot-em-up&#8217;) seems to suggest that nowadays a &#8216;shoot-em-up&#8217; game equates to a first-person shooter game. I guess, semantically that would be correct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"extra\"><small>Update: More on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shoot_%27em_up\">&#8216;Shoot&#8217;em ups&#8217;<\/a> at Wikipedia.<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, we were looking for co-op type of games for the XBOX: we weren&#8217;t looking for the typical &#8216;splitscreen&#8217; first person shooter, so Halo and that kind was out. Eventually we settled on &#8216;Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks&#8217;, which &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1626\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,38],"tags":[187,580],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}