Stinger (video game)

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{{Infobox video game

|title=Stinger

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|developer = Seibu Denshi

|publisher = {{vgrelease|JP|Sigma Enterprises|NA|Venture Line{{cite magazine |last1=Lewin |first1=Gene |title=Gene's Judgements: Critiquing AMOA Show Conversions, Dedicated Games |magazine=Play Meter |date=January 15, 1984 |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=60–3 |url=https://archive.org/details/play-meter-volume-10-number-2-january-15th-1984/Play%20Meter%20-%20Volume%2010%2C%20Number%202%20-%20January%2015th%201984/page/60/mode/2up}}}}

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|released = September 1983{{cite web |title=Stinger |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/M732723 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=Agency for Cultural Affairs |lang=ja |access-date=30 August 2021}}

|genre = Scrolling shooter

|modes = 1-2 players alternating

|platforms = Arcade

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Stinger is a side-scrolling shooter game released by Seibu Denshi for arcades in 1983.{{cite magazine|title=Overseas Readers Column - Sigma Exclusively Distributes Seibu's "Stinger"|magazine=Game Machine|issue=222|publisher=Amusement Press, Inc.|date=15 October 1983|page=36|lang=ja|url=https://onitama.tv/gamemachine/pdf/19831015p.pdf#page=19}} It was the first game released by this company.{{citation needed|date=July 2016}} Despite the horizontal scrolling, the game has a vertically oriented screen.