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R-Type amigamsxpc-enginesega-master-system

R-Type is a side-scrolling shoot-em-up arcade created by Irem in 1987. The graphics design was inspired by H. R. Giger's artwork for the Alien movies. It was ported to several home...

Year: 1989 Genre: Shooter

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X-Out amigacommodore-64

X-Out (pronounced "cross out") is a horizontally scrolling shoot-em-up created by Rainbow Arts. It was released in 1990 for the Amiga, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and Amstrad CPC.

Year: 1990 Genre: Shooter

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Silkworm amiga

Silkworm is a side-scrolling shooter arcade developed by Tecmo and released initially in 1988. In 1989 the game was ported to Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum by Random Access.

Year: 1989 Genre: Shooter

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Wings of Fury amiga

Wings of Fury is an action game, with some elements of 2D flight sim, set in the Pacific during World War II. Developed and published by Brøderbund Software, the game was released...

Year: 1990 Genre: Shooter

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Z-Out amiga

Z-Out is a 2D sci-fi shoot 'em up created by Advantec and published by Rainbow Arts in 1990 for Amiga and Atari ST. The game was released as the sequel of X-Out, another horizont...

Year: 1990 Genre: Shooter

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Project-X amiga

Project-X is a sci-fi horizontal shooter created by Team17 originally for Amiga and released in 1992. The DOS version was released 2 years later. Probably inspired by R-Type II a...

Year: 1992 Genre: Shooter

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Apidya amiga

Apidya is a side-scrolling shoot-em-up with an Anime theme, developed by Kaiko and released by Play Byte in 1992 for the Amiga. The player controls a bee and has to destroy all the enemies, completing five levels.

Year: 1992 Genre: Shooter

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Gradius msxnes

Gradius is a horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up developed and published by Konami, initially in 1985 as an arcade. The game was ported to MSX and NES in 1986 and released outside Japan with the name "Nemesis.

Year: 1986 Genre: Shooter

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Uridium 2 amiga

Uridium 2 is a sci-fi horizontal-scrolling shoot 'em up created by Graftgold for the Amiga and published by Renegade in 1993. The first Uridium was created for the Commodore 64, ...

Year: 1993 Genre: Shooter

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Life Force nes

Life Force is a Shoot ‘em Up created by Konami as an arcade and released in 1986. One year later it was released for the NES, and later ported to MSX, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and other platforms.

Year: 1987 Genre: Shooter

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Blood Money amiga

Blood Money is a 2D side-scrolling shoot 'em up created by DMA Design and published by Psygnosis in 1989 for the Amiga, Atari ST, and DOS. A Commodore 64 version was also released one year later.

Year: 1989 Genre: Shooter

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R-Type II amiga

R-Type II is the sequel to the original R-Type and is a side-scrolling arcade shooter developed and published by Irem in 1989 in arcades only. It soon made its way onto multiple pl...

Year: 1991 Genre: Shooter

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Agony amiga

Agony is a surreal-fantasy side-scrolling shoot 'em up, created by Psygnosis in 1992 for the Amiga. The game has never been released on other platforms. The main character is an ow...

Year: 1992 Genre: Shooter

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Walker amiga

Walker, a shooting game developed by DMA Design and published by Psygnosis, was released onto the Amiga personal computers in the early 1990s. A quick look at the game would assum...

Year: 1993 Genre: Shooter

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