

1981 · Arcade · Shoot 'em up
Space Seeker
Nintendo console exclusive
Defend your base against enemies.
- Released
- 1 October 1981
- Platforms
- ArcadeNintendo Switch
- Genres
- ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterStrategy
- Developers
- —
- Publishers
- TaitoHamster Corporation
- Perspective
- First personSide view
- Themes
- ActionScience fiction
- Country
- Japan
- Languages
- English
About
Space Seeker is a 1981 strategy shoot 'em up video game developed and published by Taito for arcades. It was released only in Japan in September 1981 alongside Space Cruiser. Hamster Corporation released the game outside Japan for the first time as part of their Arcade Archives series for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 in June 2022.
Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
Space Seeker is a hybrid of a strategy video game and a shoot 'em up. The player controls a spaceship during an alien invasion of a planet. In a top-down view, the player can select the area they land on with a cursor to intercept alien attacks and stop them from attacking ally bases. The game's levels alternate between a first-person rail shooter and a horizontally scrolling shooter format.
In the rail shooter levels, the player shoots aliens in front of them, moving guns side to side in a similar manner to a fixed shooter; the player cannot be harmed by enemies in these levels. In the scrolling shooter levels, the player defeats enemies as they navigate levels and avoid enemies and obstacles in the manner of Konami's Gradius series. When all enemies on a planet are destroyed, the player is sent to another planet with different levels; the game ends when the player character loses all lives.
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Ported as
- Arcade Archives: Space Seeker
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Platform libraries
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