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197 games like Thunder Spirits · 1979 – 2023

  • Nintendo console exclusiveWhy 86Form.70World.25Curated.77Lists.00Shooter · Aliens · Often paired

    Raffaele Cecco · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +6

    Shoot 'em upShooterAliensSpaceshipSide-scrolling

    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

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  • Why 85Form.72World.25Curated.70Lists.00Shooter · Aliens · Often paired

    Zybex

    1989

    Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1

    Shoot 'em upShooterAliensSpaceshipSide-scrolling

    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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  • SNK console exclusiveWhy 78Form.51World.25Curated.68Lists.00Shooter · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Visco Corporation · Arcade, Neo Geo

    ShooterShoot 'em upSpaceshipSide-scrollingHigh score

    Andro Dunos is a horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game released by Visco in 1992 for the SNK Neo-Geo MVS. The player controls a futuristic fighter spacecraft with different weapon settings that you can switch between, and shoot en

    70 rating2 listsOften paired

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  • Why 77Form.52World.25Curated.65Lists.00Shooter · Aliens · Often paired

    Team17 · Amiga, Amiga CD32, Apple IIGS +1

    Shoot 'em upShooterAliensSpaceshipScience fiction

    Project-X is a scrolling shooter game for the Amiga computer released in 1992. It was also ported to DOS. Developed and published by Team17, it was regarded as one of the best shooter games for that platform at the time, both for its techn

    79 rating2 listsOften paired

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  • Atari console exclusiveWhy 76Form.39World.25Curated.70Lists.00Shooter · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Gorf

    1981

    Dave Nutting · Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 5200 +8

    Shoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipHigh scoreScience fiction

    Gorf actually consists in the Arcade version of five different types of space shooters. The first one ist basically is a Space Invaders clone. In the second one a formation of space ships is hovering at the top of the screen while single sp

    70 rating4 listsOften paired

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  • Why 75Form.46World.25Curated.63Lists.00Shooter · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Irem · Arcade

    ShooterShoot 'em upSpaceshipSide-scrollingScience fiction

    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

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  • PlayStation exclusiveWhy 74Form.85World.00Curated.40Lists.00Shooter · Aliens

    PlayStation Portable

    ShooterAliensShoot 'em upSpaceshipHigh score

    The game is known in Japan as Space Invaders: Galaxy Beat. It features the original arcade version of the game, a "match-up" mode (similar to Midway's cocktail-only arcade game Space Invaders II, but with a different gameplay) and a new

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  • PlayStation console exclusiveWhy 72Form.44World.25Curated.60Lists.00Shooter · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Seibu Kaihatsu · Arcade, PlayStation, Raiden II +1

    Shoot 'em upShooterHigh scoreBoss fightScience fiction

    Excellent sequel to the classic original "Raiden". As in the original, players control a fighter jet/spaceship through various levels while shooting down other planes and bombing tanks on the ground.

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  • Why 68Form.43World.25Curated.53Lists.00Shooter · Aliens · Often paired

    Rainbow Arts · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +11

    Shoot 'em upShooterAliensSide-scrollingHigh score

    Turrican is a 1990 video game programmed and designed by Manfred Trenz. It was first developed for the Commodore 64 by Rainbow Arts, but was ported to other systems later. In addition to concept design and character creation, Trenz personal

    83 rating1 listOften paired

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  • Nintendo exclusiveWhy 61Form.51World.25Curated.35Lists.00Shooter · Aliens

    Thin Chen Enterprise · NES

    ShooterSide-scrollingAliensSpaceshipBoss fight

    Returning from three centuries of intergalactic missions, MCS-920 is surprised by an alien-infested planet. Whatever few lifeforms survived were driven underground or transformed into battling bionic mutants. You must escape the tentacles o

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  • Nintendo exclusiveWhy 61Form.52World.32Curated.34Lists.00Shooter · Spaceship

    Hudson Soft · NES

    ShooterSpaceshipSide-scrollingHigh scoreScience fiction

    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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  • Why 57Form.64World.25Curated.20Lists.00Shooter · Spaceship

    Amiga

    Shoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipSide-scrollingHigh score

    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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  • Why 56Form.63World.25Curated.20Lists.00Shooter · Shoot 'em up

