25 Blood-Soaked Run & Gun Games (From Classic to Modern Titles)

By definition, run and gun games are synonymous with violence, fast pace, lots of shooting and fun. Paradoxically, the exposure of blood is not the norm... that doesn’t mean that there aren’t titles that make carnage one of their main attractions. Let’s discover them! The origin of a genre tends to be among its greatest sources of debate, and Run and Guns (sometimes abbreviated Run ’n’ gun) is no exception. For the uninitiated, it should be noted that it is a branch of Shoot ’em up, shooting games with a thousand variants linked to the medium since its infancy, when classics like Space Invaders, Galaga or Defender dominated the arcade cabinets. With the 80s came the rise of action stars like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, something that soon influenced developers and pronounced the turn towards guerrilla Run and Gun. Months after the release of the Rambo film saga, Front Line (Taito, 1982) offered both vertical scrolling shootouts and the possibility