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362 games like Space Wars · 1980 – 2023
Atari console exclusive
Tim Skelly · Arcade, Atari 7800, Vectrex
Rip-Off is a vector shoot 'em up released in arcades by Cinematronics in 1980. It is the first shoot 'em up arcade game to feature cooperative gameplay and the first game to exhibit "flocking" behavior. The objective is to prevent computer-
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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
68 rating2 listsOften paired
Atari console exclusive
Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 5200
Fly your squadron of five ships around shooting down the enemy pilots. When you get hit, you simply lose one of your ships. After each round, you'll get a replacement ship which you have to maneuver into your formation or it's lost forever.
80 rating5 listsOften paired
Konami · Arcade, Atari 7800, Game Boy Advance +4
The player controls an aircraft, referred to in the game as a "Jet," and has to guide it across a scrolling terrain, battling obstacles along the way. The ship is armed with a forward-firing weapon and bombs; each weapon has its own button.
60 rating8 listsOften paired
GCE · Vectrex
The game begins with a large enemy ship dropping mines onto the field as an ominous jingle plays, and moves from the top to the bottom of the screen, where it disappears. The player's ship starts in the middle of the field with 5 lives. Num
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Timed Atari exclusive
Atari Corporation · Atari Jaguar, MS-DOS, PlayStation +3
Tempest 2000 is a tube shooter video game. Taking control of the claw-shaped Blaster spacecraft from the original game, the player has to survive and travel across multiple levels until the end in an intergalactic war, battling against a va
70 rating7 listsOften paired
Atari console exclusive
Atari, Inc. · Arcade, Atari 2600
Gravitar is a color vector graphics arcade game released by Atari, Inc. in 1982. The player controls a small blue spacecraft in a fictional solar system with several planets to explore. If the player moves his ship into a planet, he will be
65 rating1 listOften paired
Linux, Windows
Captain Forever was inspired by the 2007 freeware game Battleships Forever, which itself drew inspiration from the 2003 game Warning Forever. The player pilots a ship with the ability to be expanded by attaching 'modules' (such as lasers or
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Windows
Captain Forever was inspired by the 2007 freeware game Battleships Forever, which itself drew inspiration from the 2003 game Warning Forever. The player pilots a ship with the ability to be expanded by attaching 'modules' (such as lasers or
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Windows
Warning Forever is a top-down shooter that pits you against a never-ending onslaught of procedurally-generated bosses which evolve to counter your strategies.
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Windows, iOS, macOS
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
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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
36 rating1 listOften paired
Atari console exclusive
Apple II, Arcade, Atari 2600 +8
Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator is an arcade action game where you take control of the Starship Enterprise. Your mission is to save the Federation from NOMAD! Before you get a chance at destroying NOMAD, you'll have to battle your
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Llamasoft · Atari 2600, Switch, PS4 +5
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
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
80 rating1 listOften paired
Meta Quest, Oculus VR, Windows
Use creative combat tactics and skill shots to earn high scores as you teleport through city streets and rooftops in an awe-inspiring ballet of bullets. Tear apart your robot foes and use them to fend off the enemy onslaught. Unlock, custom
89 rating1 listOften paired
Arcade
Space Lords is a video game released in arcades by Atari Games in 1992. It is a first-person perspective space combat video game which allows the player to fly in any direction.
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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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TRS-80, TRS-80 Color Computer, Vectrex +2
In the arcade game Tempest, players controlled a blaster that could move around the outermost lanes of a bunch of geometrically-shaped levels and fire at ships that emerged from the middle or innermost areas of those levels. Bedlam, howeve
80 rating4 lists
Atari console exclusive
First Star Software · Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 5200 +3
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
Atari exclusive
Imagic · Atari 2600
Pilot Star Voyager through treacherous space. As you look out from the Command Bridge, stars rush past. Penetrate the seven star portals and save the Capital Starport. Destroy enemy ships with photon torpedoes or lasers, or evade them to ma
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Arcade, MSX
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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Atari console exclusive
Cheshire Engineering · Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit +6
A web of iridescent blue beams engulfs Earth-Space. You stand watching. Mesmerized at first, you now realize the beams support weapons, frightening creations in different forms. Will you just watch or will you take action? Action??!! Then r
59 rating7 lists
Atari · Arcade, macOS
Enter a subatomic world. Using the trackball, capture particles by circling them with your probes tail.
