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343 games like Space Launcher · 1979 – 2023

  • Why 88Form.63World.48Curated.82Lists.00Arcade · Space invaders clone · Often paired

    Commodore International · Commodore C64/128/MAX, Commodore VIC-20, VIC-20

    ArcadeSpace invaders cloneActionScience fictionSide view

    Avenger is a Space Invaders variant. The player has to defend Earth from endless rows of attacking aliens. Flying saucers can be shot for extra points.

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  • Why 77Form.16World.25Curated.89Lists.00Arcade · High score · Often paired

    Atari Games · Arcade

    ArcadeHigh scoreActionScience fictionFirst-person shooter

    Area 51: Site 4 is a light gun arcade game developed by Atari Games in 1998. It is a sequel to the original Area 51, picking up where that game left off. Though the graphics have been improved, they rely on the same FMV streaming technology

    1 listOften paired

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  • Why 70Form.12World.25Curated.78Lists.00Arcade · High score · Often paired

    Atari · Arcade, macOS

    ArcadeHigh scoreActionScience fictionGame of skill

    Enter a subatomic world. Using the trackball, capture particles by circling them with your probes tail.

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  • Why 70Form.57World1.00Curated.28Lists.00Arcade · Space invaders clone · Described alike

    Nintendo Research & Development 1 · Arcade

    ArcadeSpace invaders cloneActionScience fictionSide view

    Shoot aliens as they move across the screen. Shoot the spaceship for extra points. Choose one of three games. Space Fever is a 1979 arcade game by Nintendo R&D2. Some sources claim that Ikegami Tsushinki also did design work on Space Fever

    1 listDescribed alike

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  • Atari console exclusiveWhy 67Form.19World.63Curated.60Lists.00Arcade · High score · Often paired

    Exidy · Arcade, Atari 2600, Commodore 64

    ArcadeHigh scoreActionScience fictionShoot 'em up

    Star Fire is an early color game programmed by David Rolfe with graphics designed by Ted Michon and Susan Ogg. It was released by Exidy in 1979. Star Fire is a first-person space shooter where your mission is to seek out and destroy enemy s

    1 listOften paired

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  • Atari exclusiveWhy 65Form.16World.25Curated.65Lists.00Arcade · High score · Often paired

    Mattel Electronics · Atari 2600, Intellivision

    ActionArcadeHigh scoreScience fictionShooter

    The ultimate in futuristic adventure! Based on the Motion Picture from Walt Disney Productions. Move TRON safely through battle against warriors attacking in waves of three against one. Lethal saucers are the weapons. Score points by knocki

    4 listsOften paired

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  • Atari exclusiveWhy 61Form.14World.31Curated.60Lists.00Arcade · High score · Often paired

    Atari 2600

    ArcadeHigh scoreActionScience fictionSide view

    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

    56 rating2 listsOften paired

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  • Why 60Form.08World.27Curated.62Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    Windows, iOS, macOS

    ArcadeActionScience fictionShoot 'em upShooter

    Warblade is a shareware computer game for Microsoft Windows and OS X, written by Norwegian developer Edgar M. Vigdal. The Windows version runs well on Linux under Wine. It is also available for retail in the App Store for iOS devices (in iP

    1 listOften paired

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  • Why 58Form.05World.25Curated.61Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    Llamasoft · Atari 2600, Switch, PS4 +5

    ArcadeActionScience fictionBullet hellShoot 'em up

    Akka Arrh is a previously unreleased prototype game created 1982 for the arcade. It saw it's first release in 2022 as part of the the Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration.

    80 rating4 lists2.5 h main storyOften paired

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  • Nintendo exclusiveWhy 54Form.11World.27Curated.51Lists.00Arcade · High score · Often paired

    Givro · SNES

    ArcadeHigh scoreActionScience fictionNinja

    Shien and Aska were swift ninjas fighting in a civil war. Having defeated hundreds of enemy soldiers, monsters suddenly appear and kidnap Aska. It is up to Shien to defeat them and rescue Aska from these creatures beyond the Time Gate. Shi

    2 listsOften paired

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  • Why 52Form.06World.25Curated.52Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +6

    ActionArcadeScience fictionSide viewBreakout/arkanoid clone

    With Krypton Egg you will get back to the pleasures of a good breakout. The objective remains the same: destroy all the bricks of the level using only one ball in order to go to the next level. You can go up to the 72nd level proposed by t

