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Game » consists of 3 releases. Released 1982
Shutshimi is a shoot 'em up about a shotgun-wielding fish with arms. The fish has a 10-second memory, so stages last only 10 seconds, as do the upgrade screens between stages.
The Vetrex version of Space Invaders. Shoot invaders and hide behind shields before the (in)vaders land.
A fixed shooter for Microsoft DOS based on the popular arcade game Space Invaders.
Astro-warrior is a top-down shooter for the Sega Master System that allows you to upgrade your weapons over multiple levels. The game includes varying enemy spaceships and boss battles.
A shoot'em up similar to the infamous Space Invaders this time on the high seas where the player controls a fighting ship and has to shoot down planes, helicopters and rockets instead of aliens.
A time limited vertical shooter with combat in waves. Your ship can move forward and backwards in addition to the standard left and right movement.
Fight off the flying demons in this Phoenix-like shoot 'em up from Imagic.
Demons to Diamonds is an Atari 2600 title that requires you to shoot a variety of targets in order to score points.
Space Armada is a Space Invaders clone that was released on the Intellivision.
Blast a never-ending onslaught of meteors, missiles, and UFOs out of the sky as a laser battery commander.
Defend the world's cities from jets, helicopters, and bombers. If you take too long, a nasty MIRV will be launched.
A 1981 shoot-'em-up arcade game by Tehkan. Defend the Earth from alien invaders, then blast off to blow up the mothership.
Vertical shooter released by Sega in 1981. Featured digital speech and multiple stages.
Gorf is a multi-mission fixed shooter featuring five screens. Each of these five missions has its own distinct enemies and rules of play.
Fight through waves of robotic birds to engage the mothership in this 1980 video arcade game. It was developed by the Japanese company Hiraoka, and licensed to Taito, Amstar and Centuri.
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.
This 1979 Taito arcade game challenged the player to set down on a narrow landing pad at the bottom of the screen, rescue a stranded astronaut, and return to the mothership at the top of the screen. Meteors and hostile aliens added considerably to the challenge.
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.
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