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Game » consists of 16 releases. Released April 1985
An intense keyboard and mouse side-scrolling shooter developed by Crack Dot Com.
Take possession of your enemy's body in this early Atlus scrolling shooter with an enemy-capture mechanic.
A shoot 'em up/fighting game based on the Tekkaman Blade anime.
The mage-warrior Alisia must save the world from an evil space-borne terror with the help of her magical pets.
A side-scrolling action adventure game where you control a transforming robot.
Fire Hawk (a.k.a. "Thexder 2") is the sequel to the original Japanese action game. It features improved graphics, sound and gameplay.
A side-scrolling shoot 'em up for the Arcade and PC-Engine published by Taito in 1989. The player controls the eponymous Heavy Unit: a ship that can transform into a mecha.
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.
A scrolling mecha shooter published by Squaresoft for the Famicom Disk System.
An early role-playing shooter released by Arsys Software for the PC-88, PC-98 and FM-7 computers in 1986 and ported to MS-DOS by Brøderbund. An early RPG-shooter hybrid, it was one of the first computer games with polygonal 3D environments, along with full 360-degree third-person exploration for indoor environments.
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: Hot Scramble is the first console Gundam game. It features some early first-person shooter elements, along with side-scrolling action segments.
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.
A shoot-em-up for the NES and the first Nintendo game to be based on the mecha anime/manga Macross. It was developed by Namco and published by Bandai, the first partnership of the now merged companies.
A horizontal shoot 'em up for the Famicom that was never released outside of Japan. The player is able to change their fighter to a mech and back again, shifting as needed.
One of the earliest side-scrolling run-'n'-gun games, Hover Attack is a game for Japanese computers in which players control a mechanized "Attacker" that can leap with jet thrusters, fire a barrage of missiles, and dock with a companion hovering Carrier to refuel.
In this side-scrolling action game, up to two players infiltrate enemy bases armed initially with only their knives. As they move from left to right they will find "power up" weapons like bazookas, grenades, and flame throwers. Defeat the bosses at the end of each level to win. Also known as Green Beret, this was one of the first side-scrolling, run & gun shooters.
Descend further and further underground to destroy the alien force Octy and save Planet Paccet! Released in 1985, it was an early side-scrolling, run & gun shooter, and featured a female protagonist, Toby Masuyo. It also bears a striking resemblance to Metroid, in terms of both its gameplay system and female protagonist.
An early Arcade horizontal-scrolling shoot-em-up by Jaleco, ported to the MSX by Nippon Dexter and the Famicom by Jaleco and Hect. The player can transform between a jet fighter and a bipedal robot.
An early run & gun shooter designed by Hiroshi Ishikawa in the summer of 1983 and published by Enix in October 1983.
A tactical maze shooter released by Sega in 1981. It has a mixture of vertical scrolling run & gun shooting and maze digging.
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