@Nomaxice the context had only one character thing shooting things though

@Felthry Was it a single line of aim, or was rotation also controllable?

@Nomaxice I don't know but I think that makes sense

@Felthry @Nomaxice yeah twin stick shmups are similar to games like geometry wars, your left stick moves the character around, the right stick controls the direction of fire

@Dex @Nomaxice people keep mentioning geometry wars, would you believe that we've not heard of it before?

@Felthry @Nomaxice it's not the most commonly known game series now - but it was pretty big for a while near the start of the last generation of consoles as one of the first download only "must haves" for the xbox 360 (and later ported to other systems)

@Dex @Nomaxice we do most video games on a several-year delay, both for reasons of price and because we want to see what's actually good rather than just getting everything that comes out. So we didn't get a 360 until like 2014 and the PS3 we only got last year. So I think its popularity passed us by. Probably partly because we have little to no interest in that genre, too.

@Felthry the game "geometry wars" is an archetypal example.

@poss_bot Aha, thank you. (and thank you also to @Nomaxice and @starkatt who also answered!)