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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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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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Gradius msxnes

Gradius is a horizontally scrolling shoot-'em-up developed and published by Konami, initially released in 1985 as an arcade game. 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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Choplifter! commodore-64sega-master-systemapple-iiatari-5200

Choplifter! is a helicopter simulator/action-adventure created by Dan Gorlin for the Apple II and published in 1982 by Brøderbund. The game was converted to Atari 8-bit, VIC-20, C...

Year: 1983 Genre: Arcade

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Jetstrike amiga

Jetstrike is an arcade shooter created by Shadow Software and published in 1994 by Rasputin for the Amiga and Amiga CD32. The authors of the game - Aaron and Adam Fothergill - had ...

Year: 1994 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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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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Stargunner dos

Stargunner, developed by Apogee, is a classic side-scrolling shooter game released in 1996. The game features fast-paced action and challenging gameplay as players take control of ...

Year: 1996 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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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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Katakis amiga

Katakis is a sci-fi shooter inspired to R-Type, developed by Factor 5 and released in 1988 for the Commodore 64 and Amiga. The C64 version was created by Manfred Trenz and Andrea...

Year: 1988 Genre: Shooter

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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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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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Saint Dragon amiga

St. Dragon (full name Tenseiryuu Saint Dragon) is a sci-fi side-scrolling shooter initially released as an arcade by Jaleco in 1989. Storm Entertainment handled the conversions to Amiga, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and Atari ST.

Year: 1990 Genre: Shooter

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