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  • Atari exclusiveWhy 52Form.09World.72Curated.40Lists.00Arcade

    Atari 2600

    ArcadeActionScience fictionSide viewHorizontally scrolling shooter

    You are the Space Jockey, pilot of an attack saucer which is positioned on the left side of the screen and can move up and down. From the right side of the screen, a barrage of tanks, jet planes, prop planes and helicopters will fire upon a

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  • Nintendo exclusiveWhy 50Form.04World.25Curated.47Lists.00Arcade

    Cirque Verte · NES

    ArcadeActionScience fictionLight gun shooterShooter

    In the year 2050 the Earth has been attacked by the villainous Raggosians and it is your job to save the planet! You will need to pilot your ship, The Tempest, to the planets Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Earth in order to retrieve certain m

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  • Why 49Form.06World.60Curated.40Lists.00Arcade

    Taito · Arcade, PlayStation, Sega CD +1

    ArcadeScience fictionShoot 'em upShooterOn-rails

    Night Striker (ナイトストライカー) is an arcade game developed by Taito. It is a futuristic on-the-rails shooter which plays similarly to Sega's Space Harrier, though has you pilot a hover vehicle instead. The game was brought to the Sega Mega-CD i

    4 lists

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  • Atari console exclusiveWhy 48Form.20World.42Curated.32Lists.00Arcade

    Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit

    ArcadeActionScience fictionSide viewShooter

    The thousand galaxies quake at the news: the Cryptic Computer, the galactic defense synthesizer which has maintained peace for the five centuries since the Wars on Zevon, has malfunctioned! Four Failsafe Detonators inside the Computer will

    65 rating1 list

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  • Atari exclusiveWhy 48Form.07World.25Curated.45Lists.00Arcade

    CommaVid · Atari 2600

    ActionArcadeScience fictionMazeStrategy

    You are a robot - the last "survivor" in the mines of Minos. In order to still win against the overwhelming enemy you must collect robot spare parts to build yourself a small army. In order to achieve this you rummage through the maze-like

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  • Atari exclusiveWhy 48Form.13World.70Curated.32Lists.00Arcade

    Atari 2600

    ArcadeActionScience fictionSide viewShoot 'em up

    Spider Fighter is a Space Invaders style game. It is your mission to prevent space spiders from stealing your food reserves which are located on the top right of the screen. The spiders hatch from cocoons which are dropped from the top left

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  • Why 48Form.07World.29Curated.45Lists.00Arcade

    Amiga, Apple II, Commodore 64 +2

    ArcadeActionScience fictionFirst-person shooterSimulation

    In Stellar 7, a remake of the 1983 game, you drive the Raven, the most advanced Terran fighting vehicle. You are up against Gir Draxon and his evil Arcturan army. You will go from star system to star system, fighting his forces. When the en

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  • Why 47Form.14World.55Curated.32Lists.00Arcade

    BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Dragon 32/64 +2

    ActionArcadeScience fictionSide viewShooter

    In this unique shooter from 1984. take on the role of a pilot of an out-dated Cosmic Cruiser, fighting to rescue the crew of a distant space station that had been captured by a raiding party from the sinister Rallom Empire.

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  • Why 47Form.04World.25Curated.45Lists.00Arcade

    Radical Entertainment · PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Windows

    ActionArcadeShooterFuturistic3d platformer

    Grid Runner is a futuristic version of "tag." On offense, your objective is to capture the flags around the levels without being tagged or killed. On defense, your main objective is to tag the other player (either the computer or a friend i

    60 rating2 lists

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  • Why 47Form.05World.25Curated.45Lists.00Arcade

    Magnavox Odyssey 2, Odyssey 2 / Videopac G7000

    ArcadeActionScience fictionRobotsBees

    The Beebots from the insect civilization of BEM are invading the Earth, protected by swarms of Killer Bees, and it's up to a swarm of white bees to stop them. The player control the white bees swarm, trying to kill the Beebots by flying ov

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  • Why 47Form.13World.65Curated.32Lists.00Arcade

    Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64 +3

    ArcadeActionScience fictionSide viewShoot 'em up

    In this game, you must guide your spaceship around while picking up hostages located on the surface, and bring them to safety. Your task becomes difficult by lunar leepers who leap up and try to grab you or the hostages that are picked up b

    64 rating2 lists

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  • Why 47Form.13World.63Curated.32Lists.00Arcade

