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ShooterSpaceshipHigh scoreSingle-screen levelNever-ending

The 'Acme Interstellar Transport Company' is delivering spaceship kits to various planets in the solar system throughout the Galaxy; and as chief test pilot, all you have to do is assemble the Rockets, and thrust on to your next destination

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ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterHigh scoreSingle-screen level

In 2084, man creates a species of super-advanced cyborgs known as Robotrons. Recognizing the imperfect nature of their creators, the Robotrons conclude that the inefficient human race must be exterminated. In Robotron: 2084, only you and a

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Shoot 'em upShooterSingle-screen levelUnbeatable enemiesNever-ending

Maneuver your humanoid through the electrified mazes of robot filled rooms. You many kill off the first group of robots but initial success does not mean survival...future groups begin firing at your! Added danger lurks when Evil Otto enter

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ArcadeShooterShoot 'em upHigh scoreSingle-screen level

Centipede is a vertically-oriented shoot 'em up arcade game produced by Atari, Inc. in 1980. The game was designed by Ed Logg along with Dona Bailey, one of the few female game programmers in the industry at this time. It was also the first

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ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterSingle-screen levelNever-ending

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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ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipHigh score

Zaxxon is a 1982 isometric shooter arcade game developed and released by Sega. The game gives the player the experience of flying a fighter craft through a fortress while shooting at enemy entities (missiles, enemy gunfire, etc.) The object

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ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipAction

Alpha Mission is a vertical scrolling shooter that has similarities to Xevious, with the use of air-to-air and air-to-ground weapons.

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ArcadeShooterShoot 'em upSpaceshipHigh score

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

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ActionShooterScience fictionThird personStrategy

Stand and fight for humanity. This arcade shooter takes place in the year 2022, as the Earth Defense Force fends off an all-out attack by unknown life forms. Become an EDF soldier, battle against endless hordes of immense enemies, and resto

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ShooterActionScience fictionFirst-person shooterScience

A tropical paradise seethes with hidden evil in Far Cry, a cunningly detailed action shooter that pushed the boundaries of combat to shocking new levels.Freelance mariner Jack Carver is cursing the day he ever came to this island. A week ag

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ShooterActionThird personMMOThird-person shooter

GunZ: The Duel is an online third-person shooting game. The game allowed players to perform exaggerated, gravity-defying moves, including wall running, stunning, tumbling, and blocking bullets with swords, in the style of action films and a

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ShooterActionScience fictionThird personBeat 'em up

Gundam Breaker lets players customize their own Gundam models and then pilot them in battles against other models of all different sizes in real world locations. The title could easily be described as a Dynasty Warriors-style hack and slash

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ActionShooterSpaceshipScience fictionScrolling shooter

Penetrator is an early Sinclair ZX Spectrum game made by Melbourne House programmers Philip Mitchell and Veronika Megler, one of the early hits. It was released in 1982 as a clone of the Scramble arcade game. In Penetrator, the gamer flies

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Vigilance is a third-person shooter that follows eight agents working for the counter-terrorist organization SION (Special Intelligence Operations Network). The game combines first and third person perspective, allowing the player to contro

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ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipHigh score

Galaxian is a shooter arcade game developed by Namco in 1979. It was released by Namco in Japan and a few months later by Midway Games in North America. The game was developed to compete with Taito Corporation's Space Invaders, released a y

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ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterNever-endingSpeech synthesis

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

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The Player controls a spaceship viewed from "above" in a 2D representation of space, by rotating the ship, and using thrust to give the ship momentum. To slow down or completely stop moving, the player has to rotate the ship to face the dir

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Shoot 'em upShooterActionThird personRail shooter

Sky Destroyer is a rail shooter video game in which the player controls a WWII Japanese monoplane. The pilot is required to destroy enemies to clear stages. It was released by Taito Corporation in 1985 for video arcades as well as for the F

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ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipAction

Basic Sega shoot-em-up in which you must guide your ship through three zones while avoiding hazards. Your only weapon are bullets as your only defense, but if you shoot the flashing red pieces on the terrain, chances are that a green ship w

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ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterTitular antagonistAction

The player has just attracted the attention of Spyrus the Deathless, the Timelord of Chaos, and his only defense is his Time Machine's laser cannon. The Timelord will now send his fleet of Time Ships to destroy the player. In this space sh

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ShooterActionBird view / Isometric

Vasara is an arcade scroll shooter game released by Visco in 2000. All six stages. The motif is the Battle of Sekigahara and the Jin of Osaka, but all the cavalry has been replaced with air bikes, and battleships and tanks have appeared, cr

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ArcadeShooterShoot 'em upSpeech synthesisAction

The player controls a ship (bearing a resemblance to the Battlestar Galactica) which can fire and move left or right. The player must continuously monitor the onscreen temperature and fuel gauges; if the ship overheats, its weapon is disabl

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ShooterActionThird personHero shooterMOBA

Deadlock is an upcoming multiplayer game from Valve in early development.

