Contra is a run-and-gun style platformer developed by Konami and published by Erbe Software initially in 1987. It was released in arcades and on ZX Spectrum and Amstrad PC to start with.
Year: 1988 Genre: Shooter Updated: 2020-03-07Tags: arcade platform-shooter run and gun science fiction shoot em up south america
Jazz Jackrabbit is a popular side-scrolling shooter/platformer developed by Epic MegaGames and released in 1994 for the PC. The game was named Arcade Game of the Year by PC Format.
Year: 1994 Genre: Shooter Updated: 2020-12-02Tags: platform-shooter run and gun shoot em up
Super Contra is an arcade game developed and published by Konami in 1988, also ported for Nintendo Entertainment in 1990 This installment is a sequel to the legendary Contra (19...
Year: 1990 Genre: Shooter Updated: 2020-03-07Tags: aliens coin-up conversion multi-directional platform-shooter run and gun science fiction side-scrolling
Duke Nukem II is the second game in the Duke Nukem franchise and was developed and published by Apogee Software for DOS in 1993. It has since been ported to multiple other platforms.
Year: 1993 Genre: Shooter Updated: 2020-12-02Tags: platform-shooter run and gun science fiction shoot em up
Turrican II: The Final Fight is a run-and-gun game developed by Factor 5 and published by Rainbow Arts in 1991. The first version, designed by Manfred Trenz and Andreas Escher, was...
Year: 1991 Genre: Shooter Updated: 2020-07-12Tags: arcade commodore 64 cyborgs run and gun science fiction shoot em up walkabout
Earthworm Jim is a 2D shooter/platformer created by Shiny Entertainment originally for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and published in 1994. The game design and the creation of the c...
Year: 1994 Genre: Platformer Updated: 2019-10-24Tags: comedy genesis original game hand-drawn animations platform-shooter run and gun side-scrolling
Turrican is one of the most popular games of the '90s. It was designed and programmed by Manfred Trenz initially for the Commodore 64. The game is a sci-fi platformer, where a muta...
Year: 1990 Genre: Shooter Updated: 2019-07-17Tags: commodore 64 mutants platform-shooter run and gun science fiction shoot em up walkabout
Turrican 3 is a sci-fi platformer/shooter that was initially developed by Factor 5 for the SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis under the name Mega Turrican and it was later ported to Amiga in 1993 as a sequel to Turrican and Turrican II.
Year: 1993 Genre: Shooter Updated: 2020-07-25Tags: genesis original game platform-shooter run and gun science fiction shoot em up walkabout
Risky Woods is a platformer created by the Spanish studio Zeus and published by Electronic Arts and Dinamic Software in 1992 for the Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, and Mega Drive/Genesis.
Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer Updated: 2020-12-24Tags: anime arcade dark fantasy platform-shooter run and gun side-scrolling
Contra: Hard Corps, also known as Probotector, is a shoot 'em-up created by Konami and published in 1994 for the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive. The Contra series started as an arcade ...
Year: 1994 Genre: Shooter Updated: 2019-11-26Tags: 2 players co-op platform-shooter run and gun science fiction side-scrolling
Toki is a platfomer arcade game created by TAD Corporation and originally released in 1989. Two years later it was ported to several home computer platforms. The Amiga and Atari ST versions were curated by Ocean.
Year: 1991 Genre: Platformer Updated: 2019-10-24Tags: coin-up conversion platform-shooter run and gun
Abuse is a 2D side-scrolling sci-fi shooter developed by Crack Dot Com and published by RedHat in 1995 for DOS and Linux. It eventually made its way onto the Mac, Amiga, Acorn 32-bit, GP2X, and iPhone, to name a few.
Year: 1995 Genre: Shooter Updated: 2020-12-02Tags: mutants platform-shooter run and gun science fiction shoot em up side-scrolling
Alien Carnage (also known as Halloween Harry) is a follow-up to the 1985 game Halloween Harry, created for the Microbee System by John Passfield in 1985, but it has very little in common with the original game.
Year: 1993 Genre: Shooter Updated: 2020-12-02Tags: horror platform-shooter run and gun shoot em up
RoboCop is a side-scrolling shooter based on the 1987 movie. Ocean Software, a well-known computer games publisher, purchased the license for the title and sold it to Dataeast to create an arcade game.
Year: 1989 Genre: Platformer Updated: 2019-07-17Tags: arcade cyborgs licensed movies multi-type platform-shooter run and gun science fiction
