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The successor to Totally Games' Star Wars: X-Wing, TIE Fighter takes the same space combat engine and turns the tables, allowing players to hunt down Rebel scum and rise through the ranks of the Imperial Navy.
A life simulator where players can create species to see how they evolve and react with one another.
A Western-themed adventure game by Al Lowe and Josh Mandel.
A side-scrolling platformer/shooter from Treasure. Its colorful art style and frenetic shooting action have earned it near universal praise.
A turn-based strategy game that allows players to choose one of ten races before taking on a quest for intergalactic dominance. It inspired the term "4X" and introduced a framework that many later games in the subgenre would build upon.
As the leader of an elite squad of anthropomorphic animal pilots, fly throughout the Lylat star system in the prototype Arwing spacecraft to prevent the galactic conquest of a mad scientist in this 3D shooter for the SNES (with real-time polygonal graphics powered by the new Super FX chip).
A space combat simulation set in the Star Wars universe, Star Wars: X-Wing lets players pilot the signature starfighters of the Rebel Alliance in a variety of different scenarios, ultimately culminating in the destruction of the original Death Star.
Also known as Star Cruiser II: The Odysseus Project, Star Cruiser 2 was released in 1992 for the NEC PC-98 and Fujitsu FM Towns computers.
Take on the role of a gunner of the powerful ST Falcon and participate in one-on-one mech combat in this fast-paced light-gun shooter for the SNES.
A 1992 first-person shooter for arcades, developed by Taito. It pioneered several features before they became standards of the FPS genre, including circle-strafing and multiplayer deathmatch. Its control scheme, where the player moves with a joystick and aims with a lightgun, was also a precursor to modern FPS controls.
A static first person shooter for Atari 8-bit home computers. A later re-release added light gun support.
An on-rails light-gun shooter produced for the Arcade by Midway, based on the 1991 film of the same name. The home versions were titled "T2: The Arcade Game" to distance themselves from the LJN/Ocean side-scroller action game.
A compilation of 52 bite-sized games, each shittier than the last. Action 52 is now infamous for being plagued with programming bugs. A contest which involved one of its included games was rendered meaningless because of such glitch. Much of the soundtrack is plagiarized.
This arcade flight sim, originally called Strike Fighter, retroactively became the third in Sega's popular jet fighter simulation series After Burner when it was ported to the FM Towns and Sega CD.
Frank Castle alias The Punisher is the only man who can stop The Trust, a shadowy organisation, in this 2D shooter developped and published by The Edge for the 16 bit machines Amiga and Atari ST.
In Space Gun, players control a member of a rescue team that must free a space station from an alien menace. Players must travel through corridors and fight bosses while rescuing human prisoners.
Wing Commander is one of the most famous early forays into the space simulation genre. Originally released as a PC game, it spawned three full sequels and was emulated heavily during much of the 1990s.
A light-gun rail shooter similar to Operation Wolf and Cabal, but with more detailed three-dimensional environments. The original arcade version's sprite/texture manipulation engine anticipated FPS ray-casting graphics and the look of texture-mapped polygons.
An arcade machine that featured up to three players each with their own gun. Your job is to hunt ghosts down to rescue a kidnapped girl. It was unique among light-gun shooters for featuring three-player co-op gameplay.
A shooter for the Amiga which is very similar to Operation Wolf.
A shooter where players murder schoolchildren as a form of sport.
A sports-based minigame collection centered around Australian stereotypes.
A multi-event sports simulation set in the Wild West.
An early first-person role-playing shooter released by Arsys Software. Ahead of its time, it had 3D polygon graphics, FPS gameplay, strafing controls, open-world space exploration, and an epic sci-fi space opera plot.
Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode is a mature-themed game with revolutionary design implementing multiple game mechanics, including platforming, first-person shooting, and sniping, and is one of the only games to feature sex on the NES.
A first-person shooter and port of the Japanese arcade game "Empire City: 1931" for western home computers.
Shoot bad guys and rescue the hostages in this 1987 first-person Arcade light-gun shooter from Taito.
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