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405 games like Ant Attack · 1980 – 2023
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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Konami · Apple II, Arcade, Atari 2600 +20
The object of the game is to direct frogs to their homes one by one. To do this, each frog must avoid cars while crossing a busy road and navigate a river full of hazards. Skillful players may obtain some bonuses along the way.
68 rating29 lists1 h main storyOften paired
Amiga, Apple II, Commodore 64 +2
In Stellar 7, a remake of the 1983 game, you drive the Raven, the most advanced Terran fighting vehicle. You are up against Gir Draxon and his evil Arcturan army. You will go from star system to star system, fighting his forces. When the en
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Windows, iOS, macOS
Warblade is a shareware computer game for Microsoft Windows and OS X, written by Norwegian developer Edgar M. Vigdal. The Windows version runs well on Linux under Wine. It is also available for retail in the App Store for iOS devices (in iP
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Atari console exclusive
Midway Games · Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 5200 +1
Run over or shoot "Fuzors" while ships on each of the four sides of the screen travel back and forth or up and down trying to shoot you.
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Llamasoft · Atari 2600, Switch, PS4 +5
Akka Arrh is a previously unreleased prototype game created 1982 for the arcade. It saw it's first release in 2022 as part of the the Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration.
80 rating4 lists2.5 h main storyOften paired
Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +6
With Krypton Egg you will get back to the pleasures of a good breakout. The objective remains the same: destroy all the bricks of the level using only one ball in order to go to the next level. You can go up to the 72nd level proposed by t
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Atari exclusive
CommaVid · Atari 2600
You are a robot - the last "survivor" in the mines of Minos. In order to still win against the overwhelming enemy you must collect robot spare parts to build yourself a small army. In order to achieve this you rummage through the maze-like
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ZX Spectrum
Mutant bounty hunter Johnny Alpha joins a contest where murderers and other notorious criminals fight to the death to get a piece of the action - and the bounty.
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Accolade · Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
Critical Mass is an action puzzle game that takes traditional match 3 and brings it into the world of 3D.
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Atari console exclusive
Arcade, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit
K-Razy Shoot-Out is a clone of the arcade game Berzerk developed by K-Byte, a division of Kay Enterprises, and released for the Atari 8-bit family in 1981. The game was written by Torre Meeder and Dr. Keith Dreyer. An Atari 5200 version fol
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Atari · Arcade, macOS
Enter a subatomic world. Using the trackball, capture particles by circling them with your probes tail.
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Nintendo Research & Development 1 · Arcade, Zilog Z80
Space Firebird is a 1980 arcade game published by Gremlin Industries, Inc. It is a "slide and shoot" shooter, similar to titles such as Galaga.
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Atari, Inc. · Commodore C64/128/MAX, Commodore VIC-20, VIC-20
A maze game for Commodore computers.
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Konami · Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Commodore 64 +6
In this arcade shoot'em up your mission is to infiltrate the alien fortress during 6 levels, and to destroy the fortress and the alien. Sitting in Ajax H.Q., you must pilot the remote controlled drone ship to do this. The drone represents j
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Radical Entertainment · PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Windows
Grid Runner is a futuristic version of "tag." On offense, your objective is to capture the flags around the levels without being tagged or killed. On defense, your main objective is to tag the other player (either the computer or a friend i
60 rating2 lists
Magnavox Odyssey 2, Odyssey 2 / Videopac G7000
The Beebots from the insect civilization of BEM are invading the Earth, protected by swarms of Killer Bees, and it's up to a swarm of white bees to stop them. The player control the white bees swarm, trying to kill the Beebots by flying ov
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Atari console exclusive
Gottlieb · Arcade, Atari 2600
Your space ship is wihtin a nuclear reactor. At the center is the core whose walls are deadly for you if you touch them. Over time, the core starts to melt down and in the process starts to expand which leaves you less space to navigate. Yo
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BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Dragon 32/64 +2
In this unique shooter from 1984. take on the role of a pilot of an out-dated Cosmic Cruiser, fighting to rescue the crew of a distant space station that had been captured by a raiding party from the sinister Rallom Empire.
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ZX Spectrum
Denizen is an action computer game published by Players Software in 1988 for the ZX Spectrum.
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Taito · Arcade, Famicom Disk System, Game Gear +1
A space-shooter. Protect the earth from falling comets and asteroids.
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Sega console exclusive
Rocket Science Games · MS-DOS, Sega CD
Loadstar is a rail-shooter concerned with shooting enemies while navigating your ship, much like Sewer Shark. You're actually on rails in this game, as you travel in a truck/train called Loadstar along a magnetic rail network covering the m
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Drew Major · Android, Linux, MS-DOS
Snipes is an arcade style action game. You are in a large maze along with a number of generators. The generators create the enemy Snipes, and to win the game you need to shoot all of the generators and all of the Snipes they create. The gam
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Krome Studios Melbourne · Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
Originally a generic Rampage clone, Beam Software struck a deal with confectionary giant Leaf UK to incorporate their Chewits mascot known as 'The Muncher' into the game. While the mascot's promotional images and brand name were used, the g
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Timed PlayStation exclusive
PS5, Windows, Xbox Series
Forever Skies is a first-person action survival game. Return to Earth destroyed by an ecological disaster, fly a high-tech airship, expand, rebuild and repair it. Scavenge resources to survive, face the dangers of the surface as you will hu
70 rating2 lists27 h main storyOften paired
ReadySoft Incorporated · Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS
An interactive movie like Dragon's Lair, you control a British spy who must stop the fascist Von Max.
