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| The Last Starfighter
Mindscape - Shooter - 1990
Video Length: 3:11
Ostensibly based on the 1984 movie, The Last Starfighter is... More actually a port of the 1985 Commodore 64 game Uridium. Apart from the title screen, soundtrack and the abbreviated names of characters on the high score list, it has no real connection to the movie. The C64 version is well regarded, (more...) |
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| Legendary Wings
Capcom - Shooter - 1988
Video Length: 2:05
Legendary Wings takes place 20,000 years in the future in a Greek mythos-themed world. The player controls a soldier wearing mechanical wings who flies across the landscape while shooting various flying and stationary machines with a weapon that improves with power-ups. During each level, the player (more...) |
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| Life Force
Konami - Shooter - 1988
Video Length: 5:54
Life Force is a scrolling shooter arcade game developed and published by Konami in 1986 as the North American release of Salamander. Life Force in contrast is set in an organic setting where the player's mission is to eliminate a tumor within a gigantic lifeform. However, there is also a Japanese version (more...) |
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| Magmax
FCI - Shooter - 1988
Video Length: 5:39
In MagMax, embark on a mission to save humanity from... More Babylon, a computer run by a race of aliens that has taken over millions of human minds and has begun to exterminate them. You'll maneuver a giant robot called the MagMax through forest, desert, sea and an automated city. Through the use of (more...) |
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| Metal Fighter
Color Dreams - Shooter - 1989
Video Length: 5:30
Metal Fighter is an arcade style shooter for one player. You control an MCS-920 in an attempt to free planet H17 from alien invaders. Along the way you can improve your fighters weapons and speed by shooting certain enemies and collecting the power ups left behind. Improved weapons don't come easy though; (more...) |
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| Mig 29 Soviet Fighter
Camerica - Shooter - 1989
Video Length: 5:08
In the NES version, it is very easy to die in this game, since the jet can be destroyed by a single stray bullet. The only way to survive seems to be to randomly dodge around the screen. Landings are rather difficult as well, since gusts of wind throw the jet off course as it attempts to land. Landing (more...) |
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| Mission Cobra
Bunch Games - Shooter - 1990
Video Length: 3:50
Searing gunfire inflicts heavy damages on both sides as you slice into a murderous squadron of enemy fighter jets. As the commander of a fast and powerful helicopter, you must face an intense struggle against a pair of patrolling choppers before you are allowed to turbo-boost through enemy defenses to (more...) |
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| Moon Ranger
Bunch Games - Shooter - 1990
Video Length: 5:10
Our beautiful moon, the spotlight of romantic evenings, the subject of ancient myths, the summoner of creatures of the night, is home to an evil secret. Long ago an alien civilization placed a gigantic dormant space craft on its surface. This space craft was programmed to harvest the valuable elements (more...) |
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| P'radikus Conflict
Color Dreams - Shooter - 1990
Video Length: 7:11
One day, the peaceful nation of the Lextorians discovers the planet P'radikus, where numerous uncivilized tribes are constantly at war with one another. When they steal a spaceship and start to expand their wars across the solar systems, you are trained by the elders to halt their dominance and destroy (more...) |
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| Raid on Bungeling Bay
Broderbund - Shooter - 1987
Video Length: 2:22
Apart from offering a 2D overhead view of terrain which was a bit more complex than in other games, Raid on Bungeling Bay was basically a simple war zone shoot-em-up. The player controlled a helicopter that launches from an aircraft carrier to bomb six factories scattered across islands on a small planetoid (more...) |
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