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Best multi-directional scrolling shooters

Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf amigagenesis

Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf is an action-shooter helicopter game created by Electronic Arts and released in 1992 for the Mega Drive, Genesis, SNES and ported to Amiga in 1993.

Year: 1993 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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Crusader: No Remorse dos

Crusader: No Remorse is an isometric action-shooter developed by Origin Systems and released in 1995 for MS-DOS. It was later ported to PlayStation and Sega Saturn, bringing its in...

Year: 1995 Genre: Shooter

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Alien Breed amiga

Alien Breed is a sci-fi top-down shooter created by Team17 originally for the Amiga and released in 1991. The game, heavily inspired by the movie Aliens, is similar to the famous Atari arcade Gauntlet in terms of gameplay.

Year: 1991 Genre: Shooter

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Commando amigacommodore-64

Commando is a 2D action shooter arcade created by Capcom in 1985. It was ported first to the BBC Micro and ZX Spectrum. After its release, it was ported to multiple platforms, incl...

Year: 1989 Genre: Shooter

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The Chaos Engine amiga

The Chaos Engine is a two-player cooperative top-down shooter set in a steampunk Victorian-era England. The game was developed by The Bitmap Brothers and published by Renegade Software in 1993 for the Amiga, both ECS, and AGA.

Year: 1993 Genre: Shooter

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Jungle Strike genesisamiga

Jungle Strike is an action/shooter game with strategy elements created by Electronic Arts originally for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. The game is the sequel to Desert Strike: Retu...

Year: 1993 Genre: Shooter

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Alien Breed: Special Edition 92 amiga

Alien Breed: Special Edition ‘92 is the enhanced remake of the original Alien Breed and was developed and published by Team 17 in 1992. It was released for Amiga only. This rem...

Year: 1992 Genre: Shooter

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Alien Breed 2 amiga

Alien Breed II: The Horror Continues is a sci-fi top-down shooter created by Team17 exclusively for the Amiga and released in 1993. It's the sequel to Alien Breed and Alien Breed: Special Edition 92.

Year: 1993 Genre: Shooter

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True Lies genesissnes

True Lies is a top-down action shooter developed by Beam Software and released in 1994 by Acclaim for both Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. Based on James Cameron's action blockbus...

Year: 1994 Genre: Shooter

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The Chaos Engine 2 amiga

The Chaos Engine 2 is a steampunk top-down shooter developed by The Bitmap Brothers and published by Renegade Software in 1996 for the Amiga. The game was designed by Simon Knight,...

Year: 1996 Genre: Shooter

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Gauntlet II amiga

Gauntlet II is the sequel to the popular hack and slash fantasy arcade created by Atari Games. Released in 1986, one year after the original game, Gauntlet II was ported to the Ami...

Year: 1989 Genre: Arcade

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Alien Breed: Tower Assault amiga

Alien Breed: Tower Assault is the third entry into the Alien Breed sci-fi shooter series and was developed and published by Team17 in 1994. It was released for the Amiga, Amiga CD32, and DOS.

Year: 1994 Genre: Shooter

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Gravity Force amiga

Gravity Force is a freeware shooter created by Stephan Wenzler for the Amiga in 1989. The idea is simple: take the spaceship of the videogame Asteroids and its mechanic of moveme...

Year: 1989 Genre: Shooter

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