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374 games like Astro Chase · 1979 – 2003

  • Atari exclusiveWhy 88Form.35World.50Curated1.00Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Starpath · Atari 2600

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterAliensAction

    Communist Mutants from Space was a video game created in 1982 by Starpath (formerly known as Arcadia) for the Atari 2600 home video game console and the Starpath Supercharger cassette accessory. Communist Mutants from Space is a typical 198

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  • Why 87Form.53World.65Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64 +3

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    In this game, you must guide your spaceship around while picking up hostages located on the surface, and bring them to safety. Your task becomes difficult by lunar leepers who leap up and try to grab you or the hostages that are picked up b

    64 rating2 listsOften paired

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  • Why 87Form.53World.71Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Menace

    1988

    Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +3

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    This is a pure arcade game- a fast action packed journey through six very different worlds where lightning fast reflexes and furious fire button action are your only hope of survival. Your mission orders are simple, you must destroy the pl

    1 listOften paired

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  • Why 86Form.51World.61Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Arcade, MSX

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    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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  • Atari console exclusiveWhy 86Form.53World.63Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    An excellent arcade-style shooter, Caverns of Mars is a downward-scrolling game where players must pilot their craft through a series of five underground levels filled with alien ships, narrow passageways and a variety of obstacles, includi

    3 listsOften paired

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  • Atari console exclusiveWhy 86Form.53World.50Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Taito · Arcade, Atari 2600

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    Here, you control a ship through a human's body while shooting viruses. It was licensed by Fox Video Games, as it is based on the 20th Century Fox film, Fantastic Voyage.

    2 listsOften paired

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  • Nintendo console exclusiveWhy 86Form.53World.50Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Taito · Arcade, FM-7, NEC PC-8800 series +5

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    A vertical scrolling space shooter.

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  • Atari exclusiveWhy 86Form.53World.51Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Atari 2600

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    Spider Fighter is a Space Invaders style game. It is your mission to prevent space spiders from stealing your food reserves which are located on the top right of the screen. The spiders hatch from cocoons which are dropped from the top left

    2 listsOften paired

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  • Atari exclusiveWhy 85Form.53World.42Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Atari 2600

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    A mothership drops aliens, up to three on screen at a time. There are ten per level. You must shoot them but avoid the items they fire at you. You fire by pushing up on the joystick. Pushing left or right makes you go left or right. If you

    1 listOften paired

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  • Sega console exclusiveWhy 85Form.51World.42Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Arcade, Master System, Sega Master System/Mark III

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    Thwart an underground invasion with your transforming weaponry. The ground is scarred by craters, a reminder of the recent Dalaus invasion. And continuous acid rains give the sky an eerie irridescence. You are the only Transbot pilot left f

    50 rating2 listsOften paired

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  • Why 84Form.53World.25Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    ABM

    1980

    Apple II

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    Missile Command clone for the Apple II.

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  • Nintendo console exclusiveWhy 84Form.51World.39Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Konami · Arcade, Nintendo Switch 2

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    This game has flavors of several different video games rolled into one. It is mostly like Xevious, being an overhead shooter against a plethora of enemies, each with a unique characteristic. Unlike Xevious, however, that only allowed you to

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  • Why 84Form.53World.25Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    ZX Spectrum

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    Side scrolling space shooter for the ZX Spectrum. Sequel to Sidewize

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  • Why 84Form.53World.25Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Fusion

    1988

    Bullfrog Productions · Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    Fusion is a scrolling multidirectional shooter developed by Bullfrog Productions and published by Electronic Arts in 1988 for the Atari ST and Amiga.

    2 listsOften paired

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  • Why 84Form.53World.25Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    The Regulus system has been attacked by alien forces, and you are the only Terran fighter in place to clear the area and rescue the captured hostages. The game is a vertically-scrolling shoot 'em up with 5 levels. The first of these involv

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  • Why 84Form.53World.25Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Odin Computer Graphics · Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    Sidewize is a horizontally scrolling shooter released by Firebird in 1987 for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum home computers. It was followed by a sequel, Crosswize.

