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418 games like The Muncher · 1980 – 1998

  • Sega console exclusiveWhy 84Form.23World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Action · Arcade · Often paired

    Rocket Science Games · MS-DOS, Sega CD

    ActionArcadeScience fictionScienceRail shooter

    Loadstar is a rail-shooter concerned with shooting enemies while navigating your ship, much like Sewer Shark. You're actually on rails in this game, as you travel in a truck/train called Loadstar along a magnetic rail network covering the m

    2 listsOften paired

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  • Why 82Form.14World.25Curated1.00Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST/STE +6

    ArcadeActionScience fictionPuzzleSplit-screen multiplayer

    An imaginative action game in which you must guide a ball-shaped craft through a succession of levels. These have a patchwork-quilt type display, with holes to avoid, and squares of various colors, which affect the craft's speed, both withi

    70 rating6 listsOften paired

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  • Why 79Form.16World.32Curated.91Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

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

    ArcadeActionScience fictionSide viewMaze

    You are navigating a maze in order to destroy an omnipotent master computer.

    2 listsOften paired

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  • Why 75Form.48World.25Curated.63Lists.00Action · Arcade · Often paired

    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.

    1 listOften paired

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  • Why 75Form.31World.25Curated.73Lists.00Action · Arcade · Often paired

    Manfred Trenz · Amiga, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX

    ActionArcadeScience fictionSide viewScience

    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 listsOften paired

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  • Why 74Form.43World.25Curated.63Lists.00Action · Arcade · Often paired

    ZX Spectrum

    ActionArcadeScience fictionSide viewPlatformer

    Jason's Gem is a computer game for the ZX Spectrum. It was published in 1985 by Mastertronic and written by Simon White. The hero Jason must make his way through a series of caves in search of the legendary gem of the title. The game begins

    1 listOften paired

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  • Atari exclusiveWhy 74Form.18World.28Curated.80Lists.00Action · Arcade · Often paired

    Oink!

    1983

    Atari 2600

    ActionArcadeScience fictionAction-adventureBased on - book

    Oink! is based on the fairy tale of the three little pigs. The big bad wolf is trying to blow down each of the pigs houses. You control each pig one at a time. The wolf is at the bottom of the screen and will blow a hole in the house one se

    51 rating2 listsOften paired

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  • Why 73Form.36World.46Curated.63Lists.00Action · Arcade · Often paired

    Taito · Arcade, Famicom Disk System, Family Computer Disk System +2

    ActionArcadeScience fictionSide viewRacing

    Raimais is a maze chase arcade game released in April 1988 in Japan. The object of the game is to drive your vehicle around a maze in order to clear the maze of dots while avoiding the enemy. The game consists of 32 mazes total plus boss fi

    2 listsOften paired

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  • Why 72Form.39World.25Curated.63Lists.00Action · Arcade · Often paired

    Accolade · Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum

    ActionArcadeScience fictionShooterBird view / Isometric

    Critical Mass is an action puzzle game that takes traditional match 3 and brings it into the world of 3D.

    1 listOften paired

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  • Atari console exclusiveWhy 72Form.39World.25Curated.63Lists.00Action · Arcade · Often paired

    Arcade, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit

    ActionArcadeScience fictionShooterBird view / Isometric

    K-Razy Shoot-Out is a clone of the arcade game Berzerk developed by K-Byte, a division of Kay Enterprises, and released for the Atari 8-bit family in 1981. The game was written by Torre Meeder and Dr. Keith Dreyer. An Atari 5200 version fol

    1 listOften paired

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  • Why 72Form.10World.34Curated.80Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    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 listsOften paired

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  • Why 72Form.37World.25Curated.63Lists.00Action · Arcade · Often paired

    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.

