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Skeet Shoot
1991 No summary.
Kuuga – Operation Code Vapor Trail
空牙 – Operation Code Vapor Trail
1989 Vapor Trail: Hyper Offense Formation, known in Japan as Kuuga – Operation Code Vapor Trail (空牙 – Operation Code Vapor Trail) and usually simply referred to as Vapor Trail, is a 1989 shoot 'em up arcade game developed and published by Data East. Vapor Trail was followed by Rohga: Armor Force and Skull Fang.
Vapor Trail
空牙
1989 Vapor Trail: Hyper Offense Formation, known in Japan as Kuuga – Operation Code Vapor Trail (空牙 – Operation Code Vapor Trail) and usually simply referred to as Vapor Trail, is a 1989 shoot 'em up arcade game developed and published by Data East. Vapor Trail was followed by Rohga: Armor Force and Skull Fang.
Turkey Shoot
1984 Shoot the turkeys - save the world
Duck Shoot
ダックシュート?
1975 No summary.
Shoot Out
シュートアウト
1985 No summary.
Shoot The Bull
1985 No summary.
J-League Soccer V-Shoot
JリーグサッカーVシュート
1994 No summary.
Shoot Away
シュータウェイ
1993 No summary.
Shoot Out at Old Tucson
1993 Laserdisc game by American Laser Games
Clay Shoot
1979 Skeet shooting.
V-Shoot
1994 No summary.
Submarine
サブマリン
1979 This is a mechanically controlled game, possibly built before pong. Produced by Namco (as marked on case). The object of the game is to aim through the periscope and shoot torpedoes at ships moving back and forth in the ocean.
Crime City
クライムシティー
1989 Classic-style walk-and-shoot, similar to E-Swat and Shinobi. Assume the role of two cops and go out stopping bank robberies, saving the kidnapped, and all that other good stuff cops do.
Sky Shark
飛翔鮫
1982 Vertical shoot 'em up. Original Hi Sho Zame in Japan, licensed to Electrocoin in Europe under the name Flying Shark, and Romstar in North America under the name Sky Shark.
Formation Armed F
フォーメーション アームドF
1988 Vertically scrolling shoot 'em up - control the Vowger spaceship - shoots enemies, collect power-ups - defeat bosses to advance levels - Vowger can be changed to shoot in a multitude of formations and directions
Psycho - Nics Oscar
サイコニクスオスカー
1987 Control a yellow robot named Oscar, collect shield and weapon power-ups, shoot bad guys until you get to a massive boss-monster at the end.
Sunset Riders
サンセットライダーズ
1991 As a bounty hunter in the Wild West, you and your compadres shoot up the outlaws: everyone from Simon Greedwell to Sir Richard Rose.
Space Invaders Part II
スペースインベーダーパート2
1980 Thump Thump Thump you shoot the aliens vertically to keep them from tromping down on to you. This was also the FIRST game to have a intermission between levels, ever!
Block Hole
1989 A puzzle game where a spaceship tries to shoot blocks by shooting the top of each block until they match. The game ends when the blocks reach the bottom.
Twin Cobra II
1995 Twin Cobra II is a military-themed vertically scrolling shoot 'em up game that plays similarly to the previous Twin Cobra.
Bank Panic
バンクパニック
1985 Shoot bad guys behind the doors, don't shoot the good guys. Try to collect stolen money back.
Vulgus
バルガス
1984 Shoot-em up with a spaceship against waves of grouped enemies, no powerups but shoot+torpedo-like bullet as alternate
X-Multiply
Xマルチプライ
1989 Strange IREM shoot-em-up with arms! And we don't mean weapons, we mean actual ARMS.
Freedom Fighter
1986 Help free the world from robot tyrany! Grab your laser and shoot anything mechanical.
Robocop
ロボコップ
1988 Side scrolling shoot 'em up movie tie-in, casting you as the murdered and resurrected supercop.
Qix
クイックス
1981 Qix (pronounced "kicks") is a simple and elegant game in which you claim territory by drawing boxes to fill a rectangular space. You must avoid the Qix – sticklike objects that float and bounce through your space in unpredictable patterns. You can rack up more points for creating boxes more slowly, and besides the Qix, you must be careful of Sparx and Fuses which appear if your marker stops while you are drawing.
