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A side-scrolling shooter in the Gradius series. Unrelated to to Gradius 2 in the arcades, and was later ported to the Sharp X68000.
A vertical scrolling shooter for the Atari ST, C64 and ZX Spectrum.
Astro-warrior is a top-down shooter for the Sega Master System that allows you to upgrade your weapons over multiple levels. The game includes varying enemy spaceships and boss battles.
A side scrolling action game with a female protagonist. The original 1986 8-bit game was later remade for the Genesis/MegaDrive and the PC-Engine Super CD formats. It is (in a sense) both the first and last game in the Valis series.
This side-scrolling action RPG game for the Nintendo Famicom was only released in Japan. Developed by Sunsoft in 1986, it stars the female protagonist Lucia.
Control the heroic Autobot, Ultra Magnus, as he searches for the missing Autobot leader, Convoy.
A vertical-scrolling shoot-em-up developed by Compile for MSX computers. Better known for its FDS/NES ports, this game features elaborate weapon upgrading and secondary weapon systems and a dynamic difficulty system where enemy spawns are changed based on player performance.
An early role-playing shooter released by Arsys Software for the PC-88, PC-98 and FM-7 computers in 1986 and ported to MS-DOS by Brøderbund. An early RPG-shooter hybrid, it was one of the first computer games with polygonal 3D environments, along with full 360-degree third-person exploration for indoor environments.
Action Fighter is an overhead vehicular combat game released by Sega in 1986.
Also known as Salamander, Life Force is a spin-off of the 1985 shoot-'em-up Gradius featuring two-player multiplayer and both side-scrolling and vertical-scrolling stages.
The Earth is now underwater and being attacked by the evil Neptunians! Save all the imprisoned humans with a tricked-out pink submarine.
The first role-playing game developed by Squaresoft, Cruise Chaser Blassty is a sci-fi title released in April 1986.
A fantasy-themed vertical scrolling shooter released in 1986 for MSX, also available for Wii's Virtual Console in Japan.
After the devastating underground Dalaus invasion only one TransBot pilot is left standing in this horizontal shoot 'em up from Sega, developed especially for the SG-1000 Mark III (Sega Master System).
An action RPG released by Nihon Falcom in 1985 that was the company's first blockbuster success, becoming one of the best selling Japanese PC games of all time.
A side scrolling arcade shoot 'em up and the first in Konami's famous series. The game became famous for its extreme difficulty and varied power-ups.
DESTROY THE ENEMY ARMY as Super Joe in this influential top-down shooter.
Players climb the tower, defeat Druaga and rescue Princess Ki in this maze-style, action role-playing game. Originally released by Namco for arcades in 1984, its combination of hack & slash combat and RPG elements laid the foundations for the action RPG genre.
Gekkeiju Online is an anime themed online game set in a medieval world.
The first in the Wings of Death series, this is a vertical shoot-em-up released in 1990. The game was only released in Europe.
They is a unique First Person Shooter where cyborgs, aliens and terrorists have consumed modern day England, and it's up to the player to discover why they came. Development of the game is currently halted.
Tribal Wars is a free to play online browser based mutliplayer real time strategy game. Start with a single village with no more than a couple of buildings, and build it into an empire, complete with multiple villages. Join a tribe and defeat your foes.
Dragon Pals is a side-scrolling, browser-based MMORPG published by R2Games.
Game for browser platform.
You are the lone survivor of your squad, on an alien planet with just your weapon, a jetpack, and the courage to keep fighting. Kill off alien swarms and transform their valuable guts into explosive upgrades and vital utilities. Become an agent of vengeance in this bullet-heaven action roguelike!
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