

Area 51
1996Arcade, PlayStation, Sega Saturn +1
Area 51 is a light gun arcade game released by Atari Games. It takes its name from the Area 51 military facility.
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Arcade, PlayStation, Sega Saturn +1
Area 51 is a light gun arcade game released by Atari Games. It takes its name from the Area 51 military facility.
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PlayStation exclusive
Konami · PlayStation
Broken Helix is a third-person shooter game developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation in 1997. The game boasts "4-D" real time gameplay, allowing the player to activate and deactivate certain objects in later levels of the game.
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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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Appaloosa Interactive · PlayStation, Sega Saturn
Contra: Legacy of War is a 3D action game produced by Konami and developed by Appaloosa Interactive that was originally released in 1996 for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn. It was the first of two Contra games that were externally develope
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Nintendo console exclusive
Tecmo · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade +7
Silkworm is a classic horizontally-scrolling shoot-em-up. The main difference between this game and many other side-scrolling shoot-em-ups is that you will be on land as well as in the air. The first player would play as a helicopter, but i
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Timed Atari exclusive
Namco · Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Arcade +18
It's a nightmare, but it's true! Research shows that we are the actual aliens on Earth, and the ruthless Xevions are the original inhabitants. Now the Xevions want Earth back -- minus humans! Their invasion forces are fierce -- the land is
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Rainbow Arts · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +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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Nintendo console exclusive
Switch, Windows
In this exploration-heavy 2D action game, use your demon sword to interfere with the past, create platforms, and shield yourself from danger to explore a dystopian cyberpunk world depicted in gorgeously animated pixel art.
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PlayStation exclusive
Appaloosa Interactive · PlayStation
Mission Critical! You control Ray, the only surviving member of the elite Contra Force. Blast your way through 10 levels to stop the alien hordes from infesting the jungles of South America. Although equipped with a huge arsenal of weapon
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Nintendo exclusive
Codemasters · NES
Too hot to handle? Or can you take up the challenge? Equipped with a dazzling range of weapons and skills, travel through scores of different action scenes, battling against the hottest, meanest, mechanized maniacs ever dreamed up! Rescue t
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Nintendo exclusive
Color Dreams · NES
A splendid adventure of terror, struggle, and danger! The evil demon King Kull has created a machine to transplant the souls of demons into the body of machines. With his army of ROBODEMONS he has cast a dark shadow over the region of Earth
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Nintendo console exclusive
Rare Ltd. · Arcade, NES
The player takes a role of a fighter pilot working to repel an alien invasion. Aliens have invaded Earth, and have built four land bases. These bases are designed to drain Earth's energy and feed it to their mother space station. If the spa
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Nintendo console exclusive
Factor 5 · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +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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PlayStation exclusive
PlayStation
The aliens have stolen a super missile and will not hesitate to use it unless we pay their ransom demand, which is a large amount of Uranium. You soldier, must enter the enemy zone and retrieve this missile by causing disruption among thei
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Nintendo console exclusive
Atari Games · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade +5
The game begins by asking the player(s) to choose a difficulty level, not only making the enemies more difficult and the players weaker, but higher difficulties start the players in a later set of levels (called "galaxies") and with some po
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Nintendo exclusive
Konami · NES
Contra Force is an action shooting game released by Konami for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992 in North America. It is a spinoff of the Contra series, being the third game in the series released for the NES following the original
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Nintendo console exclusive
Tengen · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple IIGS +7
The game begins by asking the player(s) to choose a difficulty level, not only making the enemies more difficult and the players weaker, but higher difficulties start the players in a later set of levels (called "galaxies") and with some po
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Nintendo exclusive
M2 · Wii
Contra ReBirth is the ReBirth series of Contra. It is the 12th installment of Contra.
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Nintendo console exclusive
Rake in Grass · Linux, Switch, Windows +1
You take the role of a freelance pilot who has to save the Universe from evil warlord Xoxx, who has stolen a gigantic space gun with the power to destroy the entire Universe. Buckle up because it's going to be a blast!
