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238 games like Alpha Blaster · 1981 – 2023
Nintendo console exclusive
Andrew Braybrook · Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +8
Uridium (released on the NES as The Last Starfighter) is a science fiction side-scrolling shoot 'em up originally designed by Andrew Braybrook for the Commodore 64, and later ported to other 8-bit machines. It consists of fifteen levels, ea
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Nintendo console exclusive
Taito · Arcade, FM-7, NEC PC-8800 series +5
A vertical scrolling space shooter.
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PlayStation console exclusive
Team17 · Browser, PlayStation
X2, sometimes known as Project X-2 or X2 - No relief is a simple arcade-style side scrolling shoot 'em up released during the Team17-Ocean collaboration era of video games that created the Worms series. It is the sequel to the Amiga 16-bit
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Nintendo console exclusiveJaleco · Arcade, SNES
A SUPER SAGA OF 23RD CENTURY SATELLITE WARFARE! The graphics will dazzle you, the speed will astound you... but if you don't think fast and shoot faster, you won't have a chance against the alien firestorm. Because in EARTH DEFENSE FORCE,
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Timed Sega exclusive
Eighting · Arcade, PlayStation, Sega Saturn
Soukyuu Guren-tai is a vertically scrolling shooter game released by Raizing in 1996 for Arcades, with a Saturn port released in 1997. The game is unusual in that, rather than using a 3:4 aspect ratio to better suit the vertically-oriented
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Aicom · Android, Arcade, Browser +8
Blazing Star is a scrolling shooter video game for the Neo Geo home game system. It is the sequel to the acclaimed Neo Geo shooter Pulstar, which was itself a close cousin to the R-Type franchise. A typically hefty Neo Geo ROM at 346 Mb, th
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Atari exclusive
Imagic · Atari 2600
Pilot Star Voyager through treacherous space. As you look out from the Command Bridge, stars rush past. Penetrate the seven star portals and save the Capital Starport. Destroy enemy ships with photon torpedoes or lasers, or evade them to ma
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Atari exclusiveAtari Lynx
Zaku is a homebrew scrolling shooter video game developed by PenguiNet and published by Super Fighter Team exclusively for the Atari Lynx on 24 October 2009. Taking place on a futuristic setting where Captain Bran and his minions plan to ov
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Arcade, MSX
A shooter where fleets of ships fly in from either of the screen and loop around in formation. The player may move around the screen in any direction.
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Sega console exclusive
Taito · Arcade, Sega Saturn
Gekirindan is a vertical shoot-'em-up by Taito where players select one of three different fighters against an army of mechs through different time periods.
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Aicom · Arcade, Linux, Neo Geo +5
The basic gameplay is simple: progress through the levels in the spacecraft, collecting powerups and protecting the spacecraft from destruction. The game has very obvious similarities in design and gameplay to R-Type. It is actually believe
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Granzella · Switch, PS4, Windows +2
R-Type has returned! The legendary side-scroller is back and better than ever with beautifully rendered 3D graphics, exhilarating shoot-'em-up gameplay, and a multitude of stages, ships, and weapons that will allow you to conduct a symphony
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Arcade
With a spaceship, the player shoots several kind of robotic enemies and spaceships. At the end of every stage (except for the first one), the player meets a huge enemy spaceship as the stage's boss. Player's spaceship is equipped with a lim
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Nintendo exclusive
Timed SNK exclusive
NG.DEV.TEAM · Arcade, Dreamcast, Neo Geo +4
Fast Striker is a Shoot-'Em-Up game, developed and published by NG:DEV.TEAM, which was released in Japan in 2012D arcade shooting game with emphasis on scoring originally developed for NEO·GEO. The game lets the player choose between 3 game
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Bullfrog Productions · Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE
Fusion is a scrolling multidirectional shooter developed by Bullfrog Productions and published by Electronic Arts in 1988 for the Atari ST and Amiga.
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Nintendo console exclusive
Nintendo console exclusive
Irem · Arcade, Switch
Is a side-scrolling shooter published by Irem, and similar in style to their earlier R-Type. The game centers around an unusual alien invasion against a colony planet in the year 2249 where the aliens themselves are microscopic creatures th
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Nintendo console exclusive
Atari console exclusive
Atari · Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, Atari XEGS +3
Star Raiders II is a video game released in 1986 for the Atari 8-bit home computers, and later several other home computers and game consoles. The game was originally developed as part of a tie-in with the movie The Last Starfighter, which
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Timed Xbox exclusive
Switch, PS4, Windows +1
An alien menace has descended on Earth! Defend the world from UFO invasion in this superb arcade shooter from Qute. Use your weapons effectively, deflect enemy bullets with your shield, and recapture the Moon from alien infestation!
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Atari exclusive
Imagitec Design · Atari Jaguar
I-War is a 3D virtual reality tank game. In each of the 21 levels, you must find all the data pods and make your way to the exit. Enemy tanks, turrets, and bombers stand in your way, as well as occasional traps or locked doors controlled by
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Hudson Soft · Game Boy Advance, MSX, NES +3
Star Soldier is a 1986 vertically scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Hudson Soft for the Nintendo Entertainment System and MSX. It is the first game in the Star Soldier series. The player pilots the starship "Caesar", t
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Timed Sega exclusive
Factor 5 · Sega Genesis, Wii
The Machine has enslaved the galaxy under its tyrannical rule. As Bren McGuire, the last survivor of the United Freedom Forces, it is your duty to destroy the evil forces of the Machine that have devastated the galaxy.
