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A sub-genre of Shoot 'em up, Run-and-guns may use side scrolling, vertical scrolling or isometric viewpoints and multidirectional movement. A type of platform action game, where the player controls a (mostly human) character with near constant gun fire as they attempt to reach the stage's end without dying in a lone assault.
The genre is a mix of platform action (that usually do not contain large streams of bullets flying on the screen) and shooting games (in which the player mostly controls a flying ship and not a running character bound by gravity). Mostly represented by titles such as Metal Slug and Turrican.
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