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Game » consists of 14 releases. Released February 1981
Retro-style arcade shooter.
A side-scrolling shoot-'em-up spin-off of Terra Lander.
Graceful Explosion Machine is a colorful, 2D shoot 'em up from Vertex Pop.
From the makers of Super Crate Box comes the only game to allow players to create, customize, and fly their own luftrausers.
A 'spiritual successor' to the Super Stardust series, Resogun is a voxel-based shoot 'em up that takes place on a cylindrical plane.
Shoot 1UP is a unique shoot 'em up game created by Mommy's Best Games in which players control all of their ships at the same time.
A horizontally-scrolling shoot-em-up for PlayStation Network.
Originally planned as the last game in the R-Type series of shoot-'em-ups, Final has a lone ship investigating a crashed space colony to research a failed counter-attack against the Bydo Empire. It features 101 different ships to choose from, each with a unique combination of weaponry.
Defender is a reboot of the classic arcade game.
The fourth main installment of the R-Type series, bringing the shoot-'em-up series into 3D while adding multiple ships to choose from and a superweapon system known as the "Delta Weapon".
The critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful sequel to Virus.
A single player, horizontal scrolling, shoot 'em up similar to Defender.
Sol Divide is a fantasy-themed shoot-'em-up from Psikyo.
The sequel to the 1984 game Dropzone. As well as a graphical overhaul, the game now also features bosses and power-ups.
A side-scrolling flight simulator with a variety of mission types and over 100 planes to fly.
The official second sequel to Irem's R-Type. The game would use some of the SNES's best graphic features, including Mode 7 graphics.
A single player, keyboard controlled, side scrolling, shareware Defender clone.
As the leader of an elite squad of anthropomorphic animal pilots, fly throughout the Lylat star system in the prototype Arwing spacecraft to prevent the galactic conquest of a mad scientist in this 3D shooter for the SNES (with real-time polygonal graphics powered by the new Super FX chip).
Like many space shoot'em'ups, Cybernetix features waves of enemies, power ups, and end bosses for the player to destroy.
A Genesis-only sequel in the Fantasy Zone series. It never received a US release on its original platform, but would eventually become available via Virtual Console in 2008.
Irem's Arcade hit shoot 'em up R-Type made its debut on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System as a launch title.
Not to be mistaken for the 8-bit home computer game from Hewson. This sideways scrolling shooter with it's left and right movement and it's looping levels make it similar to Defender and it's sequel Revenge of Defender (StarRay in Europe).
Guide the man once known as Norrin Radd across the stars, fighting myriad enemies across the stars.
A shoot em up for the Amiga where players control a Dragon which must burn oncoming waves of shapes and worm-like creatures.
The sequel to Irem's signature arcade shoot-'em-up, adding a variety of new weaponry to help take on the Bydo forces.
A side scrolling shooter.
Return to Genesis is a side-scrolling shooter similar to Defender, made by Firebird Software for Amiga and Atari ST systems.
In this classic sideways scrolling shooter you have to defend your colonies from attacking aliens. The game was released as StarRay in most of Europe.
A Defender-like shoot'em up published by The Edge for the Commodore 64.
A Defender-like horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up.
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