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249 games like Xevios · 1980 – 2011

  • Nintendo console exclusiveWhy 80Form.60World1.00Curated.50Lists.00Arcade · Shooter · Often paired · Described alike

    Namco Limited · Arcade, NES, Switch +1

    ShooterArcadeShoot 'em upHigh scoreVertical scrolling

    The gameplay is very much like that of the original Xevious except this time it is a little more difficult. Several new enemies have also been introduced (including a silver Galaxian flagship, a rare silver Galaga "scorpion" ship, two jet p

    41 rating2 listsOften paired

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  • PlayStation exclusiveWhy 78Form.41World.28Curated.74Lists.00Arcade · Shooter · Often paired

    Appaloosa Interactive · PlayStation

    ArcadeShooterModern warfareAliensShoot 'em up

    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

    60 rating2 listsOften paired

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  • Nintendo exclusiveWhy 77Form.44World.31Curated.69Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Konami · NES

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterModern warfareSide-scrolling

    Contra Force is an action shooting game released by Konami for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992 in North America. It is a spinoff of the Contra series, being the third game in the series released for the NES following the original

    71 rating2 listsOften paired

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  • Nintendo console exclusiveWhy 75Form.38World.25Curated.69Lists.00Shoot 'em up · Shooter · Often paired

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

    Shoot 'em upShooterAliensSide-scrollingHigh score

    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

    67 rating5 listsOften paired

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  • Timed Atari exclusiveWhy 75Form.50World.39Curated.58Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Ikegami Tsushinki · Apple II, Arcade, Atari 2600 +13

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterHigh scoreAuto-scrolling levels

    Zaxxon is a 1982 isometric shooter arcade game developed and released by Sega. The game gives the player the experience of flying a fighter craft through a fortress while shooting at enemy entities (missiles, enemy gunfire, etc.) The object

    76 rating1 listOften paired

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  • Timed Atari exclusiveWhy 74Form.28World.19Curated.75Lists.00Shoot 'em up · Shooter · Often paired

    Capcom · Acorn Electron, Amiga, Amstrad CPC +19

    Shoot 'em upShooterModern warfareHigh scoreModern military

    Several levels await your super-tough Commando in this arcade conversion. Armed with only a standard rifle and a few grenades you must take on hordes of enemies. Some are wandering around in the open, while others have picked out hiding pla

    76 rating15 listsOften paired

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  • Timed Sega exclusiveWhy 74Form.50World.48Curated.54Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Tose Co. · Arcade, MSX, NES +4

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterVertical scrollingAction

    Exerion is a vertical shoot 'em up released by Jaleco in 1983 and licensed to Taito for distribution in the United States. Screenshot from arcade version Exerion is a shoot 'em up game featuring parallax effects and inertia simulation, som

    63 rating7 listsOften paired

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  • Nintendo console exclusiveWhy 74Form.36World.25Curated.69Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Jackal

    1988

    Konami · Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Commodore 64 +6

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterModern warfareHigh score

    Overhead run'n gun-style shoot-'em-up. You play as jeep driver and gunner rescuing POWs. More commonly known as Jackal outside the US.

    78 rating5 listsOften paired

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  • Timed Atari exclusiveWhy 73Form.49World.25Curated.57Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit +10

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterModern warfareModern military

    Mission: Code Name River Raid. Jet down the river. Break the enemy blockade and blast the bridges to halt enemy troop advances. Terrain: Code Name River of No Return. An ever-changing, ever-challenging waterway. Expect huge islands, narrow

    81 rating8 listsOften paired

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  • Nintendo exclusiveWhy 72Form.27World.25Curated.70Lists.00Arcade · Shooter · Often paired

    M2 · Wii

    ActionArcadeShooterModern warfareAliens

    Contra ReBirth is the ReBirth series of Contra. It is the 12th installment of Contra.

    82 rating1 listOften paired

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  • Why 71Form.48World.25Curated.56Lists.00Shooter · Modern warfare · Often paired

    Video System · Arcade, Neo Geo, Neo Geo CD +3

    ShooterModern warfareShoot 'em upHigh scoreModern military

    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.

