

Dark Star
1984Amstrad CPC, Dragon 32/64, TRS-80 Color Computer +1
You destroy enemy bases, ships and spaceports on your mission to liberate the galaxy.
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498 games like Battle Squadron · 1979 – 2025


Amstrad CPC, Dragon 32/64, TRS-80 Color Computer +1
You destroy enemy bases, ships and spaceports on your mission to liberate the galaxy.
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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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Sega console exclusive
Technosoft · Arcade, Sega Saturn
Hyper Duel is an Action game, developed and published by TechnoSoft, which was released in Japan in 1996.
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Atari exclusive
Atari 2600
Oystron is an action game in which the player controls a ship using the joystick controller, firing at enemies and collecting pearls dropped by "space oysters". The player's ship initially appears on the left side of the screen, and enemies
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Sega console exclusive
Thalamus 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
70 rating1 listOften paired


Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE
Simulcra is a 1990 computer game for the Amiga and Atari ST developed by Graftgold published by MicroStyle. A 3D polygonal third-person shooter, the player controls an attack craft which can switch between ground-based and aerial attack mod
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PlayStation exclusive
Crystal Dynamics · 3DO, 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, PlayStation
It's the Earth's Stellar Guard against the alien Drak-sai. Now's the time to strap in and set the skies on fire! Blistering bombs explode; shields buckle but hold. Your reflexes better be faster than theirs; 'cause there's trouble over ever
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Thalion Software · Amiga, Atari ST
A top down run and gun shooter for Atari ST and Amiga. The game consists of eight levels restricted by a time limit.
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Atari exclusive
APh Technological Consulting · Intellivision, Atari 2600
Space Battle is a one-player game that pits you against the computer. Six alien fleets of different sizes are attacking your mothership, and it's up to you to defend it using your three squadrons. Alien ships will dodge your attacks and wi
68 rating1 listOften paired


Game Boy Color, PlayStation, Windows
Galaga, the "slide-and-shoot" arcade classic from 1981, has been updated with nine new worlds, 3D graphics, futuristic backgrounds and more in GALAGA -- Destination: Earth. Like in the original game, you begin this enhanced version of Gala
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Amiga
Datastorm is a horizontally scrolling shooter for the Amiga published by Visionary Design in 1989. Written by Søren Grønbech, it was inspired by the Defender arcade video game and the Defender-like Dropzone originally released for Atari 8-b
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The Bitmap Brothers · Amiga, Amiga 1200, Amiga CD32
The Chaos Engine 2 is the sequel to The Chaos Engine. The Chaos Engine 2 is a top-down action game like its predecessor, but is this time always a split-screen two-player game. The characters "Thug" and "Preacher" have been cut for this seq
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Gaelco · Arcade
Alligator Hunt is a shoot 'em up arcade game released by Spanish company Gaelco in 1994. Reptilian-looking aliens are invading earth and is up to the bravest soldiers (skateboarding kids!) to stop the invasion and destroy the enemy base. F
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PlayStation exclusive
PlayStation
A ground-based shoot-em-up by design, the game employs the use of jumping, banking, and strafing as you move forward through 3D tube-like levels. The game is seem from a third-person perspective behind the ship. Some areas place you outside
80 rating1 listOften paired


Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
Panther is a Commodore 64 game designed and implemented by Peter Adams and published by Mastertronic in 1986. A version for Atari 8-bit computers followed in 1987, then a ZX Spectrum port in 1989. The player pilots a strange-looking aircraf
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Sega console exclusive
Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade +7
SDI: Strategic Defense Initiative, or simply titled SDI and sometimes known as Global Defense. Players control a satellite and must destroy enemies by moving a crosshair over them and firing the satellite's weapons.
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Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore PET +5
Voyager is a first-person action game that challenges the player to explore the levels of an alien spacecraft's maze. The environments consist of corridors and rooms done with 3D vector graphics. The protagonist has to evade robots programm
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Linel · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +4
A fast based vertical scrolling shooter written by John Phillips, the man behind Nebulus (also known as Tower Toppler).
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Binary Design · Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
The player must destroy the reactors on the island by dropping grenades on them. The reactors are defended by laser gun towers which can be temporarily disabled by disrupting their control towers. The player's character rides a machine w
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Nintendo exclusive
Mobile21 · Game Boy Advance
Gradius Galaxies is a horizontally-scrolling shooter handheld video game released for the Game Boy Advance. This is the only Gradius title available for the system.
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PlayStation console exclusive
CAVE · Arcade, PS2
Ibara is a vertical scrolling shoot 'em up. The back story revolves around a group of sisters, led by Professor Teresa Rose, who want to destroy all technological progress in the land of Edelweiss, essentially turning it into a rose garden.
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Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
Magnetron is a 1988 video game published by Broderbund.
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Namco · Arcade, Switch, PS4 +1
Burning Force is a 1989 third-person shooter arcade game developed and published by Namco. The game is notable for its extensive use of line scrolling to create the illusion of a three-dimensional playfield and for its lighthearted tone and
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PS3, Xbox 360
Rocketmen: Axis of Evil is a downloadable top-down shooter developed by A.C.R.O.N.Y.M. Games, Eyerisk Studios and published by Capcom for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game is based on the constructible strategy game called Rocketmen
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Atari exclusive
Ken Grant · Atari 7800
Alien Brigade is a side scrolling shooter similar to Operation Wolf. Aliens have arrived on earth and have brainwashed both soldiers and civilians in order to take over the world. Your job is to stop them! On each of the five levels you wil
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Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE
"Whether you liked or loathed Defender, you'll love Anarchy. The speed at which the screen scrolls is frightening, the number of aliens, bullets and other miscellaneous objects that are animated simultaneously is absolutely remarkable. Anar
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Atari ST, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX
The aim of Armalyte is to progress to the end of a long, horizontally-scrolling level where the screen will cease scrolling and battle will commence with a Boss. Beating the Boss allows the player to progress to the next level. There are ei
80 rating1 listOften paired


