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Muppet Pinball Mayhem is a Muppet themed pinball game exclusive to the Game Boy Advance.
The fourth game in the Donpachi series and the first to be ported to the PS2, courtesy of Arika.
Psyvariar: Complete Edition is the PS2 port of the Japanese arcade game Psyvariar. The game includes a leveling system that upgrades your ship and features enduring fights that fill the screen with thousands of bullets.
A vertically scrolling shoot 'em up, from Treasure that features unique polarity-switching gameplay. It is the spiritual successor to Radiant Silvergun.
Sequel to the arcade hit. This game is ever more over the top than the last game, and the new reflect system causes all kind of carnage on screen.
CAVE's first shoot-'em-up to use third-party arcade hardware (and their first side-scrolling shoot-'em-up). It is known for its distinct steampunk aesthetic and its "Gunflyer" supporting ship mechanic.
During the driving sections of the game
The fifth game in the 194X series of shoot 'em ups, 1944 was developed by Eighting/Raizing and plays more like earlier games in the series.
The game's full name is Mars Matrix: Hyper Solid Shooting. Vertical Spaceship Shooter. The game features frantic gameplay. Projectiles come at you from everywhere. Luckily, the ships have a reflect system to deflect the enemy fire. The game would later get a Dreamcast port.
This is the third game in the Strikers 1945 series. Strikers 1945 III was considered the high point of the franchise.
Guwange is a vertical scrolling shooter from Cave based on Japanese folklore.
Giga Wing is a 1999 vertical shooter from Capcom; it is well-known for the incredible amount of points that a player can collect in the game.
Strikers 1945 Plus was a remake of Strikers 1945 II for the Neo Geo platform. Plus was the only game in the series with a horizonal monitor configuration.
A scrolling shooter for the Dreamcast, Gunbird lets you choose one of seven characters, from a magician to a combat android, to battle God (oddly an elephant) and his angels (actually an army of frogs).
An arcade shooter with disco themed music and graphics.
Radiant Silvergun is a vertical scrolling shooter with several weapons and a color-based chain system.
ESP Ra.De. is an Arcade Shoot em Up released by CAVE. Known as "ESP Ra.de. - A.D. 2018 Tokyo" outside of Japan.
Strikers 1945 II is the sequel to Strikers 1945, adapted from a popular Japanese arcade game. Developed by Psikyo, the game was successful in both North American and Asia.
A follow-up to Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Yoshi's Story follows six Yoshis as they traverse the pop-up storybook version of their island to find the Super Happy Tree.
A vertical scrolling shoot 'em up developed by Cave. A primary originator of the "bullet hell" subgenre.
A sequel in 3-D to the "Xevious" saga.
With Earth's resources spent, galactic corporations battle for control of the Moon and Mars. When the Eight Luck company claims Mars for itself, the JDF establishes the Scarlet Lotus Team, a group of elite pilots, "Tera Divers", to fight back.
A Vertical shooter for the japanese Saturn, Blast Wind was made by the team behind the Thunderforce games and features gorgeous graphics and great music.
Vertical shoot 'em up from Taito and Working Designs and sequel to RayForce/Galactic Attack.
Not to be confused with the Playstation game of the same name, Macross Plus is a vertical-scrolling arcade shoot 'em up by Banpresto.
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