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395 games like Cavern Creatures · 1979 – 2023
Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX +3
Fly a helicopter into hostile territory to rescue hostages and make some money on the side. The places the player can choose to fly into are Guatemara (Engrish for Guatemala), Cuba, and Panama. Missions are broken down into three different
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Graeme Devine · ZX Spectrum
Firebirds is based on the the arcade game Phoenix. Your goal is to repel an invasion of an alien species related to birds. You command an armed spaceship which you can manoeuvre with right and left directions. In each level you have to dest
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Microdeal · Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE
A vertically scrolling shoot'em up designed by Steve Bak.
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FTL Games · Atari ST, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
Rescue the OIDS from the Fiendish Biocretes who are turning them into vending machines and household appliances! Fuel your ship, charge your shields, and blast off to adventure as you challenge planetoid after planetoid of devious gravity t
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SNK · Arcade
Zarzon is a 1981 shoot 'em up arcade video game, inspired by gameplay from Space Invaders.
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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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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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TurboGrafx-16, Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD, Wii +1
Image Fight II Operation Deepstriker is a vertical shooter by Irem and sequel of the arcade game Image Fight originally released in 1988 (and ported to the PC Engine in 1990). Humanity tries to rebuild itself from the aftermath of the first
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Vid Kidz · Apple II, Arcade, Atari 2600 +5
Arcade shooter where you protect humans from being captured by aliens. Created by Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar, it is a sequel to Defender which was released earlier in the year. Some home ports of Stargate were renamed to Defender II for
43 rating8 listsOften paired
Sierra On-Line · Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX +3
Fly a helicopter into hostile territory to rescue hostages and make some money on the side. The places the player can choose to fly into are Guatemara (Engrish for Guatemala), Cuba, and Panama. Missions are broken down into three different
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Nintendo console exclusive
UPL · Arcade, Switch
Nova 2001 is an arcade shooter released by Universal in 1984.
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Atari console exclusive
Cheshire Engineering · Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit, Intellivision
"Oh dear." The scene: Space. The cosmic edge. Never deeper, never darker. The Home Team: A Stargate. A squadron of Hyperfighters. A glittering, pulsating sea of unstable energy. (Please--no quick or sudden movements.) The Challengers: Dread
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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
2 lists1 h main storyOften paired
Nintendo console exclusiveAmstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +2
It is the sequel to Crazy Comets. The game involves repetitively shooting planets and moons as they grow in size and threaten to collide with the player's space ship. The game is noted for its Rob Hubbard music, fast paced action and 2 play
80 rating2 listsOften paired
Atari console exclusive
Imagic · Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64 +11
Demon Attack is an arcade action game with gameplay similar to Space Invaders. You control a laser cannon at the bottom of the screen, and need to destroy wave after wave of brightly colored demons. The demons bounce around the screen in bi
62 rating6 listsOften paired
Konami · Arcade, ZX Spectrum
The player controls a small spaceship is at the bottom of the screen. Like most Space Invaders-type games of the period, the ship can move left and right (but not up or down), and can fire one bullet at a time. The ship may not fire again u
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Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Coleco Adam +5
A.E. is an arcade style shooting game in which you have to shoot down waves of evil flying mechanical stingrays in order to save your planet.
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Atari Games · Arcade
Liberator is commonly described as the opposite of Missile Command. The objective of Missile Command is to defend your bases from a space-based attack. Liberator's objective is the exact opposite, destroy enemy bases as you orbit their plan
56 rating1 listOften paired
Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
A horizontal scrolling shoot'em up based on the arcade classic game Defender that was published by Adventure International for several platforms.
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PlayStation console exclusivePlaylogic Entertainment · PS2, PlayStation Portable, Windows
The player takes the role of Drake, an executioner who has to blast his way through a myriad of tunnels populated with the worst enemies ever imaginable at incredible velocities in order to escort the dreadful witch Aguira to the Maelstrom.
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Commodore C64/128/MAX, MS-DOS, Windows +1
Sky Runner is a shoot'em up developed by Cascade Games. A Skimmer or a Skybike has to be flown over the surface of the fictional planet Naibmoloc and defence towers, armed enemy bikers and the Sky(a new drug)-producing harvesters have to be
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Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, BBC Microcomputer System
The player assumes the role of captain of a battle starship, charged with defending the frontiers of space from hostile alien ships, which come in two sizes — large and small. The larger ships have cloaking devices which make them invisible
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Atari console exclusive
Data East · Arcade, Atari 7800
The game of Astro Fighter consists of 4 waves and a refueling stage, which are then repeated with increasingly higher difficulty. The player's task is to eliminate the four successive waves of different types of attacking craft, while avoid
70 rating1 listOften paired
Nintendo console exclusive
Shin'en Multimedia · Game Boy Advance, Windows
Be the new saviour as the Iridion force strikes back! A century has passed since the Iridion Empire was defeated. Humans have populated the old Iridion galaxy giving mankind freedom and peace. Suddenly, all communications with the human out
82 rating1 list1.5 h main storyOften paired
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
61 rating3 listsOften paired
Irem · Arcade, Switch, PlayStation +3
In the Hunt is a horizontal scrolling shooter arcade game by Irem. It was released in 1993 and later ported to the Sega Saturn, the PlayStation and Windows 95 for the PC by Kokopeli.