    Delta

    1987

    Stavros Fasoulas · Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum

    Shoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipSide-scrollingScience fiction

    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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  • Why 56Form.37World.25Curated.38Lists.00Shooter · Shoot 'em up

    Nintendo Research & Development 1 · Arcade, Zilog Z80

    Shoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipHigh scoreScience fiction

    Radar Scope is a 1980 fixed shooter arcade game developed by Nintendo R&D2 and published by Nintendo. The player assumes the role of the Sonic Spaceport starship and must wipe out formations of an enemy race known as the Gamma Raiders befor

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  • NEC exclusiveWhy 50Form.69World.00Curated.11Lists.00Shooter · Shoot 'em up

    TurboGrafx-16

    Shoot 'em upShooterSide-scrollingHigh scoreBoss fight

    A horizontal shoot 'em up that casts you as a baby dragon out to free a princess from the clutches of an evil....well, you get the idea. Gameplay is traditional, with power-up weapons that include multi-way shot and 'miniature' mode and a s

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  • Why 50Form.44World.25Curated.24Lists.00Shooter · Shoot 'em up

    Jeff Minter · Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Commodore VIC-20 +3

    Shoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipScience fictionArcade

    Gridrunner is a lot like Atari's arcade classic, Centipede.

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  • Nintendo exclusiveWhy 49Form.39World.25Curated.25Lists.00Shooter · Aliens

    Hot B · NES

    Shoot 'em upShooterAliensSpaceshipSide-scrolling

    Over Horizon is a Shoot-'Em-Up game, developed by Pixel and published by Hot-B, which was released in Europe in 1991.

    70 rating2 lists

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  • Why 48Form.40World.25Curated.24Lists.00Shooter · Shoot 'em up

    The Vision Factory · CD-i, Philips CD-i

    Shoot 'em upShooterHigh scoreBoss fightScience fiction

    Alien Gate is a fixed shooter. Each stage consists of the player's ship facing off against a giant head that spawns several smaller enemies. Once all the required enemies are defeated, the player must defeat the head as a boss. The backgrou

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  • Sega exclusiveWhy 48Form.41World.25Curated.22Lists.00Shooter · Shoot 'em up

    Sega Genesis

    Shoot 'em upShooterSide-scrollingHigh scoreBoss fight

    Arrow Flash is a side-scrolling space shooter. The player controls a female spaceship pilot who is sent on a mission into deep space to save the Earth from an assault by an evil dragon from another galaxy. Moving vertically or horizontally,

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  • Why 48Form.40World.25Curated.22Lists.00Shooter · Shoot 'em up

    Namco · Arcade, Switch, PS4 +2

    Shoot 'em upShooterSide-scrollingBoss fightScience fiction

    Baraduke is an action game released by Namco (Bandai Namco Entertainment) in 1985. The peaceful, friendly world of Paccet has been attacked by the evil Octy! Make your way through Baraduke, the underground Octy citadel beneath Paccet, and u

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  • Nintendo exclusiveWhy 48Form.37World.25Curated.25Lists.00Shooter · Aliens

    Eidos Interactive · SNES

    ShooterAliensHigh scoreBoss fightScience fiction

    On the reptilian planet of Tirmat, scientists have discovered a rift in space and plan to use it to transport the planet's inhabitants before the planet is extinguished by sending their elite army through the rift and invade their closest n

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  • Why 47Form.51World.25Curated.14Lists.00Shooter · Spaceship

    Game Boy Color, PlayStation, Windows

    ShooterSpaceshipHigh scoreScience fictionAction

    Galaga, the "slide-and-shoot" arcade classic from 1981, has been updated with nine new worlds, 3D graphics, futuristic backgrounds and more in GALAGA -- Destination: Earth. Like in the original game, you begin this enhanced version of Gala

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  • Nintendo console exclusiveWhy 47Form.39World.25Curated.22Lists.00Shooter · Shoot 'em up

    Konami · MSX, Wii

    Shoot 'em upShooterSide-scrollingHigh scoreScience fiction

    The Bacterians' Commandant Gopher plans to assassinate little Lars XVIII and change the course of history...... Block Gopher's ambition!