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ZX Spectrum
Jason's Gem is a computer game for the ZX Spectrum. It was published in 1985 by Mastertronic and written by Simon White. The hero Jason must make his way through a series of caves in search of the legendary gem of the title. The game begins
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Manfred Trenz · Amiga, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX
Throughout time, man has been a victim of his own intelligence and his insatiable thirst for knowledge. The Planet Katakis is a horrifying example. Scientists created Machines which became so sophisticated that they longer depended on man
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Atari exclusive
Atari 2600
Oink! is based on the fairy tale of the three little pigs. The big bad wolf is trying to blow down each of the pigs houses. You control each pig one at a time. The wolf is at the bottom of the screen and will blow a hole in the house one se
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Taito · Arcade, Famicom Disk System, Family Computer Disk System +2
Raimais is a maze chase arcade game released in April 1988 in Japan. The object of the game is to drive your vehicle around a maze in order to clear the maze of dots while avoiding the enemy. The game consists of 32 mazes total plus boss fi
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Interceptor Micros · Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, BBC Microcomputer System +4
Tomcat (also known as F14 Tomcat ) is a video game published in 1989 in the UK by Players Software. The game was released on the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Commodore 16, Plus/4, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum as a budget title.
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UPL · Arcade, Switch, PS4
Ark Area is a scrolling futuristic shoot 'em up arcade game released by UPL in 1987 in Japan only. You control a spacecraft and shoot enemies, collect power-ups, and defeat bosses to advance up to 23 levels. It is the sequel to the video ar
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ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC
The story has the solar system under threat from Myon invaders. MAT ("Mission: Alien Termination") is a teenager implanted with all the combined tactical skills of the planetary leaders. MAT pilots a prototype spacecraft, the USS Centurion,
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Atari exclusive
Atari 2600
Great Escape is a multidirectional shooter published for the Atari 2600 in 1983. It was produced by Bomb, a line of video games from developer Onbase Co. based out of Asia. It received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics, with reviewers
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Nintendo exclusive
Use Corporation · NES
Players get to dig up dirt beneath the surface, find keys behind four doors, and then find the door to the next level. The most obvious game to compare it to is Dig Dug, but without the boulders and with various devices like teleporting doo
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Dave Theurer · Arcade
The game play consists of moving robot1984 over all of the red tiles while avoiding objects flying at you from the back of the screen. Eliminating the red tiles diminishes the shield at the back of the playfield which prevents you from flyi
70 rating2 lists
Amiga, Atari 7800, Atari ST +2
Plutos is a long lost unreleased prototype developed by Tynesoft for the Atari 7800, and appears to be a loose port of the ST/Amiga game of the same name. The existence of Plutos has been known for some time, as a physical prototype has bee
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Nintendo R&D1 · Arcade
Space Firebird is a 1980 arcade game published by Gremlin Industries, Inc. It is a "slide and shoot" shooter, similar to titles such as Galaga.
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Arcade, Coleco Adam, ColecoVision
SubRoc 3-D is a shooter, where you look through a periscope and shoot at both sea and air-targets. The arcade version features 3-D effects.
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SCE Studio Liverpool · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +5
It's been a long watch... as the sun disappears over the horizon, the uninviting grey bleakness of Colian becomes apparent. Following the intense heat of the day, the onset of night adds the bitterness of sub-zero temperatures to an already
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Game Boy Advance, GameCube, PS2 +2
Based on the animated movie, The Ant Bully puts you in the role of Lucas, a 10-year old boy who passes his time by tormenting an ant hill. Before he knows it, the ants use a magic potion to shrink him down to their size. Then they put him t
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Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
The display is a third-person view showing the player's ATF, which remains stationary on screen as the scenery scrolls past it, which takes up most of the screen. A head-up display is superimposed on the main screen; this shows engine thrus
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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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Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Windows +1
The display is a third-person view showing the player's ATF, which remains stationary on screen as the scenery scrolls past it, which takes up most of the screen. A head-up display is superimposed on the main screen; this shows engine thrus
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Atari exclusive
Atari 2600
You are the Space Jockey, pilot of an attack saucer which is positioned on the left side of the screen and can move up and down. From the right side of the screen, a barrage of tanks, jet planes, prop planes and helicopters will fire upon a
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Nintendo console exclusive
Arcade, Switch
XX Mission, released in North America as Mission XX, is a 1986 scrolling shooter video game developed and published by UPL for arcades. It was released in Japan in September 1986 and in North America in 1987 by United Artists Theatres Amuse
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Apple II, Atari 8-bit
Aquatron is a side-scrolling shooter in which the player controls a spaceship over a planet completely covered with water. Unfortunately the planet is under attack and in each level, the player has to kill the steadily increasing opposition
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