Whats a "Schump"?

[Jet Set UNITED]

I've been hearing this term being thrown a couple of times. WTF does it mean?

[Len]

'schmup'

Shoot-em-up...

i.e. Gradius, Ikaruga, RS etc etc etc...

[MonkeyWrench]

Do you mean shmup? It's a shoot'em up.

[Len]

Snap...lol!

[MonkeyWrench]

damn! beat me too it

[Jet Set UNITED]

oh... duh!

As I kept seeing it mentioned on reviews of the newest DC games I thought it meant a sort of independent thriftily produced Dreamcast game.

...which is sort of the same thing I suppose

[buster_broon]

welcome to call my bluff - the boring old fart show where people get paid to lie

is it

1/ a shoot em up

2/ the english version of schmuck - which is a slanderous remark

3/ somebody with a speech impediment trying to say map

[Len]

Lol..quality Buster.

I'm going for...3!

[musashi]

Ask Malcolm Laurie -- he coined the term

....I think!

[charlesr]

http://shmups.com/

[mr_sockochris]

http://schumps.com/

[Strider]

Ask Malcolm Laurie -- he coined the term

....I think!

Nah, it was originally coined by mags like Crash and ZZap, Malc's superb site takes the inspiration from them.

[musashi]

Ah yes...that's right.