Most shmups have missile weapons too & they could easily be fired in space.Blade wrote:Well, just so you know, the physics in space are far different than those of earth's atmosphere, so things like Space Explosions and Laserfire are not likely. Due to the vacuum of space first of all, and the logic that lasers are made from light energy, and for any sort of ship to dodge light is nearly impossible unless you're talking about moving at light speed, which is also not likely.
You could even fire regular bullets from a Vulcan cannon as long as the propulsion system is not based on concentrated gases like inside the regular hand gun chamber. You could also get very accurate & fast result by using a regular sling shot in space!
You can have explosions in space, they just wouldn't produce any gasses & fire will be extinguished within seconds. But they would be bright.
They will just look a bit different, based on the materials that make up the space surrounding the enemy battleship.
As for not being able to avoid lasers in space, I doubt you could be able to avoid it on earth either. Besides is most shmups where you encounter a huge-ass laser beam
(Final Boss Macross SDF – Banpresto – Arcades & Blazing Star - NEOGEO), usually you’re just supposed to die anyway & pump the next quarter in… so that wouldn’t be a problem in real life 
So intergalactic combat based on shmuping conditions shouldn’t be a problem really….
