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260 games like Under Defeat · 1979 – 2016

  • Sega console exclusive

    NMK · Arcade, Sega Genesis

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterShmupAction

    USAAF Mustang is a horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game originally developed by NMK, and published by UPL in 1990. It was ported a year later to the Sega Mega Drive by Taito while being renamed Fire Mustang. NMK Co. Ltd. also dev

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  • Sega exclusive

    Technosoft · Sega Saturn

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterShmupAction

    Blast Wind is a shoot-'em-up game released exclusively in Japan for the Sega Saturn in 1997.

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  • Timed NEC exclusive

    Now Production · TurboGrafx-16, Wii, Wii U

    Shoot 'em upShooterShmupActionBird view / Isometric

    On Earth in the 23rd century, a space time warp opens up over the Atlantic Ocean. From it comes an enormous invasion force analyzed to come from the 25th century. As Earth is attacked by the alien war machines, it is revealed that the culpr

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  • Nintendo console exclusive

    Jaleco · Arcade, Switch

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterShmupAction

    Plus Alpha is a 1989 multidirectional shooter video game developed and published by Jaleco for arcades. It was only released in Japan in May 1989. The game is known for its low difficulty compared to other shoot 'em ups as well as its anime

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  • Markt & Technik · Acorn Electron, BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore 64 +6

    ArcadeShooterShmupActionFixed shooter

    In this highly addictive top-down arcade shoot-em-up from 1982, originally for the ZX Spectrum, defend yourself from wave upon wave of deadly alien combatants using your Ion Thrust Drive and dual Plasma Disruptors.

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  • Alfa System · Arcade, Switch, PS2 +4

    ActionArcadeShooterShoot 'em upShmup

    Castle of Shikigami is a dark, supernatural shoot-'em-up classic. Choose one of six characters and utilize their unique abilities to defeat the demons infesting modern-day Tokyo in this vertically scrolling shooting game. Use each character

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  • PS4, Xbox One

    ShooterArcadeShmupActionScore attack

    The first widescreen bullet hell shoot 'em up challenges you to dodge hundreds of bullet patterns and take down the final boss!

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  • Freeverse · macOS

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterShmupAction

    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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  • Nintendo console exclusive

    Namco · Arcade, Switch

    ShooterArcadeShoot 'em upShmupAction

    You play a bi-plane pilot on missions to bomb enemy targets. The game has a left-to-right scrolling screen where you shoot at enemy planes and trucks. Fly down and pick up the bomb as you go along.

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  • Timed Xbox exclusive

    Switch, PS4, Windows +1

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterAction

    An alien menace has descended on Earth! Defend the world from UFO invasion in this superb arcade shooter from Qute. Use your weapons effectively, deflect enemy bullets with your shield, and recapture the Moon from alien infestation!

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  • Taito · Android, Mobile, PS3 +3

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionSide view

    Space Invaders, the game that defined video games for generations, is back with a new twist! The game starts off looking like the classic Space Invaders, but as you play through the game, it evolves. Unlock new stages, new power ups, and ne

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  • Sega console exclusive

    Success · Arcade, Sega Saturn

    Shoot 'em upShooterShmupActionWitches

    Released first as an arcade game on Sega's ST-V hardware in 1997. Only months later, it received a virtually arcade-perfect console port on the Sega Saturn. Considered the true sequel to the first game in the series, Cotton 2 also marks the

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  • Konami · PlayStation, SNES, PlayStation Portable +1

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterShmupAction

    Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius (Chatty Parodius), is the fourth game in a series of parody shooters produced by Konami. The gameplay is stylistically very similar to the Gradius series, but the graphics and music are intentionally absurd. The ga

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  • PlayStation exclusive

    Santos · PlayStation

    ShooterShmupActionAuditory

    Stahlfeder: Tekkou Hikuudan is a vertical shoot'em'up released only in Japan in 1996 for the original Sony Playstation, it has since been re-released for the PSN.