    70 rating5 listsOften paired

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  • Timed NEC exclusiveWhy 70Form.28World.13Curated.70Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Data East · Arcade, TurboGrafx-16, Wii

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterModern warfareModern military

    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

    60 rating2 listsOften paired

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  • Why 70Form.32World.25Curated.64Lists.00Arcade · Shooter · Often paired

    Taito · ColecoVision, Arcade, PC-8800 Series +4

    ShooterArcadeModern warfareShoot 'em upModern military

    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,

    70 rating1 listOften paired

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  • Why 69Form.32World.25Curated.62Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Arcade, PlayStation, Sega Saturn +1

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterModern warfareAliens

    Area 51 is a light gun arcade game released by Atari Games. It takes its name from the Area 51 military facility.

    68 rating4 listsOften paired

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  • Nintendo console exclusiveWhy 69Form.40World.52Curated.50Lists.00Shoot 'em up · Shooter · Often paired

    Rare Ltd. · Arcade, NES

    Shoot 'em upShooterModern warfareAliensHigh score

    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

    51 rating3 listsOften paired

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  • Why 69Form.36World.25Curated.60Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Taito · Arcade, Atari 2600, ColecoVision +7

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterModern warfareModern military

    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,

    70 rating9 listsOften paired

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  • Why 68Form.20World.13Curated.71Lists.00Arcade · Shooter · Often paired

    Atari, Inc. · Apple II, Arcade, Atari 2600 +12

    ArcadeShooterModern warfareHigh scoreModern military

    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.

    78 rating13 listsOften paired

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  • Why 68Form.26World.45Curated.60Lists.00Arcade · Shooter · Often paired

    SNK · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II +10

    ArcadeShooterModern warfareModern militaryVertical scrolling

    When we last saw Paul and Vince, they had saved the Colonel and were about to head for home in a special plane given to them by the General. But then, while in flight over the ocean, the sky suddenly blackens - the ocean begins to churn - a

    49 rating2 listsOften paired

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  • Timed Sega exclusiveWhy 67Form.21World.48Curated.60Lists.00Shoot 'em up · Shooter · Often paired

    Linux, Sega Genesis, Wii +2

    Shoot 'em upShooterAliensSide-scrollingAuto-scrolling levels

    During the first global biowar, a powerful retrovirus filled the planet Avaron with new and deadly forms of life. Only a few survivors remain in O.P. Odysseus, an orbiting platform circling Avaron. Hundreds of years after the biowar, condit

    70 rating4 listsOften paired

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  • Why 67Form.26World.25Curated.63Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Capcom · Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Commodore 64 +7

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterSide-scrollingHigh score

    Gun.Smoke is very similar to Commando, another Capcom game, but with several differences. Whereas Commando is a run and gun game, this game is a scrolling shooter in which the screen scrolls upward automatically and players only have three

    69 rating6 listsOften paired

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  • Why 66Form.18World.30Curated.65Lists.00Arcade · Shooter · Often paired

    Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Atari ST +8

    ArcadeShooterAliensShoot 'em upHigh score

    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

    65 rating14 listsOften paired

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  • Nintendo console exclusiveWhy 66Form.40World.13Curated.54Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Bits Laboratory · MSX, NES, Nintendo 3DS +2

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterVertical scrollingAction

    King's Knight is a fantasy-themed top-down shooter where four heroes have to unite to defeat a dragon and rescue a princess in despair. It was one of the first games published by Square Soft (now one-half of Square Enix). King's Knight is a

    51 rating1 listOften paired

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  • Why 66Form.27World.25Curated.59Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Tyrian

    1995

    Eclipse Software · BlackBerry Z10, Linux, MS-DOS +3

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterHigh scoreVertical scrolling

    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

    80 rating3 listsOften paired

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  • Why 65Form.13World.27Curated.67Lists.00Shoot 'em up · Shooter · Often paired

    Lucasfilm Games · Switch, PS4, SNES +3

    Shoot 'em upShooterAliensHigh scoreAction

    In the game you are a male or female protagonist (Zeke or Julia), fighting the vampires, mummies, zombies, etc. on over 50 levels (not including secrets) and saving all of the people you find. There are defined number of neighbors you save

    82 rating9 lists6 h main storyOften paired

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  • Nintendo console exclusiveWhy 64Form.34World.13Curated.54Lists.00Arcade · Shooter · Often paired

    Square · MSX, NES, Nintendo 3DS +2

    ShooterArcadeShoot 'em upVertical scrollingAction

    King's Knight is a fantasy-themed top-down shooter where four heroes have to unite to defeat a dragon and rescue a princess in despair. It was one of the first games published by Square Soft (now one-half of Square Enix). King's Knight is a

    51 rating5 listsOften paired

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  • Why 63Form.22World.13Curated.61Lists.00Arcade · Shooter · Often paired

    Atari · Apple II, Arcade, Atari 8-bit +9

    ShooterArcadeModern warfareHigh scoreModern military

    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.

