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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.
DESTROY THE ENEMY ARMY as Super Joe in this influential top-down shooter.
An arcade-style action game released for the MSX computer in 1984 and later ported to the Nintendo Famicom console titled as Astro Robo SASA (アストロロボSASA) in 1985. The protagonist uses a gun's recoil to fly around stage, collecting additional energy containers.
A game with a text interface and optional graphics. Players must locate the missing Princess Sabrina while surviving the hostile land.
A vehicle-action arcade game released by Sega in 1982. It was the first attempt at a train simulator, and featured chiptune background music based on Yellow Magic Orchetra's synth-pop hit "Rydeen" (1979).
In 1983 Fox Video Games, Inc. released M*A*S*H, a game based on the popular movie and TV series.
Carnival is an arcade game released in 1980 by Sega. It was ported to various consoles of the day.
A Asteroids clone for the Dragon 32 and TRS-80 CoCo that is also known as Microbes.
A graphical text-adventure written by Tim Wilson in which the player has to find and rescue Professor Paul Eisenstadt who was captured by the KGB and is being held somewhere in northern Afghanistan.
Galaga is a vertical shooter arcade game released in 1981. Developed by Namco and published by Namco and Midway.
Released by Sega in 1981, Space Fury was the first video game to feature colour vector graphics. It also featured ship power-ups.
The first commercial Space Invaders clone for home release.
An early vertical scrolling shooter released by SNK in 1979. It was also an early example of an action game that gave the player a supply of energy that depletes as the player gets hit.
1979 arcade shooter by Nintendo where the player must fight sixteen surrounding desperadoes. A precursor to Donkey Kong, it was designed by Genyo Takeda, with assistance from Shigeru Miyamoto, working on his first video game. Possibly the first run & gun shooter, it also introduced the damsel-in-distress trope to gaming as well as continuous background music.
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.
Gun Fight, also known as Western Gun, is a 1975 arcade shooter. Set in the Wild West, Western Gun was the first on-foot shooter, introduced human combat, was the first open-world action-adventure video game, and the first real-time tactical cover shooter. Gun Fight was also the first microprocessor video game.
TimeSplitters 4 is the latest installment in the TimeSplitters franchise by Crytek UK, formerly Free Radical Design. The project is currently on hold indefinitely.
Cancelled in March 2011, The Agency was a spy-themed action MMORPG being developed by SOE.
Pocket tanks is a 2D strategy game, which features similar gameplay to that of worms.
Dirty Harry (working title) was a game cited as coming to the Xbox360 and PS3, however the game has been significantly delayed and subsequently cancelled due to problems with the developer. Warner Bros. Interactive still intend to produce the game at a later date.
A third person action game where you take control of Crow, who must kill Khan and save Frame City. The game was canceled by Namco in 2006.
A game where players mix together elements with the goal of finding all possible combinations.
Project Reality 2 is the canceled sequel to the Project Reality mod for Battlefield 2.
Survive the Nights is a survival Horror game in which players must gather resources to be able to survive the onslaught's at night.
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