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Shooter games are a sub-genre of action game, which often test the player's speed and reaction time. It includes many subgenres that have the... commonality of focusing "on the actions of the avatar using some sort of weapon. Usually this weapon is a gun, or some other long-range weapon". A common resource found in many shooter games is ammunition. Most commonly, the purpose of a shooter game is to shoot opponents and proceed through missions without the player character dying. There are many criteria to determine the type of shooter; listed below are some of the major divisions. Using the following, it is possible to categorize almost all shooters developed. The player usually views the events from behind the eyes of the character or from a camera that follows the character, usually a few feet behind . It is also possible for a game to have a fixed camera, especially shooting gallery games and some 2D overhead shooters such as Robotron 2084. Games that attempt to emulate life-like ballistics and character damage include tactical shooters.
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The Codemasters Software Company Limited, or Codemasters and now known as Codemasters Racing is a British video game developer founded by Richard and David Darling in 1986. Codemasters is one of the oldest surviving British game studios, and in 2005 was named as the top independent games developer... by Develop magazine. Founded in 1986 by Richard and David Darling , Codemasters established themselves in the growing ZX Spectrum market, mostly with action games that required the player to solve simple puzzles by combining different objects, such as the Dizzy series. While rooted in the ZX Spectrum, Codemasters did not write exclusively for this computer - they also released software for the Commodore 64, Commodore 16, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, Commodore Amiga and Atari ST. They were famous for releasing a long series of "Simulator" games, mostly sports simulations . This led to the parody "Advanced Lawnmower Simulator" being developed, praised to the skies and then published by Your Sinclair magazine as an April Fool's Day stunt.
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