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Steer by what it is tap once for more of it, twice for none of it
275 games like Dropzone · 1980 – 2023
Atari exclusive
Atari 2600
You are the Space Jockey, pilot of an attack saucer which is positioned on the left side of the screen and can move up and down. From the right side of the screen, a barrage of tanks, jet planes, prop planes and helicopters will fire upon a
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PlayStation exclusive
PS4
Overcome an ever-expanding threat that might have already seeped too far into the core of humanity itself.
71 rating3 listsOften paired
Konami · Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Commodore 64 +9
One of the defining characteristics of the Gradius series is the use of a "power meter." The power meter is powered by a power-up item, whose purpose, when collected, is to move a highlight to the next power-up on the power meter. When a po
72 rating18 listsOften paired
Acclaim Studios London · Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE, Commodore 64 +6
Betrayed by his people, TRANTOR is abandoned alone on an Alien planet. His only chance of escape is to activate the planet's main computer that lies within the terminal building. Spectacular sound and graphics transport you light years to t
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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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Taito · Arcade, Famicom Disk System, Game Gear +1
A space-shooter. Protect the earth from falling comets and asteroids.
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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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Nintendo console exclusive
Konami · Arcade, Switch
Thunder Cross is an Action game, developed and published by Konami, which was released in 1988.
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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.
80 rating4 lists2.5 h main storyOften paired
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 console exclusiveHudson 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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Apogee Software · MS-DOS, Windows, macOS
In the not-so-distant future, the calamity of World War III led to eventual world peace. But, it didn't last. Earth was invaded by alien marauders - the Kretons. Earth's united military force, still depleted after the mighty onslaught of WW
60 rating1 list6 h main storyOften paired
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
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Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX, TRS-80 Color Computer +1
An arcade style game with a loose basis on the arcade hit Defender, Protector II is a side-scrolling shooter. Like Defender, there are lots of different aliens to contend with, and some ground based enemies as well. There are no smart bombs
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PlayStation exclusiveFromSoftware · PS3
Another Century's Episode: R, abbreviated as A.C.E.: R, is a mecha action video game developed by FromSoftware and Banpresto and published by Bandai Namco Games.
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Apple II, ColecoVision, Commodore 64 +2
In this adventure game you control an explorer who's on his way to fortress Alcazar. To reach Alcazar you are travelling through a countryside of fortresses and you need to collect several items that you can find along the way. Once you ent
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Gremlin Interactive · Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +3
Take on the role of toddler terror Jack in his quest to become as naughty as possible! Toddle throughout the town, bringing your own brand of baby bedlam. Jump on things, grab and use a wide variety of items, all in a bid to become the bigg
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Krisalis Software · Acorn Archimedes, Amiga, Amstrad CPC +6
A asteroid is hurtling towards earth, you must travel to Tibet and find Professor K.K. Renegade. Once you have found him you must convince him to help build a anti-asteroid deflector to save Earth from being utterly destroyed.
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Timed Sega exclusive
Sunsoft · Sega Genesis, Wii
Super Fantasy Zone is an entry in the Fantasy Zone series of games, and was initially released in 1992 for the Sega Mega Drive. Unlike previous outings, Super Fantasy Zone was handled entirely by Sunsoft (under license from Sega), who had p
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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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Nintendo console exclusive
DevilishGames · Linux, Switch, Windows +1
After an affair King Lucas had with the Witch of Sausan, the Queen left him and remarried in an adjacent kingdom, and now his daughters are the only ones left at his side. Due to his love for them, each and every time they get lost in the c
50 rating1 list
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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Sega exclusive
Tectoy · Game Gear, Master System, Sega Genesis +1
You play as Taz, the famous cartoon-character. Taz is captured by Marvin the Martian and transfered to his intergalactic Zoo! Now it is your job to aid Taz in his great escape from the Zoo-prison and also find a way back home to Earth. To m
70 rating5 lists
SNK · Arcade
Zarzon is a 1981 shoot 'em up arcade video game, inspired by gameplay from Space Invaders.
