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Namco's arcade game that also made it to the PlayStation. The original arcade version released in 1990 supported up to 28 players. Incredibly powerful for its time, the arcade game ran on up to 16 Namco System 21 "Polygonizer" arcade boards.
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 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.
Knight Arms: The Hybrid Framer was part third-person rail shooter and part side-scrolling platformer, released by Arsys Software for the Sharp X68000 computer in 1989. It featured some of the most advanced pseudo-3D sprite-scaling seen on a home system of the 1980's.
The city is crawling with Zombies, it's your job to find out what happened and put a stop to it.
A Sega-published arcade and Genesis over-the-shoulder rail shooting game, pitting the cybernetic Duke against an army of mutant, criminal baddies.
Princess Erina must save her kingdom from The Dark Lord Ezikiel in this third-person rail shooter for Japanese NEC computers.
A helicopter shoot-'em-up developed by Sega. The Arcade version made use of Sega's 3D super scaler technology to create city environments where the buildings would appear to have depth. The subsequent home versions sadly lacked this feature.
Super Contra, also known as Super C, is the sequel to Contra. In addition to side-scrolling levels like its predecessor, Super Contra introduces top-down levels, which replace the third-person segments of the original. The NES version, uses the same gameplay engine as the NES version of Contra, with some levels not featured in the arcade version.
Gotcha! The Sport! is one of the first video games about paintball. This "Enteractive" game was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System by LJN Toys.
Shoot bad guys and rescue the hostages in this 1987 first-person Arcade light-gun shooter from Taito.
After Burner is a classic Arcade shooter, designed by SEGA game creator legend Yu Suzuki. It was released first in the Japanese arcades in 1987.
A VHS Action Max tape putting the player in a police academy.
The pack-in VHS tape for the Action Max console.
Classic NES platformer in which the game continuously scrolls to the right. Players must use the NES Zapper accessory to make the character (Gumshoe) avoid obstacles and reach platforms. The Zapper can also be used to shoot enemies in the path. Gumshoe was published and developed by Nintendo.
Silpheed is a 1986 vertically scrolling shoot 'em up featuring 3D flat-shaded polygon graphics. Successive ports featured improved graphics but retained the same core gameplay. The Sega CD version in particular used pre-rendered FMV as backgrounds.
Play as a flying dude holding a large cannon as he takes on giant mechs, flying mushrooms, and fire-breathing dragon skeletons.
An early pseudo-3D shoot-em-up for the Nintendo Famicom developed by Micronics and published by ASCII.
A vertical-scrolling Arcade shoot em 'up released by Capcom. It was re-released for platform play on Capcom Classics Collection.
Badlands is a laser disc western published by Konami. The gameplay uses single-button quick-draw mechanics. The plot is dark in tone, following a cowboy seeking revenge for his family's murder. It's possible to kill innocent civilians, but the player is punished for it.
An early NES Zapper game that pits the player against the baddest dudes in town.
LaserDisc arcade game released in 1984 that was later ported to Sega CD and iOS. Players take to the skies in their Super Cobra attack helicopter to save the world from terrorism.
Laserdisc video arcade game released by Atari in 1983. Based on the movie of the same name.
An early 1983 laserdisc video game released by Nihon Bussan and Data East, based on the anime film Harmagedon released that same year.
Gun down TIE Fighters, shoot the tips off of towers, and blow up the Death Star in this vector-graphics Star Wars arcade game.
One of the first Laserdisc games, made in 1982 and using technology pioneered by SEGA. Following its 1982 debut, it was released in Japan in May 1983 and worldwide several months later.
Originally released as Zoom 909 in Japan, the Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom arcade game is a forward-scrolling, pseudo-3D, third-person rail shooter, released by Sega in 1982.
Escape From CyberCity is a FMV rail shooter using footage from the anime movie Adieu Galaxy Express 999.
PC< released 2016. Action/Shooter, anime game.
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