Cloud 9
1983 Shoot raining clouds before water level gets too high.
Kuhga - Operation Code Vapor Trail
空牙 – Operation Code Vapor Trail
1989 In 1999, a terrorist organization known only as DAGGER has occupied the city of New York where they have hacked into military defenses world-wide, established their own military command and gained access to nuclear missile silos. They hold the world hostage in this position and promise to cancel their threats of destroying the Earth only until the world's governments relinquish their power to DAGGER.
Chase H.Q. 2
1990 police chasing baddies and running them off the road. Just like C-HQ1 except you had a man jump out of the sun roof and fired a machine gun when you pressed a button.
Kong
1976 Shoot King Kong off the top Empire State Building with your biplane.
Road Blasters
1987 Finish each course and shoot enemies en route before running out of fuel.
Pooyan
プーヤン
1983 Shoot arrows to pop wolves' balloons. Licensed from Konami by Stern for USA
Challenger
チャレンジャー
1981 Split and destroy "space bubbles" and enemy ships. Ship fires in three directions, and can "Warp" to the top or bottom of the screen. Dock with the Bonus Bug for bonus points.
Ikari Warriors
1986 Jungle combat with guns and grenades against an army of evildoers. Lots of powerups and an eight-direction turning joystick/knob to control you fighter. Plus you get to jump into tanks! A classic two player reminiscent of Front Line.
Jungler
ジャングラー
1981 You're a centipede trying to shoot other centipedes while navigating through a maze.
Three Wonders
スリーワンダー
1991 Three different games from varying genres. Midnight Wanderers is a side-scrolling platform game, Chariot is a side-scrolling shooter, and Don't Pull is a maze/block game. All have very colorful graphics.
Galaxian
ギャラクシアン
1979 Space - shoot the fleets of aliens. Sold in the United States by Midway.
Space Phantoms
スペースファントム
1979 A version of Ozma Wars in which you shoot phantoms instead of space objects.
Elevator Action
エレベーターアクション
1984 Your mission as Secret Agent 17(code name "Otto") is to find the secret documents behind red doors and then escape in your getaway car. As you travel by elevator and stairs, avoid enemies or immobilize them by force if necessary.
WhoDunit
1988 Shoot at things with a gun and "solve" a murder mystery, of sorts.
Deep Scan
ディープスキャン
1980 Shoot at subs from your battleship. Sometimes packaged in a multigame with Invinco.
Smash TV
1990 In the "distant" future of 1999, you are a contestant on the most violent game show of all – Smash TV. On this game show anything goes, as you attempt to collect prizes, cash, and keys by fighting off a host of enemies with your array of weapons. In some versions, if you collect enough keys, you are rewarded with a trip to the Pleasure Dome.
Super Locomotive
スーパーロコモティブ
1982 Super Locomotive is a split screen scrolling game. The aim is to reach the end of each section without being run into by the opposition and without running red lights.
Heavy Barrel
ヘビーバレル
1987 Ikari Warriors clone. Shoot-em-up platform scroller, with a war theme.
Golly! Ghost!
ゴーリーゴースト
1991 Shoot ghosts with light guns named Zip and Zap
Rabbit Punch
1987 As space rabbits, shoot, box and collect carrots, in space. yikes.
China Gate
中華大仙?
1988 You (and optional teamate) choose 1 of 3 characters, battle many different enemies with different abilities, and beat various bosses. The goal is to retrieve a book which the enemies have stolen from your master (as you see in the attract screens).
Final Starforce
ファイナルスターフォース
1992 Pilot your spaceship, shooting enemy spacecraft and ground targets. Grab the pulsator capsules for extra fire power.
