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When hostile aliens take over a space station, it's up to a team of space adventurers to make First Contact the only way they know how... with heavy firepower and extreme prejudice.
Make your way through a nasty, robot-filled maze with a friend in Xybots, a cooperative shooter from Atari.
A multi-directional shoot'em up in which the player tries to find the exit out of a giant automated spaceship by piloting the Shadow Skimmer over its surface.
A heavily modified "port" of the PC RPG Chikyuu Senshi Rayieza done by Nintendo for the Famicom.
The evil Sludge Vohaul is back, and armed with a devious plan to infest the planet Xenon with legions of heartless door-to-door salesman. Now Xenon's only hope lies with Roger Wilco the... Janitor?
A sci-fi themed RPG from Nihon Bussan for the Famicom, released in late 1987. It was never released outside of Japan.
A strategic space simulation game created by Soft Pro International for the Famicom Disk System in 1987. It was never released outside of Japan.
A work of interactive fiction from Infocom in the science fiction genre, and the sequel to Planetfall.
A sci-fi horror adventure game developed by Enix.
Alien Syndrome is a cooperative, top-down, run & gun shooter with aliens developed by SEGA as an arcade game in 1987. Compared to other shooters at the time, Alien Syndrome introduced a horror atmosphere in an isolated space station, along with some exploration and survival elements.
Action platformer for the NES published by DB-Soft. Also known as a maze action game.
A sci-fi adventure game for the Famicom Disk System developed by SunSoft.
The first game in the Space Quest Series. When the evil Sariens attack his ship, lone-survivor Roger Wilco (a lowly janitor) is the only hope left for the planet Xenon.
Super Xevious: Mystery of Gump s sequel to Super Xevious developed for the Famicom and later released in arcades as part of the Vs. System. It was developed and published by Namco. Despite its similar name, the game is neither a conversion nor an update to the arcade release known as Super Xevious.
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: Hot Scramble is the first console Gundam game. It features some early first-person shooter elements, along with side-scrolling action segments.
Don the Power Suit of intergalactic bounty hunter Samus Aran as she recaptures the dangerous Metroid species from the evil Space Pirates. Released by Nintendo in 1986, this game introduced the "Metroidvania" style of open-world gameplay on consoles.
Alpha (アルファ) is a visual novel adventure game, developed and published by Squaresoft in 1986, for the PC-8801 & PC-9801 and FM-7 computers. It was known for its real-time animated cutscenes, epic cyberpunk space opera narrative, and scantily-clad heroine.
The first role-playing game developed by Squaresoft, Cruise Chaser Blassty is a sci-fi title released in April 1986.
Quartet is a side-scrolling shooter that, in some configurations, allows up to four players to play at once.
Time Gal must save the world by traveling through time and stopping an evil thief from using a time traveling device in order to become the supreme leader of his time. This game was originally released in Japanese arcades in 1985 and later ported to the Sega CD.
RPG developed by Kogado and released for Japanese computers in 1985.
Trade Wars 2002 is a classic multi-player text-based space game that has been actively played since the late 1980s.
Starfighters, also known as Star Fighters, is a laserdisc game released by ASCII for the MSX computer in 1984. It was the first computer game to use pre-rendered 3D polygon graphics, combined with real-time 2D sprites.
Defeat the forces of an evil robot empire in this 1983 video arcade game from Atari. Player challenged to approach enemy space station and defeat its defenses, and then to infiltrate the station, sabotage its reactor, and escape in time.
Originally released as Zoom 909 in Japan, the Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom arcade game is a forward-scrolling, pseudo-3D, third-person rail shooter, released by Sega in 1982.
A single-screen shoot'em up written by Kevin Bagley and published by Datamost fr the Apple II computers.
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.
A Berzerk clone in which the player controls a thief that must make his way through simple mazes full of evil robots. Written by Bob Flanagan and published by Datamost for the Apple II.
The first survival horror game, developed by Akira Takiguchi and Masakuni Mitsuhashi, and published by ASCII in 1981.
Raid Over Moscow is an action game consisting of several small stages.
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