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01 Truxton Cover

1988 · Android, Arcade, Linux

Truxton

84%

Truxton is a 1988 vertically scrolling, shoot 'em up arcade game developed by Toaplan, later ported to the Mega Drive (worldwide) and the PC Engine (Japan-only). Like many other scrolling shooters, the game is set in outer space, where the player takes control...

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84% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

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

02 Astro Fighter Cover

1979 · Arcade

Astro Fighter

84%

The game of Astro Fighter consists of 4 waves and a refueling stage, which are then repeated with increasingly higher difficulty. The player's task is to eliminate the four successive waves of different types of attacking craft, while avoiding being hit by mis...

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84% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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03 Stratos Cover

1982 · Atari8bit

Stratos

84%

A crosshair shoot'em up published by Adventure International for several 8-bit systems.

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84% Starker DNA-Match
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✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

04 Omega Fighter Cover

1989 · Arcade

Omega Fighter

84%

Omega Fighter is a vertical scrolling shooter developed for the arcades by UPL in 1989. While similar to most shooters, Omega Fighter was unique in its gameplay, level and enemy focus: rather than flying over multiple levels, the player faced up against an eno...

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84% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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05 Eagle Empire Cover

1983 · bbcmicro, C64

Eagle Empire

84%

Fight your way through 4 tension ridden levels of attack from the menacing phoenix and battle armed eagles, before you can reach the heavily armoured and strongly defended Eagle Empire.

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84% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

06 Space Impact Light Cover

2006 · Mobile

Space Impact Light

78%

Space Impact Light is a Shoot' Em Up found on Nokia's Symbian 3rd edition devices. The player has the ability to freely move horizontally and vertically (with a few exceptions on some platform-like levels in Space Impact Plus) but can not increase the speed o...

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78% 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

07 Gamp Cover

2016 · PC

Gamp

78%

Gamp is an arcade-style fixed shooter primarily inspired by Space Invaders and Galaga, which was released in late 2016 for the Press Start to Play game jam.

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78% 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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08 Alpha Wave Cover

2011 · Android

Alpha Wave

78%

Do you have 10-15 minutes to kill? Alpha Wave was made for just such an occasion! A well polished, high-speed, intense arcade space shooter with it's roots firmly planted in the old-school arcade classics such as AstroSmash, Galaga and Asteroids. Plenty of no...

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78% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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09 Resogun Cover

2013 · PS3, PS4, Vita

Resogun

74%

Resogun is a shoot 'em up game. Unleash an explosive array of devastating weapons to obliterate hordes of ruthless enemies while making sure you rescue the last survivors and keep your multiplier going! Push yourself to the limits trying to climb the global le...

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74% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

10 R-Type Cover

1987 · Amiga, Arcade, Atari-ST

R-Type

74%

R-Type is set in the 22nd century, and the player flies a futuristic fighter craft called the R-9a "Arrowhead", named for its shape, and because it is the ninth model in the 'R' series of fighter craft (but it is the first of the series to actually be used in...

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74% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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11 Sky Force Reloaded Cover

2016 · Android, Linux, Mac

Sky Force Reloaded

71%

There are many scrolling shooters but none of them is like "Sky Force". This stunning shoot ‘em up game combines the classic arcade elements with the new possibilities offered by current technology. The new installment in the series just came out in a spectacu...

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71% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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12 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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68% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ 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 Galaga Cover

1981 · Arcade, MSX, PC

Galaga

67%

The objective of Galaga is to score as many points as possible by destroying insect-like enemies. The player controls a starfighter that can move left and right along the bottom of the playfield. Enemies swarm in groups in a formation near the top of the scree...

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✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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14 Centipede Cover

1981 · Arcade, browser

Centipede

67%

Centipede is a vertically-oriented shoot 'em up arcade game produced by Atari, Inc. in 1980. The game was designed by Ed Logg along with Dona Bailey, one of the few female game programmers in the industry at this time. It was also the first arcade coin-operate...

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67% Spannender Match
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✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ 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

15 1942 Cover

1984 · ACPC, Arcade, C64

1942

61%

1942 is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up made by Capcom that was released for the arcade in 1984. The goal is to reach Tokyo and destroy the entire Japanese air fleet. The player pilots a plane dubbed the "Super Ace" . The player has to shoot down enemy pla...

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61% Spannender Match
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✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

16 Galaxian Cover

1979 · Arcade

Galaxian

61%

Galaxian is a shooter arcade game developed by Namco in 1979. It was released by Namco in Japan and a few months later by Midway Games in North America. The game was developed to compete with Taito Corporation's Space Invaders, released a year earlier, and fea...

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61% Spannender Match
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✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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17 1943: The Battle of Midway Cover

1987 · Amiga, ACPC, Arcade

1943: The Battle of Midway

61%

The game is set in the Pacific theater of World War II, off the coast of the Midway Atoll. The goal is to attack the Japanese Air Fleet that bombed the players' American Aircraft Carrier, pursue all Japanese Air and Sea forces, fly through the 16 levels of pla...

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61% Spannender Match
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✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

18 Mighty No. 9 Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, 3DS

Mighty No. 9

60%

Mighty No. 9 is a Japanese 2D Side-scrolling Action game that takes the best elements from 8 and 16-bit classics that you know and love and transforms them with modern tech, fresh mechanics, and fan input into something fresh and amazing! You play as Beck, th...

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60% Spannender Match
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✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

19 Broforce Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Broforce

59%

When evil threatens the world, the world calls on Broforce - an under-funded, over-powered paramilitary organization dealing exclusively in excessive force. Brace your loins with up to four players to run ‘n’ gun as dozens of different bros and eliminate the o...

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59% Spannender Match
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✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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20 Elevator Action Cover

1983 · ACPC, Arcade, Atari2600

Elevator Action

59%

Elevator Action is a 1983 arcade game by Taito. It debuted during the "Golden Age of Arcade Games". Innovative in gameplay, the game was very popular for many years. In the game, the player assumes the role of a spy who infiltrates a building filled with elev...

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59% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

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