Games like R-Type Leo

ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipSide-scrolling

This horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up with 32 levels is something of a predecessor to Armalyte. It's set in the Delta region of space, in which the Hsiffan Khanate species have a powerful presence, using their technology to steal and ana

70 rating1 listOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ShooterArcadeShoot 'em upSide-scrollingAction

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

72 rating2 listsOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

Horizontally scrolling shooterShooterShoot 'em upSpaceshipSide-scrolling

Scramble Mode Zeta; A message to Cybernaut Squadron Calisto -- Priority Alpha-San 03... An intersystem intruder has been detected in quadrant FTU-770. Dronecraft sent to get a visual discovered an extremely large monolith, biomorphic in nat

1 listOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipSide-scrolling

The celestial planet Conceyta orbits with its moon in a dust- and gas-covered solar system. Within lurks an evil unknown to man that bears a danger so much greater than any threat yet witnessed. A dark, mysterious power has manifested itsel

65 rating3 listsOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipSide-scrolling

A horizontal scrolling shoot'em up similar to the arcade game Defender. Written by Nasir Gebelli and published by Sirius Software for the Apple II computers.

1 listOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ArcadeShooterShoot 'em upSide-scrollingAction

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

1 listOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ArcadeShooterShoot 'em upSpaceshipSpace battle

A single screen shoot'em up, similar to Space Invaders, written by Nasir Gebelli and published by Sirius Software for the Apple II and Atari 8-bit platforms.

1 listOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ActionArcadeShooterSpaceshipSide-scrolling

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

80 rating1 listOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipAction

Imagine a hunter, alone in Deep Space. You control his movements. He's armed with a "gas blaster." His prime target is the white Space Hawk. If a Hawk, deadly gas bubbles, comets or amoebas touch the hunter, he tumbles into infinity! There

58 rating1 listOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ArcadeShooterShoot 'em upSpaceshipSpace battle

A single screen crosshair shooter written by David Lubar.

1 listOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterSide-scrollingAction

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

1 listOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterSide-scrollingAction

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

70 rating3 listsOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterSpace battleSide-scrolling

A horizontal scrolling shoot'em up written by John Anderson and published by Adventure International for various 8-bit platforms.

3 listsOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipSide-scrolling

A horizontally scrolling 'always firing' shoot 'em up game with an emphasis on power ups and notable for the fire button only being used to change weapon. The player takes the role of one of two convicts; Rinser and Cassalana, escaping

1 listOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

Shoot 'em upSpaceshipSpace battleScience fictionAdventure

After having crashlanded on the planet of Oo-Topos and taken prisoner your goal is to break out of captivity, repair your ship and get away from the hostile planet.

2 listsOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ArcadeShooterShoot 'em upSpaceshipSide-scrolling

A bidirectional, horizontal scrolling shoot'em up similar to Defender, written by Dan Thompson and Andrew Kaluzniacki and published by Sirius Software for various 8-bit homecomputers.

3 listsOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

Shoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipSpace battleAction

Star Ship is a First-person shooter video game cartridge developed by Atari, Inc. for its Video Computer System (later known as the Atari 2600). The game was one of the nine launch titles offered when the Atari 2600 went on sale. It was des

40 rating2 listsOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

The game of Astro Fighter consists of 4 waves and a refueling stage, which are then repeated with increasingly higher difficulty. The player's task is to eliminate the four successive waves of different types of attacking craft, while avoid

70 rating1 listOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ActionArcadeShooterShoot 'em upSpaceship

A platform shoot-em-up hybrid from Sega for one to four players, selected from either Joe (yellow), Mary (red), Lee (blue) and Edgar (green). The action takes place over a number of sideways scrolling levels, the bulk of which consist of st

50 rating5 listsOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ShooterArcadeShoot 'em upSpaceshipAction

This was Capcom's first arcade game. The player controls a spaceship with a single objective: destroy incoming enemies. The vessel has two different weapons: a primary weapon with infinite ammunition and a limited supply of bombs. By pickin

2 listsOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

Shoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipSide-scrollingAction

Known as Thunder Force IV outside of North America. You must lead the battle against the evil Lohun Empire. Their computer system is poised to destroy your Galaxy Federation's defenses. Lead the attack on their heavily defended military pla

61 rating1 listOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipSide-scrolling

Zynaps is a traditional "left to right" shooter

80 rating3 listsOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

Shoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipSide-scrollingScience fiction

Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine is a shoot 'em up developed and published in 1987 by Hewson Consultants for the ZX Spectrum, and was then ported to the Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, NES, and Amiga. It was programmed by Raffaele Cecco

67 rating5 listsOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipAction

Gridrunner is a lot like Atari's arcade classic, Centipede.

1 listOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

Shoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipSide-scrollingAction

Datastorm is a horizontally scrolling shooter for the Amiga published by Visionary Design in 1989. Written by Søren Grønbech, it was inspired by the Defender arcade video game and the Defender-like Dropzone originally released for Atari 8-b

1 listOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ArcadeShooterSpaceshipSpace battleAction

EPOCH - Post-apocalyptic Robot Combat

1 listOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipAction

Star Castle is a 1980 vector arcade game by Cinematronics. The game involves obliterating a series of defenses orbiting a stationary turret in the center of the screen. The game was designed by Tim Skelly and programmed by Scott Boden. Tim

2 listsOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ArcadeShooterShoot 'em upSpaceshipScience fiction

A vertical scrolling shoot 'em up. Fire guns and drop bombs on the enemies in this deep space battle. Pickup assorted power-ups. The screen also scrolls left and right if your ship nears the edges of the screen.

