NEC exclusive
TurboGrafx-16, Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD
God Panic comical shoot 'em up for PC Engine CD.
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242 games like Zero Gunner · 1979 – 2017
NEC exclusive
TurboGrafx-16, Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD
God Panic comical shoot 'em up for PC Engine CD.
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NEC exclusive
TurboGrafx-16, Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD
Kiaidan 00 is a shoot'em up for PC Engine.
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Nintendo console exclusive
Tecmo · Arcade, Switch
The gameplay of Final Star Force goes back to the formula of the original Star Force, but with updated graphics and some extra power-ups. Other things that have been changed from the original are the style of the title screen's logo, the ba
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Xbox exclusive
Triangle Service · Xbox 360
The historic success story of the arcades! Introducing the "Shmups Skill Test", a way to evalute your skills as a "gamer age". The high brow style of "EXZEAL", with 4 types of craft to choose from. The classic style of "TRIZEAL Remix", wher
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PlayStation console exclusive
Triangle Service · Arcade, PS2, R3000 +1
A space shooter with vertically scrolling stages. Based on the arcade version.
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PlayStation exclusive
SNK · PlayStation Portable
10 great SNK heroes and heroines have left their worlds to answer Dr. Brown Sugar's "call for peace". Now, head to the skies to save the world from the threat of "THE DAMNED", an evil organization which plots to use a time machine for its m
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Nintendo exclusive
Game Boy Color
When a vicious crew of aliens decides to hone in on Earth and do some damage, you're the planet's only hope for salvation. You'd better be in top form as you command a killer spacecraft out into orbit in hopes of rescuing humanity from unth
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Nintendo exclusive
Krome Studios Melbourne · Game Boy
The gameplay revolves around piloting a rescue helicopter into hostile territory and rescuing hostages. Enemies like birds, fighter jets, and even ammunition fired from various weapons can harm the player's helicopter. Saving more hostages
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Bally Astrocade, Linux, Windows
Astro Battle is a science fiction multidirectional shooter developed and published by American studio Lava Lord Games for Microsoft Windows and Linux. The gameplay focuses on players designing star fighters to fight against other players' s
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Nintendo exclusive
NES
The most happening place in the universe is the trendy, upscale solar system of IOTA Synthetica, part of the Galactic Federation of artificial stars. It's as far from dirty old Earth as can be... But don't sign up to go yet! A strange cosmi
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Sega console exclusive
Eighting · Arcade, Sega Saturn
Kingdom Grand Prix is a vertically scrolling shooter/racing hybrid arcade game created by Eighting/Raizing, it was later ported to the Sega Saturn. It is the second in the Mahou Daisakusen series, but the first to include the bizarre but or
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Xbox console exclusive
MOSS · Windows, Xbox One
A quarter-century after the arcade hit Raiden first left its mark on the shooting genre, the series now comes to the Xbox One in its most modern and advanced form yet! Join the war for Earth's future, where the tide of battle holds constant
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Sega exclusive
Technosoft · Sega Genesis
Thunder Force III is a scrolling shooter game developed by Technosoft. It is the third chapter in the Thunder Force series. It was released in 1990 in Japan, Europe and the United States for the Sega Genesis. During the same year, it was re
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Sega exclusive
Samsung Group · Sega Genesis
Uzu Keobukseon is a vertical scrolling shooter, released only in Korea. Players controlled the title ship, a purple and gold space-age battle cruiser designed as a turtle ship, complete with sails and oars, in eight various stages.
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Sega exclusive
Affect · Sega Genesis
XDR horizontal shoot 'em-up released exclusively in Japan. The game is notable for being one of the poorest received Mega Drive games ever released, and was frequently voted the system's worst Japanese-developed game by readers of Beep! Meg
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Atari exclusive
APh Technological Consulting · Atari 2600, Intellivision
You are on a dangerous tank mission. To reach and destroy your assigned target, you must maneuver through a field filled with enemy mines. Although these are hidden, the mine detection equipment in your tank warns you of their presence by p
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Nintendo console exclusive
Switch, Windows, macOS
Astro Duel is a competitive local multiplayer party game. Rounds are quick and death is sudden. Blast your friends using asteroid-style ships. Run over their helpless bodies for good measure.
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Capcom · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade +7
Forerunner to Forgotten Worlds. The control method allows you use the fire buttons to shoot in opposite directions, defending yourself from attacks from the rear. The power ups are selectable and if you collect an alpha symbol you combine w
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Nintendo console exclusive
UPL · Arcade, Switch
Omega Fighter is a vertical scrolling shooter developed for the arcades by UPL in 1989. While similar to most shooters, Omega Fighter was unique in its gameplay, level and enemy focus: rather than flying over multiple levels, the player fac
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SNK · Arcade
Zarzon is a 1981 shoot 'em up arcade video game, inspired by gameplay from Space Invaders.
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Atari console exclusive
Data East · Arcade, Atari 7800
The game of Astro Fighter consists of 4 waves and a refueling stage, which are then repeated with increasingly higher difficulty. The player's task is to eliminate the four successive waves of different types of attacking craft, while avoid
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Apple II
The player controls a small craft, navigating it through a series of winding caverns and tunnels while shooting or avoiding obstacles. The caverns scroll from the bottom of the screen to the top at a fixed speed, so the player must always m
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Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX +3
Fly a helicopter into hostile territory to rescue hostages and make some money on the side. The places the player can choose to fly into are Guatemara (Engrish for Guatemala), Cuba, and Panama. Missions are broken down into three different
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Sunsoft · Arcade, Game Gear, MSX +3
Originally titled "Fantasy Zone Gear: Opa Opa Jr. no Bōken", this game is technically a sequel to the first Fantasy Zone, but got released under the same name outside of Japan. Like the other Fantasy Zone titles, this is a side-scrolling s
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Graeme Devine · ZX Spectrum
Firebirds is based on the the arcade game Phoenix. Your goal is to repel an invasion of an alien species related to birds. You command an armed spaceship which you can manoeuvre with right and left directions. In each level you have to dest
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Microdeal · Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE
A vertically scrolling shoot'em up designed by Steve Bak.