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  • Why 84Form.53World.25Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    ADK · Arcade

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    A vertical-scrolling shoot-em-up where the player controls a plane flying over a landscape with no land-based enemies. Collect power-ups to upgrade your ship's speed, shot power and special weapon power selected at beginning of the stage. F

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  • Atari exclusiveWhy 84Form.53World.26Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Atari 2600

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    Horizontal space shooter

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  • Why 84Form.53World.25Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Tomcat

    1989

    Interceptor Micros · Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, BBC Microcomputer System +4

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    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.

    4 listsOften paired

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  • Why 83Form.51World.25Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Namco · Arcade, Switch, PS4 +1

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    Bakutotsu Kijuutei, also known by its longer title as Bakutotsu Kijuutei: Baraduke II, is a scrolling shooter arcade game that was released by Namco in 1988 only in Japan. As in the original game, the players again take control of Takky (Pl

    2 listsOften paired

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  • Why 83Form.59World.57Curated.68Lists.00Arcade · Shooter · Often paired

    Arcade

    ArcadeShooterSpaceActionScience fiction

    Space Lords is a video game released in arcades by Atari Games in 1992. It is a first-person perspective space combat video game which allows the player to fly in any direction.

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  • Nintendo console exclusiveWhy 83Form.46World.30Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Arcade, Switch

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    Defend your base against enemies.

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  • Atari exclusiveWhy 83Form.51World.25Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Atari 2600

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    You are on a moon-based scouting mission in a Mark 16 Starcruiser. Suddenly, enemy alien ships teleport in and start firing neutron missiles, which can destroy you upon impact. You must destroy enemy ships until reinforcements arrive from E

    1 listOften paired

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  • Atari console exclusiveWhy 83Form.39World.78Curated.76Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Exidy · Arcade, Atari 2600, Commodore 64

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    Star Fire is an early color game programmed by David Rolfe with graphics designed by Ted Michon and Susan Ogg. It was released by Exidy in 1979. Star Fire is a first-person space shooter where your mission is to seek out and destroy enemy s

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  • Why 82Form.35World.27Curated.86Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Magnavox Odyssey 2, Odyssey 2 / Videopac G7000

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    The player has just attracted the attention of Spyrus the Deathless, the Timelord of Chaos, and his only defense is his Time Machine's laser cannon. The Timelord will now send his fleet of Time Ships to destroy the player. In this space sh

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  • Atari console exclusiveWhy 82Form.34World.57Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Atari · Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, Atari XEGS +3

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    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

    4 listsOften paired

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  • Atari exclusiveWhy 82Form.16World.93Curated.86Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired · Described alike

    Atari 2600

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    In the game the player pilots a starfighter, with the purpose of destroying a number of enemy ships before they destroy four friendly starbases. Gameplay is presented mostly in first person cockpit view, which is achieved with surprisingly

    23 rating3 listsOften paired

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  • Why 81Form.34World.47Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shooter · Often paired

    A-Jax

    1987

    Konami · Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Commodore 64 +6

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionBird view / Isometric

    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

    68 rating2 listsOften paired

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  • Atari console exclusiveWhy 81Form.35World.45Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shooter · Often paired

    Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionSide view

    The thousand galaxies quake at the news: the Cryptic Computer, the galactic defense synthesizer which has maintained peace for the five centuries since the Wars on Zevon, has malfunctioned! Four Failsafe Detonators inside the Computer will

    65 rating1 listOften paired

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  • Why 81Form.29World.66Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore VIC-20 +1

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    Horizontal space shooter. You are a fighter pilot on several hazardous missions. In each level you have to fulfill one mission like bomb the radar, destroy the tank etc. The scenery as buildings and warehouses and airborne objects as jets a

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  • Atari exclusiveWhy 81Form.37World.43Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Imagic · Atari 2600

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    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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  • Why 81Form.35World.73Curated.76Lists.00Arcade · Shooter · Often paired

