(forgive my spelling, please - I`m (hope) not dumb, but not perfect at foreign languages)
I`m working on text about history of horisontal shoot`em ups and I have a problem - there`s nothing to write about! As far as I know there can be taken only few games that pushed this genre: Scramble, Vanguard, Gradius (Nemesis) and R-Type. You can also eliminate R-Type from this list if you think that it is only overtalked sadistic clone of Gradius. There was A LOT shoot`em ups and near all of them were clones, and there were no revolutions after Nemesis. Am I right?