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247 games like Vindicators · 1980 – 2012
Nintendo console exclusiveAtari Games · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade +5
The game begins by asking the player(s) to choose a difficulty level, not only making the enemies more difficult and the players weaker, but higher difficulties start the players in a later set of levels (called "galaxies") and with some po
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Taito · Arcade, Atari 2600, ColecoVision +7
Front Line is a vertically scrolling action game. Your mission is to infiltrate enemy territory and destroy their fortress. To reach the fortress, you will have to make your way through varied and dangerous terrain. Jungles, deserts, brush,
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Arcade, Atari 2600, SG-1000
Borderline is a VIC Dual arcade game developed in 1980 by Sega. It is a shoot-'em-up in which the player controls a red jeep who must destroy the enemy refineries. Borderline was ported to the SG-1000 in 1983, and has also been released as
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Midway Games · Amiga, Amiga CD32, Arcade +4
The names of the two player characters are Captain Carnage and Major Mayhem. Blast your way through the Baby Milk Factory and fight Orcus, the Mother of All Bosses. Collect keys to enter the Pleasure Domes. Many special weapons and secret a
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Video System · Arcade, Neo Geo, Neo Geo CD +3
When enemy forces wipe out the jets of the Aero Fighters, they must scramble using heavily-modified World War II warplanes in the third installment of the comical Aero Fighters series.
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Nintendo console exclusive
Tecmo · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade +7
Silkworm is a classic horizontally-scrolling shoot-em-up. The main difference between this game and many other side-scrolling shoot-em-ups is that you will be on land as well as in the air. The first player would play as a helicopter, but i
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Appaloosa Interactive · PlayStation, Sega Saturn
Contra: Legacy of War is a 3D action game produced by Konami and developed by Appaloosa Interactive that was originally released in 1996 for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn. It was the first of two Contra games that were externally develope
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Atari, Inc. · Apple II, Arcade, Atari 2600 +12
Battlezone is an arcade game from Atari released in November 1980. It displays a wireframe view (using vector graphics rather than raster graphics) on a horizontal black and white (with green and red sectioned color overlay) vector monitor.
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CAVE · Arcade, Nintendo DS, PS3 +1
Ketsui: Kizuna Jigoku-tachi is a vertical bullet hell shoot 'em up developed by Cave and released in 2003.
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Eclipse Software · BlackBerry Z10, Linux, MS-DOS +3
Tyrian is a scrolling shooter computer game developed by World Tree Games Productions and published in 1995 by Epic MegaGames. The game was officially released as freeware in 2004, and the graphics were made available under an open license
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Taito · ColecoVision, Arcade, PC-8800 Series +4
Front Line is a vertically scrolling action game. Your mission is to infiltrate enemy territory and destroy their fortress. To reach the fortress, you will have to make your way through varied and dangerous terrain. Jungles, deserts, brush,
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Timed Sega exclusive
Capcom · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade +6
The players are members of a covert counter-terrorist team of mercenaries known as the "Wolf Force". The aim of the game was to rescue the former President from rebels in the fictional African country of Zutula, which bears resemblance to t
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Nintendo console exclusive
Konami · Arcade, Game Boy, NES +4
This game is action from beginning to end, do not think that you will have a moment of peace, even because Aliens are at war with planet earth, and resting will be your least concern.
