PlayStation exclusive
Ape Escape (PS3)
2010Japan Studio · PS3
It's time for some monkey business on PlayStation 3!
30 rating1 listOften paired


Alike
1991 · Krome Studios Melbourne · Shoot 'em up, Shooter · Open the game page →
Steer by what it is tap once for more of it, twice for none of it
262 games like Choplifter II · 1979 – 2024
PlayStation exclusive
Japan Studio · PS3
It's time for some monkey business on PlayStation 3!
30 rating1 listOften paired


Yuke's · PS4, Windows, PS5 +1
Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2 tells the story of what happened to the voxel Earth after the events of the first installment. It cleverly introduces elements from Earth Defense Force 6 and features the Wing Diver Shooter, who didn’t
86 rating1 listOften paired
PlayStation exclusive
Racjin · PlayStation
The purpose of the game to run around various levels and to set traps, which are invisible to your opponent. Players can shoot at one another while setting traps. Each character has a different melee weapon with unique attributes.
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Timed Sega exclusive
Sculptured Software · Game Boy, SNES, Sega Genesis
seaQuest DSV is a real-time simulator/strategy game depiction of the seaQuest DSV television series for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. The player takes the role of the captain of the submarine seaQuest
51 rating4 listsOften paired
Sega exclusive
Samsung Group · Sega Genesis
Uzu Keobukseon is a vertical scrolling shooter, released only in Korea. Players controlled the title ship, a purple and gold space-age battle cruiser designed as a turtle ship, complete with sails and oars, in eight various stages.
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Sega exclusive
Tokai Communications · Sega Genesis
Battle Mania Daiginjou is a shoot 'em up developed and published by VIC Tokai in 1993 for the Sega Mega Drive exclusively in Japan and South Korea. It is the sequel to Battle Mania (which was released in the US as Trouble Shooter).
79 rating1 list
Nintendo console exclusive
Switch, Windows
Welcome to Shooter's paradise. Telenet Japan Wolf Team's greatest hits return!
76 rating1 list
Nintendo exclusive
Game Boy
The Punisher: The Ultimate Payback is an Action game, developed by Beam Software and published by Acclaim, which was released in 1991.
63 rating1 list


Windows, ZX Spectrum
The object of the game is to protect a series of refugees from enemy aircraft, tanks and submarines. The player's view consists of a crosshairs upon a simple ground and sky horizon, with an altimeter, a shield indicator and a radar. Refugee
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Nintendo console exclusive
Namco · Arcade, Switch
NebulasRay (ネビュラスレイ Nebyurasurei?) is a vertical scrolling shooter arcade game that was released by Namco in 1994 (but was first referred to, in the Katakana syllabic writing system of the Japanese language, in the ending for Tinkle Pit in
2 lists
PlayStation exclusive
SCE Japan Studio · PS3
It's time for some monkey business on PlayStation 3!
30 rating1 listOften paired


Windows
Silica is a crossover of FPS and RTS where up to 3 factions battle for control over the planet of Baltarus. Lead from above as commander, or experience the action first-hand, either alone, or with friends. Join one of two human armies, or h
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Xbox exclusive
Playlogic Entertainment · Xbox
Xyanide is a shoot 'em up video game for the Xbox in 2006. It was developed by Playlogic Entertainment and published by Evolved Games, after being originally developed by Engine Software for the Game Boy Advance. A sequel titled Xyanide: Re
60 rating1 list


Arcade
With a spaceship, the player shoots several kind of robotic enemies and spaceships. At the end of every stage (except for the first one), the player meets a huge enemy spaceship as the stage's boss. Player's spaceship is equipped with a lim
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Windows
Muzzle Velocity is a computer wargame released by Digi4fun in 1997. The program is a hybrid of standard two-dimension map-based tactical gaming, and first-person action. It is set in World War II. The game was developed by Code Fusion and
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Atari console exclusive
Midway Games · Arcade, Atari 7800, MS-DOS
Sarge is a top-down shooter. The goal is to stop the invading terrorists by controlling a tank and a helicopter. All enemy forces must be destroyed in each level. Two-player mode facilitates gameplay by adding two more units on the battlefi
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PlayStation exclusive
Square Enix · PS4, PS5
A 4v4 online party shooter from Square Enix that has you battling to foam as much of the city as you can while avoiding your opponents traps and weapons. Use foam to build terrain, creating slippery surfaces to surf around the arena at hig
51 rating1 listOften paired
PlayStation exclusive
Cavia · PS2
Based on the anime series of the same name, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is a fast-action third-person shooter for up to four players. As "Major" Motoko Kusanagi, Batou, and Tachikoma, you can engage enemies in both multiplayer c
73 rating1 listOften paired
Sega exclusive
Game Gear, Master System, Sega Master System/Mark III
A sidescrolling shooter in which you fight your way through 5 missions, each with a boss to defeat at the end. Along the way you find Power-Ups to help your odds either by improving your weapon or speed. Three difficulty levels are availabl
3 lists


Mattel Electronics · Intellivision
Terrorist forces have taken over the island city of New Seeburg. They are equipped with heavily armed combat helicopters, so the only way to fight'em is in the air. The player drives the top secret JAF-3000 helicopter, and must blow up enem
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Sega exclusive
Technosoft · Sega Genesis
Gyra has usurped the throne, and his minions are pillaging and plundering throughout the countryside. The kingdom is doomed unless someone can stop this madness and restore order to the land. You are the ELEMENTAL MASTER, and you're the onl
60 rating1 list


