Retro & Arcade
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Slither
1982. Released 1982 Also For ColecoVision Developed by GDI Published by Century II Gameplay Arcade, Shooter Genre Action Visual Isometric Description Slither is similar in nature to the hit arcade game Centipede by Atari. You control your snake as it slither's around the screen. Where this game differs greatly from Centipede is that you can shoot in 4 different directions at the same time to take out the baddies trying to hunt you down. The bad snakes hunting you down will appear from various angles o (251,318 plays on Internet Archive)
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Spiders
1981. Released 1981 Also For Arcadia 2001 Published by Sigma Enterprises, Inc. Gameplay Arcade, Shooter Perspective Side view Setting Sci-fi / futuristic Genre Action Visual Fixed / flip-screen Description Spiders is a 2D shoot'em up, similar to Space Invaders or Galaga . The player controls a ship and fights against waves of spiders. The gameplay is typical for fixed screen shooters. The player's ship is at the bottom of the screen, can move left or right, and shoots enemies appearing from the top of (252,103 plays on Internet Archive)
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Internet Arcade: Skydiver
1978. Sky Diver is an arcade video game designed by Owen Rubin, and released by Atari, Inc. in 1978. It was ported to Atari 2600 in the same year by Jim Huether. Its interface is a simple third-person view of a parachuting drop zone. Sky Diver is a two-player game, although one player can play. The object of Sky Diver is to jump out of a plane, release a parachute and land on the landing pad. To get higher points, the player must release the parachute closer to the ground. The player has nine jumps. I (253,090 plays on Internet Archive)
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Solar Fox
1981. Released 1981 Also For Atari 2600, Commodore 64 Developed by Midway Mfg. Co. Published by Midway Mfg. Co. Setting Sci-fi / futuristic Visual Fixed / flip-screen Gameplay Arcade, Shooter Perspective Top-down Vehicular Space flight Genre Action Description In Solar Fox, your mission is to guide a space ship though a solar cell matrix and collect as many of the solar cells as you can. When all of the cells in a matrix have been collected, you move on to the next round. Each matrix is guarded by two (253,439 plays on Internet Archive)
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Space Attack
1979. Released Feb, 1979 Platform Arcade Developed by SEGA Enterprises Ltd. Published by Sega/Gremlin Gameplay Arcade, Shooter Perspective Side view Setting Sci-fi / futuristic Genre Action Visual Fixed / flip-screen Description Space Attack is an arcade shooting game almost identical to Space Invaders . It also almost identical to another clone called Alpha Fighter , but with a different set of graphics. The player controls a tank at the bottom of the screen and shoots at endless waves of alien ships (253,688 plays on Internet Archive)
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Super Bug
1977. Super Bug is an arcade game developed, manufactured, and released by Atari in 1977. The game was originally titled City Driver. Originally titled City Driver, the video game Super Bug was the first to be designed and programmed by Howard Delman. Delman stated in an interview that he had to learn a lot of the game development process during the nine months it took to create Super Bug. uper Bug is a simple black and white driving game, very innovative during the time of its release. It is said to (253,726 plays on Internet Archive)
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Regulus
1983. Released Dec, 1983 Platform Arcade Developed by SEGA Enterprises Ltd. Published by SEGA Enterprises Ltd. Interface Direct control Setting Sci-fi / futuristic Visual 2D scrolling Gameplay Arcade, Shooter Narrative War Perspective Top-down Vehicular Hovercraft, Space flight, Tank Genre Action Description Regulus is a vertical scrolling, futuristic tank shoot-'em-up, probably an answer to Namco's Xevious . The player's hover-tank fires a machine laser cannon, launches bombs (uses a cross-hair to ai (253,809 plays on Internet Archive)
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Starfire
1979. Released Dec, 1978 Platform Arcade Developed by Technical Magic, Inc. Published by Exidy, Inc. Interface Direct control Setting Sci-fi / futuristic Visual 2D scrolling Gameplay Shooter Perspective 1st-person Vehicular Space flight Genre Action Misc Fangame Description Star Fire is a 1st person shooter where you are in control of a space ship and you have to destroy as many fighters as possible before your fuel runs out. The fighters come flying towards you firing fireballs and with your laser si (253,876 plays on Internet Archive)
