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Game » consists of 21 releases. Released October 1979
A 1982 shoot-'em-up arcade game by Omori.
Arcadians is a shoot 'em up developed for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron, released by Acornsoft in 1982. It is a gameplay clone of Namco's Galaxian.
A clone of Namco's Galaxian in which the player has to shoot down all the aliens as they fly in formation.
1981 DECO Cassette System arcade action game, where DECO Kid flies and punches enemies in side-scrolling environments. Ahead of its time, it set precedents for mechanics such as multi-directional scrolling, bosses, energy bars, debris, invincibility, and score combos.
Released in 1981, Jump Bug was the first scrolling platformer.
In this Galaxian-inspired shooter for the Bally Astrocade, the player controls a cannon that scrolls left and right across the bottom of the screen and shoots at descending enemies.
Sneakers has players fighting off waves of enemies in a spaceship. A single-screen shoot'em up, similar to Space Invaders, designed by Mark Turmell and published by Sirius Software for the Atari 8-bit and Apple II platforms.
Blast a never-ending onslaught of meteors, missiles, and UFOs out of the sky as a laser battery commander.
Centipede is a vertical shooter in which you must destroy centipedes and other bugs before they reach the bottom of the screen and destroy you.
A 1981 shoot-'em-up arcade game by Tehkan. Defend the Earth from alien invaders, then blast off to blow up the mothership.
A restructured version of Galaxian for the Vic-20, due to Commodore only having the rights to the game in Japan. Programmed by Satoru Iwata.
Gorf is a multi-mission fixed shooter featuring five screens. Each of these five missions has its own distinct enemies and rules of play.
Space bugs want to steal your shield and make it their shield in this Konami arcade game from 1980.
Protect the king by preventing evil balloons from carrying him away in this early Namco arcade game.
Arcade first-person space shooter released by Sega in 1980. It featured early 3-D effects, such as sprite scaling and a motion cabinet where the screen mobilizes as the player aims a centred crosshair and lasers shoot into the screen. Five bases need to be defended and can be commanded to fire shots, and an energy shield is available for protection.
A four-stage space shoot-em-up where the player faces off against four different types of enemies. Certain enemies drop "space soldiers" down to the bottom of the screen, where they can attack the player's ship from behind. After completing a stage, the game warps the player's ship to the next stage.
A 2D vertical shooter released by Sun Electronics and Taito in 1980. It was notable for being the first video game to use voice synthesis.
A vertical-scrolling shoot em up, released in 1980.
One of the most popular arcade games of all time, Pac-Man was released in arcades in 1980 and became a pop culture icon for the decade.
Samurai is the first known hack & slash brawler, released by Sega in 1980. The player character is armed with a sword and simultaneously faces multiple opponents in an arena before facing a boss opponent.
Fight through waves of robotic birds to engage the mothership in this 1980 video arcade game. It was developed by the Japanese company Hiraoka, and licensed to Taito, Amstar and Centuri.
A 1979 Arcade shoot 'em up in which the player guides missiles towards alien invaders, avoiding their projectiles and random asteroids along the way. Saw a Super Famicom revamp in 1995.
Data East released this space shooter in 1979. It's the company's first video game.
1979 first-person shoot 'em up, from the developer of Space Invaders, Taito.
Radar Scope was one of Nintendo's first arcade video games, a space shooter with a pseudo-3D third-person perspective. While a hit in Japan, it was unpopular overseas. The popular worldwide hit Donkey Kong was based on its hardware.
Originally called Space Invaders Part II in Japan, this is the first sequel to the coin-munching hit Space Invaders. This game is notable for introducing the concept of a cut-scene.
An early space shooter from Taito, only released in Brazil. It reuses sound and engine assets from Space Invaders, but plays much more like Namco's Galaxian.
Space Invaders, released in arcades by Taito in 1978, is one of the most influential and successful video games of all time, laying the foundations for most shooters and action games that followed. It revolutionized the game industry and has become a pop culture icon.
Crazy Spy is an arcade-style shooter for the Sharp X1.
A Galaxian-styled game where players have to fight their way through waves of enemies.
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