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114 games like Xevious · 1978 – 2013
Xbox exclusivePlaylogic Entertainment · N-Gage, Xbox
Xyanide is a shoot 'em up video game for the Xbox in 2006. It was developed by Playlogic Entertainment and published by Evolved Games, after being originally developed by Engine Software for the Game Boy Advance. A sequel titled Xyanide: Re
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Xbox exclusivePlaylogic Entertainment · Xbox
Xyanide is a shoot 'em up video game for the Xbox in 2006. It was developed by Playlogic Entertainment and published by Evolved Games, after being originally developed by Engine Software for the Game Boy Advance. A sequel titled Xyanide: Re
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PlayStation exclusive
Cavia · PS2
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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Nintendo console exclusiveAmiga, Amiga 1200, Android +5
If you'd always wondered what it would be like to be a master criminal, then Payback is the game for you. It's entirely non-linear - to complete a level you simply have to obtain a certain number of points - how you get those points is enti
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Nintendo exclusive
Nintendo Research & Development 1 · Famicom Disk System, Game Boy Advance, Legacy Mobile Device +5
Are you clever enough to unravel the mystery of Clu Clu Land? The evil Sea Urchin has hidden all the gold in Clu Clu Land in an underground mystery maze. It's up to you to find the gold before time runs out! But beware. The Sea Urchin will
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Timed Atari exclusive
Banpresto · Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 5200 +7
The player controls Pengo, a red penguin that resides in the Antarctic. The game takes place in an overhead maze made of ice blocks, where Pengo fights the trolling, blob-like Sno-Bees. The objective of the game is for Pengo to survive a se
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Taito · Apple IIGS, Arcade, Atari 2600 +25
Space Invaders is an arcade video game developed by Tomohiro Nishikado and released in 1978. It is one of the earliest shooting games and the aim is to defeat waves of aliens with a laser cannon to earn as many points as possible.
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GNU Project · Linux, MS-DOS, Windows +1
Gameplay takes place on a 2D battlefield, usually with some obstacles. Each player (2 to 6, computer or human) has an army of particles and a cursor. The objective of the game is to assimilate all enemy particles. The players can only move
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Timed Atari exclusive
Triffix Entertainment · Acorn Archimedes, Amiga, Amstrad CPC +10
You play a small green guy who needs to blow up eight towers, because their presence is somehow poisoning the water of planets which could potentially be ideal colonies. Unfortunately you need to get to the top of these towers to blow them
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Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation Portable, Windows
In Astonishia Story, players embody an honorable royal knight and embark upon an epic journey to recover a stolen sacred relic that symbolizes prosperity and fortune. Players must seek the help of wizards and many other mysterious allies to
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Android, Java virtual machine, Legacy Mobile Device +2
Biniax is a free and open-source puzzle video game which was first released in 2005.
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Xbox exclusive
Smoking Gun Interactive · Xbox 360
Pilot a flying squirrel as you race and dive through adrenaline-filled courses.
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Android, Java virtual machine, Linux +3
Frozen Bubble is a puzzle game that started out on Linux and has later been ported to other systems.
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Daniel Bump · Linux, Windows, macOS
GNU Go is a free software program by the Free Software Foundation that plays Go. Its source code is quite portable, and can be easily compiled for Linux, as well as other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and macOS; ports exist for other
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Timed Nintendo exclusive
Capcom · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade +11
Pang, originally released in Japan as Pomping World and in North America as Buster Bros., is a 1989 arcade action game developed by Mitchell Corporation. Its core gameplay is similar to the 1983 Japanese MSX game Cannon Ball, also released
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Microsoft · MS-DOS, macOS
Gorillas is a video game first distributed with MS-DOS 5 and published in 1991 by IBM corporation. It is a turn-based artillery game consisting of two gorillas throwing explosive bananas at each other above a city skyline. The players can a
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Nintendo console exclusive
Namco Limited · Arcade, NES, Switch +1
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
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MS-DOS, Windows
Sopwith is a side-scrolling flight sim. The player pilots a Sopwith biplane and attempts to score points by destroying enemy buildings without crashing or being shot down.
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Sega console exclusive
Dreamcast, GP2X, Windows
Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles is an adventure puzzle game.
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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
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Addictive Games · Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit +11
The first football management simulator, many of the hallmarks of the incredibly complex games which exist in this genre today are found in embryonic form here. Club finances, player transfers, basic tactics, and perhaps most importantly of
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PlayStation console exclusive
Android, BeOS, Linux +4
Classic 2D jump'n'run sidescroller featuring Tux the penguin. Run and jump through multiple worlds, fighting off enemies by jumping on them, bumping them from below or tossing objects at them, grabbing power-ups and other stuff on the way.