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Timed Sega exclusive
Nippon Computer Systems · Switch, Sega Genesis, Wii
Gynoug, known in North America as Wings of Wor, is a 1991 scrolling shooter video game developed by Masaya and published by NCS Corporation for the Sega Genesis. The game was released in North America and Europe in 1991 and in Japan on Janu
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FTL Games · Atari ST, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
Rescue the OIDS from the Fiendish Biocretes who are turning them into vending machines and household appliances! Fuel your ship, charge your shields, and blast off to adventure as you challenge planetoid after planetoid of devious gravity t
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Denton Designs · Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
Earth has been invaded by extraterrestrial shapechanging robots which have made our planet their battleground. The struggle between the good Autobots and the evil Decepticons centers around energy as the objective is to collect four pieces
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Timed Xbox exclusive
G.rev · Arcade, PS3, Xbox 360
Save the Underworld! Mamoru wakes up in a strange land with people he’s never seen before after what seemed to be an accident. A girl named Fururu informs him that this is the Underworld, and that it needs the help of everyone there to stop
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PlayStation exclusive
PlayStation
Geppy-X is a 2D side-scrolling shoot-em-up developed as an affectionate parody of the 1970s super robot era of mecha anime pioneered by Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa. In it, you play as a super robot fighter squadron in an alternate universe 19
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NEC exclusive
TurboGrafx-16
Evil forces have kidnapped the leader of the Burning Project! It's up to the Burning Angels to rescue her! And so starts another vertically scrolling shooter on the PC Engine. There are no surprises in the gameplay here - choose one of two
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Atari console exclusive
Imagic · Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64 +11
Demon Attack is an arcade action game with gameplay similar to Space Invaders. You control a laser cannon at the bottom of the screen, and need to destroy wave after wave of brightly colored demons. The demons bounce around the screen in bi
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Sega exclusive
Sega Genesis
Verytex is a shoot-'em-up game released exclusively in Japan. Taking place on the colonized fictional planet of Syracuse in a futuristic sci-fi setting, where its military force initiated a violent coup d'état against the inhabitants for un
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UPL · Arcade, Switch, PS4 +1
Bio-ship Paladin is a 1990 horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game. It was later ported to the Sega Mega Drive. While the game is essentially a standard horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up, it has an innovation that makes it unique
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Sega exclusive
Sega Genesis
Eliminate Down is a 1993 scrolling shooter video game developed by Aprinet and published by Soft Vision International for the Sega Mega Drive. The game was released in Japan on June 25, 1993, and in South Korea in 1993. Eliminate Down gives
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Nintendo exclusive
Sting · SNES
Flying Hero: Bugyuru no Daibouken ("Bugyuru's Great Adventure") is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up with a bright, cartoony style, similar to games like Sega's Fantasy Zone or Konami's TwinBee series. The game features Bugyuru, a flying
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Sega console exclusive
Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade +8
Sega's take on the 1943 style of vertically scrolling shoot 'em ups was set in the future. Your fighter plane is aged and under-powered, yet you must face down large planes, tanks and ground targets to achieve victory. Each level ends with
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Nintendo exclusive
Taito · Wii
Space Invaders Get Even is a video game by Taito for the Wii. Originally intended as a retail release, the game was released as a downloadable WiiWare game instead. It was released in Japan on August 26, 2008, in Europe on November 7, 2008,
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Sega exclusive
Frontier Developments · Sega 32X
One of the last 32X games released (and exclusively in Europe), DarXide is a 3-D space shooter, inspired in part by the arcade gameplay of Asteroids. It is one of the few 32X games to used texture-mapped polygons. Players control a lone st
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Apple II
Dogfight is an aerial combat video game written by Bill Basham for the Apple II and published by Micro Lab in 1980. The game is a clone of Atari, Inc.'s 1975 arcade game Jet Fighter.
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Sega console exclusive
Taito · Arcade, Sega Saturn
Gekirindan is a vertical shoot-'em-up by Taito where players select one of three different fighters against an army of mechs through different time periods.
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Timed SNK exclusive
Nintendo console exclusive
Konami · Commodore 64, MSX, Wii +1
Parodius, also known as Parodius: The Octopus Saves the Earth, is the first title in the Parodius series. The name itself is a portmanteau of "Gradius" and "Parody" and, eponymously, the game is a parody of the Gradius series of space-base
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Nintendo console exclusive
Konami · Arcade, Switch
Time Pilot '84: Further Into Unknown World is an eight-way scrolling shoot 'em up, released in 1984 by Konami. It is the sequel to Time Pilot. The player pilots a craft over many time periods. Unlike the original which told the year of each
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Xbox exclusive
Playlogic 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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Timed SNK exclusive
NG.DEV.TEAM · Arcade, Dreamcast, Neo Geo +4
Fast Striker is a Shoot-'Em-Up game, developed and published by NG:DEV.TEAM, which was released in Japan in 2012D arcade shooting game with emphasis on scoring originally developed for NEO·GEO. The game lets the player choose between 3 game
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Kaneko · Arcade, Sega Genesis, TurboGrafx-16
Heavy Unit is a side scrolling shoot-em-up arcade game developed by Kaneko and published by Taito in 1988. It was ported to the PC Engine and Sega Mega Drive by Taito and was released on December 22, 1989. There was also a Mega Drive port b
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