Game Genre: 8

Pastfinder is a vertically scrolling shooter designed by David Lubar and published by Activision in 1984 for the Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64 and MSX home computers.

Xybots is a 3-Dimensional, 3rd-person perspective shoot-em-up for 1 or 2 players. Taking on the role of either ‘Major Rock Hardy’ or ‘Captain Ace Gunn’ (in the 2-player game), players must shoot their way through a huge, multi-level underground city – made up of a series of mazes – and destroy the evil ‘Xybot’ robot … Read more

In the year 2430 there is a great war being fought amongst the stars called the 2nd Solar War. Deep in the enemies Fifth Star System, a cargo bulk carrier called Saturn Voyager has been attacked by enemy ships and the crew have been forced to abandon ship in escape pods. The escape pods are … Read more

A mix of Tempest and Asteroids, Axis Assassin has you piloting a space ship across a series of grids, blasting away at the Master Arachnid and his army. Armed with only lasers and a single “Pulse Bomb” per level (which wipes out all enemies on the screen), your ship can travel up, down, left, and … Read more

Better Dead Than Alien is a fixed shooter published in 1988 for the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and MS-DOS by Electra. A fixed shooter allowing some vertical movement, the player takes control of hero Brad Zoom’s ship in his quest to save civilization from aliens. The game is full of humor and the intro … Read more

Taking place in the year 2059 in another galaxy, mankind has colonized an alien planet called Theon after evacuating a previously colonized planet Orac. Five years ago, the colony on Orac was attacked by alien invaders and the war was so intense, the colonists were forced to leave. However, Theon is now under attack by … Read more

A tank shooter from Sega.

The game contains seven levels that are divided in two main sections. The first four levels make up the first section, where the player has to drive an army unit (jeep or helicopter) through a terrain, steering clear of hostile vehicles. In the last three levels that comprise the second main section, one plays as … Read more

There are two modes of play: fighter or bomber. You fly along moving a computer generated airplane and shoot at computer drawn target boxes superimposed over real laser disk images filmed over some desert and other real objects. You have a gun and a bomb button.