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
3 lists
PlayStation console exclusive
Triangle Service · Arcade, PS2, R3000 +1
A space shooter with vertically scrolling stages. Based on the arcade version.
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Nintendo exclusive
Game Boy Color
When a vicious crew of aliens decides to hone in on Earth and do some damage, you're the planet's only hope for salvation. You'd better be in top form as you command a killer spacecraft out into orbit in hopes of rescuing humanity from unth
1 list
Nintendo console exclusive
Raw Thrills · Arcade, Wii
Terror puts you in the place of an elite anti-terrorist agent who is charged with protecting the U.S. from all terrorist activities. With a full scale assault spanning the entire U.S., this is your chance to show terrorists who is in charge
27 rating2 listsOften paired
Nintendo console exclusive
Tecmo · Arcade, Switch
The gameplay of Final Star Force goes back to the formula of the original Star Force, but with updated graphics and some extra power-ups. Other things that have been changed from the original are the style of the title screen's logo, the ba
1 list
Nintendo exclusive
NES
The most happening place in the universe is the trendy, upscale solar system of IOTA Synthetica, part of the Galactic Federation of artificial stars. It's as far from dirty old Earth as can be... But don't sign up to go yet! A strange cosmi
68 rating1 list


3DO, 3DO Interactive Multiplayer
Scramble Cobra is a 3-D helicopter action game, where the player takes command of a Cobra helicopter gunship, flying through various battlefields, using their Vulcan machine guns and hydra rockets to destroy enemy tanks, helicopters and oth
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Xbox exclusive
Triangle Service · Xbox 360
The historic success story of the arcades! Introducing the "Shmups Skill Test", a way to evalute your skills as a "gamer age". The high brow style of "EXZEAL", with 4 types of craft to choose from. The classic style of "TRIZEAL Remix", wher
63 rating3 lists
Sega exclusive
Technosoft · Sega Genesis
Thunder Force III is a scrolling shooter game developed by Technosoft. It is the third chapter in the Thunder Force series. It was released in 1990 in Japan, Europe and the United States for the Sega Genesis. During the same year, it was re
73 rating1 list
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 list


Capcom · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade +7
Forerunner to Forgotten Worlds. The control method allows you use the fire buttons to shoot in opposite directions, defending yourself from attacks from the rear. The power ups are selectable and if you collect an alpha symbol you combine w
69 rating2 lists
PlayStation exclusive
SNK · PlayStation Portable
10 great SNK heroes and heroines have left their worlds to answer Dr. Brown Sugar's "call for peace". Now, head to the skies to save the world from the threat of "THE DAMNED", an evil organization which plots to use a time machine for its m
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SNK · Arcade
Zarzon is a 1981 shoot 'em up arcade video game, inspired by gameplay from Space Invaders.
1 list


Psikyo · Arcade
In the future date of 2016, worldwide martial law is initiated when a widespread terrorist organization overthrew and took control of the world's military authorities. A group of ace helicopter pilots are secretly amassed in a special force
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Atari exclusive
APh Technological Consulting · Atari 2600, Intellivision
You are on a dangerous tank mission. To reach and destroy your assigned target, you must maneuver through a field filled with enemy mines. Although these are hidden, the mine detection equipment in your tank warns you of their presence by p
55 rating1 list


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
1 list


Microdeal · Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE
A vertically scrolling shoot'em up designed by Steve Bak.
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Denton Designs · Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
Earth has been invaded by extraterrestrial shapechanging robots which have made our planet their battleground. The struggle between the good Autobots and the evil Decepticons centers around energy as the objective is to collect four pieces
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Apple II
The player controls a small craft, navigating it through a series of winding caverns and tunnels while shooting or avoiding obstacles. The caverns scroll from the bottom of the screen to the top at a fixed speed, so the player must always m
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Sunsoft · Arcade, Game Gear, MSX +3
Originally titled "Fantasy Zone Gear: Opa Opa Jr. no Bōken", this game is technically a sequel to the first Fantasy Zone, but got released under the same name outside of Japan. Like the other Fantasy Zone titles, this is a side-scrolling s
64 rating3 lists
Timed Sega exclusive
Nippon Computer Systems · Switch, Sega Genesis, Wii
Gynoug, known in North America as Wings of Wor, is a 1991 scrolling shooter video game developed by Masaya and published by NCS Corporation for the Sega Genesis. The game was released in North America and Europe in 1991 and in Japan on Janu
68 rating3 lists
Timed Xbox exclusive
G.rev · Arcade, PS3, Xbox 360
Save the Underworld! Mamoru wakes up in a strange land with people he’s never seen before after what seemed to be an accident. A girl named Fururu informs him that this is the Underworld, and that it needs the help of everyone there to stop
55 rating3 lists


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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Mark Allen · Apple II
You are in control of a stationary gun turrent at the bottom of the screen. Planes drop bombs and paratroopers jump out of helicopters which you have to shoot. Every hit gains you points - every shot you fire looses you points. You have lo
1 list
Sega exclusive
Affect · Sega Genesis
XDR horizontal shoot 'em-up released exclusively in Japan. The game is notable for being one of the poorest received Mega Drive games ever released, and was frequently voted the system's worst Japanese-developed game by readers of Beep! Meg
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PlayStation exclusive
PlayStation
Geppy-X is a 2D side-scrolling shoot-em-up developed as an affectionate parody of the 1970s super robot era of mecha anime pioneered by Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa. In it, you play as a super robot fighter squadron in an alternate universe 19
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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 lists