    Menace

    1988

    Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +3

    ArcadeActionScience fictionSide viewShoot 'em up

    This is a pure arcade game- a fast action packed journey through six very different worlds where lightning fast reflexes and furious fire button action are your only hope of survival. Your mission orders are simple, you must destroy the pl

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  • Atari console exclusiveWhy 47Form.04World.30Curated.45Lists.00Arcade

    Gottlieb · Arcade, Atari 2600

    ActionArcadeScience fictionGravityAbstract

    Your space ship is wihtin a nuclear reactor. At the center is the core whose walls are deadly for you if you touch them. Over time, the core starts to melt down and in the process starts to expand which leaves you less space to navigate. Yo

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  • Why 47Form.04World.26Curated.45Lists.00Arcade

    Snipes

    1983

    Drew Major · Android, Linux, MS-DOS

    ArcadeActionShoot 'em upShooterText adventure

    Snipes is an arcade style action game. You are in a large maze along with a number of generators. The generators create the enemy Snipes, and to win the game you need to shoot all of the generators and all of the Snipes they create. The gam

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  • Atari console exclusiveWhy 47Form.58World.73Curated.00Lists.00Space invaders clone

    Sega Enterprises, Ltd. · Arcade, Atari 2600

    Space invaders cloneActionScience fictionShooterBird view / Isometric

    Space Attack is an arcade shooting game, released by Sega for VIC Dual hardware in 1979. In the US it is thought to have been renamed Super Space Attack - whether there are in fact two separate games is currently unknown, but the two are ex

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  • Atari exclusiveWhy 47Form.07World.37Curated.41Lists.00Arcade

    Atari Games · Atari 2600, Atari 7800, ColecoVision +1

    ArcadeActionScience fictionShoot 'em upShooter

    Star Wars: Return of the Jedi - Ewok Adventure, also known as Revenge of the Jedi: Game I is a cancelled 1983 shoot 'em up video game based on the Star Wars: Return of the Jedi film. The game was developed by Atari Games and to be published

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  • Why 47Form.10World.59Curated.34Lists.00Arcade · High score

    Cinematronics · Arcade, Vectrex

    ArcadeHigh scoreActionScience fictionFirst-person shooter

    Starhawk is a 1979 vector arcade game by Cinematronics. Starhawk is a shoot 'em up with a fixed environment. The game was unique at the time as it presented the graphics in a pseudo-three dimensional way. Essentially, the game is a simple v

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  • Why 46Form.11World.25Curated.39Lists.00Arcade

    Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Commodore 64 +3

    ActionArcadeScience fictionSide viewShooter

    Aliens: The Computer Game is a 1986 video game developed and published by Activision for the Commodore 64, Apple II based on the film of the same title. As Activision's UK subsidiary Electric Dreams Software had independently released their

    2 lists

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  • Atari console exclusiveWhy 46Form.07World.65Curated.34Lists.00Arcade

    First Star Software · Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 5200 +3

    ArcadeActionScience fictionSide viewShoot 'em up

    Astro Chase is a multidirectional shooter written by Fernando Herrera for Atari 8-bit computers. It was published by First Star Software in 1982 as the company's first game. Parker Brothers licensed it, releasing cartridge versions for the

    62 rating1 list

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  • Why 46Form.04World.25Curated.45Lists.00Arcade

    ATF

    1988

    Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1

    ArcadeActionScience fictionShoot 'em upShooter

    The display is a third-person view showing the player's ATF, which remains stationary on screen as the scenery scrolls past it, which takes up most of the screen. A head-up display is superimposed on the main screen; this shows engine thrus

    77 rating2 lists

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  • Why 46Form.15World.51Curated.32Lists.00Arcade

    Arcade, MSX

    ArcadeActionScience fictionSide viewShoot 'em up

    A shooter where fleets of ships fly in from either of the screen and loop around in formation. The player may move around the screen in any direction.