3 listsOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterSide-scrollingAction

The Bacterians' Commandant Gopher plans to assassinate little Lars XVIII and change the course of history...... Block Gopher's ambition!

3 listsOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterSide-scrollingAction

Baraduke is an action game released by Namco (Bandai Namco Entertainment) in 1985. The peaceful, friendly world of Paccet has been attacked by the evil Octy! Make your way through Baraduke, the underground Octy citadel beneath Paccet, and u

49 rating4 listsOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterSide-scrollingAction

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

80 rating3 listsOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipScience fiction

Space Fury was one of the many popular vector games developed in the early 1980s in the same model as the famous Asteroids game released by Atari in 1979. Space Fury was developed by Sega for the Sega G80 Arcade system, and was also release

68 rating2 listsOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ShooterArcadeShoot 'em upSide-scrollingAction

Aliens: Alien 2 is an arcade platformer (or run'n'gun if you like) featuring Ripley on a planet infested with aliens. Armed with only a basic gun at first, she faces facehuggers that come out of alien eggs. After having dispatched a face hu

2 listsOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ArcadeShooterShoot 'em upSpaceshipSide-scrolling

Andro Dunos is a horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game released by Visco in 1992 for the SNK Neo-Geo MVS. The player controls a futuristic fighter spacecraft with different weapon settings that you can switch between, and shoot en

70 rating2 listsOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipAction

Hades Nebula is a futuristic vertical scrolling shooter set in the year 2124. As humanity searches for new habitable planets due to dwindling energy reserves, players pilot a small spacecraft on a mission to thwart the villainous Emperor Ha

1 listOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ShooterSpaceshipSide-scrollingActionScience fiction

Your ship is equipped with both a standard laser and an independently fired ground weapon, which you must coordinate to defeat ground and aerial enemies. A shield bar keeps track of your damage and you can replenish it by defeating certain

1 listOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipAction

Radar Scope is a 1980 fixed shooter arcade game developed by Nintendo R&D2 and published by Nintendo. The player assumes the role of the Sonic Spaceport starship and must wipe out formations of an enemy race known as the Gamma Raiders befor

2 listsOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterSide-scrollingAction

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

49 rating5 listsOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

SpaceshipSpace battleActionScience fictionSide view

Long ago the evil Vaxxian Empire overran the galaxy. Most of humanity was enslaved and abducted to the Vaxxian homeworld. A few humans, who were scientists, managed to escape. At the current moment (according to the timeline of the game), t

36 rating1 listOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

Shoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipSpace battleScience fiction

Ozma Wars is a 1979 fixed shooter arcade game, and the very first game developed and published by SNK, who were still known as "Shin Nihon Kikaku" at the time. The game is also known as the second ever vertical shoot 'em up game, after Tait

2 listsOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

Shoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipSpace battleScience fiction

Sitting in the gunner position of a "GeoSword" fightercraft, you must shoot your way through the enemy armada and bring the fight to their base planet, Redeye. Altogether you'll have around 10 missions to get through before the galaxy is sa

69 rating8 listsOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

Shoot 'em upSide-scrollingActionScience fictionScience

The Crescent Galaxy has been attacked by an entity known as Odd-it. This creatures goal is to make everything odd, like it. You play Trevor McFur, a corporal in the Crescent Galaxy's chapter of the Interplanetary Defense squad and are sent

1 listOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ArcadeShooterShoot 'em upSpaceshipSpace battle

Asteroids is an arcade space shooter released in November 1979. The player controls a spaceship in an asteroid field which is periodically traversed by flying saucers. The objective of the game is to destroy both, asteroids and saucers. The

82 rating26 lists1 h main storyOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipSpace battle

The player controls a lone spacecraft on a mission to singlehandedly take down the entire enemy armada. Enemy fighters and ships shoot at the player, and there are mines and other objects that must be shot or avoided. The game is divided i

3 listsOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ActionArcadeShoot 'em upShooterSpaceship

The enemy has built battle fortresses in the farthest reaches of space. There's only one way in... and one way out. Your Mission: To infiltrate the enemy's defenses and destroy their motherships!

4 listsOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ShooterSpaceshipSpace battleActionScience fiction

Command four space vessels and a band of revolutionary pirates into an all-consuming battle against impossible odds, because there just isn't enough Space for everyone!

71 rating4 lists27 h main storyOften paired

Game pageMore like this →

ArcadeHorizontally scrolling shooterShooterShoot 'em upAction

A horizontal scrolling shoot'em up based on the arcade classic game Defender that was published by Adventure International for several platforms.

1 list

Game pageMore like this →

Horizontally scrolling shooterShooterShoot 'em upActionScience fiction

The Engine is hardly lacking in shooters, so to be successful, you have to stand out from the crowd. Barunba tries to add a hint of originality in its own subtle way. You control what is basically a floating globe (complete with little man

2 lists

Game pageMore like this →