shoot 'em up | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,film,television,literature,video games)A piece ofmediawhich depicts considerablegunplay.My wife won't watch this movie; it's ashoot ’em up.1983August,Popular Mechanics, volume160, number 2, page88:The arcaders have it easy. All they need to do is drop a quarter into a machine to find out how good the latestshoot 'em upgame really is. But for the home computer owner, it's another story.1989, Duncan Macdonald,R-Type(video game review) inYour Sinclairissue 37, January 1989An unmissableshoot 'em up.(video games)A video game in which one plays as a character moving and shooting in anautoscrollingtwo-dimensionalworld, with emphasis ondodgingbulletsand predictingenemymovement patterns.Synonym:shmupHyponyms:bullet hell,cute-'em-up2011December 5, Tony Mott,1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die: You Must Play Before You Die, Hachette UK,→ISBN:Bullet Hell: DoDonPachi exemplifies the term better than any othershoot 'em up, providing a snowstorm of fiery pixels to both simultaneously dodge and eliminate.2013August 28, Sebastian Domsch,Storyplaying: Agency and Narrative in Video Games, Walter de Gruyter,→ISBN, page65:In ashoot'em up, the player usually looks from above on her player character (most commonly in the form of a spaceship). The spaceship is constantly moving forward, but since the perspective is relatively fixed on it, the traversed space is actually moving from top to bottom or left to right, and the player has no ability to influence that movement.2022November 5, Fabien Sanglard,The Book of CP-System, Sanglard Publishing, page88:It is surprising nowadays to see so much silicon dedicated to a "niche" feature [starfield rendering], but the extreme popularity ofshoot em upslike R-Type, Gradius, or Darius at the time made a good case for it.

Examples:

EN: You gotta stay here and scare off anybody tonight, shoot 'em up.
ES: Tienes que quedarte aquí y ahuyentar a todos esta noche, dispárales.
EN: Get in there, shoot 'em up, and get outta there.
ES: Disparar unas pocas rondas y largarnos de allí.
EN: Ha! And then... and then you shoot 'em up with embalming fluid.
ES: y entonces... y entonces le dispara con el líquido de embalsamar.
EN: I wanna see a goddamn big motherfuckin'... shoot 'em up, kill 'em, bang, stab 'em, crush... slice, kill, motherfuckin' boiling' oil.
ES: Quiero ver un maldito hijo de la gran puta... dispárales, mátales, golpear, apuñalar, flechazos... cortar, matar, hijos de puta aceite hirviendo.
EN: Then shoot 'em up with every antibiotic known to man.
ES: Y les inyectan todos los antibióticos posibles.
EN: Anybody doesn't know the words to god bless america, shoot 'em up.
ES: Cualquiera que no sepa la letra de "Dios Bendice América", dispárale.
EN: I memorized 'em, and I destroyed 'em, just like you told me. And then I called NASA, and they're gonna take the ashes and shoot 'em up out into space, so that way-- Okay.
ES: Los memoricé y los destruí, justo como me dijiste, y luego llamé a la NASA y van a llevarse las cenizas y dispararlas al espacio...
EN: I'd grab' em, shoot 'em up, and overdose 'em. Then they're just another statistic.
ES: Así serían un simple número en las estadísticas.
EN: He was playing shoot 'em up today.
ES: Hoy jugaba a los pistoleros.
EN: All boys play shoot 'em up.
ES: Todos los niños juegan a los pistoleros.
EN: This isn't some kind of O.K. Corral shoot 'em up thing.
ES: Esto no es un tiroteo al estilo O.K. Corral.
EN: I'm going to manually release my sperms into a cup, and they're gonna shoot 'em up into Bonnie's uterus.
ES: Voy a liberar manualmente mi esperma en un vaso, y van a introducirselo en el útero de Bonnie.
EN: - Ow! - How to shoot 'em up.
ES: - Cómo dispararles.
EN: Going to see a film with your friends is nothing compared to being in a shoot 'em up or a game with your friends and Doom was the first game that really allowed us to experience that.
ES: Ir a ver una pelicula con tus amigos no es nada comparado con estar en un juego de disparos con tus amigos y Doom fué el primer juego que realmente nos permitio experimentar eso.
EN: I think the advent of video games and third-person shoot 'em up games did more for the zombie genre than a couple movies even.
ES: la llegada de los videojuegos especialmente los de disparos hicieron más para el genero que un par de películas.

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