55 rating4 lists30 h main storyOften paired
Nintendo Research & Development 1 · Arcade
Shoot aliens as they move across the screen. Shoot the spaceship for extra points. Choose one of three games. Space Fever is a 1979 arcade game by Nintendo R&D2. Some sources claim that Ikegami Tsushinki also did design work on Space Fever
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Jeff Minter · Switch, PS4, Windows +1
In Tempest 4000, players are once again in control of the Claw, a powerful spacecraft equipped to destroy deadly creatures and other obstructions with rapid-fire shots on vibrant geometric prisms. With three game modes to choose from and 10
64 rating4 lists6.5 h main storyOften paired
Mattel Electronics · Intellivision
Imagine a hunter, alone in Deep Space. You control his movements. He's armed with a "gas blaster." His prime target is the white Space Hawk. If a Hawk, deadly gas bubbles, comets or amoebas touch the hunter, he tumbles into infinity! There
58 rating1 listOften paired
TRS-80, TRS-80 Color Computer, Vectrex +2
In the arcade game Tempest, players controlled a blaster that could move around the outermost lanes of a bunch of geometrically-shaped levels and fire at ships that emerged from the middle or innermost areas of those levels. Bedlam, howeve
80 rating4 listsOften paired
Jeff Minter · Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Commodore VIC-20 +3
Gridrunner is a lot like Atari's arcade classic, Centipede.
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Jukka Tapanimäki · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +5
Netherworld is a shoot 'em up video game published by Hewson in 1988. It was originally developed by Jukka Tapanimäki for the Commodore 64, and original music was composed by Jori Olkkonen.
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Nintendo console exclusive
Arcade, SNES
The player is set in control of The Garland TFF-01, a sub-standard space fighter ship that is only armed with a semi-auto or rapid fire laser gun known as the Beam Vulcan and the Tranquilander. Some enemy units can be captured and used in p
60 rating1 listOften paired
Xbox exclusive
Treasure · Xbox 360
Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury is an innovative and insanely addicting arcade shooter combined with puzzle elements that features a sensory overload of thousands of missiles and more than 100 levels! Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury allows players to u
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Atari console exclusive
Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit
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
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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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Mattel Electronics · Atari 2600, Intellivision, Legacy Mobile Device +3
In Astrosmash you control a laser canon at the bottom of the screen; your goal is to earn as many points as possible by destroying the various incoming meteors, bombs, and other objects. Points are earned for destroying objects, while point
79 rating4 listsOften paired
PlayStation exclusive
Granzella · PS5
R-Type Final 3 Evolved serves simultaneously as a sequel to R-Type Final 2, offering a whole new 7-stage campaign made in the engine of Final 2, whilst also serving as a compilation of most of content released for R-Type Final 2. Additiona
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Capcom · Arcade, Famicom Disk System, NES +1
Section-Z is a side-view shoot-'em-up by Capcom originally released as a coin-operated video game in 1985. A home version was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987. The original coin-op game is included in Capcom Classics C
70 rating3 listsOften paired
Nintendo console exclusive
Konami · Arcade, Switch
Xexex is a 1991 side-scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game by Konami released in Japan. It draws on Irem's R-Type and Konami's other shoot 'em up Gradius, while adding the tentacle mechanics of Irem's other shoot 'em up XMultiply. In the game
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Nintendo console exclusive
Data East · Arcade, NES
Battle Wings, known in Japan either as B-Wing (ビー・ウィング) or B-Wings (ビー・ウィングズ), is a vertically scrolling shooter first released as an arcade game by Data East in 1984. The game was ported by Data East to the Family Computer in 1986, and was
70 rating1 listOften paired
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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Nintendo console exclusiveAtlus · Arcade, SNES
The player is set in control of The Garland TFF-01, a sub-standard space fighter ship that is only armed with a semi-auto or rapid fire laser gun known as the Beam Vulcan and the Tranquilander. Some enemy units can be captured and used in p
60 rating1 listOften paired
Atari console exclusive
Arcade, Atari 2600, ColecoVision +2
The goal of the game is to shoot at targets, while carefully avoiding running out of bullets. Three rows of targets scroll across the screen in alternating directions; these include rabbits, ducks, owls, and bonus items. If a duck target cr
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Atari console exclusive
Taito · Arcade, Atari 2600
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.
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Atari console exclusive
Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit
In Megamania, the gameplay resembles that of Space Invaders. Rather than being aliens or spaceships, however, the enemies in this game are various objects such as hamburgers, bow ties, and steam irons. The object is to shoot them down befor
70 rating3 listsOften paired
GCE · Vectrex
The game begins with a large enemy ship dropping mines onto the field as an ominous jingle plays, and moves from the top to the bottom of the screen, where it disappears. The player's ship starts in the middle of the field with 5 lives. Num
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Durell Software · Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
A horizontal scrolling shoot'em up written by Gavin Raeburn and published by The Power House for the Commodore 64.
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