Editing Shooter video games (section)

===Shooting gallery===
'''Shooting gallery video games''' are often interchangeable with [[light gun]] games, although many can also be played using a regular [[Gamepad|joypad]] and an on-screen cursor to signify where the bullets are being aimed. When these debuted, they were typically played from a [[first-person]] perspective, with enemy fire that occurred anywhere on the screen damaging or killing the player. As they evolved away from the use of light guns, the player came to be represented by an on-screen avatar, usually someone on the bottom of the screen, who could move and avoid enemy attacks while returning fire. These sorts of shooters almost always utilize horizontal scrolling to the right to indicate level progression, with enemies appearing in waves from predestined locations in the background or from the sides. One of the earliest examples is the 1985 arcade game ''[[Shootout]]'' produced by Data East.

A specific sub-genre of this type of game is the '''Cabal shooter''', started by none other than ''[[Cabal]]'', in which the player controls an on-screen avatar that can run and often jump around the screen in addition to being able to aim their gun. Other games in this sub-genre include ''[[Blood Bros.]]'', ''[[Dynamite Duke]]'', ''[[NAM-1975]]'', ''[[Wild Guns]]'', and ''[[Sin and Punishment]]''.

As light gun games became more prevalent and started to make use of fully 3D backgrounds, such as the ''[[Time Crisis]]'' or [[The House of the Dead (series)|''House of the Dead'' series]] series, these sorts of games fell out of popular production, but many like ''[[Blood Bros.]]'' still have their fanbase today. Other notable games of this category include ''[[Operation Wolf]]'' and ''[[Laser Invasion]]''.