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  • Icon Design Ltd, Michael Davies, GOOF, John Brennan · Commodore 16, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionBird view / Isometric

    Proof of Destruction (P.O.D.) is a fixed shooter for the Commodore 64 and Commodore 16 written by Shaun Southern and published by Mastertronic in 1987. The player spaceship moves along the bottom of a grid, attempting to shoot enemy spacesh

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  • Atari console exclusive

    Sarge

    1985

    Midway Games · Arcade, Atari 7800, MS-DOS

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionBird view / Isometric

    Sarge is a top-down shooter. The goal is to stop the invading terrorists by controlling a tank and a helicopter. All enemy forces must be destroyed in each level. Two-player mode facilitates gameplay by adding two more units on the battlefi

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  • Timed Sega exclusive

    Warashi · Arcade, Dreamcast, Switch +2

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionBird view / Isometric

    Triggerheart Exelica is a vertically scrolling Japanese arcade shooter with a little bit of everything: fast-paced action, scalable difficulty, massive hordes of enemy Ver'mith, and cute humanoid weapons who can either shoot down enemy ship

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  • Nintendo console exclusive

    Taito · Arcade, Switch, Amiga +3

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionSide view

    Megablast (メガブラスト) is a 1989 Horizontal scrolling shooter arcade game released by Taito in Europe and Japan. One or two players could control space fighters assigned to deal with an alien invasion using incredible firepower through eight st

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  • Sega AM2 · Arcade

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionFirst person

    Wing War is an arcade combat flight simulator game developed by Sega AM1 and manufactured by Sega. Released exclusively to Japanese and American arcades in 1994, the game puts players in the cockpit of a variety of both historic and modern

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  • Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1

    ArcadeShooterActionBird view / Isometric

    Los Angeles SWAT (also known as L.A. SWAT) is a 1986 video game released by Mastertronic for the Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit computers, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum. In this game, the player assumes the role of a Los Angeles police officer fi

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  • Sculptured Software · Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1

    ShooterArcadeActionBird view / Isometric

    Los Angeles SWAT (also known as L.A. SWAT) is a 1986 video game released by Mastertronic for the Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit computers, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum. In this game, the player assumes the role of a Los Angeles police officer fi

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  • Freeverse · Windows, macOS

    ArcadeShooterActionBird view / Isometric

    A classic birds-eye view arcade shooter where the player controls a selection of airplanes from WW2 propeller planes with machine-guns to futuristic jets with energy weapons, bombs and missiles. The goal is to blow up pretty much everything

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  • PlayStation exclusive

    ShooterActionThird person

    Based on the anime series of the same name, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is a fast-action third-person shooter for up to four players. As "Major" Motoko Kusanagi, Batou, and Tachikoma, you can engage enemies in both multiplayer c

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  • Atari exclusive

    Atari · Atari 7800

    ArcadeShooterAction

    Meltdown is a light gun shooter video game developed by Atari Corporation and published in 1990 for the Atari 7800. It is one of five 7800 games compatible with the Atari XG-1 light gun accessory.

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  • Firebird · Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE, Commodore 64 +2

    ActionArcadeShooterBird view / Isometric

    The player takes the role of the eponymous Ball and gameplay takes the form of a vertically-scrolling shoot 'em up. It was also one of the first games to feature a wide range of power-ups (via power discs). I Ball featured some memorable sy

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  • Synapse Software Corporation · Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX, TRS-80 Color Computer +1

    ArcadeShooterActionScience fictionSide view

    An arcade style game with a loose basis on the arcade hit Defender, Protector II is a side-scrolling shooter. Like Defender, there are lots of different aliens to contend with, and some ground based enemies as well. There are no smart bombs

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  • PlayStation console exclusive

    Success · Arcade, PS2

    ShooterShoot 'em upShmupActionBird view / Isometric

    Psyvariar is a vertical scrolling shooter released in arcades in 2000 by Success. The game contains a variety of stages and it features a 'buzz' gameplay style, making it possible to earn levels by dodging enemy bullets.

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  • Mark Allen · Apple II, Sinclair ZX81

    ArcadeShooterActionBird view / IsometricPuzzle

    You are in control of a stationary gun turrent at the bottom of the screen. Planes drop bombs and paratroopers jump out of helicopters which you have to shoot. Every hit gains you points - every shot you fire looses you points. You have lo

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  • Sega exclusive

    Eden Entertainment Software Ltd. · Game Gear

    ActionArcadeShooterBird view / IsometricScience

    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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  • Nintendo console exclusive

    Athena · Arcade, SNES

    Shoot 'em upShooterShmupActionBird view / Isometric

    Strike Gunner S.T.G is an Action game, developed by Athena and published by Tecmo, which was released in 1991. A vertically scrolling shooter.

