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A chubby Cupid need to save his friends, while being attacked by beagles, bulldogs and cats.
A first-person shooter and cockpit-view space shoot-em-up developed by Namco, and released for the Arcade and Nintendo Famicom platforms in 1985.
Brain Breaker is an epic open-world platform-adventure for the Sharp X1 Japanese home computer. It was an early Metroidvania-style game, predating both Metroid and Castlevania. It was designed by Hiroshi Ishikawa and published by Enix in 1985.
The Earth Fighter Rayieza (地球戦士ライーザ Chikyū Senshi Raīza?) is a role-playing game developed and published by Enix (currently Square Enix) in 1985 for the NEC PC-8801, FM-7, Sharp X1 and MSX personal computer systems, and later ported to the NES.
Imhotep is an Egyptian-themed shooter for the Commodore 64, released in 1985 by Ultimate Play The Game.
A side scrolling arcade shoot 'em up and the first in Konami's famous series. The game became famous for its extreme difficulty and varied power-ups.
An action shooter game featuring a giant robot which can transform into a jet. Trapped within a mysterious facility, the goal is to navigate 16 maze-like levels and stay alive long enough to destroy the central computer.
A cute-'em-up by Konami featuring color changing bells as power-ups.
1942 is a vertical shooter set in an exaggerated World War 2 universe. It went on to be one of Capcom's very first hits.
Balloon Fight is an arcade-style platform action game for 1-2 players that is similar to Joust. Players take to the sky and try to pop their foes' balloons before their own get popped.
An action/shoot-'em-up combining elements of religion and science fiction. The goal is to complete constellations by touching them, and warding off whatever enemies are attempting to stop the player.
An early Japanese RPG released by Hot-B in 1984 that departed from the fantasy themes of most other early RPGs in favour of what is possibly gaming's first sci-fi cyberpunk plot. Set in a post-apocalyptic city, the game revolves around an amnesiac protagonist with psychic powers.
Dragon Slayer is an action RPG designed by Yoshio Kiya and developed by Nihon Falcom. The title helped to pioneer the action RPG genre in Japan and spawned many sequels that would spin-off into their own franchises over time.
Kidou Senshi Gundam Part 2: Tobe! Gundam (機動戦士ガンダム PART 2 翔べ!ガンダム "Mobile Suit Gundam Part 2: Fly! Gundam") is an adventure/shooter/RPG from 1984, based on the Mobile Suit Gundam anime series. It anticipated several gameplay elements later found in FPS, TPS and action RPG games.
LaserDisc arcade game released in 1984 that was later ported to Sega CD and iOS. Players take to the skies in their Super Cobra attack helicopter to save the world from terrorism.
A combat flight simulation from Digital Integration that is also known as Jet Combat Simulator.
A treasure-hunting maze game where Sindbad (also known as Sinbad the Sailor) must search for treasure in multi-layered, isometric-like, levels. While doing so, he must avoid enemies, which Sindbad can hold-up by digging holes or using the environment.
Gun down TIE Fighters, shoot the tips off of towers, and blow up the Death Star in this vector-graphics Star Wars arcade game.
Fly through barns, avoid the ducks
Chopper Command is a Defender clone for the Atari 2600. In Chopper Command players control a helicopter as it tries to destroy enemies while navigating a desert.
Players control a plane and must navigate a handful of obstacles to reach the end.
A Boeing 747-200B flight simulator.
Travel through time and shoot biplanes, fighter jets and alien spacecraft in this 1982 shoot 'em up from Konami.
B-17 Bomber is a flight sim for the Intellivision, in which the player pilots a B-17 aircraft in bombing runs over continental Europe. It is one of only a few games to require the Intellivoice voice synthesis module.
Mission-X, also known as Zoar, is a vertical scrolling shooter from Nihon Bussan and Data East, released in early 1982.
1981 DECO Cassette System arcade action game, where DECO Kid flies and punches enemies in side-scrolling environments. Ahead of its time, it set precedents for mechanics such as multi-directional scrolling, bosses, energy bars, debris, invincibility, and score combos.
005 is an arcade stealth game released by Sega in late 1981.
Players must destroy waves of UFOs while saving abductees in this classic shoot 'em up
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