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ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterHigh scoreNever-ending

The object of Laser Blast is to destroy a series of land-based enemies. The player controls a fleet of flying saucers, operating one at a time. On the planet surface below are a group of three mobile laser bases, guarded by an invisible for

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ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterHigh scoreSingle-screen level

Satan's Hollow is a shoot 'em up arcade game released by Bally Midway in 1982, subsequently converted to the Atari 8-bit family, and in 1984 to Commodore 64.

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ActionShooterThird personSuggestive themesVirtual Reality

The summer of bouncy, high-flying hijinks continues for the girls of SENRAN KAGURA! They've fought rival ninja, evil masterminds, and apocalyptic demons from beyond the veil of sanity, but nothing—NOTHING in their lives has ever prepared th

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ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterNever-endingAction

In Astrosmash you control a laser canon at the bottom of the screen; your goal is to earn as many points as possible by destroying the various incoming meteors, bombs, and other objects. Points are earned for destroying objects, while point

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ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

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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Shoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipHigh scoreNever-ending

Gorf actually consists in the Arcade version of five different types of space shooters. The first one ist basically is a Space Invaders clone. In the second one a formation of space ships is hovering at the top of the screen while single sp

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ArcadeShooterShoot 'em upSpaceshipSingle-screen level

Gyruss is a shoot 'em up video arcade game developed by Konami, and released in 1983. It was designed by Yoshiki Okamoto, who had earlier created Time Pilot for Konami. Gyruss was licensed to Centuri in the United States, and was ported to

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ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipHigh score

R-Type is set in the 22nd century, and the player flies a futuristic fighter craft called the R-9a "Arrowhead", named for its shape, and because it is the ninth model in the 'R' series of fighter craft (but it is the first of the series to

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ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterHigh scoreAction

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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ActionShooterThird personSimulationModern warfare

Choose a tank, pick troopers, and battle your friends via local wireless. Each trooper has a special ability, from electric shocks to healing. Battle with bombs, on teams, or in a free-for-all, but always fight!

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ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

Aliens is an arcade game based loosely on the 1986 movie Aliens. You and a friend play female Marines and you must explore and destroy all aliens who have taken over a now abandoned space settlement LV426 Acheron. If you can find any surviv

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ActionShooterPlatformerRun and gun

Despite their latest failures, the CT Special Forces unit is called upon once again to diffuse increased terrorist activity around the globe. Armed with high-tech weaponry and equipment, you must thwart the plans of terrorist groups and ens

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ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterHigh scoreSingle-screen level

Stanley is a bugman. Donkey Kong has taken refuge in his greenhouse and it is now up to Stanley to stop the ape from stirring up any more insects that will soon destroy his flowers. Stanley saves the flowers by spraying bug spray on Donkey

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ShooterActionThird personStrategy3d

Unlike the original "EDF" series, which are drawn in a photo-realistic world, this game is boldly drawn in a voxel world! For people who just hate the look of huge real insects, or who are not so good at some brutal in-game expressions, thi

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ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipSpeech synthesis

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

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ShooterActionNinjaBird view / Isometric

Vasara is an arcade scroll shooter game released by Visco in 2000. All six stages. The motif is the Battle of Sekigahara and the Jin of Osaka, but all the cavalry has been replaced with air bikes, and battleships and tanks have appeared, cr

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Wizball is a scrolling shooter in similar vein to Gradius with an additional collection dynamic. It is a horizontally scrolling game taking place over eight levels, which involves navigating around a landscape and shooting at sprites. Howev

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ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

A mothership drops aliens, up to three on screen at a time. There are ten per level. You must shoot them but avoid the items they fire at you. You fire by pushing up on the joystick. Pushing left or right makes you go left or right. If you

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ShooterActionThird personAction-adventureThird-person shooter

Chili Con Carnage is a semi-sequel to the Latin-style action game Total Overdose. The game has new missions and a structure fine-tuned for handheld play. The single player mode El Macho is a collection of different mini challenges which do

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ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipSingle-screen level

Computer Space is a video arcade game released in 1971 by Nutting Associates. Created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, who would both later found Atari, Inc., it is generally accepted that it was the world's first commercially sold coin-op

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Kaboom! is an unauthorized adaptation of the 1978 Atari coin-op Avalanche. The gameplay of both games is fundamentally the same, but Kaboom! was re-themed to be about a mad bomber instead of falling rocks. Gameplay in Kaboom! consists of u

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ArcadeSpaceshipHigh scoreActionScience fiction

In this psychedelic sci-fi Olympiad, athletes from planets across the galaxy gather to compete in the Purple Saturn Day games.

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ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

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

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A top-down, vertical-scrolling shooter from the late 80s.

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The aim of this shooter game is to pilot a spacecraft which must pick up a pod using a tractor beam and fly it into space. The ship and pod are subject to gravity and inertia, and being connected by a stiff rod, they can end up spinning aro

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