    MS-DOS, Windows

    ArcadeShooterSpaceActionScience fiction

    TerraFire is an award-winning arcade game featuring 3D-rendered graphics, realistic gravitational physics and 360 degree parallax scrolling. Blast your ship through heavily defended underground caverns, past wind tunnels, fire-walls and su

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  • Why 80Form.34World.37Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Freeverse · macOS

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    Join Lancer Squad, an elite unit of flight-capable troops, on their current mission to battle an extraterrestrial army set on taking control the universe's evil war machine. Active Lancer confronts you (and a companion if necessary) against

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  • Why 80Form.37World.28Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shooter · Often paired

    Apple II, Atari 8-bit

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionSide view

    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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  • NEC exclusiveWhy 80Form.37World.25Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shooter · Often paired

    NEC · TurboGrafx-16

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionSide view

    Deep Blue is a 1989 horizontally scrolling shooter video game developed by Hi-Score Media Work and published by Pack-In-Video for the TurboGrafx-16. The player controls a submersible fighter shaped as a freshwater angelfish that must fight

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  • Atari exclusiveWhy 80Form.37World.25Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shooter · Often paired

    Atari 2600

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionBird view / Isometric

    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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  • Why 80Form.37World.25Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shooter · Often paired

    Windows

    ArcadeShooterAliensActionScience fiction

    Prepare for one of the most action packed-shooters in PC gaming history! Every level is full of enemies and targets for you to destroy! You will become a soldier of the alien species and protect your home world from the forces of the Human

    50 rating1 list5 h main storyOften paired

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  • Why 80Form.35World.37Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shooter · Often paired

    Plutos

    1987

    Amiga, Atari 7800, Atari ST +2

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionBird view / Isometric

    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

    2 listsOften paired

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  • Atari console exclusiveWhy 80Form.26World.57Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shooter · Often paired

    Midway Games · Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 5200 +1

    ActionArcadeShooterScience fictionBird view / Isometric

    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.

    74 rating2 listsOften paired

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  • Why 80Form.37World.25Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shooter · Often paired

    Steel

    1988

    Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +1

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionSide view

    Steel is a science fiction shoot 'em up originally designed by Gari Biasillo for the Commodore 64, and later ported to 16-bit machines.

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  • Nintendo exclusiveWhy 80Form.53World.37Curated.68Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Hudson Soft · Virtual Boy

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    Pilot a Futuristic Star Fighter in a Battle for Mankind! GALACTIC YEAR 210. The earth and its colonies face annihilation in a futuristic war against the human race. YOU have been chosen to pilot RAGNAROK, a star fighter from an advanced al

    4 listsOften paired

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  • Why 80Form.27World.63Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Warp

    1989

    Thalion Software · Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    It is a sci-fi top-down shooter in which the player's main task is to destroy alien power bases that is threatening Earth. The game consists of 26 levels and the players are provided with two weapons.

    1 listOften paired

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  • Nintendo console exclusiveWhy 80Form.37World.25Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shooter · Often paired

    Arcade, Switch

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionBird view / Isometric

    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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  • Why 79Form.34World.25Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shooter · Often paired

    UPL · Arcade, Switch, PS4

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionBird view / Isometric

    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

    2 listsOften paired

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  • Timed NEC exclusiveWhy 79Form.53World.32Curated.66Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Irem · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade +8

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    It is your mission, 'Mr. Heli' our hero, to unmask 'The Muddy' who is hiding deep underground and rescue the planet. Clear all the zones including floating green islands, moving rock beds, mysterious underground temples, and much more! The

    3 listsOften paired

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  • Atari console exclusiveWhy 79Form.28World.45Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Cheshire Engineering · Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit +6

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    A web of iridescent blue beams engulfs Earth-Space. You stand watching. Mesmerized at first, you now realize the beams support weapons, frightening creations in different forms. Will you just watch or will you take action? Action??!! Then r

    59 rating7 listsOften paired

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  • Why 79Form.30World.44Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Shooter · Often paired

    BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Dragon 32/64 +2

    ActionArcadeShooterScience fictionSide view

    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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