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Game » consists of 6 releases. Released October 1979
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved breaks out into its own game with an Xbox Live Arcade release that rejuvenated the dual-joystick shooter genre.
Save the last human family and blast as many robots as you can in this classic dual-joystick shooter from Williams Electronics.
Walk forward and take out the opposition in this early arcade run & gun shooter from Taito.
Space Dungeon is an early dual-joystick shooter, first an arcade game and later ported to the Atari 5200.
Warp between two worlds and modes of play in this 1981 arcade title by Namco
Released by Sega in 1981, Space Fury was the first video game to feature colour vector graphics. It also featured ship power-ups.
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.
Atari's bestselling game of all time, Asteroids was one of the most influential releases of the Golden Age of Arcade Games. One of the first space shooters, it was the inspiration for many of the dual stick shooter games of the modern era, Geometry Wars chief among them.
Space Launcher is a 1979 arcade game developed and published by Nintendo. Its gameplay appears to be a cross between Space Invaders and Frogger, except it came out nearly two years before Frogger.
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.
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.
An arcade shooter released in 1977. Midway released the game in North America as Boot Hill, while Taito released the game in Japan as Gunman. The game was a sequel to the 1975 hit Taito/Midway arcade shooter Gun Fight.
An arcade light-gun shooter released by Kasco in 1975, this was the first holographic 3-D game.
Gun Fight, also known as Western Gun, is a 1975 arcade shooter. Set in the Wild West, Western Gun was the first on-foot shooter, introduced human combat, was the first open-world action-adventure video game, and the first real-time tactical cover shooter. Gun Fight was also the first microprocessor video game.
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