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PlayStation exclusive
PlayStation
The aliens have stolen a super missile and will not hesitate to use it unless we pay their ransom demand, which is a large amount of Uranium. You soldier, must enter the enemy zone and retrieve this missile by causing disruption among thei
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Nintendo exclusive
Thin Chen Enterprise · NES
A deadly alien force has taken control of all of the Earth's military forces. For some reason, the alien power is unable to control you, leaving you as the only one who can fight back. To be victorious you will need to battle both military
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BlitWise Productions · Android, Windows, iOS +1
The fastest game of artillery you'll ever play. Pocket Tanks is designed to be easy to learn, and fun to master. All the excitement of lobbing projectiles over a mound of dirt without all the complicated details found in most artillery game
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Nintendo console exclusiveTecmo · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade +4
Silkworm is a classic horizontally-scrolling shoot-em-up. The main difference between this game and many other side-scrolling shoot-em-ups is that you will be on land as well as in the air. The first player would play as a helicopter, but i
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Ubisoft Reflections · Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +1
Awesome is a science fiction action video game released by Psygnosis for the Amiga and Atari ST in 1990. It features a variety of gameplay styles, from overhead shooting to Asteroids-esque sequences, and a pre-rendered ray-traced intro sequ
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CAVE · Arcade
Progear is an arcade video game developed by CAVE and published by Capcom on the CPS-2 arcade system board in 2001. This was Cave's only horizontal scrolling shooter until Deathsmiles in 2007. The game features a steampunk-like style and ar
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Arcade, PlayStation, Sega Saturn +1
Area 51 is a light gun arcade game released by Atari Games. It takes its name from the Area 51 military facility.
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Sega exclusive
Sanritsu Denki · Master System, Sega Master System/Mark III
Fly your plane through five levels, shooting enemy planes, submarines, helicopters, and other enemies along the way, and use your equipped cluster bombs if necessary. You need to destroy a target that is outlined in your mission briefing. Y
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Nintendo console exclusive
Rare Ltd. · Arcade, NES
The player takes a role of a fighter pilot working to repel an alien invasion. Aliens have invaded Earth, and have built four land bases. These bases are designed to drain Earth's energy and feed it to their mother space station. If the spa
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Capcom · Arcade
The 1990s was a decade of great change marked by growing friendships between old enemies and never before seen levels of co-operation between powerful nations of the world. However, in 1997, using new weapons designed in secrecy, the Middle
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Konami · Arcade
Devastators (餓流禍 Garuka?) is a 1988 third-person shoot 'em up arcade game by Konami.[1] Devastators was made available on Microsoft's Game Room service for its Xbox 360 console and for Windows-based PCs on December 22, 2010.
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Amiga, Apple IIGS, Commodore 64 +2
Firepower is a top-down action game developed by Silent Software and released for various systems in 1988.
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Timed NEC exclusive
Data East · Arcade, TurboGrafx-16, Wii
Snake and Eagle, two commandos of the Bloody Wolf special forces, receive instructions from their commander to destroy the enemy's heavily armed base to rescue the President and any allies who have been reported as MIA. Based off the 1988
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PlayStation exclusive
Appaloosa Interactive · PlayStation
Mission Critical! You control Ray, the only surviving member of the elite Contra Force. Blast your way through 10 levels to stop the alien hordes from infesting the jungles of South America. Although equipped with a huge arsenal of weapon
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Sega console exclusive
Data East · Arcade, Sega Genesis
Vapor Trail is a shoot-'em-up that features 2 players controlling the jet fighters simultaneously for battle across numerous levels.
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Timed Atari exclusive
Namco · Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Arcade +18
It's a nightmare, but it's true! Research shows that we are the actual aliens on Earth, and the ruthless Xevions are the original inhabitants. Now the Xevions want Earth back -- minus humans! Their invasion forces are fierce -- the land is
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Dan Gorlin · Apple II, Atari 5200, Atari 7800 +11
Choplifter is military themed scrolling shooter where you play as a pilot. Take off from your home base and fly across a horizontally-scrolling playfield of rugged terrain to reach the enemy Bungelings' barracks. There, you must land and re
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Namco · Arcade, Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox Series
Cyber Commando is the 1994 sequel to Namco's 1993 arcade game Cyber Sled. The game ran on the Namco System 22 arcade hardware, the successor to the Namco System 21 arcade board which Cyber Sled ran on. The player pilots a futuristic tank
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Sega console exclusive
Namco Tales Studio · Sega Genesis, Sharp X68000
Granada is a free-roaming scrolling shooter. You control the titular maneuver cepter Granada as you make your way through each stage, destroying the enemy's weapons. You have a map that tells you where your targets are on the stage, and onc
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PlayStation console exclusive
Microcabin · PS2, PS3, Windows
Naval Ops: Commander is the sequel to Naval Ops: Warship Gunner. It puts a more strategic and tactical focus on the franchise.
