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Games like Cosmic Jailbreak

1982 · Commodore · Shooter, Arcade · Open the game page

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930 games like Cosmic Jailbreak · 1979 – 2012

  • Nintendo Research & Development 1 · Arcade

    ArcadeShooterShoot 'em upSpace invaders cloneAction

    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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  • Alligata · Acorn Electron, BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore C64/128/MAX +4

    ShooterArcadeShoot 'em upActionScience fiction

    Fight your way across various planetscapes and defeat a boss character to clear that planet. Then move on to another planet, each with a different theme.

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  • Vid Kidz · Arcade, Atari 8-bit, ZX Spectrum

    ShooterArcadeShoot 'em upActionScience fiction

    The year is 2085 and the Robotrons have destroyed the human race. You escape in a stolen space shuttle. Your destination: Paradise. A remote outpost 20 million light years away. Does paradise exist? Can civilization be started again? These

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  • Fissionchip Software · Commodore C64/128/MAX, Amiga, Atari ST/STE

    ShooterArcadeShoot 'em upActionScience fiction

    The Aquanaut team has been called in to investigate strange happenings around the Yendor Isles. And as the investigation continues, even stranger events come to light. Join Commander T.S. Williams and his team of top-notch Aquanauts in an

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  • Tehkan · Arcade

    ShooterArcadeShoot 'em upActionScience fiction

    Pleiads is a multi-stage space shoot 'em up in which enemy ships fly at the player in waves in a similar fashion to games like Galaxian and Phoenix. Ships emerge from a mothership at the top of the screen and swoop downwards in a series of

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  • Interphase · ColecoVision, MSX

    ShooterArcadeShoot 'em upActionScience fiction

    Aquattack is an action game with four levels which partly have varying gameplay mechanics. In level one and two, the player mans a motor boat which needs to travel a certain distance from left to right. Of course there is a lot of enemy opp

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  • Data Design Systems · Amiga, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum

    ShooterArcadeShoot 'em upActionScience fiction

    A horizontally side-scrolling shoot-em-up.

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  • Cybadyne · Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum

    ShooterArcadeShoot 'em upActionScience fiction

    A Choplifter! variant with parallax scrolling written by Gavin Raeburn and published by The Power House for the Commodore 64.

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  • K-Byte · Atari 8-bit, Commodore VIC-20

    ShooterArcadeShoot 'em upActionScience fiction

    Fly right and shoot straight to defend your fleet from enemy attackers.

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  • Power House, The · Commodore C64/128/MAX

    ShooterArcadeShoot 'em upActionScience fiction

    Eight children who became stranded in the hidden silos around the seas of Home Base Terror must be rescued in this 2D horizontal scrolling shoot'em up published by The Power House.

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  • The Edge · ZX Spectrum

    ShooterArcadeShoot 'em upActionScience fiction

    A horizontal scrolling shoot'em up written by Paul Curtis and published by The Edge for the ZX Spectrum.

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  • Hewson Consultants · Commodore C64/128/MAX

    ShooterArcadeShoot 'em upActionScience fiction

    A side-scrolling shoot'em up written by Hugh Binns and published by Hewson.

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  • Datamost, Inc. · Apple II

    ShooterArcadeShoot 'em upActionScience fiction

    A shoot'em up written by Rod Nelsen and published by Datamost for the Apple II.

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  • Ultron

    1984

    Icon Software · Acorn Electron, BBC Microcomputer System

    ShooterArcadeShoot 'em upActionScience fiction

    A Space Invaders clone in which the player controls the most powerful craft in the universe, the Ultron, at the bottom of the screen moving left or right and tries to defeat waves of aliens cascading down from the top.