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Spry Fox · Android, Ouya, Windows +2
Triple Town is an original puzzle game in which you try to grow the greatest possible city. The larger the city you build, the more points you score. You build your city by matching three or more game-pieces: combine three grasses to make a
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Konami · Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Commodore 64 +6
In this arcade shoot'em up your mission is to infiltrate the alien fortress during 6 levels, and to destroy the fortress and the alien. Sitting in Ajax H.Q., you must pilot the remote controlled drone ship to do this. The drone represents j
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Raven Software · Amiga 1200, Linux, MS-DOS +5
While you were battling the evil forces of D'Sparil, the other Serpent Riders were busy sowing the seeds of destruction in other dimensions. One such dimension is the decaying world where Hexen takes place. A world littered with the mangled
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Nintendo exclusive
Tose Co. · NES, Switch
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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SNK · Arcade, NES, Switch +3
Alpha Mission is a vertical scrolling shooter that has similarities to Xevious, with the use of air-to-air and air-to-ground weapons.
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Delphine Software International · 3DO, Amiga, Android +17
Out of This World (Another World in Europe) is a cinematic platformer that uses vector-based graphics and rotoscoped animations to deliver a minimalistic yet expressive visual style. It features a combination of action, platforming, and puz
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Sega console exclusiveThalamus Ltd · Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Sega Master System/Mark III +1
Sanxion is a side-scrolling shoot 'em up, the goal to traverse each level from left to right avoiding or destroying any enemies and obstacles. The side-scroller speed is controllable, increasing the closer the player is to the center of the
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Amiga, Android, Linux +3
The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme. Build up a great army, gradually turning raw recruits into hardened veterans. In later games, recall your toughest warriors and form a deadly host who
72 rating7 lists23 h main story
NEC console exclusive
TurboGrafx-16, MSX
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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NEC console exclusiveCompile · MSX, TurboGrafx-16
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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Kaneko · Arcade, Sega Genesis, TurboGrafx-16 +1
Air Buster has its roots in such scrolling shoots as R-Type, Gradius and Truxton. Its two-player simultaneous action is a relatively unique twist on the genre.
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Timed Sega exclusive
Tose Co. · Arcade, MSX, NES +4
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
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Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64 +2
In the year 2096 a huge rogue CPU called Computer Control is trying to take over the universe and you have been tasked to fly in your AGX Hypersonic Fighter and bomb Flak Batteries and other defences to reach the fortress containing the CPU
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Atari console exclusiveSirius Software · Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit, Commodore VIC-20 +1
Flash Gordon is a 1983 side-scrolling shooter video game released by Fox Video Games for the Atari 2600. Sirius Software published it as Spider City for the Atari 8-bit computers and the VIC-20. It is loosely based of the 1980 film Flash Go
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Atari console exclusive
Arcade, Atari 2600
In this shoot 'em up the player has to fight off four assault waves consisting of different enemy types until he reaches a huge UFO. After destroying the protective plates guarding the UFO's pilot in his cockpit the player can kill the pilo
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Cinematronics · Arcade, Vectrex
The player controls a ship that can rotate to the left and right and thrust forward, similar to the better known Asteroids, and like that game the player also has a "hail mary" device, hyperspace. In the center of the screen is the sun, whi
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Timed Sega exclusive
Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade +11
A helicopter shoot-'em-up developed by Sega. The Arcade version made use of Sega's 3D super scaler technology to create city environments where the buildings would appear to have depth. The subsequent home versions sadly lacked this feature
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Kaneko · Arcade, Sega Genesis, TurboGrafx-16 +1
Air Buster has its roots in such scrolling shoots as R-Type, Gradius and Truxton. Its two-player simultaneous action is a relatively unique twist on the genre.
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Nintendo console exclusive
Nichibutsu · Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Commodore 64 +5
A horizontal scrolling shooter, players control the title hover ship in an attempt to completely construct the ship into a giant robot and to destroy any enemies attempting to stop it. The three-headed mechanical dragon found as a boss cha
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Universal Entertainment · Arcade, ColecoVision
In this side scrolling shooter you have to kill as many enemies as possible to raise your high score.
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Arcade
This 1981 vector graphics arcade game is available in both two- and four-player configurations. A top-down space shooter set within a bounded playfield, where the player maneuvers a ship using rotation, thrust and forward-firing controls (
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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.
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Sega exclusive
Telenet Japan · Sega Genesis
Gaiares is a horizontal-scrolling shoot em' up released for the Sega Megadrive/Genesis in 1990. The game bears a striking mechanic similarity to that of the R-Type series, alongside those of other well-known Shoot Em' Ups such as Gradius an
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Artic Computing · Sinclair ZX81, ZX Spectrum
Galaxians is a clone of Galaxian. The player's goal is to destroy a matrix of enemy spaceships which is gradually descending on the screen. Single ships will sometimes leave the formation and bombard the player with multiple shots. There's
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Toaplan · Arcade, Linux, Sega Genesis +3
In the year 2998, humanity has finally reached the stars, and was able to build a prosperous, peaceful society. However, a space matter known as the Black Nebula began to spread, threatening to engulf the galaxies controlled by humans. It t
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Stamper brothers · BBC Microcomputer System, ZX Spectrum
Lunar Jetman is a shooter video game developed and published by Ultimate Play The Game. It was released for the ZX Spectrum in 1983 and the BBC Micro in 1984.[1] The game is the second instalment of the Jetman series and one of the few game
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