Super Contra
スーパー魂斗羅
1987 Sequel to Gryzor/Contra. Featured horizontal scrolling and Gauntlet-style overhead view levels.
Black Hole
1981 shoot splitting "neutron mines" and flying saucers
Alien Syndrome
エイリアンシンドローム
1987 Third-person shooter where you get to blast all kinds of aliens and rescue people. You can also find power-ups for better blasting power!
Fire Bird
1980 Vertical space shooter - shoot robot eagles and robot falcons
Darius
ダライアス
1986 Multiple-monitor game. Scrolls from Left to Right for most of the game, except when choosing the next level to go to, which scrolls Up and Down. Can gain power-ups along the way for stronger Bombs and (laser?) Shots..
Rygar
アルゴスの戦士
1986 You play the Legendary Warrior "Rygar" in the side scrolling platform game. The aim is to make it though 27 levels picking up power ups and bonuses along the way.
Head On 2
ヘッドオン2
1979 Pick up all the dots while avoiding head-on collisions with other cars. Sometimes packaged in a multigame with Invinco.
Shinobi
1987 You play a ninja on a one man mission out to destroy a evil force and save kidnapped hostages.
Altered Beast
獣王記
1988 You are risen from the dead to save Zeus' Daughter. Fight your way through five levels collecting power ups to defeat the Evil Magician.
Contra
1987 Run, jump and shoot your way to the alien base. A.K.A. "Gryzor."
Born To Fight
1989 Gun game, shoot on-screen enemies with optical machine guns
Tactician
タクティシャン
1981 Like Space Invaders except you get 30 seconds before a level to build up barricades, and the ships don't move in unison.
Lazer Command
1976 Shoot your opponent's tanks before he shoots yours.
Gryzor
1987 Run, jump and shoot your way to the alien base. A.K.A. "Contra."
Pulsar
パルサー
1981 You drive through a maze while strange opponents fire at you. You must vanquish opponents before you move to the next maze. Watch for the maze to change, because as some walls disappear others materialize.
Rip Off
リップオフ
1979 A cooperative two-player game in which you and your teammate try to protect fuel pods from the enemy tanks.
Pop Flamer
ポップフレーマー
1982 Pop Flamer - a mouse with a flame-thrower flames anything that moves and is not a balloon. Pop all the balloons on each level to move to the next.
Invinco
インビンコ
1979 Invinco is a space invaders clone. Sometimes packaged in a multigame with Head On 2 or Deep Scan.
Klax
クラックス
1989 Catch colored blocks rolling down a conveyer belt and stack them by color in vertical columns or, in higher levels, horizontal and diagonal rows.
Gauntlet Dark Legacy
ガントレット ダークレガシー
1999 Gauntlet Dark Legacy, as an expansion to Gauntlet Legends, plays similarly, but with new levels, items, characters, and combat capabilities.
Centipede
センティピード
1980 Gardening - shoot the insects in the mushroom patch
Legionnaire
1992 A run through the city and beat up all the bad giys game in the same vein as games like Final Fight. Judy has been kidnapped by the crime syndicate and Frank, Chris, and Alfred must save her.
Galaga Plus
ギャラガプラス
1984 Distributed game name: GAPLUS OR GALAGA 3... A sequel released by NAMCO of the original Galaga under two different names both released in 1984.
Carnival
カーニパル
1980 Shoot ducks, pipes etc. at the funfair
Operation Wolf
オペレーションウルフ
1987 Pick off enemy soldiers while trying to rescue hostages. Seques are Operation Thunderbolt and Operation Wolf 3.
New Zealand Story, The
1990 Basic horizontal platform game - help a little kiwi save his friends from an evil walrus who intends to have them for dinner.
Cheyenne
1984 Protect cowboys from outlaws, indians, and ghosts and capture the criminals featured in WANTED posters before each level.
