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Game » consists of 2 releases. Released 1982
Retro gameplay based upon the Japanese TV show GameCenter CX. A unique universe is created where the player must complete challenges by playing through all-original games with a retro style.
A vertically scrolling shoot 'em up, from Treasure that features unique polarity-switching gameplay. It is the spiritual successor to Radiant Silvergun.
A fixed shooter for Microsoft DOS based on the popular arcade game Space Invaders.
Astro-warrior is a top-down shooter for the Sega Master System that allows you to upgrade your weapons over multiple levels. The game includes varying enemy spaceships and boss battles.
A time limited vertical shooter with combat in waves. Your ship can move forward and backwards in addition to the standard left and right movement.
Megamania is an Atari 2600 game released in 1982 by Activision. Its TV ads featured an original song by The Tubes.
Fight off the flying demons in this Phoenix-like shoot 'em up from Imagic.
Millipede is the 1982 sequel to Centipede, adding more enemies, ecology behavior, and more gameplay variations, as well as offensive options for the player
Space Armada is a Space Invaders clone that was released on the Intellivision.
Blast a never-ending onslaught of meteors, missiles, and UFOs out of the sky as a laser battery commander.
Galaga is a vertical shooter arcade game released in 1981. Developed by Namco and published by Namco and Midway.
Centipede is a vertical shooter in which you must destroy centipedes and other bugs before they reach the bottom of the screen and destroy you.
A 1981 shoot-'em-up arcade game by Tehkan. Defend the Earth from alien invaders, then blast off to blow up the mothership.
Gorf is a multi-mission fixed shooter featuring five screens. Each of these five missions has its own distinct enemies and rules of play.
A reworked version of Space Invaders for the Atari 2600. Produced at the request of Coca-Cola in 1983, only 125 copies are reported to exist.
Battle space aliens and avoid their suicidal attacks to survive in the world of Galaxian, Namco's first installment in the Galaxian franchise. It was a technical breakthrough in 1979, featuring RGB color, multi-colored sprites, a tilemap playfield, vertical scrolling background, and enemies with individual AI routines.
This 1979 Taito arcade game challenged the player to set down on a narrow landing pad at the bottom of the screen, rescue a stranded astronaut, and return to the mothership at the top of the screen. Meteors and hostile aliens added considerably to the challenge.
Space Invaders, released in arcades by Taito in 1978, is one of the most influential and successful video games of all time, laying the foundations for most shooters and action games that followed. It revolutionized the game industry and has become a pop culture icon.
Computer Space was the first commercial video game, location tested in August 1971 and then released to market in November 1971.
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