The PlayStation is a home video game console developed by Sony and released in 1994-1995.
The primitive polygon graphics have inspired a retro-aesthetic that many independent game developers try to capture when creating games today. This can be characterized by low resolution, lack of anti-aliasing, lack of perspective-aware texture mapping, and integer based polygon rounding for 3D models.
Shoot 'Em Up or shmup games are a subset of shooter games where the player continually moves forward while waves of enemies enter the screen. Both shooting and dodging are critical to advancing. See also Bullet Hell.