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  • Why 46Form.05World.44Curated.40Lists.00Arcade

    Dave Theurer · Arcade

    ArcadeActionScience fictionPlatformerShoot 'em up

    The game play consists of moving robot1984 over all of the red tiles while avoiding objects flying at you from the back of the screen. Eliminating the red tiles diminishes the shield at the back of the playfield which prevents you from flyi

    70 rating2 lists

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  • Why 46Form.04World.25Curated.45Lists.00Arcade

    Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Windows +1

    ArcadeActionScience fictionShooterModern warfare

    The display is a third-person view showing the player's ATF, which remains stationary on screen as the scenery scrolls past it, which takes up most of the screen. A head-up display is superimposed on the main screen; this shows engine thrus

    77 rating1 list

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  • Timed NEC exclusiveWhy 46Form.20World.39Curated.30Lists.00Arcade

    Irem · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade +5

    ArcadeActionScience fictionSide viewShooter

    It is your mission, 'Mr. Heli' our hero, to unmask 'The Muddy' who is hiding deep underground and rescue the planet. Clear all the zones including floating green islands, moving rock beds, mysterious underground temples, and much more! The

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  • Why 46Form.09World.28Curated.40Lists.00Arcade

    Krome Studios Melbourne · Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum

    ActionArcadeScience fictionSide viewAdvergame

    Originally a generic Rampage clone, Beam Software struck a deal with confectionary giant Leaf UK to incorporate their Chewits mascot known as 'The Muncher' into the game. While the mascot's promotional images and brand name were used, the g

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  • Why 45Form.07World.25Curated.40Lists.00Arcade

    Atari, Inc. · Commodore C64/128/MAX, Commodore VIC-20, VIC-20

    ArcadeActionScience fictionMazeBird view / Isometric

    A maze game for Commodore computers.

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  • Why 45Form.07World.66Curated.32Lists.00Arcade

    Konami · Arcade, ZX Spectrum

    ArcadeActionScience fictionSide viewFixed shooter

    The player controls a small spaceship is at the bottom of the screen. Like most Space Invaders-type games of the period, the ship can move left and right (but not up or down), and can fire one bullet at a time. The ship may not fire again u

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  • Nintendo console exclusiveWhy 45Form.08World.62Curated.32Lists.00Arcade

    Taito · Arcade, FM-7, NEC PC-8800 series +5

    ArcadeActionScience fictionShoot 'em upShooter

    A vertical scrolling space shooter.

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  • Why 45Form.12World.41Curated.32Lists.00Arcade

    Nintendo Research & Development 1 · Arcade, Zilog Z80

    ActionArcadeScience fictionShooterBird view / Isometric

    Space Firebird is a 1980 arcade game published by Gremlin Industries, Inc. It is a "slide and shoot" shooter, similar to titles such as Galaga.

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  • Why 44Form.11World.46Curated.32Lists.00Arcade

    A-Jax

    1987

    Konami · Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Commodore 64 +6

    ArcadeActionScience fictionShooterThird person

    In this arcade shoot'em up your mission is to infiltrate the alien fortress during 6 levels, and to destroy the fortress and the alien. Sitting in Ajax H.Q., you must pilot the remote controlled drone ship to do this. The drone represents j

    68 rating2 lists

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  • Why 44Form.05World.67Curated.32Lists.00Arcade

    Freeverse · macOS

    ArcadeActionScience fictionShoot 'em upShooter

    Join Lancer Squad, an elite unit of flight-capable troops, on their current mission to battle an extraterrestrial army set on taking control the universe's evil war machine. Active Lancer confronts you (and a companion if necessary) against

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  • Why 44Form.04World.25Curated.40Lists.00Arcade

    Quicksilva · Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum

    ActionArcadeScience fictionAntsGiant insects

    An ant attack where players must rescue their partner from giant ants.

    80 rating1 list

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  • Why 44Form.18World.25Curated.32Lists.00Arcade

    Apple II, Atari 8-bit

    ArcadeActionScience fictionSide viewShooter

    Aquatron is a side-scrolling shooter in which the player controls a spaceship over a planet completely covered with water. Unfortunately the planet is under attack and in each level, the player has to kill the steadily increasing opposition

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  • Why 44Form.11World.44Curated.32Lists.00Arcade

    UPL · Arcade, Switch, PS4 +1

    ArcadeActionScience fictionSide viewScience

    Bio-ship Paladin is a 1990 horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game. It was later ported to the Sega Mega Drive. While the game is essentially a standard horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up, it has an innovation that makes it unique

    3 lists

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  • Why 44Form.05World.29Curated.40Lists.00Arcade

    ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC

    ArcadeActionScience fictionFirst-person shooterFlight simulation

    The story has the solar system under threat from Myon invaders. MAT ("Mission: Alien Termination") is a teenager implanted with all the combined tactical skills of the planetary leaders. MAT pilots a prototype spacecraft, the USS Centurion,

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