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Game » consists of 6 releases. Released 1981
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.
You're on a date in your spaceship and then suddenly you're out of gas. What do you do? You refuel by shooting gas icons against the clock and enemies.
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.
Demons to Diamonds is an Atari 2600 title that requires you to shoot a variety of targets in order to score points.
Fight off the flying demons in this Phoenix-like shoot 'em up from Imagic.
Megamania is an Atari 2600 game released in 1982 by Activision. Its TV ads featured an original song by The Tubes.
Blast a never-ending onslaught of meteors, missiles, and UFOs out of the sky as a laser battery commander.
Space Hawk is an Intellivision shooter in which a spaceman flies around hunting down giant robotic space hawks.
Star Strike is a pseudo 3D game that was first released on the Intellivision and later ported to the Atari 2600. The game is reminiscent of the "Death Star Run" from Star Wars.
A 1981 shoot-'em-up arcade game by Tehkan. Defend the Earth from alien invaders, then blast off to blow up the mothership.
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.
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.
Computer Space was the first commercial video game, location tested in August 1971 and then released to market in November 1971.
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