    1 listOften paired

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  • Why 72Form.29World.34Curated.68Lists.00Action · Arcade · Often paired

    SCE Studio Liverpool · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +5

    ActionArcadeScience fictionScienceShooter

    It's been a long watch... as the sun disappears over the horizon, the uninviting grey bleakness of Colian becomes apparent. Following the intense heat of the day, the onset of night adds the bitterness of sub-zero temperatures to an already

    2 listsOften paired

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  • NEC exclusiveWhy 71Form.33World.31Curated.63Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    NEC · TurboGrafx-16

    ArcadeActionScience fictionSide viewShooter

    Deep Blue is a 1989 horizontally scrolling shooter video game developed by Hi-Score Media Work and published by Pack-In-Video for the TurboGrafx-16. The player controls a submersible fighter shaped as a freshwater angelfish that must fight

    1 listOften paired

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  • Atari console exclusiveWhy 71Form.35World.31Curated.63Lists.00Action · Arcade · Often paired

    Midway Games · Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 5200 +1

    ActionArcadeScience fictionPuzzleShooter

    Run over or shoot "Fuzors" while ships on each of the four sides of the screen travel back and forth or up and down trying to shoot you.

    74 rating2 listsOften paired

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  • Why 70Form.33World.25Curated.63Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    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

    1 listOften paired

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  • Why 70Form.32World.25Curated.63Lists.00Action · Arcade · Often paired

    ZX Spectrum

    ActionArcadeScience fictionAction-adventureShooter

    Denizen is an action computer game published by Players Software in 1988 for the ZX Spectrum.

    1 listOften paired

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  • Why 70Form.33World.25Curated.63Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    Steel

    1988

    Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +1

    ArcadeActionScience fictionSide viewShooter

    Steel is a science fiction shoot 'em up originally designed by Gari Biasillo for the Commodore 64, and later ported to 16-bit machines.

    1 listOften paired

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  • Nintendo console exclusiveWhy 69Form.14World.78Curated.63Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    Konami · Arcade, Nintendo Switch 2

    ArcadeActionScience fictionShoot 'em upShooter

    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

    1 listOften paired

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  • Atari console exclusiveWhy 69Form.31World.25Curated.63Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    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 listOften paired

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  • Why 69Form.30World.25Curated.63Lists.00Action · Arcade · Often paired

    Arcade, Coleco Adam, ColecoVision

    ActionArcadeScience fictionFirst-person shooterShooter

    SubRoc 3-D is a shooter, where you look through a periscope and shoot at both sea and air-targets. The arcade version features 3-D effects.

    4 listsOften paired

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  • Why 68Form.22World.38Curated.63Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    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.

    1 listOften paired

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  • Atari exclusiveWhy 68Form.21World.44Curated.63Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    Atari 2600

    ArcadeActionScience fictionShooterBird view / Isometric

    Great Escape is a multidirectional shooter published for the Atari 2600 in 1983. It was produced by Bomb, a line of video games from developer Onbase Co. based out of Asia. It received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics, with reviewers

    1 listOften paired

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  • Why 68Form.33World.27Curated.60Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

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

    ArcadeActionScience fictionSide viewShooter

    A fanatical sect has changed mankind's future by summoning a previously extinct primeval entity in our past. You, a sole survivor of the once elite 'time corps' have been chosen by the federation of law and order to combat the entity in thr

    1 listOften paired

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  • Why 68Form.23World.37Curated.63Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    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

    1 listOften paired

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  • Why 68Form.22World.25Curated.68Lists.00Action · Arcade · Often paired

    Ocean Software · 3DO, Game Boy, MS-DOS +3

    ActionArcadeScience fictionSide viewPlatformer

    In Waterworld, you play from an overhead/isometric perspective controlling the Mariner's boat on the ocean. The point of the game is to destroy the Smokers' boats and dive for sunken artifacts, at which point the game switches to a side on

    53 rating10 listsOften paired

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  • Nintendo console exclusiveWhy 68Form.16World.60Curated.63Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    Irem · Arcade, Switch

    ArcadeScience fictionSide viewScienceShoot 'em up

    Is a side-scrolling shooter published by Irem, and similar in style to their earlier R-Type. The game centers around an unusual alien invasion against a colony planet in the year 2249 where the aliens themselves are microscopic creatures th

    1 listOften paired

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  • Why 67Form.19World.46Curated.63Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    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 listsOften paired

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  • Why 67Form.17World.25Curated.68Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    Aicom · Arcade

