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01 Solar Quest Cover

1981 · Arcade, vectrex

Solar Quest

86%

The player controls a ship that can rotate to the left and right and thrust forward, similar to the better known Asteroids, and like that game the player also has a "hail mary" device, hyperspace. In the center of the screen is the sun, which pulls objects int...

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Tailgunner

86% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
Arcade Genre Shooter Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

02 Zektor Cover

1982 · Arcade

Zektor

86%

You have to infiltrate eight space cities which are held captive by robots. Asteroids-style you fight the robot squadrons.

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Tailgunner

86% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
Arcade Genre Shooter Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

03 QB-3 Cover

1982 · Arcade

QB-3

86%

You are trapped in a space cube and must shoot points and stars of light. After clearing one side of the cube, you rotate it to get to the next wave.

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Tailgunner

86% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
Arcade Genre Shooter Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

04 Starhawk Cover

1979 · Arcade, vectrex

Starhawk

78%

Starhawk is a 1979 vector arcade game by Cinematronics. Starhawk is a shoot 'em up with a fixed environment. The game was unique at the time as it presented the graphics in a pseudo-three dimensional way. Essentially, the game is a simple video game version of...

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Tailgunner

78% Sehr nah dran
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Arcade Genre Shooter Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

05 Omega Race Cover

1981 · Arcade, Atari2600, colecovision

Omega Race

76%

Set in the year 2003, the game involves using a spaceship to destroy enemy droid ships. The player's ship is controlled with a spinner to rotate the ship, a button for thrusting, and a button for firing lasers. The enemies that the player must destroy or avoid...

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Tailgunner

76% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Arcade Genre Shooter Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

06 Eliminator Cover

1981 · Arcade

Eliminator

76%

This 1981 vector graphics arcade game is available in both two- and four-player configurations. A top-down space shooter set within a bounded playfield, where the player maneuvers a ship using rotation, thrust and forward-firing controls (much like Asteroids...

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Tailgunner

76% Sehr nah dran
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Arcade Genre Shooter Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

07 Tac-Scan Cover

1982 · Arcade, Atari2600

Tac-Scan

73%

Fly your squadron of five ships around shooting down the enemy pilots. When you get hit, you simply lose one of your ships. After each round, you'll get a replacement ship which you have to maneuver into your formation or it's lost forever. In Tac-Scan, you co...

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Tailgunner

73% Sehr nah dran
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Arcade Genre Shooter Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

08 Star Castle Cover

1980 · Arcade, vectrex

Star Castle

73%

Star Castle is a 1980 vector arcade game by Cinematronics. The game involves obliterating a series of defenses orbiting a stationary turret in the center of the screen. The game was designed by Tim Skelly and programmed by Scott Boden. Tim Skelly also created...

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Tailgunner

73% Sehr nah dran
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Arcade Genre Shooter Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

09 Rip Off Cover

1980 · Arcade, vectrex

Rip Off

73%

Rip-Off is a vector shoot 'em up released in arcades by Cinematronics in 1980. It is the first shoot 'em up arcade game to feature cooperative gameplay and the first game to exhibit "flocking" behavior. The objective is to prevent computer-controlled enemies f...

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Tailgunner

73% Sehr nah dran
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Arcade Genre Shooter Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Combat-focused Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

10 SD Gundam Next Evolution Cover

Year unknown · Platform unknown

SD Gundam Next Evolution

73%

New SD gundam Online game, evolution from old SD gundam capsule fighter which is now closed.

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Tailgunner

73% Sehr nah dran
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Shooter Genre Science fiction Theme Combat-focused Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

11 War of the Worlds Cover

1982 · Arcade

War of the Worlds

73%

War of the Worlds is a Cinematronics arcade game released as a conversion kit for Star Castle. The game features battle against the three-legged aliens from the classic H.G. Wells novel.

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Tailgunner

73% Sehr nah dran
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Arcade Genre Shooter Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Combat-focused Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

12 Tempest Cover

1981 · Acorn Electron, ACPC, Arcade

Tempest

72%

Tempest is a 1981 arcade game by Atari Inc., designed and programmed by Dave Theurer. It takes place on a three-dimensional surface, sometimes wrapped into a tube, which is viewed from one end and is divided into a dozen or more segments or lanes. The player c...

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Tailgunner

72% Sehr nah dran
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Arcade Genre Shooter Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Combat-focused Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

13 Void Bastards Cover

2019 · Mac, Switch, PC

Void Bastards

71%

"Inspired by BioShock and System Shock 2, Void Bastards is a revolutionary new strategy-shooter that will test your wits as well as exercise your aim. Can you lead the misfit prisoners of the Void Ark through the derelict spaceships and myriad dangers of the S...

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Tailgunner

71% Sehr nah dran
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Arcade Genre Shooter Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Combat-focused Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

14 Mine Storm Cover

1982 · vectrex

Mine Storm

71%

The game begins with a large enemy ship dropping mines onto the field as an ominous jingle plays, and moves from the top to the bottom of the screen, where it disappears. The player's ship starts in the middle of the field with 5 lives. Numerous mines then sta...

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Tailgunner

71% Sehr nah dran
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Arcade Genre Shooter Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

15 Rico Cover

2019 · Switch, PC, PS4

Rico

70%

Rico is an arcade-style, first-person shooter inspired by modern action cinema. In the game you and a friend play as a pair of loose-cannon police partners, given twenty-four hours to crack a case as part of an elite organised crime taskforce. Planning is tac...

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Tailgunner

70% Sehr nah dran
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Arcade Genre Shooter Genre Single player Mode First person Perspective Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

16 Space Fury Cover

1981 · Arcade, colecovision

Space Fury

70%

Space Fury was one of the many popular vector games developed in the early 1980s in the same model as the famous Asteroids game released by Atari in 1979. Space Fury was developed by Sega for the Sega G80 Arcade system, and was also released in cartridge form...

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Tailgunner

70% Sehr nah dran
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Arcade Genre Shooter Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

17 Tubeway Cover

1982 · Apple][

Tubeway

70%

A Tempest inspired shoot'em up written by David Arthur Van Brink and published by Datamost for the Apple II.

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Tailgunner

70% Sehr nah dran
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Arcade Genre Shooter Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Combat-focused Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

18 Star Citadel Cover

2016 · Android, browser, iOS

Star Citadel

70%

A free web-based version of the 1980 Cinematronics arcade game, Star Castle. Offers a classic mode, designed to play as much like the original Star Castle as possible (i.e., it's really hard!), and a so-called "modern" mode, which is designed to appeal to play...

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Tailgunner

70% Sehr nah dran
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Arcade Genre Shooter Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

19 Asteroids Cover

1979 · Apple][, Arcade

Asteroids

68%

Asteroids is an arcade space shooter released in November 1979. The player controls a spaceship in an asteroid field which is periodically traversed by flying saucers. The objective of the game is to destroy both, asteroids and saucers. The triangular ship can...

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Tailgunner

68% Sehr nah dran
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Arcade Genre Shooter Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

20 Scramble Cover

1981 · Arcade, vectrex, X360

Scramble

68%

The player controls an aircraft, referred to in the game as a "Jet," and has to guide it across a scrolling terrain, battling obstacles along the way. The ship is armed with a forward-firing weapon and bombs; each weapon has its own button. The player must avo...

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Tailgunner

68% Sehr nah dran
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Arcade Genre Shooter Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

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