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  • Timed Sega exclusiveWhy 47Form.22World.25Curated.34Lists.00Shooter · Spaceship

    Namco · 3DO, 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Android +4

    Shoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipHigh scoreScience fiction

    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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  • NEC exclusiveWhy 46Form.52World.25Curated.12Lists.00Shooter · Shoot 'em up

    Information Global Service · TurboGrafx-16

    ShooterShoot 'em upSpaceshipSide-scrollingScience fiction

    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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  • Atari exclusiveWhy 46Form.54World.25Curated.10Lists.00Shooter · Shoot 'em up

    Atari 2600

    ShooterShoot 'em upSide-scrollingScience fictionArcade

    Star Fox is a video game for the Atari 2600 console, developed and published by Mythicon in 1983. Although the front cover of the game states "Game 1 in Star Fox Series," no sequels were ever made, which is most likely because it received n

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  • Timed PlayStation exclusiveWhy 45Form.32World.25Curated.24Lists.00Shooter · Shoot 'em up

    Loaded

    1996

    Gremlin Interactive · PlayStation, Sega Saturn

    Shoot 'em upShooterHigh scoreScience fictionAction

    Loaded is a violent, bloody top-down shooter which places you in the boots of one of six characters, who are all strange and deformed, from a psychotic clown to a huge baby. Loaded is a mission based game, where you have to complete various

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  • Why 45Form.50World.25Curated.12Lists.00Shooter · Spaceship

    Zynaps

    1987

    Dominic Robinson · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +4

    Shoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipSide-scrollingScience fiction

    Zynaps is a traditional "left to right" shooter

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  • Why 44Form.54World.00Curated.13Lists.00Shooter · Shoot 'em up

    Capcom · Arcade

    Shoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipSide-scrollingBoss fight

    Eco Fighters, known in Japan as Ultimate Ecology (アルティメット エコロジー?), is an arcade game released by Capcom on the CPS-2 arcade system board on December 1993. The game is a horizontal shooter, where the player controls a ship with a rotating gu

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  • Why 44Form.48World.25Curated.12Lists.00Shooter · Shoot 'em up

    Gorgon

    1981

    Sirius Software · Apple II

    Shoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipSide-scrollingScience fiction

    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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  • PlayStation console exclusiveWhy 44Form.29World.25Curated.24Lists.00Shooter · Aliens

    SNK · Arcade, PS3, PlayStation Portable

    Shoot 'em upShooterAliensSpaceshipScience fiction

    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

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  • Why 44Form.45World.25Curated.13Lists.00Shooter · Aliens

    Repton

    1983

    Sirius Software · Acorn Electron, Apple II, Atari 8-bit +2

    ShooterAliensShoot 'em upSpaceshipSide-scrolling

    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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  • Sega console exclusiveWhy 44Form.42World.25Curated.16Lists.00Shooter · Shoot 'em up

    Namco Tales Studio · Sega CD, Sega Genesis, Sharp X1 +1

    Shoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipScience fictionScience

    Sol-Feace is a typical 2D shooter with weapon powerups. The game features six levels: Sirius, Enemy Arsenal, ArtifiStar, Pluto Base, Almathea, and Final Battle.

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  • Timed PlayStation exclusiveWhy 44Form.46World.25Curated.13Lists.00Shooter · Shoot 'em up

    Switch, PS3, PlayStation Portable +1

    Shoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipSide-scrollingScience fiction

    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

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  • Why 44Form.51World.25Curated.09Lists.00Shooter · Shoot 'em up

    Mattel Electronics · Intellivision

    Shoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipScience fictionArcade

    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

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  • Why 44Form.22World.25Curated.29Lists.00Shooter · Shoot 'em up

    Taito · GameCube, PS2

    ShooterShoot 'em upHigh scoreScience fictionThird-person shooter

    Space Raiders is a third-person shooter taking place after an alien invasion of Earth. The game is a spin-off of Taito's Space Invaders with similar gameplay but in a 3D destroyed city setting. The player can take control of three characte

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  • Why 44Form.22World.25Curated.29Lists.00Shooter · Shoot 'em up

    Tommo Inc · GameCube, PS2

    ShooterShoot 'em upHigh scoreScience fictionThird-person shooter

    Space Raiders is a third-person shooter taking place after an alien invasion of Earth. The game is a spin-off of Taito's Space Invaders with similar gameplay but in a 3D destroyed city setting. The player can take control of three characte