Ponpoko
ポンポコ
1982 Collect food while dodging creatures that walk back and forth across the platforms. Avoid apple cores.
Slap Fight
スラップファイト
1986 First space shoot'em-up created by Toaplan. Released as Alcon in the US.
Kingdom Grand Prix
1994 Kingdom Grand Prix is a scrolling shooter/racing hybrid arcade game developed by Raizing and published by Eighting. It was later ported to the Sega Saturn. It is the second entry in the Mahou Daisakusen series, but the first to be a shooter/racing hybrid.
King & Balloon
キング&バルーン
1981 Shoot attacking ballons to guard king.
Ataxx
アタックス
1990 A variation on the Othello boardgame. You control either the blue or red blobs (pieces). You can either jump over one space, or "multiply" to an adjacent space. Then, all blobs in adjacent spaces change to your color.
Mugger
1980 Shoot and kill muggers, don't shoot the innocent
Cabal
カベール
1989 Third person (behind player). Use a trackball to control a soldier and his aiming crosshair, and conduct attacks on various enemies. This game has quite a few "pseudo-hidden" power-ups and suprises.
Bubble Bobble
バブルボブル
1986 As Bub and Bob, you try to capture enemies in bubbles and pop them to complete all 100 levels and rescue your girlfriends.
New York Captor
1986 Light gun shooting fun; nail the gangsters before they get you or your loved ones.
Cobra Command
サンダーストーム
1984 Standard scrolling shooter. Fly your helicopter and wipe out round after round of bad guys while picking up powerups.
Crystal Castles
クリスタルキャッスル
1983 The Brothers Grimm go 3-d. Pac-man style game in which you move Bentley Bear through a series of dazzling 3-d landscapes, collecting gems and avoiding balls, trees, and other bad guys.
Speed Rumbler
ラッシュ&クラッシュ
1986 Save your family from terrorists by running and shooting, or driving and shooting. Earn bonus as you save each person. Somewhat graphic.
Meikyu Jima
1988 developed by NANAO CORP. (?) manufactured by IREM (?) distributed by IREM (?) Genre: Puzzle Display: 384x256@55 Screen orientation: horizontal
Moon Alien-Part 2
1980 This game is very similar to Galaxian, except that there is now an energy meter at the bottom that decrements with time. If you do not destroy all the aliens before this meter empties, your ship is destroyed.
Mortal Kombat
モータルコンバット
1992 Gore-fest head to head fighting. Seven awesome warriors go head to defeat the evil Shang Sung to win back control over the earth and restore peace.
Metro Cross
1985 You control a runner in a series of timed races. You must run to the end of the hall before time runs out.
Kamikaze
神風
1979 Shoot the aliens that come from the mothership and fill up the columns.
Twin Hawk
ツインホーク
1989 Flying Shark-like WW2 airplane shoot'em-up.
Future Spy
フューチャースパイ
1984 Flying - destroy planes, helicopters, ships etc. Rare - this game existed only as a conversion from Zaxxon.
Bounty Hunter
2002 Bounty Hunter is a game similar to Konami's Boxing Mania created by the Korean company, GCTech.
Legendary Wings
アレスの翼
1986 Two Player game similar to Xevious. Unique combination of vertical scroller (main game) and side scroller (underground sequences).
Avenger
アベンジャー
1975 Pilot a jet fighter - shoot enemies for points
Chinese Hero
チャイニーズヒーロー
1984 Chinese Hero (チャイニーズヒーロー, Chainīzu Hīrō), also known in Japan as Super Chinese (スーパーチャイニーズ, Sūpā Chainīzu), is an arcade action game developed by Nihon Game (now Culture Brain) and published by Taiyo System in October 1984.
Super Mario Bros.
スーパーマリオブラザーズ
1986 Mario and Luigi stamp out the evil Koopas through 8 levels to kill the Koopa King and save the Princess.
Lunar Lander
ルナーランダー
1979 Check it out: Atari’s first vector graphics game. Using a throttle lever and rotation buttons, you attempt to land a manned spacecraft on the moon. Readouts show fuel usage and speed readings which must be coordinated for a successful landing.
Banbam
1984 A one or two player maze game published and developed by Sun Electronics
Jackal
1984 2 Players in 2 Jeeps, collect hostages, shoot tanks.
