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bullet hell

noun

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  1. A (genre of) two-dimensional shoot 'em up in which the playfield is almost filled with a…

    A (genre of) two-dimensional shoot 'em up in which the playfield is almost filled with a barrage of enemy bullets.

    • Mars Matrix is a bullet hell game that is pretty well designed.
    • A few of the game cabinets are connected to flat-screen TVs so bystanders can stop and ogle. Grimy VCRs are hooked up to bullet-hell shooting games...
    • The camera is a convenient nonviolent replacement for a gun, a principle perhaps taken most literally by Shoot the Bullet (2005), a bullet hell game in which you clear bullets by photographing them.

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