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237 games like Mega SWIV · 1980 – 2019
Krome Studios Melbourne · Game Boy, Game Gear, SNES
In this third installment of the Choplifter series, it is once again your job to fly your helicopter through enemy territory to rescue hostages. The helicopter does not only take damage from enemy fire, but also from contact with buildings,
81 rating3 listsOften paired
Nintendo console exclusiveSETA Corporation · Arcade, NES
A helicopter vertical shoot 'em up that debuted in the Arcades in 1988 before being ported to the NES the following year.
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Timed Atari exclusive
Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit +10
Mission: Code Name River Raid. Jet down the river. Break the enemy blockade and blast the bridges to halt enemy troop advances. Terrain: Code Name River of No Return. An ever-changing, ever-challenging waterway. Expect huge islands, narrow
81 rating8 listsOften paired
Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade +4
Sonic Boom is an arcade game shoot 'em up with a vertically-scrolling perspective in which the player is a US pilot, armed with the super-powerful Sonic Boom aircraft. Players must face six levels of cannon-fodder enemies in order to preven
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Nintendo console exclusive
SETA Corporation · Arcade, NES, Nintendo Switch 2
A nuclear powerplant has fallen into the hands of terrorists and you pilot a motorcyle equipped with machine guns that can be improved along the way. Make your way through difficult terrain and battle against loads of terrorists on foot, in
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Namco · Arcade, MSX, Switch +3
A maze game where the player controls a tank and battles enemy tanks that pursue and attack.
63 rating4 listsOften paired
Nintendo console exclusive
Capcom · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade +5
Side-scrolling shoot-em-up, in a similar style to such games as Gradius, R-Type and Scramble. The aim is to wipe out the enemy, which has gathered around the allied airspace of 'Area 88', in a series of military aircraft-based scenarios. Yo
76 rating5 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
Windows
Originally conceived for the 2008 TIGSource.com 'Bootleg Demake' competition, Gang Garrison 2 is a free multiplayer 'demake' of Valve's Team Fortress 2. Gang Garrison 2 presents the player with 9 unique classes to use in frenetic, cooperati
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PlayStation console exclusive
Yuke's · PS4, Windows
The EDF series moves away from its traditional series and into new territory with this new project. Developed by YUKE'S, with a theme song by Takashi Niigaki and creatures designed by Ryu Oyama for an EDF game that has never been seen befor
66 rating2 lists12 h main storyOften paired
Gameloft · Android, BlackBerry 10, Windows +1
The #1 FPS is back on smartphone with a new chapter to push the boundaries of mobile gaming even further! In the wake of a nuclear disaster, the only chance to avoid global devastation is in the hands of the few elite soldiers who must trac
79 rating2 listsOften paired
Nintendo console exclusive
Codemasters · Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +1
Devastating! Awesome! Experience the power of the mighty Firehawk helicopter gunship in this ultimate action game! Use skill to pilot the Firehawk through seven daring missions to pick up your troops from enemy-infested islands! The opposi
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Nintendo console exclusive
SNK · Arcade, NES, Switch
The presidential candidate's daughter has been kidnapped! It is your job to get past enemy lines and rescue her. This is the third game in the Ikari Warriors series, and features similar arcade/action gameplay. The screen is a top down view
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Nintendo console exclusiveSNK · Arcade, Commodore 64, NES
The presidential candidate's daughter has been kidnapped! It is your job to get past enemy lines and rescue her. This is the third game in the Ikari Warriors series, and features similar arcade/action gameplay. The screen is a top down view
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Toaplan · Arcade, Linux, Sega Genesis +4
Twin Hawk is a 1989 vertically scrolling shooter arcade game developed by Toaplan and published by Taito. Twin Hawk resembles other shooters of the time, specifically Toaplan's earlier game, Flying Shark. Also like Toaplan's other games, th
59 rating2 lists0.5 h main story
Namco · Arcade, Switch, PS4 +1
Assault is a top-down shooter from Namco, released in the arcades in 1988.
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Sega exclusive
Sega Saturn
In Black Fire, the player takes control of the most sophisticated helicopter on the planet taking on a very dangerous enemy. The player's helicopter is state of the art, but the enemy they are fighting has acquired alien technology and is u
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Windows
New World Order is a team based FPS, similarly tactical to Counter Strike. Released in 2003 it was negatively recieved by critics as a "poorly made CS clone".
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Sega exclusive
Sanritsu Denki · Master System, Sega Master System/Mark III
Fly your plane through five levels, shooting enemy planes, submarines, helicopters, and other enemies along the way, and use your equipped cluster bombs if necessary. You need to destroy a target that is outlined in your mission briefing. Y
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Nintendo console exclusive
Crux · Arcade, MSX, NES +2
Gyrodine is a top-down vertical helicopter scrolling shooter for the Nintendo Entertainment System/Family Computer, MSX and arcade developed by Crux and published by Taito in 1984.
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Xbox exclusiveTorus Games · Xbox
Classified: The Sentinel Crisis is a budget video game for the Xbox. It was developed by Torus Games and published by Global Star Software. The PlayStation 2 version was cancelled due to negative reviews before release.