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PlayStation exclusiveMicrocabin · PS2
The game is a one-player simulation of naval combat, in which the player commands an individual ship. In the opening cutscene, a World War II-era destroyer is caught in a dimension-warping vortex and transported to a parallel universe where
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Nintendo console exclusive
TAD Corporation · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade +7
Originating in the arcades, Cabal is a shooter where the protagonist runs back and forth along the bottom of the screen, ducking and dodging bullets and grenades from the enemy. The roll maneuver from the arcade was not implemented in the P
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Nintendo console exclusive
Synapse Software · Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, NES
The general idea of the game is that the player must rescue a POW from a POW camp. Players can die by being shot, falling into water (by drowning), being blown up by a land mine, and being run over by a tank. Players are in possession of m
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Sega console exclusive
Takumi Corporation · Arcade, Dreamcast
Giga Wing 2 (ギガウイング2?) is a 2000 vertical scrolling shooter arcade game developed by Takumi and published by Capcom on Sega's NAOMI arcade system board and later ported in 2001 to the Dreamcast console. The arcade version is notable both fo
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Sega console exclusive
Takumi Corporation · Arcade, Dreamcast
A prediction is that before human civilization, there was once an advanced civilization on Mars. A sorceress destroyed the civilization and everything that was remembered of it, except a chip called "INFINITY". In 2100, millions of people w
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Nintendo console exclusive
SETA Corporation · Arcade, NES, Nintendo Switch 2
A nuclear powerplant has fallen into the hands of terrorists and you pilot a motorcyle equipped with machine guns that can be improved along the way. Make your way through difficult terrain and battle against loads of terrorists on foot, in
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Nintendo console exclusiveSETA Corporation · Arcade, NES
A helicopter vertical shoot 'em up that debuted in the Arcades in 1988 before being ported to the NES the following year.
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The Assembly Line · Acorn Archimedes, Amiga, Atari ST +6
No-one likes a and loser. And no-one comes more universally despised than Xenites. For a thousand years they have been plotting revenge for their humiliating defeat in the last Galactic Conflict. Now the very fabric of time is in danger. Th
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Nintendo exclusive
M2 · Wii
Contra ReBirth is the ReBirth series of Contra. It is the 12th installment of Contra.
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Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade +4
Sonic Boom is an arcade game shoot 'em up with a vertically-scrolling perspective in which the player is a US pilot, armed with the super-powerful Sonic Boom aircraft. Players must face six levels of cannon-fodder enemies in order to preven
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PlayStation exclusive
SCE Studio Liverpool · PlayStation
One fine and sunny day in the land that Buddies roam, there was a great and mighty disco in a tent. This tent would bob up and down with the music. All of a sudden, a large, flat, grey, flying THING blocked out the sun (The Great Eclipse) a
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Android, Windows, iOS +1
Tiny Troopers puts you in command of a team of small soldiers. Guide them through 30 deadly missions with varied objectives: destroy enemy armoured formations, save hostages and eliminate enemy generals, to name but just a few.
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Atari console exclusive
Sirius Software · Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit, Windows
Your mission, as a master tank commander, is to drive through the city of Teriyaki and blast away as many Worms and Blocks as possible without running out of fuel.
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Atari console exclusiveSirius Software · Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit
Your mission, as a master tank commander, is to drive through the city of Teriyaki and blast away as many Worms and Blocks as possible without running out of fuel.
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The Bitmap Brothers · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade +7
Xenon is a 1988 vertical scrolling shooter computer game, developed by The Bitmap Brothers and published by Melbourne House which was then owned by Mastertronic. Xenon was followed in 1989 by Xenon 2: Megablast. The player assumes the role
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