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Snacks'n Jaxson
1984. Released 1984 Platform Arcade Developed by Bally Sente Inc. Published by Bally Sente Inc. Gameplay Arcade, Platform Perspective 1st-person Interface Direct control Genre Action Description Snack 'n Jackson sees you playing a clown sitting at a dining table, overlooked by two cabinets on either side. From these cabinets and from the player's perspective, food is swirling around the clown's head. The objective is to stick out the clown's neck and grab all the food he can possible eat, whilst avoid (254,004 plays on Internet Archive)
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Rescue
1982. Released 1982 Platform Arcade Developed by Universal Research Laboratories, Inc. Published by Stern Electronics, Inc. Gameplay Arcade, Shooter Perspective Side view Vehicular Helicopter Genre Action Visual 2D scrolling Description Rescue is an arcade game where the player is in control of a helicopter flying over an ocean and has to pick up a number of parachutists that have landed in the water. The game is played from a side view perspective and uses one joystick for flying the helicopter and a (254,242 plays on Internet Archive)
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Space Fury
1981. Space Fury (J:スペースフューリー) is a multi-directional shooter arcade game created by Sega and released on June 17, 1981. The game was an early example of color vector graphics and it also featured speech synthesis. Gameplay The player controls a spaceship battling alien spacecraft. Like other early similar arcade games, it is controlled by four buttons: rotate left, rotate right, thrust and fire. The game was particularly unique in that the player could choose different upgrades for the first three le (255,022 plays on Internet Archive)
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Targ
1980. Targ was a successful 1980 game by Exidy depicting vehicular combat in a future world. The locale is described by the game cabinet as "The Crystal City": it is a simple 9x9 grid of roads demarcated by rectangular buildings. The player, piloting the Wummel, which looks like a small green car, maneuvers through the maze trying to shoot enemies and avoid collisions. Most of the enemies consist of angry-looking red wedges, or "Targs". Occasionally, a small cyan-colored "Spectar Smuggler" will appear (256,366 plays on Internet Archive)
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Red Clash
1981. Released 1982 Also For Arcadia 2001 Developed by Kaneko Co., Ltd. Published by American SunTronics, Inc. Interface Direct control Visual 2D scrolling Gameplay Shooter Perspective Top-down Vehicular Space flight Genre Action Description No description From Mobygames.com. Original Entry (256,469 plays on Internet Archive)
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Samurai
1980. Released 1980 Platform Arcade Developed by SEGA Enterprises Ltd. Published by SEGA Enterprises Ltd. Interface Direct control Setting Japan (Ancient/Classical/Medieval) Visual Fixed / flip-screen Gameplay Arcade, Fighting Narrative Martial arts Perspective Top-down Genre Action Description Samurai is a 2D arcade fighting game. The main character is a samurai who fights with several opponents in an enclosed area. In the arena are four opponents - the rest of the enemies are trying to help them, th (256,522 plays on Internet Archive)
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Red Alert
1981. Mix together a little bit of Space Invaders and a lot of cold war nuclear panic and you get 'Red Alert', released by Irem in 1981. Your mission in Red Alert is to defend six cities around the world from an unnamed 'enemy attack'. You'll begin in Paris, protecting the Eiffel tower from enemy bombers, then move on New York, Rome, London, Germany, and the final battle over Japan's Mt. Fuji. Red Alert's gameplay is similar to Space Invaders, but the color graphics and varied gameplay are considerabl (256,702 plays on Internet Archive)
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Star Cruiser
1977. Released 1977 Platform Arcade Developed by Ramtek Corporation Published by Ramtek Corporation Interface Direct control Setting Sci-fi / futuristic Visual Fixed / flip-screen Gameplay Shooter Perspective Top-down Vehicular Space flight Genre Action Description Star Cruiser is a Spacewar variant . Two players fly space ships shown on the screen and must try to shoot each other to win. Unlike most variants the controls consist of steering wheels and gas pedals. There is no central sun. When players (257,001 plays on Internet Archive)
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