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Game » consists of 13 releases. Released 1982
Operation Carnage is a top down arcade-style shoot em up for DOS developed by Midnight Synergy and released in 1996. It is now available as freeware.
An overhead run-and-gun game for 3DO hardware, tasking a bio-enhanced human rebel with infiltrating alien bases and rescuing human captives.
A top-down shooter where players defend an asteroid colony from aliens.
A Robotron style top-down shooter.
Microbes is a shareware shooter in the vein of Tempest - you move a ship around the outer edge of a circle, shooting at enemies (microbes) appearing in the center, multiplying fast.
Award-winning classic, re-released for new generations.
A dual-joystick Arcade shooter ported to nearly every contemporary system. Contestants gear up to win fantastic prizes on the most violent game show on TV.
Circus-themed arcade style game in which the player must throw pies at clowns and eat fast food to keep up energy.
A twin-stick shooter in the vein of Robotron. Often criticized for it's confusing button layout.
Cloak & Dagger is a dual-joystick shooter released into arcades in 1983.
A multi-directional single-screen shooter for the Gakken Compact Vision TV Boy.
As the titular Black Widow, players defend themselves from waves of bugs in this Atari arcade game.
Sinistar is a space shooter that revolves around the destruction of a malevolent world-eating star known as Sinistar. Being a twitch-based game, it rewards quick reflexes over tactics, strategy, or problem-solving.
Space Dungeon is an early dual-joystick shooter, first an arcade game and later ported to the Atari 5200.
Vanguard is a scrolling shooter that allows players to shoot in multiple directions in space. The player spends their time avoiding obstacles and shooting enemies in order to replenish their quickly dissipating fuel supply.
Players must destroy waves of UFOs while saving abductees in this classic shoot 'em up
Berzerk is an arcade game released in 1980 in which the player must escape a maze filled with evil robots.
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.
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.
Experience the ultimate thumb twirling, seizure inducing homage to arcade classics in this intense dual-stick shooter.
ZED is a top-down arcade style shooter with additional elements from many other genres including RPG, ISO, and FPS games.
Llamatron: 2112 is a Robotron clone made by Jeff Minter with his own style added to the game. The player controls a llama that must fend off multiple enemies on a single screen, these enemies take many forms.
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