    78 rating3 listsOften paired

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  • NEC console exclusiveWhy 62Form.21World.25Curated.56Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Sega AM2 · Arcade, TurboGrafx-16

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterModern warfareModern military

    Muster up all the skill, reflexes and guts you've got. Because inside your F-14 Thunder Cat, you're going to need all that - and more. Blast laser-directed, anti-aircraft fire at enemy planes. Dodge heat-seeking missiles with fancy flywork

    62 rating3 listsOften paired

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  • Nintendo exclusiveWhy 62Form.22World.37Curated.55Lists.00Shooter · Modern warfare · Often paired

    Thin Chen Enterprise · NES

    ShooterModern warfareAliensSide-scrollingModern military

    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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  • Nintendo exclusiveWhy 62Form.19World.44Curated.55Lists.00Shooter · Aliens · Often paired

    Sqoon

    1986

    Magical Company · NES

    ShooterAliensShoot 'em upSide-scrollingHigh score

    Sqoon is a side-scrolling shooter game published in 1986 by Irem for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

    60 rating1 listOften paired

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  • Why 61Form.24World.25Curated.53Lists.00Side-scrolling · High score · Often paired

    Bandai Namco Entertainment · PS3, Xbox 360

    Side-scrollingHigh scoreAuto-scrolling levelsActionScience fiction

    Aero-Cross is an unreleased platform video game that was in development for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 by Namco Bandai Games. It was intended as a modernized sequel to the arcade game Metro-Cross, and the third released under the Namco

    2 listsOften paired

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  • Timed PlayStation exclusiveWhy 61Form.29World.25Curated.50Lists.00Shoot 'em up · Shooter · Often paired

    Loaded

    1996

    Gremlin Interactive · PlayStation, Sega Saturn

    ActionShoot 'em upShooterHigh scoreScience fiction

    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

    74 rating4 listsOften paired

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  • Why 61Form.16World.25Curated.59Lists.00Arcade · Shooter · Often paired

    Atari · Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, Arcade +9

    ArcadeShooterShoot 'em upHigh scoreAction

    Tempest is a 1981 arcade game by Atari Inc., designed and programmed by Dave Theurer. It takes place on a three-dimensional surface, sometimes wrapped into a tube, which is viewed from one end and is divided into a dozen or more segments or

    58 rating13 listsOften paired

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  • Nintendo exclusiveWhy 60Form.28World.25Curated.50Lists.00Shoot 'em up · Shooter · Often paired

    Hot B · NES

    Shoot 'em upShooterAliensSide-scrollingAuto-scrolling levels

    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 listsOften paired

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  • Nintendo exclusiveWhy 60Form.28World.25Curated.50Lists.00Side-scrolling · High score · Often paired

    Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development · Nintendo DS, Wii U

    Side-scrollingHigh scoreAuto-scrolling levelsNever-endingAction

    Yoshi and Baby Mario are back together at long last, and it'll take a steady hand to guide them through their latest adventure. As Yoshi charges across the island, you use the stylus to throw eggs at enemies, lead him to egg-replenishing fr

    70 rating8 listsOften paired

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  • Nintendo exclusiveWhy 59Form.24World.25Curated.50Lists.00Aliens · Shoot 'em up · Often paired

    Rare Ltd. · Game Boy, NES, SNES

    AliensShoot 'em upSide-scrollingHigh scoreAuto-scrolling levels

    Battletoads & Double Dragon - The Ultimate Team is the fourth game in the Battletoads series. It is a crossover with the Double Dragon series of beat 'em up games developed by Technos Japan. It was released for the NES, with ports for the S

    81 rating3 listsOften paired

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  • Why 59Form.16World.13Curated.58Lists.00Modern warfare · Side-scrolling · Often paired

    Vatra Games · PS3, Xbox 360

    ActionModern warfareSide-scrollingModern militaryMetroidvania

    The Rush'N Attack name returns in the form of an all-new downloadable game.

