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Tyrian 2000 windows

Tyrian 2000 is a direct re-release of the original sci-fi vertical scrolling shooter Tyrian, developed by Eclipse Software. It was released by Epic Megagames for MS-DOS.

Year: 1999 Genre: Shooter

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1943: The Battle of Midway amiganes

1943: The Battle of Midway is a shoot 'em up developed and published by Capcom for arcade machines in 1987. Later on, the title was ported to several computers and consoles such as...

Year: 1988 Genre: Shooter

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Lethal Xcess: Wings of Death II amiga

Lethal Xcess: Wings of Death II is a vertical-scrolling shoot 'em up developed by Eclipse Software and released in 1991 for the Atari ST and Amiga. Designed and coded by Claus Frei...

Year: 1991 Genre: Shooter

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Banshee amiga

Banshee is an Amiga original shoot-em-up, inspired by classic vertical scrolling shooters such as 1942: The Pacific Air War and Xevious. It was developed by Core Design and rel...

Year: 1994 Genre: Shooter

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MUSHA genesis

MUSHA, also known as Musha Aleste, is a vertically scrolling shooter created by Compile for the SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive and released in 1990. The full title is M.U.S.H.A.: Metallic Uniframe Super Hybrid Armor.

Year: 1990 Genre: Shooter

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Xenon 2: Megablast amiga

Xenon 2: Megablast is a vertical-scrolling space shooter designed by the Bitmap Brothers. It was originally produced for the Amiga and Atari ST in 1989 and later converted to the PC, Sega Master System, and other platforms.

Year: 1989 Genre: Shooter

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Xenon amigaatari-st

Xenon is a vertical scrolling shooter created by The Bitmap Brothers in 1988 for the Atari ST. The same year, it was ported to the Amiga, ZX Spectrum, and MSX. The game is one of t...

Year: 1988 Genre: Shooter

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Tyrian dos

Tyrian is a science fiction shoot-’em-up game developed by Eclipse Software and published by Epic MegaGames in 1995 for DOS. It became freeware in 2004 and has been ported to suit iPad and iPhone in 2010 and 2009, respectively.

Year: 1995 Genre: Shooter

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Xevious msxatari-st

Xevious is a vertical scrolling shooter arcade released by Namco in 1982 and ported to multiple platforms. There were releases for MSX, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and Apple II.

Year: 1987 Genre: Shooter

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Summer Carnival '92: Recca nes

Summer Carnival '92: Recca is a vertical scrolling shoot 'em-up for the NES, created by KID Corp and released in 1992. Have you ever wondered what the best sci-fi vertical scrollin...

Year: 1992 Genre: Shooter

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Wings of Death amiga

Wings of Death is a vertical scrolling shoot 'em up developed by Eclipse Software and published by Thalion Software in 1990. It was released originally for the Atari ST and then ported for the Amiga.

Year: 1990 Genre: Shooter

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007: Licence to Kill dosamiga

007: Licence to Kill is an arcade shooter developed by Quixel and published by Domark limited in December 1989. The game is based on the hit James Bond movie of the same name and follows through with the movie plot.

Year: 1989 Genre: Shooter

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Frenetic amigaatari-st

Frenetic is a vertical shooter created by Core Design and released for Amiga and Atari ST in 1991. It's a traditional game that perfectly fits the space shoot-em-up genre, includin...

Year: 1991 Genre: Shooter

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Vyper amiga

Vyper is a sci-fi shoot 'em up, clearly inspired to Galaga, created by TopDown Development for the Amiga and released in 1988..

Year: 1988 Genre: Shooter

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