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cute-'em-up

noun

Etymology

Blend of cute + shoot 'em up.

Definitions

  1. A shoot 'em up game with a cute, cartoonish aesthetic.

    • Fantasy Zone was not a game meant to be taken as seriously as other shooters, and together with Konami's Twin Bee, it is credited by many for pioneering the cute shoot-'em-up, or “cute-'em-up sub-genre of shooters” (Kalata, “Spotlight”).

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