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Xbox exclusiveKnight's Apprentice: Memorick's Adventures is a 2004 video game developed and published by Microids for the Xbox. Inspired by Arthurian legend, the game is an action-adventure game in which players undertake a quest to free Avalon from the
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Costa Panayi · Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
Top-down war shooter
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Acorn Electron, BBC Microcomputer System
Dunjunz is an action game made for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron home computers and released by Bug-Byte in 1987. It is essentially a clone of the popular video game Gauntlet where players controlled fantasy characters from a top down vi
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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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Switch, PS4, PS5 +3
Tintin and his faithful companion Snowy are going to experience some extraordinary adventures…After meeting Professor Sarcophagus whilst cruising the Mediterranean Sea, the famous reporter sets out in search of the tomb of the Pharaoh Kih-O
2 lists10 h main story
Telenet Japan · MSX, PlayStation Store TurboGrafx-16, Sega Genesis +3
Valis II has the same basic plot as its computer counterpart: Rogles, the tyrant of the magical world Vecanti, was defeated, and a new emperor named Megas is terrorizing its inhabitants. It's up to the Japanese schoolgirl Yuko to take on he
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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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Nintendo console exclusive
Taito · Arcade, FM-7, NEC PC-8800 series +5
A vertical scrolling space shooter.
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Android, Linux, Switch +5
Sparklite is an action-adventure set in the whimsical and ever-changing land of Geodia. Battle foes in top-down action using an arsenal of gadgets, guns, and gear. Explore dangerous corners of the procedurally generated world, take down tit
68 rating3 lists10 h main story
Attic Entertainment Software · Atari ST, MS-DOS, Windows
"Spirit of Adventure" is a classical 2.5D dungeon crawl RPG game in which you'll take charge of a group of adventurers searching for the next callenge.
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Xbox console exclusive
Vladimír Kudělka · Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series
Afterglitch is an experimental third-person exploration sci-fi video game. The player is an astronaut whose multidimensional journey to find an extraterrestrial civilization is more important than the destination!
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Atari, Inc. · Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 5200 +13
As a regional commander of three anti-missile batteries, the player must defend six cities in their zone from being destroyed. The player's six cities are being attacked by an endless hail of ballistic missiles, some of them even splitting
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Interceptor Micros · Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, BBC Microcomputer System +4
Tomcat (also known as F14 Tomcat ) is a video game published in 1989 in the UK by Players Software. The game was released on the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Commodore 16, Plus/4, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum as a budget title.
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Nintendo exclusiveNintendo DS
Transformers Revenge of the Fallen: Autobots and Transformers Revenge of the Fallen: Decepticons are action-adventure video games based on the 2009 live action film Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. They are the Nintendo DS port of Trans
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Nintendo console exclusive
Switch, Windows
Yume Nikki: Dream Diary is a collaborative show of the utmost respect for auteur Kikiyama’s seminal release.
63 rating2 lists4.5 h main story
Nintendo console exclusive
Jaleco · Arcade, FM-7, MSX +6
The player competes in a marathon continuous scrolling horizontal shoot-em-up game across land, sea, air and outer space. You can hold down the fire button for a burst of Charged fire, which is especially essential to defeat the bosses. Th
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Silmarils · Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS
Metal Mutant is a side-scrolling action-adventure game developed and published for MS-DOS, Amiga and Atari ST by Silmarils and released in 1991. It is similar to Game Arts' Thexder in that it allows you to transform at any time into three d
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Nintendo console exclusive
Seibu Kaihatsu · Arcade, MSX, Nintendo Switch 2
Scion is a vertical scrolling shooter. Players have to shoot the alien space ships while destroying the ground structures. In order to continue on to the next scene, the ground structures need to be completely destroyed
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Bits Studios · Game Gear, Master System, NES +1
Spider-Man: Return of the Sinister Six is a side-scrolling game which puts you in the role of Spidey throughout six levels against Electro, Sandman, Mysterio, Vulture, Hobgoblin and Doctor Octopus respectively. Some puzzle solving (like fin
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Android, iOS
Choro 2021 is a mobile game released for Android and iOS on 5 December 2021. The game follows a cowboy in a dystopian Venezuela that has to fight malandros, soldiers, zombies and witches, while finding references of the country, such as an
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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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Graftgold · ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC
After defeating the Lord of Chaos, new trouble awaits Maroc in the form of Morog the Shapeshifter Witch Queen of the North who tries to recover the five crowns of Dragontorc in order to remake the Torc of Power.
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Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, BBC Microcomputer System
Gauntlet is a clone of Defender.
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