ZX Spectrum
Earthlight is a shooter featuring parallax scrolling and shadow effects, a novelty for the Spectrum.
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Vortex Software · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +4
A diagonally scrolling shoot 'em up by Vortex Software and Gremlin.
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Windows
La Quimera is a story-driven FPS set in dystopian future Latin America. In a fractured world where microstates rely on mercenary forces, you are an operative caught in a web of lies and deception. Play alone or with up to two friends geared
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PlayStation exclusive
Sandlot · PS2
Monster Attack is a third-person action shooter and the first game in the Chikyuu Boueigun / Earth Defense Force series. The player takes the role of an EDF (Earth Defence Force) infantry man to single handily battle hordes of giant bugs, r
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Graftgold · ZX Spectrum
ZX spectrum version of the popular Commodore game "Paradroid." Updated with 3D isometric levels.
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Taldren · Xbox, Windows, PS2
Black 9 is a third person shooter that takes place in the year 2080 where Earth is full of crime, chaos, and despair. The Illuminati, the most powerful of the cartels, have decided to assert their dominance by eliminating the competition. N
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Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
The player must destroy the reactors on the island by dropping grenades on them. The reactors are defended by laser gun towers which can be temporarily disabled by disrupting their control towers. The player's character rides a machine w
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Atari ST, Atari ST/STE
Phoenix is a single-player first-person space flight shooter released in 1987 by ERE Informatique for the Atari ST. It was later published by Infogrames for the British market. The gameplay consists of piloting a spaceship across hyperspace
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PlayStation exclusive
FromSoftware · PS2, PlayStation Portable
Explorers have uncovered a previously unknown megacity that is well protected from scouting incursions. When all attempts at penetrating the border are met with destruction, the call goes out to the Ravens, a team of mercenaries hired by th
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PlayStation console exclusive
PlayStation, Windows
SlamScape is a 3D shooting game set in a surreal world of bomb-throwing ferris wheels, deadly teddy bears, exploding balloons, bottled brains on unicycles and a Scary-Go-Round, a spinning seagull named Gullicopter, a monstrous creation call
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ZX Spectrum, MSX, Amstrad CPC
Terminus, also known as Terminus: The Prison Planet or Terminus: Prison Planet, is a platform game by Mastertronic released in 1986 for the ZX Spectrum, MSX, and Amstrad CPC. The game is set inside a futuristic prison consisting of 512 scre
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NEC exclusive
TurboGrafx-16, Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD
You swore bloody vengeance when ZOD blew your satellite crew to shreds. Now it's payback time! Your New Age Power Suits turn each member of your elite force into a walking arsenal of destruction, each with it's own awesome fighting power. B
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Windows
Fly a spaceship around pre-arranged paths to enter areas where you dismount and take on aliens in a first person shooter using weapons based on ice and fire.
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Amiga, Arcade, Atari ST +4
A 1-on-1 3-D shoot-em'-up in which one or two players drive battlespheres (futuristic tanks) up an infinitely long road and destroy oncoming hazards. The action is very simplistic and there's little to do other than dodge or blast approachi
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Magnavox Odyssey 2, Odyssey 2 / Videopac G7000
Space invaders type game for the Odyssey 2. When your ship was hit you continued as as a guy and could convert one of the shields into another ship.
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Sega exclusive
Metro3D · Dreamcast
Battle an ever growing alien threat while upgrading your ship and traveling to different planets to take on trade missions and tactical assaults. An early top down, free moving Dreamcast shooter.
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PlayStation exclusive
Konami · PS3
Coded Arms: Assault was a first-person shooter for the PlayStation 3 which Konami was developing intended to be a sequel of Coded Arms for the PSP. It was rumored somewhere in 2007 that the game was canceled, but that wasn't confirmed until
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Sega console exclusive
Sega Wow · Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Sega Master System/Mark III
CAUTION: FOUR MEGA POWER! Not double, not triple, but FOUR times the playing power of a regular cartidge. You get the hottest space combat, the baddest explosions, and the coolest sounds ever! Journey to four different planets, each with st
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Atari exclusive
Atari Corporation · Atari 7800
Planet Smashers finally delivered an original 2D Shooter to the Pro System late in its life. Your spaceship, which oddly looks like an airplane, has the grave task of defending Earth from an alien armada. Planet Smashers has some nice featu
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Amstrad CPC, Dragon 32/64, TRS-80 Color Computer +1
"This is probably the best version yet of the well known arcade original ‘Battle Zone’ and is, of course, similar to Artic’s ‘3D Combat Zone’. In one sense it’s much better — the flat plain is well landscaped and teeming with buildings, rad
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