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Game » consists of 4 releases. Released October 1981
A visually dense PSN racing game with an abstract art style where the player uses puzzle elements to increase speed.
This fast paced shooter is a race against the clock as you collect sufficient amounts of energy to get through the gate at the end of each of the game's 50 levels... and destroy numbers of enemies along the way.
Atari Classics Evolved was released for the PSP on December 19, 2007. Features updated versions of 11 classics, as well as emulated ports of over 50 Atari 2600 titles.
Space Giraffe is the first Xbox Live Arcade game from Jeff Minter and Llamasoft. It is a spiritual successor to the company's various Tempest remakes.
"Betty Bad is the most effective and sought-after bounty hunter in the galaxy [if Samus Aran is unavailable]."
A remake of Sinistar, the classic 80s arcade game. In this game the player is sucked through a wormhole and thrown into the universe of the Sinistar. Players must navigate 24 levels in order to beat the game, and destroy gates and sinistars while they are at it.
iS: Internal Section is a tube shooter similar in concept to Tempest, where the player moves around the inside of an endless cylindrical tube. It has a look and soundtrack similar to N2O & Rez, with most of the visuals made up of simple wire frames and flat-shaded polygons.
Nitrous Oxide is a shooter from Gremlin Interactive Ltd. released for the PlayStation in 1998
Accele Brid is a behind-the-back shooter starring three large robots, released only in Japan for the SNES in 1993.
Tempest clone released in 1993 for Classic Mac OS by New Reality.
Microbes is a shareware shooter in the vein of Tempest - you move a ship around the outer edge of a circle, shooting at enemies (microbes) appearing in the center, multiplying fast.
Released only in Japan and requiring use of a special paddle-based controller, Galactic Protector is a spin-off of Sega's Fantasy Zone series, tasking the Opa Opa with protecting cutesy planets from dangerous debris.
A first-person shooting gallery space shooter for the C64.
3D shooter from Nichibutsu
A shoot'em up in which the player controls a orb along the edges of geometrical shapes and shoots up moving objects.
A tube shooter in the vein of Tempest originally developed for the Apple II
David Rolfe's frantic into-the-screen space blaster.
The classic Disney film was converted into a Tempest clone for release on the Tomy Tutor.
Gyruss is a space shoot 'em up that allows player to revolve around an implicit circle. It is often considered to be a cross between Tempest and Galaga.
A Tempest inspired shoot'em up written by David Arthur Van Brink and published by Datamost for the Apple II.
A Tempest inspired game written by Eric Popejoy and published by Adventure International for the Apple II.
Sinistar is a space shooter that revolves around the destruction of a malevolent world-eating star known as Sinistar. Being a twitch-based game, it rewards quick reflexes over tactics, strategy, or problem-solving.
A space shooter for the Vectrex.
4-player paddle-based game for the Atari 2600. Has since come out in various versions, few of which still utilize the paddle.
A vector-based space shooter released in arcades and on the Vectrex home console. Not to be confused with the 2012 PS3 game of the same name.
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