    5 listsOften paired

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  • Nintendo exclusiveWhy 59Form.16World.25Curated.56Lists.00Shooter · Aliens · Often paired

    Factor 5 · SNES, Wii

    ShooterAliensSide-scrollingHigh scoreAction

    The lost colony of Alterra is a completely man-made lifeworld abandoned long ago in a nearby galaxy. Alterra is actually five colonies in one. Each self-contained habitat has been separately bio-engineered by a powerful ecosystem generation

    72 rating1 listOften paired

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  • Timed Sega exclusiveWhy 56Form.07World.29Curated.56Lists.00Arcade · Shooter · Often paired

    Sega AM2 · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade +11

    ShooterArcadeHigh scoreActionScience fiction

    The peaceful and prosperous solar system Junos was located at the end of the Milky Way. Those who called its five planets home had no idea what was about to happen... Halcyon, ruler of the Fourth Empire, had Junos marked as its final target

    71 rating5 listsOften paired

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  • Nintendo exclusiveWhy 51Form.61World.59Curated.04Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up

    Tose Co. · NES, Switch

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterVertical scrollingAuto-scrolling levels

    In Super Xevious: Gamp no Nazo the player controls a spaceship named the Solvalou in its mission to destroy a powerful supercomputer named GAMP, which took over Earth during an ice age. Gamp no Nazo features a heavy focus on puzzle-solving,

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  • Why 49Form.66World.39Curated.05Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up

    Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade +4

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterModern warfareHigh score

    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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  • Nintendo console exclusiveWhy 46Form.62World.25Curated.04Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up

    SETA Corporation · Arcade, NES, Nintendo Switch 2

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterModern warfareModern military

    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

    2 lists

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  • Why 44Form.31World.25Curated.23Lists.00Shooter · Modern warfare

    Appaloosa Interactive · PlayStation, Sega Saturn

    ShooterModern warfareAliensHigh scoreModern military

    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

    59 rating4 lists2 h main story

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  • Timed Sega exclusiveWhy 44Form.52World.27Curated.08Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up

    Koei Tecmo Holdings · Arcade, Game Boy Advance, MSX +6

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterVertical scrollingAction

    In the game, the player pilots a starship called the Final Star, while shooting various enemies and destroying enemy structures for points. Unlike later vertical scrolling shooters, like Toaplan's Twin Cobra, the Final Star had only two le

    57 rating6 lists

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  • Timed Nintendo exclusiveWhy 43Form.49World.44Curated.05Lists.00Shoot 'em up · Shooter

    Eidos Interactive · SNES, Sega Genesis

    Shoot 'em upShooterModern warfareModern militaryVertical scrolling

    Choose between a Helicopter Gunship or an Armoured Jeep and prepare to enter enemy territory as part of the elite assault team of SPECIAL WEAPONS INTERDICTION VEHICLES. Battle against enemy 'copters, thanks, hovercraft, snowmobiles, mechani

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  • Why 43Form.33World.13Curated.22Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up

    Midway Games · Amiga, Amiga CD32, Arcade +4

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterModern warfareAliens

    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

    67 rating6 lists

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  • Why 42Form.47World.30Curated.08Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up

    Hudson Soft · Game Boy Advance, MSX, NES +3

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterVertical scrollingAction

    Star Soldier is a 1986 vertically scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Hudson Soft for the Nintendo Entertainment System and MSX. It is the first game in the Star Soldier series. The player pilots the starship "Caesar", t

    55 rating9 lists

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  • NEC console exclusiveWhy 42Form.45World.63Curated.00Lists.00Shoot 'em up · Shooter

    TurboGrafx-16, MSX

    Shoot 'em upShooterHigh scoreVertical scrollingScience fiction

    A vertically-scrolling shoot 'em up in the Xevious franchise. Adds bosses, power-ups and a story to the Xevious model.

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  • Sega exclusiveWhy 41Form.62World.13Curated.00Lists.00Arcade · Shoot 'em up

    Sanritsu Denki · Master System, Sega Master System/Mark III

    ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterModern warfareModern military

    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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