02:2402:24, 29 March 2011diffhist−10
Space Harrier
→Gameplay: Honestly that game isn't that similar to Space Harrier. It does have the forward-scrolling view and checkerboard pattern floor, but it's also a platformer, where you run into columns to get powerups, etc
02:2202:22, 29 March 2011diffhist−31
Space Harrier
The "on rails" is used to describe games like Virtua Cop and Dead Space: Extraction, and rail shooter should be the same thing as that because your character's movement is "on rails," or controlled down a set path (not just one direction)
01:3501:35, 29 March 2011diffhist+154
Shoot 'em up
→Types: Games like Space Harrier, Panorama Cotton, Buck Rogers (arcade), After Burner, Galaxy Force II, Night Striker and JJ on the Famicom are "chase-view," while games like Virtua Cop and Panzer Dragoon are rail shooters.
16:1616:16, 25 March 2011diffhist+230
Freedom Stick
source: the sega8bit.com article, Camerica commercial on Youtube, camerica advertisement on another site, plus Wikipedia's entry on Camerica which says Nintendo lost every lawsuit. Please stop reverting my edits you dumb bots
16:0416:04, 25 March 2011diffhist+131
Freedom Stick
http://www.smstributes.co.uk/gethwinfo.asp?hardwareid=54, for the lawsuit, it contradict's wikipedia's entry on Camerica: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camerica