Phantom II
ファントム2
1979 Vertical scrolling shooter in which you control a fighter jet.
Renegade
熱血硬派くにおくん
1986 It's 2am. You're in the subway. The wrong place to be unless you're looking for trouble. They've got sticks, chains and your girlfriend. It's up to you to fight your way through the thug infested city to save her.
Violence Fight
バイオレンスファイト
1990 Primitive two player fighting game. Two players can duke it out in this 2d fighter similar to Pit Fighter.
Star Fire
スターファイア
1980 First-person shooter in which the enemy ships are TIE fighters (of Star Wars fame).
Tokio / Scramble Formation
スクランブルフォーメーション
1986 You can change between 3 shadow formations flying over Tokyo city.
Eightman
エイトマン
1991 Fast paced platform game where you assume the role of a superhero, 8 Man, and take down the villians.
Bonanza Bros.
ボナンザブラザーズ
1990 One or two bank robbers move up and down floors collecting treasures and avoiding the cops.
Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder
1993 A walk-around-and-kill-everything-that-moves game with the exact same gameplay as the first Golden Axe.
Zoo Keeper
ズーキーパー
1983 As a zookeeper, try to keep the runaway animals at bay by building a cage. Two stage game.
Run & Gun
1993 Run and gun is a life-like basketball game with high flying dunks, in your face rejections and much much more.
SD Gundam Neo Battling
0 Gundam and friends star in this shooter with a myriad of power-ups, mini-robot enemies and very smooth control and action.
Canyon Bomber
キャニオンボンバー
1977 A very simple, classic game. Use a button to drop bombs into a canyon of numbered blocks. Your ship changes between a blimp and a biplane.
Crossbow
クロスボウ
1983 Shoot beasties - protect your adventurers
Bionic Commando
トップシークレット
1988 A side scrolliing action game. As the hero you have a bionic grappling hook and try to defeat an evil army of soldiers.
M-79 Ambush
M-79アンブッシュ
1977 Shoot at vehicles as they go across the screen.
Samurai Showdown 2
真サムライスピリッツ-覇王丸地獄変-
1994 One or two player fighting game with various weapons. Series known as "Samurai Spirits" in Japan.
Samurai Showdown 3: Blades of Blood
1995 One or two player fighting game with various weapons. Series known as "Samurai Spirits" in Japan.
Samurai Showdown 4: Amakusa's Revenge
1996 One or two player fighting game with various weapons. Series known as "Samurai Spirits" in Japan.
End, The
ジ・エンド
1981 Konami, released by Leijac (JP) and Stern (NA). Take-off of Space Invaders
Mega Force
スターフォース
1985 Outer space shoot-em-up. Similar to 1942.
Space Firebird
スペースファイアーバード
1980 Space - shoot swarming flocks of aliens
STUN Runner
1989 Race along tunnels grabbing power boosts, stars and shockwaves while shooting all the bad guys.
Trog
1990 Trog is a 1 to 4 player Pacman style game. Each player controls a dinosaur who must move around the island collecting their colored eggs and then making it back home first. There are 51 different levels.
Turpin
ターピン
1981 Maze collection game (Pac-man style) based around collecting items(turtle eggs) hidden in Question Mark '?' boxes around the screen and returning them home. A.K.A. "Turtles."
Pleiades
プレアデス
1980 Space - Shoot the martians over 4 sectors
Wolf Fang
1991 You're the mech in this side scrolling platformer which its you against a host of enemy soldiers, bosses and harsh terrain.
Gaplus
ギャプラス
1984 Space - Shoot hordes of alien bugs
King of Fighters '95
1995 Sequel to The King of Fighters 94. This game once again uses characters from SNK's other fighters but this time you can edit you teams to your liking.
