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240 games like Space War · 1971 – 2023
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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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
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Atari console exclusiveAcorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, Atari 2600 +9
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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Atari ST, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX
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
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Bandai Namco Entertainment · Arcade, Namco System ES3
Star Wars: Battle Pod is a experiential arcade game that features a dome-shaped screen, transporting players into heated battles in a galaxy far, far away. In iconic locations like the Death Star, players will be able to take control of som
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Timed PlayStation exclusive
PS5, Windows, Xbox Series
Forever Skies is a first-person action survival game. Return to Earth destroyed by an ecological disaster, fly a high-tech airship, expand, rebuild and repair it. Scavenge resources to survive, face the dangers of the surface as you will hu
70 rating2 lists27 h main storyOften paired
Atari exclusiveAtari · 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
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Tsunami Games · MS-DOS
A space exploration, trade, and combat simulation by Tsunami Games
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Amiga, Apple II, Commodore 64 +2
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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Nasir Gebelli · Apple II, Atari 8-bit
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.
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MS-DOS
Players control a star ship pilot who is a member of the Star Ranger Corps., the security force of the galaxy.
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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
Nintendo exclusive
Hudson Soft · NES
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
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Dominic Robinson · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +4
Zynaps is a traditional "left to right" shooter
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Windows
It's the year 2351, and you're a pilot trying to rise through the ranks all the way to glory. As a member of the Galactic Federation, you'll be granted more than 20 weapons to use in each pass-fail mission. Your goal is to defend the planet
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Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Commodore MAX Machine +2
Use thruster control to land the spaceship on the surface of Jupiter. Fuel consumption and speed readings are important for the player to determine how to land the craft. Choose from three landing pads of varying difficulty. Easiest landing
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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.
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Atari exclusive
Atari 2600
A single screen crosshair shooter written by David Lubar.
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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
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NEC exclusiveInformation 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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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
Sega console exclusive
Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Commodore 64 +4
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
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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
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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.
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Sirius Software · Acorn Electron, Apple II, Atari 8-bit +2
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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Cinematronics · Arcade, Commodore PET, Vectrex
Space Wars is an early vector graphics arcade game. It is based on Spacewar!, a PDP-1 program. It was ported to the Vectrex in 1982. Space Wars was the brainchild of Larry Rosenthal, an MIT graduate who was fascinated with the original Spac
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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
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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
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Manfred Trenz · Amiga, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX
Throughout time, man has been a victim of his own intelligence and his insatiable thirst for knowledge. The Planet Katakis is a horrifying example. Scientists created Machines which became so sophisticated that they longer depended on man
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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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Atari 8-bit, Commodore PET, TRS-80 +2
A mix of an arcade and simulation game written by Sparky Starks in which the player pilots a spacecraft, the SC-78503 Starfighter, with the goal to destroy hostile enemy spacecraft.
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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
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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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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
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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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Nintendo console exclusiveCapcom · 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
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Linux, Windows, macOS
Endless Sky is an open source 2D space trading and combat game inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. Work your way up from a relatively wimpy shuttle, cargo ship, or fighter, to a highly upgraded and customized flagship or to a ma
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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
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Sega exclusive
Game Gear
An evil government has trapped you in a futurustic labyrinth! Fight your way through urban mazes in pursuit of hidden keys... the keys to expose the government's corruption.
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PlayStation exclusive
SCE Studio Liverpool · PlayStation
After the first Colony Wars game, the Earth Empire was defeated... and the remnants of this regime sealed inside of the Sol System, cut off from the rest of the galaxy by some unknown technology. Within Sol, the Earth Empire civilization ha
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Nutting Associates · Arcade
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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Apple II
You try to accumulate as much money as possible while trading between the stars.
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Nintendo exclusiveColor Dreams · NES
Your starship is alive - a metamorphic creature that can transform from a huge flying insect into a metallic destroyer! Penetrate squadron after squadron of bizarre alien fortifications. March onward to a final confrontation against an all-
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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
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Origin Systems · Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST +10
Dropping out of hyperspace, you lay a course of Lagrange Station. Suddenly, the klaxon screams out a warning. Two Darts and a Corsair, closing fast. Pirates! You roll hard to avoid the incoming plasma torps. One hits, knocking down your re
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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
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