Atari exclusive
Atari 2600
A single screen crosshair shooter written by David Lubar.
1 listOften paired


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233 games like Space Eggs · 1977 – 2013
Atari exclusive
Atari 2600
A single screen crosshair shooter written by David Lubar.
1 listOften paired


Sentient Software Inc. · Commodore C64/128/MAX, Atari ST/STE, MS-DOS +2
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.
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Penguin Software · Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST +4
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.
1 listOften paired


Apple II, Atari 8-bit
Neybers is an interior design game where players decorate rooms using real products from real brands and designers.
1 listOften paired


Irem · Arcade
R-Type Leo is a horizontally scrolling shooter arcade game. It is a spin-off of the R-Type series and the last entry to be released in Arcades. R-Type Leo was initially an original shoot 'em up game in development by Nanao before Irem reto
85 rating1 listOften paired


Sirius Software · Apple II
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 listDescribed alike
Atari exclusive
Atari · Atari 2600
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 lists


Apple II, Atari 8-bit, TRS-80 +1
A horizontal scrolling shoot'em up written by John Anderson and published by Adventure International for various 8-bit platforms.
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Sirius Software · Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64 +1
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.
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Mattel Electronics · Intellivision
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
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Stavros Fasoulas · Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
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 list


Jeff Minter · Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Commodore VIC-20 +3
Gridrunner is a lot like Atari's arcade classic, Centipede.
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Atari, Inc. · Android, Apple II, Apple IIGS +15
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 story
Nintendo console exclusive
Capcom · Arcade, NES, Windows +1
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 lists
Sega exclusive
Sega Enterprises, Ltd. · Master System, Sega Master System/Mark III
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!
3 lists


NMK · Arcade, NES, Switch +1
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 lists


Atari · Arcade
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 list


Arcade, ColecoVision
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 lists


Arcade, MSX
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 lists
PlayStation console exclusive
SNK · Arcade, PS3, PlayStation Portable
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 lists
Nintendo console exclusive
Capcom · Arcade, NES, Windows +1
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
1 list
Sega exclusive
Sega Master System/Mark III
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!
1 list


Atari ST, Atari ST/STE, Commodore 64 +3
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 list


Particle Systems · Windows
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 story
Atari console exclusive
Arcade, Atari 2600
In this shoot 'em up the player has to fight off four assault waves consisting of different enemy types until he reaches a huge UFO. After destroying the protective plates guarding the UFO's pilot in his cockpit the player can kill the pilo
84 rating2 lists
NEC exclusive
Information Global Service · TurboGrafx-16
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
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Cinematronics · Arcade, Vectrex
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
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Timed Sega exclusive
Namco · 3DO, 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Android +4
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 rating2 lists


Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Commodore 64 +1
Swoop is a Galaxian clone for Macintosh by Ambrosia Software.
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Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
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
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Atari console exclusive
Data East · Arcade, Atari 7800
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 list
Atari console exclusive
James Wickstead Design Associates · Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit +1
Return of the Jedi: Death Star Battle is a Shoot 'em up video game published by Parker Brothers in 1983 for various Atari platforms and in 1984 for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. It was the first released video game to be based on the movie Retu
50 rating1 list
Sega console exclusive
Tiertex Design Studios · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade +7
Space Invaders is the most famous video game ever! Now SUPER SPACE INVADERS has arrived with a host of amazing new features - wave after wave of weird and hostile aliens, fantastic multiway scrolling playfields, huge end of level mega monst
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Namco · Apple II, Arcade, Atari 2600 +13
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
82 rating17 lists
Sega console exclusive
Coktel Vision · Sega Saturn, Windows
The Last Dynasty is a 1995 video game developed by Coktel Vision and published by Sierra On-Line for Microsoft Windows. In October 1996, German magazine MAN!AC previewed planned Sega Saturn and PlayStation conversions of The Last Dynasty.
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Amiga
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 list
Atari console exclusive
Parker Brothers · Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit +1
Return of the Jedi: Death Star Battle is a Shoot 'em up video game published by Parker Brothers in 1983 for various Atari platforms and in 1984 for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. It was the first released video game to be based on the movie Retu
50 rating4 lists


Nintendo console exclusive
Raffaele Cecco · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +6
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 lists
Timed PlayStation exclusive
Nichibutsu · Amstrad CPC, Arcade, BBC Microcomputer System +10
Moon Cresta is an arcade game released in 1980 by Nichibutsu. A moving starfield gives the impression of vertical scrolling, but the game is a fixed shooter in the vein of Namco's Galaxian. Incentive Software published a version of this ar
79 rating6 lists
Timed PlayStation exclusive
Switch, PS3, PlayStation Portable +1
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 lists
Nintendo console exclusive
Nichibutsu · Arcade, Switch
A shooter from the same company who brought you Terra Cresta.
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Android, Windows, iOS
Artemis is a multiplayer, multi-computer networked game for Windows computers, and now IOS devices too. Artemis simulates a spaceship bridge by networking several computers together. One computer runs the simulation and the “main screen”,
80 rating2 lists4 h main story


Sierra On-Line · 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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Konami · Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 5200 +5
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
70 rating9 lists


TurboGrafx-16, Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD, Wii +1
Image Fight II Operation Deepstriker is a vertical shooter by Irem and sequel of the arcade game Image Fight originally released in 1988 (and ported to the PC Engine in 1990). Humanity tries to rebuild itself from the aftermath of the first
3 lists
Atari console exclusive
Arcade, Atari 5200, Commodore 64 +1
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.
60 rating1 list