    35 rating2 lists

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  • Why 43Form.32World.25Curated.20Lists.00Shooter · Aliens

    Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Atari ST +8

    ShooterAliensShoot 'em upHigh scoreBoss fight

    The time bomb is set. It's the only sure way to get rid of these aliens. For good. They're vile. Vicious. And villainous. And they've infested our outcolony. They're holding hundreds of inhabitants hostage. Some of them your friends. So get

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  • Timed NEC exclusiveWhy 43Form.27World.25Curated.24Lists.00Shooter · Aliens

    Winds Co Ltd · PS3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Store TurboGrafx-16 +4

    ShooterAliensShoot 'em upScience fictionPlatformer

    It's been two years since Arnold and Sonya were made into Shockmen. A message from the professor to return to their bodies has them head to his laboratory, but they are ambushed by a mysterious enemy along the way. After narrowly defeating

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  • Nintendo console exclusiveWhy 43Form.46World.25Curated.12Lists.00Shooter · Spaceship

    Factor 5 · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +6

    ShooterSpaceshipSide-scrollingHigh scoreBoss fight

    Turrican II: The Final Fight is a platformer/shooter as typically seen on consoles, but designed for home computers from the ground up. Its plot is - naturally - very simple: an evil mega-robot called The Machine attacks the United Planets

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  • Why 42Form.42World.25Curated.11Lists.00Shooter · Spaceship

    Atari ST, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX

    ShooterSpaceshipSide-scrollingScience fictionAction

    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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  • Nintendo exclusiveWhy 42Form.46World.25Curated.09Lists.00Shooter · Shoot 'em up

    M2 · Wii

    Shoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipSide-scrollingHigh score

    Blast your way through levels filled with alien spaceships and otherworldly creatures in this retro side-scrolling shooter. Pick your weapons carefully and upgrade them to create a devastating arsenal of space-aged weapons that will aid you

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  • Why 42Form.46World.25Curated.10Lists.00Shooter · Shoot 'em up

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

    Shoot 'em upShooterSpaceshipBoss fightScience fiction

    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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  • Nintendo exclusiveWhy 42Form.43World.25Curated.11Lists.00Shooter · Shoot 'em up

    HAL Laboratory · SNES

    Shoot 'em upShooterHigh scoreBoss fightScience fiction

    Hyper Zone plays like a cross between a racing game and shooter. The object of the game is to navigate each level while shooting enemies and earning points, until finally an encounter with a boss ends each level. After enough points are acq

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  • Sega console exclusiveWhy 42Form.41World.25Curated.13Lists.00Shooter · Shoot 'em up

    SCE Studio Liverpool · 3DO, 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Amiga +5

    Shoot 'em upShooterBoss fightScience fictionScience

    Time is running out for the corporate mogul Tiron Korsby. A microscopic probe has been injected into his bloodstream by corporate rival Axiom Corporation. A probe that with every beat of his heart is cruising towards his brain to execute it

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  • Nintendo exclusiveWhy 42Form.36World.25Curated.16Lists.00Shooter · Shoot 'em up

    Konami · Game Boy

    Shoot 'em upShooterHigh scoreScience fictionUpgradeable weapons

    Nemesis is an Action game, developed by Konami and published by Ultra, which was released in Japan in 1990.

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  • PlayStation exclusiveWhy 42Form.51World.25Curated.06Lists.00Shooter · Shoot 'em up

    Granzella · PS5

    ShooterShoot 'em upSide-scrollingScience fictionPlatformer

    R-Type Final 3 Evolved serves simultaneously as a sequel to R-Type Final 2, offering a whole new 7-stage campaign made in the engine of Final 2, whilst also serving as a compilation of most of content released for R-Type Final 2. Additiona

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  • Nintendo console exclusiveWhy 42Form.43World.25Curated.11Lists.00Shooter · Shoot 'em up

    Irem · Amiga, Arcade, Atari ST/STE +1

    ShooterShoot 'em upSide-scrollingScience fictionArcade

    The game is the sequel to R-Type, which was first released as an arcade game in 1987 and profoundly influenced later shooting games with its charge shots, unique weaponry, and grotesque enemies. Hudson Soft ported the later 4 levels of the

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