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A Space Invaders clone written by Michael Abrash and published by Datamost for the PC.
Travel through time and shoot biplanes, fighter jets and alien spacecraft in this 1982 shoot 'em up from Konami.
Fight the space dragon in Super Zaxxon, a more challenging update to Sega's isometric shooter, Zaxxon.
An early side scrolling shooter made by Universal
This early example of 3D gaming has players fire rockets from a submarine at incoming ships and UFOs. It was the first video game to use stereoscopic 3D, and the first commercial product to use active-shutter-based stereoscopic 3D.
Drive a six-wheeled rover as you traverse the surface of the moon, jumping over holes and gunning down enemy ships.
In this horizontal scrolling shoot'em up the player must successfully navigate a submarine through an underwater course while avoiding or destroying enemies and obstacles with the final aim to wreck a heavily guarded reactor.
Zaxxon is an arcade shooter developed by Sega, along with assistance from Ikegami Tsushinki. When it was first released, Zaxxon's isometric projection was considered ground-breaking and original, giving players the sense that they were playing in 3-D.
Bosconian is an arcade multi-directional shooter where players must clear levels of enemy space stations.
Galaga is a vertical shooter arcade game released in 1981. Developed by Namco and published by Namco and Midway.
The first commercial Space Invaders clone for home release.
Scramble is a side-scrolling shooter. The player controls a spaceship across a scrolling terrain, battling obstacles along the way. Scramble is credited with setting the template for most of the side-scrolling shooters that followed its release.
Space Firebird is a 1980 arcade game published by Gremlin Industries, Inc. It is a "slide and shoot" shooter, similar to titles such as Galaga.
Released in 1980, Battlezone was an arcade machine where you assumed the role of a tank commander in a vector-based graphic world. Allowing for split screen multiplayer, it entertained for years, and even in the '90s.
Missile Command is a classic arcade game in which players must delay their inevitable annihilation by destroying a barrage of incoming missiles.
A 1979 Arcade shoot 'em up in which the player guides missiles towards alien invaders, avoiding their projectiles and random asteroids along the way. Saw a Super Famicom revamp in 1995.
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.
Originally called Space Invaders Part II in Japan, this is the first sequel to the coin-munching hit Space Invaders. This game is notable for introducing the concept of a cut-scene.
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.
An Atari 2600 launch title consisting of mutliple ground-to-air targeting games.
The first 3D flight simulator game, released by Sega in 1970. It was an electro-mechanical arcade game, using video projection to display a 3D game world on screen. It features free-roaming, first-person flight shooting gameplay. It was the first flight simulator game, the earliest first-person shooter, the first open-world game, and the first action-adventure game.
Pocket tanks is a 2D strategy game, which features similar gameplay to that of worms.
A sequel to Jumpgate: The Reconstruction Initiative, this cancelled space combat MMO title would allow players to join one of three factions locked in an interstellar war that stretched across the galaxy.
Pornographic card battle game developed by Gainax in 1993.
Card battle game developed by Gainax in 1991.
µTanks, also known as uTanks or Microtanks is a free-to-play online tank battle game featuring massive-scale multiplayer battles and fast-paced turn-based strategy.
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