

Halo Zero
2005Dobermann Studios · Windows
A fan-made freeware sidescrolling shooter based on the Halo series, featuring both single-player and multiplayer modes
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Dobermann Studios · Windows
A fan-made freeware sidescrolling shooter based on the Halo series, featuring both single-player and multiplayer modes
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Crack dot Com · MS-DOS, macOS, Amiga +5
Abuse resembles a side-scrolling platform game. The game is marked for its unusual control scheme: The keyboard is used to move Nick, while the mouse is used for aiming the weapons. The basic gameplay consists of fighting various enemies (m
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Nuclear Vision · Windows
Codename: Gordon, also known as Half-Life 2D, is a two-dimensional Flash sidescroller shooter game made by Paul "X-Tender" Kamma and Sönke "Warbeast" Seidel. The game was produced on behalf of Nuclear Vision, and was distributed free of cha
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Prikol Software · MS-DOS, Windows
Doom 2D is a fan-made DOS-based freeware side-scrolling video game based upon Doom. Doom 2D is essentially the original Doom translated into a two-dimensional arcade or console-like shooter. The player resumes their role as Doomguy, who mus
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Atari exclusive
Ed Fries · Atari 2600
Halo 2600 is an action-adventure video game developed for the Atari 2600 video game console, inspired by the Halo series of video games. Halo 2600 was written by Ed Fries, former vice president of game publishing at Microsoft, who was invol
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Capcom · WonderSwan
Rockman & Forte: Mirai kara no Chousensha is a video game in the classic Rockman series. It is considered to be a "sequel" to Rockman & Forte due to its naming, though it actually continues on from the story of Rockman World II.
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JoyMasher · Switch, PS4, Windows +1
Blazing Chrome is a classic co-op run 'n gun with an original arcade feel. Players can choose between Mavra, the badass human resistance, soldier or Doyle, the groovy rebel robot, to kick some metal ass.
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Nintendo console exclusive
Konami · Arcade, Amiga, MS-DOS +2
Super Contra is a Run and Gun-style action game produced by Konami, originally released as a coin-operated arcade game in 1988. It is the sequel to the original Contra and the second game in the Contra series released for the arcades. Like
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Rainbow Arts · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE +11
Turrican is a 1990 video game programmed and designed by Manfred Trenz. It was first developed for the Commodore 64 by Rainbow Arts, but was ported to other systems later. In addition to concept design and character creation, Trenz personal
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Windows
Is a top-down 2D de-make of the original Left 4 Dead.
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Nintendo exclusive
Capcom · NES
The player takes the role of Kenny Smith, an agent of the 98th Special Forces, also known as "Code Name: Viper", who is assigned by his commander, Director Jones, to investigate a large drug syndicate that covers all of South America. Smith
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Creepsoft · Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64/128/MAX, MSX +5
A.M.C.: Astro Marine Corps is a sideways scrolling shooter in which you control a member of the Astro Marine Corps who has to blast his way through the various alien infested levels. You have three lives and each life has an energy bar whi
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Nintendo exclusive
Origin Systems · SNES
Metal Morph is a side-scrolling platformer. As the Metal Morph, you can jump, duck and shoot, as well as transform into an invulnerable liquid blob of metal. While as a blob, you can also travel through pipes to get to areas you couldn't no
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Banpresto · Arcade
The player controls a constantly bouncing car while driving through various environments including a city, pyramid, and underwater. The height of the jump and speed of a fall can be controlled with the joystick. The player can shoot various
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Browser
The Border Lands is a 2D top-down browser version of the popular console game Borderlands 2. The game has cool 2D 16-bit graphics and authentic map locations to explore. Before starting, you can choose from 4 of the original characters from
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The Game Bakers · Windows
Fight your way free in this 8-bit-inspired version of Furi's first boss fight against The Chain. Frantic action, nervous controls, a blend of shoot and sword fight reimagined in 90s style. Only 1 boss fight! A gift to Furi's fans.
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NEO XYX · Neo Geo, Dreamcast, Nintendo 3DS +1
After the space pilot Vanessa Gaiden defeated the Evil Empire in the events of the game Last Hope, she got missing on her way back and wasn't heard of anymore. Vanessa's husband, Gordian Gaiden, sets out to search for her. Meanwhile, a new
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Sega exclusive
Kai Magazine Software · Sega Genesis
Life on Earth: Reimagined is a run-and-gun action/platform game released in 2023 by Kai Magazine Software. It combines fast-paced side-scrolling combat with influences from Contra, Shinobi 3, and Rolling Thunder. The game features three dif
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Xbox exclusive
Xbox 360
Rad Raygun is an Xbox Live Indie Game designed to look like an original Game Boy game.
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Interactive Binary Illusions · MS-DOS, macOS, Windows
Originally released as Halloween Harry, is a side-scrolling platform game developed by Interactive Binary Illusions and SubZero Software, and distributed by Apogee Software. The game features 256-colour VGA graphics and background music in
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Terminal Reality · GameCube, PS2, Windows +3
As Major John "Dutch" Cane, you'll lead an elite platoon of mercenary commandos, outfitted with the most deadly experimental weaponry, into the pit of evil. It's your job to rid the world of mutated beasts and alien insects through 10 level
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Nintendo console exclusive
Nintendo DS, iOS, Windows
Rise On! After 20 years, the legendary lost project “Dark Void” is back! To commemorate the game’s humble origins, Capcom has commissioned the recreation of the original 8-bit classic, now re-titled “Dark Void Zero”. In this critically acc
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Alexis GUINAMARD · Texas Instruments TI-99
Doom is a fan made demake of the game of the same name for the Ti-83 calculator.
