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389 games like Atari 50 · 1980 – 1989

  • Atari console exclusiveWhy 94Form.82World.32Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · 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 93Form.77World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · 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 93Form.77World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · 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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  • Why 93Form.77World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · 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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  • Why 91Form.59World.28Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    Electronic Arts · Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64 +2

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionTube shooter

    Tempest clone

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  • Why 91Form.60World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    Arcade, MSX

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionSide view

    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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  • Why 91Form.61World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · 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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  • Atari exclusiveWhy 91Form.58World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · 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 91Form.64World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · 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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  • Why 91Form.64World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    Nintendo R&D1 · Arcade

    ShooterArcadeActionScience fictionBird view / Isometric

    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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  • Sega console exclusiveWhy 91Form.59World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    Sega Enterprises, Inc. · Arcade, MSX, SG-1000

    ShooterArcadeActionScience fictionThird person

    Zoom 909 is an arcade game developed by Sega for VCO Object arcade hardware. It was released worldwide in 1982, however after obtaining a license for Buck Rogers, western versions of the game became known as Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom. Bot

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  • Why 90Form.55World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    Dragon 32/64, TRS-80 Color Computer, ZX Spectrum

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionFirst person

    3D Space Wars is an action game for both the ZX Spectrum and the Dragon 32/64

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  • Why 90Form.53World.29Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    A-Jax

    1987

    Konami · Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Commodore 64 +6

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionThird person

    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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  • Why 90Form.54World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    ABM

    1980

    Apple II

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionSide view

    Missile Command clone for the Apple II.

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  • Why 90Form.53World.29Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    Ajax

    1987

    Konami · Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Commodore C64/128/MAX +3

    ShooterArcadeActionScience fictionThird person

    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 rating1 listOften paired

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  • Why 90Form.53World.26Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    UPL · Arcade, Switch, PS4

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionThird person

    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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  • Atari exclusiveWhy 90Form.54World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    Atari 2600

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionSide view

    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

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  • Atari console exclusiveWhy 90Form.54World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionSide view

    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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  • Why 90Form.54World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    ZX Spectrum

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionSide view

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

    1 listOften paired

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  • Atari console exclusiveWhy 90Form.54World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    Taito · Arcade, Atari 2600

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionSide view

    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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  • Why 90Form.54World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

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

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionSide view

    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 90Form.54World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    Menace

    1988

    Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +3

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionSide view

    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

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  • Timed NEC exclusiveWhy 90Form.82World.17Curated.82Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    Irem · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade +5

    ShooterArcadeActionScience fictionSide view

    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

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  • Why 90Form.54World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

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

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionSide view

    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.

    1 listOften paired

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  • Why 90Form.52World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    Nintendo Research & Development 1 · Arcade, Zilog Z80

    ActionArcadeShooterScience fictionBird view / Isometric

    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.

    1 listOften paired

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  • Atari exclusiveWhy 90Form.54World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    Atari 2600

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionSide view

    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 90Form.54World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    Atari 2600

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionSide view

    Horizontal space shooter

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  • Sega console exclusiveWhy 90Form.52World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    Arcade, Master System, Sega Master System/Mark III

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionSide view

    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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  • Atari console exclusiveWhy 90Form.47World.27Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    Arcade, Atari Lynx

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionScience

    Turbo Sub released in 1985 as an arcade shooter game by Entertainment Sciences. Then later in 1991 for the Atari Lynx. The arcade version was a one player game set in the future where you control a submersible ship against a horde of aliens

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  • Why 89Form.46World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    Accolade · Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum

    ActionArcadeShooterScience fictionBird view / Isometric

    Critical Mass is an action puzzle game that takes traditional match 3 and brings it into the world of 3D.

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  • Why 89Form.77World.18Curated.82Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionSide view

    A fanatical sect has changed mankind's future by summoning a previously extinct primeval entity in our past. You, a sole survivor of the once elite 'time corps' have been chosen by the federation of law and order to combat the entity in thr

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  • Atari console exclusiveWhy 89Form.46World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    Arcade, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit

    ActionArcadeShooterScience fictionBird view / Isometric

    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 exclusiveWhy 89Form.48World.32Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    Starpath · Atari 2600

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionSimulation

    Defeat the Dracon Armada in challenging, realistic battle action. Featuring a real-time clock, energy indicator, Alien proximity indicator, torpedo status indicator, combat-range scanner, torpedo target-lock, Dracon fighter ships, shield st

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  • Nintendo console exclusiveWhy 89Form.47World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    Arcade, Switch

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionSide view

    Defend your base against enemies.

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  • Atari exclusiveWhy 89Form.47World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    Atari 2600

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionShoot 'em up

    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

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  • Why 88Form.42World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    A&F Software · Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionScience

    My Great-Great-Grandfather was a Battle of Britain pilot, or so my father told me when I explained to him that I wanted to join the Intergalactic Agricultural Research Establishment. "Let's hope that some of his flying skills are still pr

    2 listsOften paired

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  • Why 88Form.41World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    Fusion

    1988

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

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionShoot 'em up

    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 88Form.41World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

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

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionShoot 'em up

    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

    1 listOften paired

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  • Why 88Form.41World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    ADK · Arcade

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionShoot 'em up

    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

    1 listOften paired

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  • Atari console exclusiveWhy 88Form.41World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

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

    ActionArcadeShooterScience fictionPuzzle

    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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  • Nintendo console exclusiveWhy 88Form.41World.31Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

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

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionShoot 'em up

    A vertical scrolling space shooter.

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  • Why 88Form.41World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    Tomcat

    1989

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

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionShoot 'em up

    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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  • Why 87Form.38World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    ZX Spectrum

    ActionArcadeShooterScience fictionAction-adventure

    Denizen is an action computer game published by Players Software in 1988 for the ZX Spectrum.

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  • Atari exclusiveWhy 87Form.37World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    Spectravideo · Atari 2600

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionScrolling shooter

    In Planet Patrol it is your misssion to destroy fuel depots of the enemy. You are flying from right to left while dodging oncoming missiles and shooting down enemy ships. In order to replenish your fuel you firstly have to fly into a black

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  • Why 87Form.36World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    Slayer

    1988

    Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +1

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionSide view

    Slayer is a horizontally scrolling shooter developed by Imperial Software for the Amiga, Atari ST, and Commodore 64. Hewson Consultants published the game in 1988. The game consists of three levels, each with a boss which must be defeated a

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  • Atari exclusiveWhy 87Form.39World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    Imagic · Atari 2600

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionScience

    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 87Form.36World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Shooter · Arcade · Often paired

    Arcade, Coleco Adam, ColecoVision

    ActionArcadeShooterScience fictionFirst-person shooter

    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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