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Game » consists of 6 releases. Released September 1990
DreadStar
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A Shoot 'Em Up game featuring two pilots who must rescue millions of humans held hostage by a virtual network.
LEGO Star Wars Microfighters is a vertical top-down shooter for mobile devices.
Twin Tiger Shark is a tribute to arcade vertical shoot-'em-ups, released for OUYA and Xbox 360 (via Indie games store)
A DOS top-down shooter with dozens of planet to visit, paths to take, and thousands of upgrade combinations.
This remake of a classic, top-down shooter now features a wider field of action and emphasizes cooperative online play. Players choose one of three WWII fighter planes to fly through the tropical Pacific and destroy countless enemy airplanes, vehicles and ships.
Homura is an arcade style shoot-em-up that was released for the PS2 in Japan and Europe.
Nanostray is a space shooter released on the DS. It was developed by Shin'en Multimedia and is regarded as a spiritual successor to the Iridion games from the GBA. It was followed by a sequel.
RayCrisis is the prequel to the original entry in the Ray Series, RayForce.
The Reap is an isometric shoot 'em up by Housemarque, in the vein of the Zaxxon series. Players fly a ship through 4 distinct worlds; fighting human, robotic, alien, and aquatic enemies along the way.
The first shoot-'em-up developed by Warashi and a spiritual successor to the 1993 game Daioh. Pilot the "Burn Dragoon" and defend your far-future colony from the legions of the alien "Shienryu".
Galaga meets Puyo Puyo in this unique versus shoot-'em-up for Neo Geo hardware. Warning: cuteness overload.
Japanese vertical shoot-'em-up. Released only in Japan in 1996.
The mutant space bats have returned again to invade Earth in this bat genocide shooting game. Mash your spacebar, avoid enemy fire, collect powerups, and turn into a Bat during the bonus stages.
Tyrian is a computer game developed by Eclipse Productions and orginaly published in 1995 by Epic MegaGames. In 1999 game was re-released as Tyrian 2000, featuring Windows compatibility, an additional fifth episode and bug fixes. The game was officially released as freeware in 2004, and the graphics have been made available under an open license in April 2007.
The fourth entry in Capcom's vertical scrolling shooter series for the arcade.
When enemy forces wipe out the modern jets of the Aero Fighters, they must scramble using heavily-modified World War II warplanes in the third installment of the Aero Fighters series.
R-Shark is a Korean Shoot 'Em Up released in the arcades.
Take control of one of eight unique (and sometimes bizarre) pilots and traverse the world in the first Neo Geo sequel to Video System's signature shoot 'em up series.
Raptor: Call of the Shadows is a top-down shooter released for the PC in 1994. The game allowed players to upgrade their weapons over multiple explosive levels and generally devastate armies of counterattacking craft, both small and large.
Power Strike II has you shoot down ski pirates for bounties to clean up the skies once again
A top-down shooter for the Philips CD-i, developed by Vision Games and released in 1993.
A rather obscure vertical scrolling shooter, guide your ship in a battle against aliens using three different weapons. This game is known in Japan as V-Five and is also the first game from Tsuneki Ikeda.
Also known as Sonic Wings, Aero Fighters is a vertical-scrolling shoot-'em-up with a variety of real-life military aircraft to choose from, each of which are piloted by a distinct cast of pilots.
Thunderbolt II is a vertical scrolling shooter from Gamtec, which remained a Taiwan-only release until 2019.
A vertical-scrolling shoot-'em-up by Allumer, released for arcades in 1993. It is heavily based on the 1990 Seibu Kaihatsu game Raiden.
A vertical-scrolling shoot-'em-up released by Yang Chang Electronic for arcades in 1993.
Vertically scrolling shoot 'em up released in 1993 as Rayforce in the Arcade. The subsequent home versions released in 1995 for Sega Saturn were titled 'Layer Section' in Japan, and 'Galactic Attack' in the US and Europe.
Take control of the advanced sci-fi fighter craft GH-68 Thunder Dragon and battle a massive mechanized force in this vertical-scrolling shoot-'em-up from NMK and Tecmo.
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