    ArcadeActionScience fictionRacingShooter

    It is the future and motorcycle cops now use air bikes to patrol the streets and catch criminals. You are one cop, and over various missions you are to chase after various criminals and catch them within a time limit. Once all the criminals

    2 listsOften paired

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  • Why 67Form.23World.32Curated.63Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    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 listsOften paired

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  • Timed NEC exclusiveWhy 67Form.31World.25Curated.60Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    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

    5 listsOften paired

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  • Atari exclusiveWhy 67Form.23World.27Curated.63Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    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

    2 listsOften paired

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  • Why 67Form.27World.32Curated.60Lists.00Action · Arcade · Often paired

    ActionArcadeScience fictionShooterBased on - comics

    Mutant bounty hunter Johnny Alpha joins a contest where murderers and other notorious criminals fight to the death to get a piece of the action - and the bounty.

    1 listOften paired

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  • Sega console exclusiveWhy 67Form.22World.37Curated.63Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    Sega Enterprises, Inc. · Arcade, MSX, SG-1000

    ArcadeActionScience fictionShooterThird person

    Zoom 909 is an arcade game developed by Sega for VCO Object arcade hardware. It was released worldwide in 1982, however after obtaining a license for Buck Rogers, western versions of the game became known as Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom. Bot

    1 listOften paired

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  • Why 66Form.23World.25Curated.63Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    ABM

    1980

    Apple II

    ArcadeActionScience fictionSide viewShoot 'em up

    Missile Command clone for the Apple II.

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  • Why 66Form.35World.37Curated.52Lists.00Action · Arcade · Often paired

    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 listsOften paired

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  • Atari exclusiveWhy 66Form.23World.25Curated.63Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    Atari 2600

    ArcadeActionScience fictionSide viewShoot 'em up

    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

    1 listOften paired

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  • Why 66Form.22World.25Curated.63Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    Electronic Arts · Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64 +2

    ArcadeActionScience fictionShooterTube shooter

    Tempest clone

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  • Why 66Form.22World.25Curated.63Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    Namco · Arcade, Switch, PS4 +1

    ArcadeActionScience fictionSide viewShoot 'em up

    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 listsOften paired

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  • Why 66Form.19World.30Curated.64Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    Aicom · Android, Arcade, Browser +8

    ArcadeActionScience fictionSide viewScience

    Blazing Star is a scrolling shooter video game for the Neo Geo home game system. It is the sequel to the acclaimed Neo Geo shooter Pulstar, which was itself a close cousin to the R-Type franchise. A typically hefty Neo Geo ROM at 346 Mb, th

    70 rating5 listsOften paired

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  • Atari console exclusiveWhy 66Form.23World.25Curated.63Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit

    ArcadeActionScience fictionSide viewShoot 'em up

    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

    3 listsOften paired

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  • Why 66Form.23World.25Curated.63Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    ZX Spectrum

    ArcadeActionScience fictionSide viewShoot 'em up

    Side scrolling space shooter for the ZX Spectrum. Sequel to Sidewize

    1 listOften paired

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  • Why 66Form.17World.25Curated.68Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +4

    ArcadeActionScience fictionSide viewShoot 'em up

    Cybernoid II: The Revenge is a challenging flip-screen shoot 'em up that builds upon its predecessor. Players pilot the advanced Cybernoid craft on a mission to recover stolen cargo from pirate ships. The game features a diverse arsenal of

    75 rating2 listsOften paired

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  • Atari exclusiveWhy 66Form.18World.40Curated.63Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    Starpath · Atari 2600

    ArcadeActionScience fictionShooterSimulation

    Defeat the Dracon Armada in challenging, realistic battle action. Featuring a real-time clock, energy indicator, Alien proximity indicator, torpedo status indicator, combat-range scanner, torpedo target-lock, Dracon fighter ships, shield st

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  • Nintendo exclusiveWhy 66Form.07World.49Curated.68Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    Givro · SNES

    ArcadeActionScience fictionNinjaShoot 'em up

    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 66Form.23World.25Curated.63Lists.00Arcade · Often paired

    Odin Computer Graphics · Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum

    ArcadeActionScience fictionSide viewShoot 'em up

    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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