In the Hunt is a horizontal scrolling shooter arcade game by Irem. It was released in 1993 and later ported to the Sega Saturn, the PlayStation and Windows 95 for the PC by Kokopeli.


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Irem-tier handsome shmup with unique, deliberate pacing and multi-directional shooting. The submarine-shooter premise leads to some clever setups, and cool bosses. I wish I had a bomb, though, and that big-ass sub hitbox can really be a pain. Still, so cool!

Un excelente shoot em up, con unos excelentes gráficos.

it was alright, art was really cool and music was good but honestly the gameplay was boring as shit. sorry Irem

El metal slug de los submarinos (es muy dificil)

I played this on my Evercade on the Irem collection, which I assume is just the original Arcade version.

It's a pretty fun, short (5 levels) shmup with great old school arcade style graphics. It's pretty unique in that you play as a submarine, instead of a spaceship.

The big problem I have with it is that this game would've been near impossible to beat without a couple pocketfuls of quarters. It's a tough game with projectiles flying everywhere, all the time and I had to continue many, many, many times, so this game definitely lives up to the old "impossible to beat on one quarter" style of arcade games. If I didn't have unlimited credits on the Evercade, I wouldn't have enjoyed this at all.

Oh look, Irem made a shmup that isn’t R-Type! Is this a sign of the apocalypse?!
Actually, this is one of my favorites in the genre. The graphics are good, the power ups are wtf inducing.
Irem has had some misses, but this is not one of them!