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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
58 rating1 list
ADK · Arcade
A vertical-scrolling shoot-em-up where the player controls a plane flying over a landscape with no land-based enemies. Collect power-ups to upgrade your ship's speed, shot power and special weapon power selected at beginning of the stage. F
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Arcade
You have to infiltrate eight space cities which are held captive by robots. Asteroids-style you fight the robot squadrons.
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Arcade
This 1981 vector graphics arcade game is available in both two- and four-player configurations. A top-down space shooter set within a bounded playfield, where the player maneuvers a ship using rotation, thrust and forward-firing controls (
42 rating1 listDescribed alike
Atari console exclusive
Taito · Arcade, Atari 2600
Here, you control a ship through a human's body while shooting viruses. It was licensed by Fox Video Games, as it is based on the 20th Century Fox film, Fantastic Voyage.
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Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +3
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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Dominic Robinson · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +4
Zynaps is a traditional "left to right" shooter
80 rating3 lists
Nintendo console exclusive
Konami · Arcade, Nintendo Switch 2
This game has flavors of several different video games rolled into one. It is mostly like Xevious, being an overhead shooter against a plethora of enemies, each with a unique characteristic. Unlike Xevious, however, that only allowed you to
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Atari exclusive
Atari 2600
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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Namco · Arcade, Switch, PS4 +1
Bakutotsu Kijuutei, also known by its longer title as Bakutotsu Kijuutei: Baraduke II, is a scrolling shooter arcade game that was released by Namco in 1988 only in Japan. As in the original game, the players again take control of Takky (Pl
2 lists
Atari console exclusive
Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit
An excellent arcade-style shooter, Caverns of Mars is a downward-scrolling game where players must pilot their craft through a series of five underground levels filled with alien ships, narrow passageways and a variety of obstacles, includi
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Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64 +3
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
Atari exclusive
Atari 2600
You are on a moon-based scouting mission in a Mark 16 Starcruiser. Suddenly, enemy alien ships teleport in and start firing neutron missiles, which can destroy you upon impact. You must destroy enemy ships until reinforcements arrive from E
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MS-DOS, Windows
TerraFire is an award-winning arcade game featuring 3D-rendered graphics, realistic gravitational physics and 360 degree parallax scrolling. Blast your ship through heavily defended underground caverns, past wind tunnels, fire-walls and su
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Sega console exclusive
Arcade, Master System, Sega Master System/Mark III
Thwart an underground invasion with your transforming weaponry. The ground is scarred by craters, a reminder of the recent Dalaus invasion. And continuous acid rains give the sky an eerie irridescence. You are the only Transbot pilot left f
50 rating2 lists
Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum
Tile-based horizontally scrolling shooter.
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Bullfrog Productions · Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE
Fusion is a scrolling multidirectional shooter developed by Bullfrog Productions and published by Electronic Arts in 1988 for the Atari ST and Amiga.
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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
75 rating2 lists
Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
The Regulus system has been attacked by alien forces, and you are the only Terran fighter in place to clear the area and rescue the captured hostages. The game is a vertically-scrolling shoot 'em up with 5 levels. The first of these involv
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Odin Computer Graphics · Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
Sidewize is a horizontally scrolling shooter released by Firebird in 1987 for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum home computers. It was followed by a sequel, Crosswize.
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Nintendo console exclusive
Taito · Arcade, FM-7, NEC PC-8800 series +5
A vertical scrolling space shooter.
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Atari exclusive
Atari 2600
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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