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A type of platform action game, mostly represented by titles such as Metal Slug and Turrican.
This is the type of games where the player controls a (mostly human) character in a platform environment with a lot of shooting going on, and the goal is to reach the stage's end without dying.
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).