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Geometry Wars

Shoot Em Up series, similar to Robotron2084, where you control a claw-shaped concave octagon in a quest to destroy many other shapes. Primarily notable for reinvigorating the stale genre and for having insane amounts of stuff on the screen at once (due to the minimal computational power required for each object). Originally an Easter Egg in the Project Gotham Racing series for the Xbox. The series' second incarnation, Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved, and its sequel have been released as stand-alone games for the Xbox360 Arcade. It also has a DS and Wii version, Geometry Wars: Galaxies, as well as a PC clone (with more features) called Grid Wars, whose development was reportedly stopped at the request of the parent company.

This series provides examples of:

Asteroids Monster
Attack Drone
Bullet Hell
Cap (the highest composite score obtainable on Galaxies is [(2^30)-1]x25)
- The DS version also has some unfortunate (or maybe fortunate) limits to onscreen objects.
Collision Damage
Endless Game
Every Five Thousand Geoms
Everything Trying To Kill You
Exactly What It Says On The Tin
Game Level
Mercy Invincibility
Money For Nothing (you'll unlock everything in Galaxies long before you receive all the bonus geoms for hitting score plateaus)
Mook Maker
One Game For The Price Of Two (the DS and Wii versions of Galaxies unlock content on each other - the same content on both - but are otherwise identical)
One Hit Point Wonder
One Up
Respawning Enemies
Sinister Geometry (As if they aren't scary enough, this Troper's active imagination provided an explanation for the game's geometric enemies that has rendered it unplayable for him; the shapes are Eldritch Abominations whose mere appearance drives men insane. The game is the interface that has to be used to fight them. Have fun!
Shoot Em Ups
Smart Bomb
Surprise Difficulty
Tele Frag
Theme Naming (levels in Galaxies follow a strict format - three letters for the type, then something denoting a cardinality; e.g. MinDuo is Mine level 2.)
This Is Your Premise On Drugs (Magazine ads frequently touted this game as "Asteroids on steroids")