

Zynaps
1987Dominic Robinson · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +4
Zynaps is a traditional "left to right" shooter
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Steer by what it is tap once for more of it, twice for none of it
493 games like Dragon Breed · 1971 – 2023


Dominic Robinson · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +4
Zynaps is a traditional "left to right" shooter
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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
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Nintendo console exclusive
Hudson Soft · Amiga, Game Boy Advance, NES
Challenger is a frantic single-screen shoot 'em up. The player is in their craft at the bottom of the screen, shooting bursts of three shots at 45 degree angles at flashing polygons. When hit, the polygons split into smaller ones. Your task
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Universal Entertainment · Arcade, ColecoVision
In this side scrolling shooter you have to kill as many enemies as possible to raise your high score.
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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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Atari exclusive
Atari 2600
Star Fox is a video game for the Atari 2600 console, developed and published by Mythicon in 1983. Although the front cover of the game states "Game 1 in Star Fox Series," no sequels were ever made, which is most likely because it received n
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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
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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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SNK · Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Commodore 64 +5
You are Athena, a school girl who goes around fighting crime, along with her friend Kensu (Player 2), Athena sets out to bring peace to the world by killing all monsters. This game serves somewhat as a sequel to an earlier SNK game by the n
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Timed NEC exclusive
Hudson Soft · PlayStation Store TurboGrafx-16, TurboGrafx-16, Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD +1
Aries was a peaceful and calm planet for millennia; however, it is now faced with its worst crisis. The deadly army of Obellon fighters led by General Don Jingi, the evil merchant known to do anything for personal gain, is out to steal the
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Sega console exclusive
BlueSky Software · Linux, Sega Genesis, Windows +1
A routine sludge barge excursion is cut short when a mysterious missile critically damages VectorMan’s ship. Vectorman escapes destruction and freefalls back to earth, landing on the outskirts of a seemingly abandoned research facility.
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Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +3
Hold it right there. Are you really ready for this one? Have you got the courage to load up the experience that makes all other games you've played seem prehistoric? Because Blood Money is simply the best arcade game you've ever seen. It h
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Sega console exclusive
Bizarre Creations · Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +1
First prize is your life! Suited in limited-protection armor you're the unwilling contestant on The Killing Game Show. In front of a TV audience of millions you must battle your way to the top of 16 Pits of Death infested with hostile arti
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Capcom · Arcade, Switch, PS4 +2
In the year 2281, the war spanning half a century over territory between the United World Forces and the Raian Kingdom had at last come to an end. But this peace was not to last. A year after a truce was signed between the two forces, form
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Aicom · Android, Arcade, Browser +8
Blazing Star is a scrolling shooter video game for the Neo Geo home game system. It is the sequel to the acclaimed Neo Geo shooter Pulstar, which was itself a close cousin to the R-Type franchise. A typically hefty Neo Geo ROM at 346 Mb, th
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Timed Atari exclusive
Tose Co. · Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 5200 +2
Vanguard is a shoot 'em up game which leads the player through five different zones to the City of Mystery where the creature Gond awaits him which he has to kill. The five zones run horizontally as well as vertically and are filled with di
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BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Dragon 32/64 +2
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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Konami · Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Commodore 64 +5
Salamander is a scrolling shooter arcade game released by Konami as a spin-off to Gradius. It introduced a simplified power-up system, two-player cooperative gameplay and both horizontally and vertically scrolling stages. Some of these woul
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NEC exclusive
NEC · TurboGrafx-16
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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Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +4
Play as Judge Dredd in this side scrolling shooter. Are you the law?
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PlayStation exclusive
Q-Games · PS3
PixelJunk SideScroller is a side-scrolling shoot 'em up game developed by Q-Games for the PlayStation 3 as part of the PixelJunk series. It was released on the PlayStation Store on 25 October 2011 in North America and 26 October 2011 in Eur
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Sega console exclusive
Raising Hell · Amiga, Atari ST/STE, Sega Genesis
First prize is your life! Suited in limited-protection armor you're the unwilling contestant on The Killing Game Show. In front of a TV audience of millions you must battle your way to the top of 16 Pits of Death infested with hostile arti
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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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Slipgate Studios · Apple II, Atari ST, NES +3
A fast-paced first-person shooter in a parkour obstacle course style level. The game has a 7 second time limit at the start of a level which increases when enemies are killed. The game was designed to be a small project and had been made
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NEC exclusive
TurboGrafx-16
City Hunter is a side‑scrolling action game starring private eye Ryo Saeba, based on the manga and anime. Exclusive to the PC Engine, it mixes exploration and shooting across four chapters as Ryo checks doors for mission‑critical NPCs and i
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Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
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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Sega exclusive
Realtime Associates · Game Gear, Sega Genesis
The Berenstain Bears: Camping Adventure is an Action game, developed by Realtime Associates and published by Sega, which was released in 1994.
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Apple II, Atari 8-bit
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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Accolade · Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
Critical Mass is an action puzzle game that takes traditional match 3 and brings it into the world of 3D.
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Atari console exclusive
Arcade, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit
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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Sega console exclusive
Data East · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade +6
Midnight Resistance is a side-scrolling action shooting game produced by Data East for the arcades in 1989. The game was ported by Data East to the Sega Mega Drive in 1990 and by Ocean Software to various home computer platforms during the
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Llamasoft · Atari 2600, Switch, PS4 +5
Akka Arrh is a previously unreleased prototype game created 1982 for the arcade. It saw it's first release in 2022 as part of the the Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration.
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Nutting Associates · Arcade
Computer Space is a video arcade game released in 1971 by Nutting Associates. Created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, who would both later found Atari, Inc., it is generally accepted that it was the world's first commercially sold coin-op
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Atari console exclusive
Midway Games · Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 5200 +1
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.
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Nintendo Research & Development 1 · Arcade, Zilog Z80
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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Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +1
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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Bandai Namco Entertainment · PS3, Xbox 360
Aero-Cross is an unreleased platform video game that was in development for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 by Namco Bandai Games. It was intended as a modernized sequel to the arcade game Metro-Cross, and the third released under the Namco
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Taito · Arcade, Famicom Disk System, Game Gear +1
A space-shooter. Protect the earth from falling comets and asteroids.
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Atari console exclusive
Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit
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
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Atari exclusive
Atari 2600
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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ZX Spectrum
Denizen is an action computer game published by Players Software in 1988 for the ZX Spectrum.
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Meta Quest, Oculus VR, Windows
Use creative combat tactics and skill shots to earn high scores as you teleport through city streets and rooftops in an awe-inspiring ballet of bullets. Tear apart your robot foes and use them to fend off the enemy onslaught. Unlock, custom
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Reflexive Entertainment · Windows, macOS
Swarm is a top-down space shooter, similar to asteroids. You fly a ship around collecting an fuel source called EZT (Endron Zymithium Trisistaline) for the corporation you're indentured to. There is an aggressive alien species called the Cl
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Sega console exclusive
Arcade, Master System, Sega Master System/Mark III
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
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Rainbow Arts · Amiga, Atari ST
Z-Out is a 1990 side-scrolling shoot 'em up and a sequel to X-Out. Unlike its predecessor, the game features a co-operative two-player component.
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Sega console exclusive
Sanritsu Denki · Arcade, MSX, Master System +3
Bandits are holding up a bank and have taken people hostage, and as a gunslinger, it's your job to shoot them. The bank has 12 doors, and the bandits are behind each one of them. When they pull a gun out at you when you open a door, you hav
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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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