Heroes featured in the shoot'em up video games.

Shoot'em ups include: fixed-screen shooters (Space Invaders, Galaga, Gorf), horizontal-scrolling shooters (Gradius, Thunder Force, R-Type, Darius, Zero Wing, Carrier Air Wing/U.S. Navy,), vertical-scrolling shooters (Aero Fighters/Sonic Wings, Raiden, Lightning Fighters, Rayforce, DonPachi, Strikers 1945), rail shooters (After Burner, Star Fox, Virtua Cop, Panzer Dragoon, Space Harrier), arena shooters (Robotron, Ikari Warriors, Commando). It does not include flight simulators such as Ace Combat.