80 rating2 lists8.5 h main story
Nintendo console exclusive
Tecmo · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade +4
Silkworm is a classic horizontally-scrolling shoot-em-up. The main difference between this game and many other side-scrolling shoot-em-ups is that you will be on land as well as in the air. The first player would play as a helicopter, but i
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Midway Games · Amiga, Amiga CD32, Arcade +4
The names of the two player characters are Captain Carnage and Major Mayhem. Blast your way through the Baby Milk Factory and fight Orcus, the Mother of All Bosses. Collect keys to enter the Pleasure Domes. Many special weapons and secret a
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Nintendo exclusive
NES
After a briefing of the Gulf War situation, Agent George, a Top CIA agent, is being sent to the Middle East. Your mission is to save all oil refineries in the Gulf, and stop further production of CBW (Chemical and Biological Warfare) weapon
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Nintendo console exclusive
Zoom · Game Boy Advance, SNES, Sharp X68000 +2
A futuristic shooter, Phalanx is the name of the prototype starfighter flown by Wink Baufield, a genetically enhanced pilot. It is sent to protect and reclaim Delia IV, a planet in the Andromeda galaxy, which has been colonized by humans fo
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Timed Sega exclusive
Capcom · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade +6
The players are members of a covert counter-terrorist team of mercenaries known as the "Wolf Force". The aim of the game was to rescue the former President from rebels in the fictional African country of Zutula, which bears resemblance to t
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Nintendo exclusive
Magical Company · NES
Sqoon is a side-scrolling shooter game published in 1986 by Irem for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
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Nintendo exclusive
Eidos Interactive · SNES
On the reptilian planet of Tirmat, scientists have discovered a rift in space and plan to use it to transport the planet's inhabitants before the planet is extinguished by sending their elite army through the rift and invade their closest n
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Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +1
Side scrolling shooter where players control two team members and infiltrate the famous prison. There are three missions to complete with a time limit of two hours. Some intermediate sections change to a shooting-gallery perspective. The g
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Sega exclusive
Sega Genesis
The searing hiss of metal breaks the silence of dawn. As I step through the fleshy remains of my previous opponent, I realize the metal behemoth I am about to face is more fiercely equipped with deadly roto-bore proton rockets. I know I re
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Nintendo exclusive
Torus Games · Game Boy Advance
Alien scientists have plotted to take over the earth; it's Duke Nukem's job to prevent them from executing their evil science project. Duke's using his full arsenal of weapons and is teleporting to various locations around the world in orde
80 rating3 lists
Nintendo exclusive
Color Dreams · NES
Menace Beach is a video game that was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System by Color Dreams in 1990. Like all Color Dreams games, Menace Beach was not officially licensed by Nintendo. It was also re-released as part of the Maxivisi
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Nintendo exclusive
Hot B · NES
Over Horizon is a Shoot-'Em-Up game, developed by Pixel and published by Hot-B, which was released in Europe in 1991.
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Sega exclusive
Now Production · Sega Genesis
The events in the third game in the series are synchronous with RT2. At the end of the twentieth century, satellites around the globe are being shot down, disrupting communications. Secret agency Rolling Thunder discovers the organization b
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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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Nintendo exclusive
SNES
"X-Kaliber 2097" consists of two modes. The first modes gameplay consists of side-scrolling action. The player can jump and swing a sword at enemies. The player can also deflect projectiles with the sword. The game also features one on one
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Sega console exclusive
Data East · Arcade, Sega Genesis, Sharp X68000
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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Namco · Arcade, Switch, PS4 +2
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
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PlayStation console exclusive
Microcabin · PS2, PS3, Windows
Naval Ops: Commander is the sequel to Naval Ops: Warship Gunner. It puts a more strategic and tactical focus on the franchise.
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PlayStation exclusive
Microcabin · PS2
The game is a one-player simulation of naval combat, in which the player commands an individual ship. In the opening cutscene, a World War II-era destroyer is caught in a dimension-warping vortex and transported to a parallel universe where
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Video System · Arcade, Neo Geo, Neo Geo CD +3
When enemy forces wipe out the jets of the Aero Fighters, they must scramble using heavily-modified World War II warplanes in the third installment of the comical Aero Fighters series.
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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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PlayStation exclusive
Guerrilla Cambridge · PlayStation
It is an action shooter set in a futuristic dystopian city on Earth overthrown by aliens. The game has two modes - third person and first person. Most of the time the player sees the character in third person, however the player can also se
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MS-DOS, Windows
Colony 28 is a science fiction-themed platform game developed for MS-DOS by Napoleon Games and published by JRC Interactive in 1997.
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Sandlot · PS3, Xbox 360
Earth Defense Force 2025 is the follow-up in the Earth Defense Force (EDF) series from Japanese developer Sandlot. The insects return from dormancy to end humanity with over-the-top action and massive city-leveling explosions that will entr
77 rating5 lists


Taito · ColecoVision, Arcade, PC-8800 Series +4
Front Line is a vertically scrolling action game. Your mission is to infiltrate enemy territory and destroy their fortress. To reach the fortress, you will have to make your way through varied and dangerous terrain. Jungles, deserts, brush,
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Nintendo exclusive
Odyssey Software · NES
Moon Ranger is an Action game, developed by Odyssey Software Inc. and published by Bunch Games, Inc., which was released in 1990.
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Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Atari ST +8
The time bomb is set. It's the only sure way to get rid of these aliens. For good. They're vile. Vicious. And villainous. And they've infested our outcolony. They're holding hundreds of inhabitants hostage. Some of them your friends. So get
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Toka · GameCube, PS2
Hidden Invasion is a action/adventure game for the PS2 and GameCube.
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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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