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Nintendo console exclusive
Factor 5 · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE +6
Turrican II: The Final Fight is a platformer/shooter as typically seen on consoles, but designed for home computers from the ground up. Its plot is - naturally - very simple: an evil mega-robot called The Machine attacks the United Planets
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Paradox Software · Amiga, Atari ST/STE
A 2D top-down shooter game set in a distant post-apocalyptic future.
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PlayStation exclusive
Shiny Entertainment · PlayStation
Wild 9 is a 2D platformer with 3D graphics, featuring gameplay similar in vein to the company's Earthworm Jim games. Unique to the game is the The Rig, a weapon the protagonist wields. The Rig functions like an electronic lasso, capable of
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PlayStation exclusive
Inti Creates · PS4
Take on brand-new 2D side-scrolling action with a 'Burst Combo!' Enter a virtual world of cyber-landscapes and unravel the mystery behind its creation!
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Sharp X1, PC-8800 Series, FM-7
An early run & gun shooter released for Japanese computers in 1984.
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Mike Lacher · Browser
Wolfenstein 1-D is a demake of the video game Wolfenstein 3D created by American developer Mike Lacher that features the game in a minimalist one-dimensional style. It features the same character, William "B.J." Blazkowicz, and plot from th
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Boys without Brains · Commodore C64/128/MAX, Amiga, Atari ST/STE
A bi-directional horizontally scrolling platform game, Hawkeye has the player in control of an SLF (Synthetic Life Form) controlled from an underground bunker by the Xamoxians. On each level, the eyes of the hawks in the status panel flash
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JKB Games · Windows
Mega Man X: Corrupted is an unofficial, fan-made game in development by John K. Bacchus (also known as JKB) coded in AS3 using Flex compiler on Flash Develop, but as Flash was phased out at the end of 2020, it was switched to HTML5. The gam
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Sega console exclusive
Data East · Arcade, Sharp X68000, Sega Genesis
The player takes the role of Chelnov, a coal miner who miraculously survives the malfunction and explosion of a nuclear power plant. Chelnov's body gains superhuman abilities due to the massive amount of radiation given off by the explosion
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Timed Sega exclusive
Adrenalin Interactive · Sega Genesis, SNES
Based on the popular role-playing and card game, Doom Troopers casts you as a fearless commando who's been commissioned to save the world from an invading force of mutants. Play as either Mitch Hunter or Max Steiner as you embark on the mos
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Leafworthy Entertainment · Browser
Gangsta Bean returns, destroying junk food and nastiness where he finds it! More awesome adventures, skills, enemies and powerups. Booyah!
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Timed Nintendo exclusive
BitBull Ltd · Linux, macOS, Windows +3
Classic arcade-style SHMUP meets hardcore modern roguelike! Take flight on a lethal, pimped-up jetboard, darting through the skies and blasting alien invaders with an explosive arsenal of extreme weaponry. Face off against massive, multi-st
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Sharp X1
An early run & gun shooter designed by Hiroshi Ishikawa in the summer of 1983 and published by Enix in October 1983.
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Family Production · MS-DOS
The planet Ranax is under attack from the evil Maaron empire. The last Ranaxian soldier must find and use a digital code to shut down the empire's mind-controlling satellite. Rebel Runner - Operation: Digital Code is an arcade game where t
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Nintendo exclusive
Hitek · Game Boy Color
Terrifying 9/11 is a Game Boy Color game released some time after the 9/11 attacks by Hitek in Taiwan. The game is an unlicensed port of Metal Slug 1.
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Konami · Arcade, NEC PC-6000 Series, Odyssey 2 / Videopac G7000 +15
Tutankham is a combination of the maze, action and shoot 'em up genres. Taking on the role of an explorer grave robbing Tutankhamun's tomb, the player is chased by creatures such as asps, vultures, parrots, bats, dragons, and even curses, a
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Atari Games · Arcade, Amiga, Amstrad CPC +7
Based on the arcade game, in Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters you are sent in on a rescue mission to Planet X. This planet has been taken over by robots and you must find and evacuate the remaining humans. It's a shooter simila
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Denis Galewski · Windows
Gun Rage is an old-school, fast-paced, side-scrolling run and gun, with 16-bit era graphics, inspired by greatest classic games of the genre.
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TheHappyFaceKing · Windows
Luigi's Mansion 2D: Eternal Night is a Metroid styled fan game of the popular game series known as Luigi's Mansion, where you go through various rooms, clearing them by vacuuming up ghosts in order to save Luigi's brother Mario.
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Sega console exclusive
Data East · Arcade, Amiga, Amstrad CPC +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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Bandai · Arcade
SD Gundam: Sangokushi Rainbow Tairiku Senki is an Action run-and-gun game in the style of the Contra series, developed by Bandai and published by Banpresto. Released in Japan for the arcades in 1993.
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SNK · Neo Geo, Arcade, Neo Geo CD +1
Inspired by the Contra series, Cyber-Lip is an early side-scrolling shooter by SNK for the Neo Geo. It's considered one of the predecessors to popular Metal Slug franchise.
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Nintendo exclusive
Semnat Studios · Wii
Battle wave after wave of enemies in this stylish side-scrolling run n' gun action game for one to four players Fight your way through 13 diverse locations on your own or with up to three friends in this frenetic sidescrolling action game.
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Sega console exclusive
Bizarre Creations · Amiga, Sega Genesis, Atari ST +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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