

Zynaps
1987Dominic Robinson · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +4
Zynaps is a traditional "left to right" shooter
80 rating3 listsOften paired


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396 games like X Multiply · 1980 – 2023


Dominic Robinson · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +4
Zynaps is a traditional "left to right" shooter
80 rating3 listsOften paired


Aicom · Android, Arcade, Browser +8
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


Universal Entertainment · Arcade, ColecoVision
In this side scrolling shooter you have to kill as many enemies as possible to raise your high score.
50 rating1 listOften paired
Timed NEC exclusive
Hudson Soft · PlayStation Store TurboGrafx-16, TurboGrafx-16, Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD +1
Aries was a peaceful and calm planet for millennia; however, it is now faced with its worst crisis. The deadly army of Obellon fighters led by General Don Jingi, the evil merchant known to do anything for personal gain, is out to steal the
3 listsOften paired


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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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
1 listOften paired
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.
2 listsOften paired


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
1 listOften paired
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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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
1 listOften paired


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 listsOften paired
Nintendo console exclusive
Taito · Arcade, FM-7, NEC PC-8800 series +5
A vertical scrolling space shooter.
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Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum
Tile-based horizontally scrolling shooter.
1 listOften paired
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
3 listsOften paired


ZX Spectrum
Side scrolling space shooter for the ZX Spectrum. Sequel to Sidewize
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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.
1 listOften paired
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
2 listsOften paired
Atari exclusive
Atari console exclusive
Arcade, Atari Lynx
Turbo Sub released in 1985 as an arcade shooter game by Entertainment Sciences. Then later in 1991 for the Atari Lynx. The arcade version was a one player game set in the future where you control a submersible ship against a horde of aliens
1 listOften paired


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 listsOften paired
Atari console exclusive
Atari · Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, Atari XEGS +3
Star Raiders II is a video game released in 1986 for the Atari 8-bit home computers, and later several other home computers and game consoles. The game was originally developed as part of a tie-in with the movie The Last Starfighter, which
4 listsOften paired
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 listsOften paired


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 listsOften paired


Konami · Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Commodore 64 +5
Salamander is a scrolling shooter arcade game released by Konami as a spin-off to Gradius. It introduced a simplified power-up system, two-player cooperative gameplay and both horizontally and vertically scrolling stages. Some of these woul
71 rating1 listOften paired


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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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
1 listOften paired
Nintendo console exclusive
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
1 listOften paired


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.
2 listsOften paired


Interceptor Micros · Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, BBC Microcomputer System +4
Tomcat (also known as F14 Tomcat ) is a video game published in 1989 in the UK by Players Software. The game was released on the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Commodore 16, Plus/4, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum as a budget title.
4 listsOften paired
Nintendo exclusive
Hudson Soft · Virtual Boy
Pilot a Futuristic Star Fighter in a Battle for Mankind! GALACTIC YEAR 210. The earth and its colonies face annihilation in a futuristic war against the human race. YOU have been chosen to pilot RAGNAROK, a star fighter from an advanced al
4 listsOften paired


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
1 listOften paired


A&F Software · Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
My Great-Great-Grandfather was a Battle of Britain pilot, or so my father told me when I explained to him that I wanted to join the Intergalactic Agricultural Research Establishment. "Let's hope that some of his flying skills are still pr
2 listsOften paired


Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +4
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


Granzella · Switch, PS4, Windows +2
R-Type has returned! The legendary side-scroller is back and better than ever with beautifully rendered 3D graphics, exhilarating shoot-'em-up gameplay, and a multitude of stages, ships, and weapons that will allow you to conduct a symphony
76 rating5 lists2.5 h main story


Amiga, Arcade, Atari ST +2
A german version of the game based on the Connect Four board game.
2 listsOften paired


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


BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Dragon 32/64 +2
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.
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Atari console exclusive
Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit
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
PlayStation exclusive
Granzella · PS5
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
72 rating2 listsOften paired


Apple II, Atari 8-bit
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
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NEC exclusive
NEC · TurboGrafx-16
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
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Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
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
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Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +1
Steel is a science fiction shoot 'em up originally designed by Gari Biasillo for the Commodore 64, and later ported to 16-bit machines.
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Magnavox Odyssey 2, Odyssey 2 / Videopac G7000
The player has just attracted the attention of Spyrus the Deathless, the Timelord of Chaos, and his only defense is his Time Machine's laser cannon. The Timelord will now send his fleet of Time Ships to destroy the player. In this space sh
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Costa Panayi · Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
Placed in a maze, you only have a limited time span to destroy the enemy.
2 listsOften paired
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 listOften paired