Xari Arena is one of those games you look at and say, "What the hell is going on here?" From the moment you turn it on you're greeted by some of the coolest looking graphics the 5200 ever saw. At its core Xari Arena is Breakout in reverse, but there's much more to it than meets the eye. Your goal …

It's dangerous, it's devious, it's Xevious. Never before has a tag line so perfectly summed up a video game. Xevious was one of the first (if not the first) in a new genre of arcade games: the scrolling shooter. While we make take such games for granted today, back in 1982 such a concept was unheard of. Most games of …

Twinkle Star Sprites is a 1996 competitive scrolling shooter arcade game originally created by ADK. It was ADK's last production for the Neo-Geo platform. The gameplay, which can be characterized as a combination of a fixed shooter and a versus puzzle game, uses combinations of shots, as well as timed power-ups to attempt to damage the opponent. These attacks also …

Arlasoft tackled the complexity of making a faithful rendering of the Famicom port of arcade game and released his version in 2021 and has continued to update it, adding 2-Player cooperative mode, pause and has worked to make it all look as close to the original as possible. Galaga is a vertical arcade shooter. You control a space fighter at …

An accident involving a dimension portal and a very large explosion has blasted a hole between dimensions! From out of the 7th dimension a series of strange and unbelievable environments have been projected, along with streams of bizarre & aggressive beings. It's up to you to collapse these dimensional protrusions by blasting your way to the end zone, but watch …

A remake of the classic "Missile Command" where you shoot down enemy craft and defend yourground-based buildings. This game gets very hard after the first level, and makes some attempt at a plot via cut scenes.

In the year 2014, Manhattan was plagued with unprecedented levels of crime. No measure of law enforcement seemed able to combat the strife and violence, and so a desperate plan was brought forth by GiganTech Cybertronics Corporation. This plan was the artificial island Zenovia, two kilometers south of Manhattan, which would be patrolled by GiganTech's own robotic creations. A rapid …

Depuis plus de dix ans, une guerre fait rage entre l’Empire et l’Union, faisant de nombreuses victimes. Vous prendrez le contrôle de l’un des hélicoptères les plus avancés technologiquement des forces impériales, le VKL5.03 (P) et utiliserez son artillerie destructrice pour abattre les forces ennemies, et enfin mettre fin à la guerre.

ZPF c’est le projet fou de la ZPF Team (composée de Mikael Tillander, créateur de Tanzer, Perry Sessions et Jamie Vance à la composition) et Mega Cat Studios. ZPF c’est une campagne de financement participatif sur Kickstarter financée en seulement 19 minutes et qui, à la fin, a atteint 204 670$ pour les 15 000$ initialement espérés (soit financé à …

Prepare yourself for an insatiable rain of bullets, bombs, and beams in Crimzon Clover. Earn all the power-ups for an overpowered experience in the all new ARRANGE version.

New dramatic horizontal shoot ’em up that takes place in the same setting as Ginga Force. An immersive story that follows protagonist Natsuki. Discover the story of her past as a rookie pilot up to present day with events that are parallel to those in Ginga Force.

R-Type has returned! The legendary side-scroller is back and better than ever with beautifully rendered 3D graphics, exhilarating shoot-'em-up gameplay, and a multitude of stages, ships, and weapons that will allow you to conduct a symphony of destruction upon your foes.

Shikigami no Shiro II (式神の城 II) is a vertical scrolling shoot-'em-up game released for Sega NAOMI arcade hardware. It was later ported to the Sega Dreamcast. Overseas releases on the PlayStation 2 call it Castle Shikigami II.

ZeroRanger is a vertically scrolling 2D shoot'em up with heavy emphasis on shooting, dodging and... mystery? Although the developer duo has a huge reverence for arcade sensibilities, ZeroRanger recognizes how many of these elements have also obscured over time, turning into something many genre aficionados may take for granted while alienating newcomers. ZeroRanger strives to clarify and re-contextualize these core …

Trigger Heart Exelica (トリガーハート エグゼリカ) is a vertical shoot-'em-up game released exclusively in Japan for the Sega NAOMI and Sega Dreamcast. Being released in 2007 it remains one of the last officially licensed Dreamcast games to hit the market. A port on Xbox Live Arcade was eventually released internationally as Triggerheart Exelica.

La suite du célèbre R-Type ne propose pas vraiment de nouveautés, si ce n'est 2 systèmes d'armement supplémentaires. Vous re-voici à bord de votre vaisseau R-9, luttant contre l'empire Bydo. Le niveau de difficulté a été revu à la hausse dans cette suite. S'il n'a pas laissé son empreint dans le genre, R-Type II n'en demeure pas moins un excellent …

Saint Dragon est un jeu de tir à défilement latéral dans lequel le joueur incarne le cyborg Saint Dragon, qui s'est rebellé contre l'armée tyrannique des Monstres Cyborgs. Saint Dragon est initialement armé de projectiles à plasma et d'un souffle ardent. En collectant des jetons, la puissance de feu du dragon peut être améliorée grâce à des torpilles à impulsion, …

X2 is the sequel only released on Playstation of one of the best shooters on Commodore Amiga: Project-X.

The Raiden Project features two vertically scrolling arcade shooters on one disc: Raiden and Raiden II. Raiden takes place in 2090, a time when Earth is under attack by hordes of alien 'exobiological beings, a race of technologically advanced creatures from a distant galaxy.' To combat this threat, the world's top scientists, engineers and otherwise brilliant people have replicated a …

Your mission in N2O: Nitrous Oxide is simple: Fly a ship called a tunnel runner into nitrous oxide filled tubes, and destroy the enemies they hold within. These enemies are mutated insects, including beetles, mosquitoes, flies and wasps. For each enemy you kill, your runner increases in speed.

The past is being altered. An android, known as Next EXY, has traveled one thousand years back in time. Your task is to stop NEXY and the other Elemental Daughters who were built in the image of the Elemental Dolls who once protected humanity. What is NEXY’s intent? Should you attack what you shouldn’t understand? Orders are orders, and Col. …

First Contact occurred November 22nd, 1978. It was then that the original Space Invaders hit the Arcades in full force, wrenching millions of quarters from gamers' pockets. Wave after wave of alien invaders descended from the heavens in precise rows, pouring missiles upon an all but helpless Earth. If it weren't for the experimental Tanks (originally called Laser Bases), which …

R-Types is a compilation of R-Type and R-Type II ported pixel-for-pixel from the coin-op to the PlayStation.