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  • Cheshire Engineering · Intellivision

    ArcadeShooterActionSide view

    Felton Pinkerton wanted to take his wife to the fair, so he didn't get a chance to spray pesticide on his crop of corn. But due to his laziness, all of the bugs have now arrived and are trying to eat every last bit of corn! You control Felt

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  • Timed Sega exclusive

    Aleste

    1988

    SEGA · MSX, Master System, PS4 +2

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterShmupAction

    Your planet has been overrun by the meanest mutant vegetation ever created in a genetics laboratory. It's taken over buildings, labs, fighter craft... even people! And it's getting bigger... and meaner... with each passing second. But it ha

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  • Irem · Arcade, FM Towns, NES +6

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterShmupAction

    On a fateful day in 20XX, the Earth's moon exploded into four large fragments and a multitude of meteors. Aliens from afar had succeeded in destroying the West's moon base. One after another, mankind's other military industrial space comple

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  • Pssst

    1983

    Stamper brothers · ZX Spectrum

    ActionArcadeShooterSide view

    Growing the best Thyrgodian Megga Chrisanthodil possible is the sole purpose of Robbie the Robot. When insects invade his garden, he has to stop them ruining his work. He has a canister of insect repellent, a smoke-bomb and a startling stre

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  • Nintendo exclusive

    Tose Co. · NES

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionLight gun shooter

    The aim is to shoot the discs on the screen so that you can acquire enough points to pass the clearing point score of that particular stage without your time or energy running out. You can choose between different difficulty levels. They af

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  • Jukka Tapanimäki · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +5

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterShmupAction

    Netherworld is a shoot 'em up video game published by Hewson in 1988. It was originally developed by Jukka Tapanimäki for the Commodore 64, and original music was composed by Jori Olkkonen.

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  • Pulsar

    1981

    Sega · Arcade

    ArcadeShooterActionBird view / IsometricMaze

    Pulsar is a 1980 maze shooter video game developed and published by Gremlin/Sega for arcades; in Japan, it was released by Gremlin's parent company Sega. The player controls a tank in a top-down view maze to fetch keys used to unlock the ne

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  • Durell Software · Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1

    ArcadeShooterActionFlight simulationSide view

    A side scrolling game with the Harrier aircraft.

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  • NMK · Arcade

    ArcadeShooterActionWorld War IISide view

    A one or two player shooter game developed by NMK and published by Jaleco Ltd. in 1995. As in the original, you control an airplane scrolling from left to right shooting at lots of enemy airplanes. This game has excellent explosions.

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  • Timed NEC exclusive

    Red Company · TurboGrafx-16, Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD, Wii

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionSide view

    Zonk is back in Super Air Zonk, the sequel to the shooting game spin-off of the Bonk series, Air "Zonk." Now moving to a rockabilly beat and able to transform into nine different characters, Zonk lets loose through seven action-packed stage

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  • Bandai Namco Entertainment · Arcade

    ArcadeShooterActionLight gun shooterFirst person

    The fourth major entry in Namco's arcade light gun shooter series Point Blank.

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  • Nintendo Research & Development 1 · Arcade

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionBird view / Isometric

    The bandits who kidnapped your girlfriend have surrounded you. Now you have to shoot your way out.

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  • Hi-Score · ZX Spectrum, MSX, Amstrad CPC

    ArcadeShooterActionBeat 'em upSide view

    Side scroller beat em up/shooter developed in the late 80's by Hi-Score and published by Dinamic Software. The game consists of two parts. To play the second, you will have to complete the first and thus obtain the access code.

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  • Nintendo exclusive

    Shin'en Multimedia · Nintendo 3DS

    ShooterArcadeActionPlay coin support

    Stop the deadly Nanostray virus from spreading and contaminating civilization in Nano Assault EX, a fast-paced action shooter set within a visually stunning cellular system that leaps off the screen in full 3D. Control your microscopic Nani

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  • Sega exclusive

    Tokai Communications · Sega Genesis

    Shoot 'em upShooterAction

    Battle Mania Daiginjou is a shoot 'em up developed and published by VIC Tokai in 1993 for the Sega Mega Drive exclusively in Japan and South Korea. It is the sequel to Battle Mania (which was released in the US as Trouble Shooter).

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  • Atari console exclusive

    Atari · Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit

    ActionArcadeShooterBird view / IsometricTank

    We've just received word that terrorists have seized one of our missile silo complexes and are threatening to blow up Washington, D.C. These lunatics aren't fooling! They've wired the missiles to a silo computer and started the launch sequ

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