Minubeat

Minubeat crosses a shoot 'em up with a rhythm game: the player's ship carries a rapid-fire weapon, but its two stronger tools, a planted bomb that destroys a nearby enemy outright and a key that wipes every enemy projectile from the screen, only work if the key is pressed in time with the beat of the background tune. The squares in the background pulsate to cue that timing. Contact with any enemy or bullet kills instantly, and the whole run is bounded by a sixty second limit to reach and kill the final boss. It is a fixed-screen game rather than a scrolling one.