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Team17 · PS3, Windows, Xbox 360
A remake of the original classic Amiga title Alien Breed, Evolution features update graphics, gameplay and features.
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UPL · Arcade, Switch, PS4 +1
Bio-ship Paladin is a 1990 horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game. It was later ported to the Sega Mega Drive. While the game is essentially a standard horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up, it has an innovation that makes it unique
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Irem · Arcade, FM Towns, NES +6
On a fateful day in 20XX, the Earth's moon exploded into four large fragments and a multitude of meteors. Aliens from afar had succeeded in destroying the West's moon base. One after another, mankind's other military industrial space comple
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Timed SNK exclusive
SNK · Arcade, Neo Geo, Neo Geo CD +2
Last Resort is an arcade shoot 'em up video game by SNK released in 1992.
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Timed NEC exclusive
TurboGrafx-16, Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD, Wii
Take on the alien hordes in this vertically scrolling shoot 'em up from the people behind Aleste. The power-up system in Spriggan relies on different coloured globes - you can have three of these in stock at any one time and the order they
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Nintendo console exclusive
Acorn Archimedes, Amiga, Amstrad CPC +8
SWIV is a vertical scrolling shooter and an unofficial follow-up to Sales Curve's conversion of the side scroller Tecmo arcade game Silkworm. One player controls a helicopter and the other a jeep, with the jeep transforming into a boat when
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Sega exclusive
Sega Genesis
Twinkle Tale is a 1992 Sega Mega Drive shoot-'em-up developed by Studio Ducks and published by Wonder Amusement Studio exclusively in Japan.
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Sega exclusive
Sega Genesis
Verytex is a shoot-'em-up game released exclusively in Japan. Taking place on the colonized fictional planet of Syracuse in a futuristic sci-fi setting, where its military force initiated a violent coup d'état against the inhabitants for un
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Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
This is an article about the computer game. For the Pharoahe Monch album, see W.A.R. (We Are Renegades). W.A.R. is a video game produced by Martech. The BBC Micro version was written by Michael Archer while the Amstrad CPC version was writ
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Tim Follin · Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
Agent X II: The Mad Prof's Back is a computer game released in 1987 for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64. It is the follow-up to the ZX Spectrum game Agent X. The player takes control of the eponymous Agent X in a multi-load g
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Nintendo exclusiveGame Boy
Chikyū Kaihō Gun ZAS (地球解放軍ジアース; lit. "Earth Liberation Army: ZAS") is a vertical scrolling shooter video game developed and published by T&E Soft for the Nintendo Game Boy exclusively in Japan on December 18, 1992.
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Marvin's Maze
Vanguard II (Japanese: ヴァンガードII) is a multidirectional shooter video game developed and published by SNK released in arcades in 1984. It is the sequel to the 1981 game Vanguard. It was not as successful as the original.
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NEC exclusive
TurboGrafx-16
Evil forces have kidnapped the leader of the Burning Project! It's up to the Burning Angels to rescue her! And so starts another vertically scrolling shooter on the PC Engine. There are no surprises in the gameplay here - choose one of two
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Eighting · Arcade
In this impressive blend of an overhead shoot'em up with RPG characteristics, you must help a group of mystic bounty hunters save the earth against the evil Gobligan Underground Empire. Features excellent 2-D graphics and sound, awesome cha
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Atari console exclusive
Epyx · Atari Lynx, Windows
Gates of Zendocon is a side-scrolling shooter very similar to the original arcade shooter of this type, Scramble. Unlike Scramble, however, there are 51 game areas in total, but the player fights through a subset of them through branches, c
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Namco · Arcade, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation
Xevious 3D/G is a shoot 'em up arcade game that was released by Namco in April 1996 only in Japan. It was later ported to the PlayStation in 1997 as Xevious 3D/G+.
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Sega exclusive
Tokai Communications · Sega Genesis
Battle Mania Daiginjou is a shoot 'em up developed and published by VIC Tokai in 1993 for the Sega Mega Drive exclusively in Japan and South Korea. It is the sequel to Battle Mania (which was released in the US as Trouble Shooter).
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Sega exclusive
Sega Genesis
Eliminate Down is a 1993 scrolling shooter video game developed by Aprinet and published by Soft Vision International for the Sega Mega Drive. The game was released in Japan on June 25, 1993, and in South Korea in 1993. Eliminate Down gives
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MS-DOS
New-age Galaxian. Move along in space in your fighter and shoot anything that moves, while collecting power-ups.
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Sega console exclusiveThalamus Ltd · Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Sega Master System/Mark III +1
Sanxion is a side-scrolling shoot 'em up, the goal to traverse each level from left to right avoiding or destroying any enemies and obstacles. The side-scroller speed is controllable, increasing the closer the player is to the center of the
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Nintendo console exclusive
Switch, Windows
Welcome to Shooter's paradise. Telenet Japan Wolf Team's greatest hits return!
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Nintendo exclusive
Game Boy
The Punisher: The Ultimate Payback is an Action game, developed by Beam Software and published by Acclaim, which was released in 1991.
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