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Windows
Mission Against Terror, also known as MAT, is a multiplayer, free-to-play FPS. Launched into closed beta by Suba Games on September 3, 2010, it quickly got the attention of many MMO media sites to giveaway closed beta keys. Mission Against
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Sega console exclusive
Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade +8
Sega's take on the 1943 style of vertically scrolling shoot 'em ups was set in the future. Your fighter plane is aged and under-powered, yet you must face down large planes, tanks and ground targets to achieve victory. Each level ends with
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Timed Sega exclusive
Game Boy, Game Gear, SNES +1
Urban Strike is a helicopter based shoot 'em up, mixing action and strategy, retaining its predecessor's core mechanics, and expanding on the model with additional vehicles and settings. This time, the campaign takes the player all over the
69 rating6 lists
NEC exclusive
TurboGrafx-16, Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD
Only a relentless commando assault can stop this international arms syndicate's threat to humanity. That's why we picked you. You'll need rocket launchers. hyper pineapples, and super napalm to blast through their high tech fortress... past
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Torus Games · N-Gage
Operation Shadow is an ACtion Adventure game for the N-Gage
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Timed Sega exclusive
Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade +11
A helicopter shoot-'em-up developed by Sega. The Arcade version made use of Sega's 3D super scaler technology to create city environments where the buildings would appear to have depth. The subsequent home versions sadly lacked this feature
70 rating7 lists
Nintendo console exclusive
Data East · Arcade, NES
A horizontal helicopter shoot 'em up for Arcade and NES, where the player is tasked with both eliminating enemy forces as well as rescuing hostages.
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Sega console exclusive
Ocean Software · Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64 +6
Rambo III is a shooting game developed and published by Sega for the Sega Master System, making use of the Light Phaser peripheral. It is based upon the film Rambo III. John Rambo, America's favorite soldier, makes a daring rescue attempt
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Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro +7
Eight invaded townships must be brought back under your control in this Commando-style shoot 'em up, which progresses vertically using a flick-screen system. You are armed with a rifle (activated by a short tap of the fire button) and five
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Data East · Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Commodore C64/128/MAX +6
BreakThru is a 2D side-scrolling vehicle shooter. Your mission: race, jump, and blast your way through five levels (mountains, bridge, plains, city, and airfield) of enemy defenses to recapture the stolen jet fighter. A host of enemy soldie
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Atari exclusive
Atari, Inc. · Atari 2600
You're locked in fight-to-the-death air combat with the enemy! You may be outnumbered -- somehow you've been separated from your buddies -- but this is far from your first mission. You've been flying your trusty little delta-wing fighter fo
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Seibu Kaihatsu · Arcade, Windows
Choose from among seven high-powered fighters (including the Raiden MkII and Judge Spear from Viper Phase 1) and take to the skies in three dangerous missions. The first two missions are comprised of three stages each, the first two of whic
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SCE Studio Liverpool · Amiga
Red turns to green as Psygnosis go for the pole position with Red Zone: their hell-for-leather bike race simulator. Straddle a mighty machine, kickstart her into screaming action and take control of one of the fastest vehicles on two wheels
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Timed Sega exclusive
Koei Tecmo Holdings · Arcade, Game Boy Advance, MSX +6
In the game, the player pilots a starship called the Final Star, while shooting various enemies and destroying enemy structures for points. Unlike later vertical scrolling shooters, like Toaplan's Twin Cobra, the Final Star had only two le
57 rating6 lists
Psikyo · Android, Arcade, PS4 +4
Year 1999, fall. The countless super minimum machine group 'nano-machine', which came flying, invaded the principal weapon and military terminals of each country from outer space and began multiplication. This weapon group which is automate
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Nintendo exclusive
Tose Co. · NES, Switch
In Super Xevious: Gamp no Nazo the player controls a spaceship named the Solvalou in its mission to destroy a powerful supercomputer named GAMP, which took over Earth during an ice age. Gamp no Nazo features a heavy focus on puzzle-solving,
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iOS
With a naming scheme blatantly stolen from Left 4 Dead, Alive 4-Ever is a dual joystick shooter where the player controls a survivor of the zombie apocalypse.
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Nintendo console exclusive
Sega AM3 · Arcade, Wii
A machine gun game in which the player boards a chopper flying over New York City to take out terrorists. It was released in arcades in 1995 and was published by SEGA. On July 25 2005, a Terrorist attack was unleashed in New York's Times S
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Nintendo console exclusive
Toaplan · Arcade, Linux, NES +2
Tiger Heli was one of the first games developed by Toaplan and published by Taito Corporation in 1985. It is a predecessor to Twin Cobra. The player controls a helicopter named Tiger Heli taking out various enemies along the way.
52 rating1 list1 h main story
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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Microdeal · Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE
A vertically scrolling shoot'em up designed by Steve Bak.
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Timed Sega exclusive
MS-DOS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn +1
Mass Destruction is a mission-based tank shooting game. Jump into one of three tanks each with its own strengths and weaknesses and take on 24 different missions, each with its own set of objectives. You must complete all the primary and se
4 lists3 h main story
Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64 +1
A shoot'em up similar to the infamous Space Invaders this time on the high seas where the player controls a fighting ship and has to shoot down planes, helicopters and rockets instead of aliens.
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Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE
Wings of Death is a 1990 shoot 'em up video game developed by Eclipse Software and published by Thalion Software, released originally for the Atari ST and then ported for the Amiga. Its working titles were Wings of War and Spellbinder. Win
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Nintendo exclusiveAsmik Ace Entertainment · SNES
Gameplay involves being the pilot of an Apache Helicopter, and shooting enemies down in the style of a vertical scrolling shooter. Large red gunships can be shot down to gain power-ups for the helicopter in order to upgrade the guns and hav
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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
A machine gun game in which the player boards a chopper flying over New York City to take out terrorists. It was released in arcades in 1995 and was published by SEGA. On July 25 2005, a Terrorist attack was unleashed in New York's Times S
88 rating1 list