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| S.C.A.T.: Special Cybernetic Attack Team
Natsume - Shooter - 1991
Video Length: 7:21
The game takes place in New York City. Fish-like aliens have invaded Earth, and the player must assume the role of a future soldier in order to destroy them and halt the invasion. The soldier is equipped with a jetpack-type device, which enables him to fly around the stage. The soldier also has a standard (more...) |
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| Section Z
Capcom - Shooter - 1987
Video Length: 3:29
Alien Invaders approach the solar system from their interstellar battle platform, named Fortress Balangool. Under the command of the Master Control, named L-Brain, the Invaders defeat Earth's space forces. Only one hero, Captain Commando remains to defeat the alien armada by entering Balangool and fighting (more...) |
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| Seicross
FCI - Shooter - 1988
Video Length: 4:01
On the planet Colura lived two different tribes. The Petras, a highly civilized tribe. And the Basrah, a vicious tribe. The larger Basrah declared war on the Petras. The Petras, a peaceful lot, did not possess enough arms and weapons to defend themselves against the attack. They were quickly driven underground. (more...) |
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| Silver Surfer
Arcadia - Shooter - 1990
Video Length: 3:55
The player-controlled Silver Surfer flies around levels on a cosmic surf board. Touching the scenery or getting hit once by any of the enemies results in the character's death. This makes the game incredibly difficult as each level has a great deal of encroaching scenenry and choatic movement of enemies (more...) |
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| Sky Kid
Sunsoft - Shooter - 1987
Video Length: 1:30
Sky Kid is a two-dimensional, scrolling shooter type of game. The players play as the Sky Kids (called "Red Baron" and "Blue Max" on the flyer.) The Sky Kids fly around in biplanes and are assigned specific targets during the missions. These missions involve bombing specific targets. This would seem (more...) |
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| Sky Shark
Taito - Shooter - 1989
Web Rating: 8.1Video Length: 5:11
Nobody Ever Said It Would Be Easy - Piloting a bi-plane, the player needs to take out land based targets such as tanks and turrets and shoot enemy airplanes in order to collect special pickups to increase the plane's firepower. According to the story of Batsugun, the pilot of the bi-plane was (more...) |
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| Solar Jetman: Hunt for the Golden Warpship
Tradewest - Shooter - 1990
Video Length: 8:25
The game is a multi-directional shooter in the vein of Thrust and Gravitar. The player's craft is subject to inertia but not drag, so to stop moving in one direction it needs to thrust in the opposite way. The constant pull of gravity makes stable flight impossible and steering a skill in itself. Solar (more...) |
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| Spy Hunter
Sunsoft - Shooter - 1987
Web Rating: 7.3Video Length: 2:14
Spy Hunter is an action/driving game. It places the player as the driver of a "spy" vehicle. The object of the game is to travel the freeways and hunt down and destroy as many enemy vehicles as possible, while protecting and not harming innocent civilian vehicles. The view is aerial, much like a helicopter (more...) |
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| Sqoon
Irem - Shooter - 1987
Video Length: 5:02
The player is given the pink submarine, Sqoon, and must use it to destroy the aliens and rescue captured human survivors while trying to avoid coming into contact with enemies and running out of fuel. To accomplish this, Sqoon is equipped with missiles to attack enemies, and an ice ball bomb attack to (more...) |
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| Star Force
Tecmo - Shooter - 1987
Video Length: 1:51
Unlike later vertical scrolling shooters, like Twin Cobra, the Star Force ship had only two levels of weapon power, and no bombs. Each stage in the game was named after a letter of the Greek alphabet. At least in certain versions of the game, players got level "infinity" after Omega, after which the (more...) |
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