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  • Demonware · Amiga

    ShooterArcadeShoot 'em upActionScience fiction

    Endless attack waves, Apocalypse now. You're lost in space and feel your pulse pumping hard. Who neutralizes who... that's the question... In Total: 16 Missions to Survive

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  • Paul Lowrance · Apple II

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    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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  • Microdeal · Atari ST/STE, Amiga

    ShooterArcadeShoot 'em upActionScience fiction

    A vertical scrolling shoot'em up and the sequel to Goldrunner.

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  • Binary Innovations · ZX Spectrum, Commodore C64/128/MAX

    ShooterArcadeShoot 'em upActionScience fiction

    1986: Vertically scrolling shoot-em-up for the Spectrum with large detailed mono graphics (including an opportunity to blow up the Mona Lisa!)

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  • Graftgold · Commodore C64/128/MAX

    ShooterArcadeShoot 'em upActionScience fiction

    There are 50 sub-universes consisting of a central Nucleus surrounded by 32 Orbitals. The sub-universe is called a Aither. The object of the game is to enter the Aither with your ship and destroy enough Orbitals to shut down the Nucleus. Be

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  • Sunware Development Company · Atari 8-bit

    ShooterArcadeShoot 'em upActionScience fiction

    A vertical scrolling shoot'em up written by Peter Filiberti and published by Datamost for the Atari 8-bit home computers.

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  • Nintendo console exclusive

    UPL · Arcade, Switch

    ArcadeShooterShoot 'em upActionScience fiction

    Nova 2001 is an arcade shooter released by Universal in 1984.

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  • Sega console exclusive

    Sega Enterprises, Ltd. · Arcade, SG-1000

    ShooterArcadeShoot 'em upActionScience fiction

    Star Jacker is an early vertical scrolling shooter with some interesting characteristics. The player starts out with three fighters with all of the fighters moving and shooting at the same time. Two fighters trail the lead fighter. Star Jac

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  • Vid Kidz · Arcade, Browser, Apple II +6

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    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

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  • Atari console exclusive

    Cheshire Engineering · Intellivision, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit

    ArcadeShooterShoot 'em upActionScience fiction

    "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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  • Pantheon Software, Chris Edwards · Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore VIC-20 +5

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    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

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    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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  • Tim Moore · Atari ST/STE

    ShooterArcadeShoot 'em upActionScience fiction

    Release in 1987 for the Atari ST, Liberator was coded by Tim Moore of Verminator and Beyond the Ice Palace. and published by MicroValue.

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  • Zarzon

    1981

    SNK · Arcade

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    Zarzon is a 1981 shoot 'em up arcade video game, inspired by gameplay from Space Invaders.

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  • Microdeal · Amiga, Atari ST/STE, Atari ST

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    A vertically scrolling shoot'em up designed by Steve Bak.

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  • Atari console exclusive

    A.E.

    1982

    Programmers-3 · Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore VIC-20 +6

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    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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  • UPL · Arcade, Sega Genesis, Switch +1

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    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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  • Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD, TurboGrafx-16, Wii +1

    ArcadeShooterShoot 'em upActionScience fiction

    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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  • Konami · Arcade, ZX Spectrum

    ArcadeShooterShoot 'em upActionScience fiction

    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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  • Oids

    1987

    FTL Games · Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX, macOS +1

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    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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  • Apple II, TRS-80, Atari 8-bit +1

    ArcadeShooterShoot 'em upActionScience fiction

    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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  • Postern · BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Commodore VIC-20 +1

    ShooterArcadeShoot 'em upActionScience fiction

    A 3D shooter from Postern

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  • Sega console exclusive

    Taito · Arcade, Sega Saturn

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    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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  • Atari Games · Arcade

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

    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

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  • Phobos

    1982

    Atari 8-bit

    ShooterArcadeShoot 'em upActionScience fiction

    Dive deep into the depths of a martian moon in this follow-up to the 8-bit Atari classic, Caverns of Mars.

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  • Acornsoft · Acorn Electron, BBC Microcomputer System, BBC Micro

    ArcadeShooterShoot 'em upActionScience fiction

    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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