M.A.C.H. 3
1983 Flying - Destroy ground and air targets. Has a fighter game and a bomber game. AKA Mach 3, M.A.C.H. III
Nemesis
グラディウス
1985 Space - fly over strange worlds and get power-ups - A.K.A. Gradius.
Do! Run Run
1989 Continuing the Mr. Do! Series, Do! Run Run is the final incarnation of Mr. Do! and his bout with the baddies and letter-munchies. Played on a multi-level playfield.
Samurai Showdown
サムライスピリッツ
1993 The first in a popular line of fighters in which the combatants wield various weapons. Known as "Samurai Spirits" in Japan.
Battlezone
バトルゾーン
1980 Tank combat - destroy tanks, missiles & saucers. Sometimes written "Battle Zone"
Xexex
ゼクセクス
1991 Xexex is one of the best shooters out there with really innovative power ups (the arms are cool) and engrossing action.
Two Tigers
1984 Flying - shoot planes & sink ships
Flying Shark
飛翔鮫
1987 Airplane shooting game - ground, sea, and air targets
Goonies, The
1988 Slow moving platformer; "run" and jump through creepy stages, with ineffectual weapons at the ready.
Beast Busters
ビーストバスターズ
1990 3 Gun Game where players try to destroy the mutants that have taken over the city.
Progress
1984 Chuo Co. Ltd - scrolling tank shoot-em-up
Space Panic
スペースパニック
1980 Dig holes to trap aliens. Fill holes back up to kill them.
Top Skater
トップスケーター
1997 Pull off the craziest tricks ever to score major points and become the best Top Skater in town.
Firefox
ファイアーフォックス
1983 Flying - shoot planes and ground targets
Time Pilot
タイムパイロット
1982 Flying - Shoot planes through the ages
Pleiads
1981 The same play style as Phoenix. Move your ship left and right, and destroy the enemy characters. Several different waves, with the major difference from Phoenix being a wave where you have to land the ship.
Stunt Cycle
スタントサイクル
1976 Jump a motorcycle over school busses. Each time you succeed, another bus is added.
Kyukyoku Tiger
1987 "Ultimate Tiger", the original version of Twin Cobra, sequel of Tiger Heli.
Eggs
1983 Free your chicks contained in Eggs while avoiding the Bad Guys.
Scrambled Egg
1983 Free your chicks contained in Eggs while avoiding the Bad Guys.
Mortal Kombat 2
モータルコンバット2
1994 Considered the Best of Midway's Mortal Kombat Series, this is your basic vs. type fighting game. Game players fight each other or the computer.
Tailgunner
テイルガンナー
1979 Vector space game - shoot attacking ships
Armor Attack
アーマーアタック
1980 Shoot tanks & helicopters from jeeps
Thunder Cross
サンダークロス
1988 Standard shooter: progress by levels, options and various weapon powerups.
Thunder Cross 2
サンダークロス2
1991 Standard shooter: progress by levels, options and various weapon powerups
Killer Instinct 2
1996 Ten fighters duke it out in one-on-one battles, in order to reach the boss, Gargos, and win the Ultratech Tournament.
Galaxy Game
1971 Early Space War coin operated video game, released two months before Computer Space at Stanford.
Neo Bomber Man
1997 The arcade released Neo*Geo version of Bomberman. Similiar to the other versions. Also released for the Neo*Geo home cart system.
Safari
サファリ
1977 Shoot the animals as they approach.
Gun Force
ガンフォース
1991 Side scrolling platform game like Metal Slug with lots of power ups.
Operation Thunder Hurricane
1997 High Caliber Machine Gun War Simulation
Red Baron
レッドバロン
1981 fly around arena shooting down enemy planes and airships etc..
Blood Brothers
ブラッドブラザーズ
1990 Wild West themed crosshair shooter. Sequel to "Cabal."
Esprade
エスプレイド
1998 Sharp looking shooter in which your ship can equip itself with a large arsenal of power pick-ups and bolt-on weaponry.
Peek a Boo
1993 By Jaleco. This game plays similar to Arkanoid, but at a seemingly smaller resolution. It runs on an 68000 chip. It should be noted that this is an "adult" game.

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