New Shooter Games - Page 451
Buzzard
1984
Asteroids
1984
Dark Star
1984
Ancipital
1984
Ancipital
1984
Ancipital is a typical Jeff Minter game with no storyline and an unusual setting. You play the role of what looks like a yak which can walk on two legs and shoots at enemies with bananas. At least in the first screen; the projectiles change in different levels. You can jump and flip upside down onto the ceiling to attack your foes. The gameplay involves you shooting at enemies until the floor or walls change to let you move to the next screen which can be seen on the map in the corner of the screen. Each level has different themes ranging from skull and crossbones to cigarette papers and lighters.Galaxian
1984
Grobda
1984
Grobda
1984
The player must take control of Grobda, a tank trapped in an arena filled with numerous indestructible obstacles and several enemy tanks. When an enemy tank is killed, it will cause an explosion, and any other enemies that happen to be in the blast radius at the time will also suffer the same fate. But if Grobda is too close to the explosion, it will also be killed. Grobda has a shield that offers very temporary protection from enemy fire, but this will soon disappear if it is constantly under attack or shot. Each round is called a "battling", and there are a total of ninety-nine in the game.Universal Chaos
1984
Universal Chaos
1984
This game is a port of the cancelled CBS Electronics' version of Targ with some minor changes. Besides the different enemy graphics and slightly different sound effects, the screen changes color with each level. Also, most of the bugs present in Targ are absent, and the Spectar (called the 'Warlord’s shuttle' here – all the names have been changed) does appear.Defender II
1984
Defender II
1984
Save the humanoids from the impending aliens in the sequel to Defender. The task is still rescuing humanoids before Landers can turn them into Mutants, while avoiding and shooting other foes, however you must now carry humanoids to safety through the Stargate of the title. Entering this Stargate not only warps you to the nearest humanoid in jeopardy, but can also warp you ahead (while on the first 15 levels) if you enter it with 4 or more humanoids, and give you extra lives if you warp with 10 humanoids, so there is a trade-off between guaranteeing the safety of existing humanoids, and trying to advance your position There are more enemies on screen than ever before. The Inviso button makes you invisible to enemies, but also to yourself, so you will have to follow your bullets to work out where on the screen you are.Exa Innova
1984
Exa Innova
1984
I believe this is Compile's first vertically scrolling shooting game, and contains many elements they'd later incorporate into the Zanac / Aleste series. The title screen credits "Programmers-3" but I have seen re-releases crediting Compile. Plus, the sprite for the enemy that splits into two halves is exactly the same as the one in Zanac!Nausicaä's Close Call
1984
A Japanese shoot 'em up video game developed and published by Technopolis Soft for the NEC PC-6001.Fiends
1984
Fiends
1984
A single-screen space shoot'em up in which the player has to destroy aliens while saving some scientists. It was originally released as "Space Fiends" by Magnificent 7 in a compilation called "Liberator / Space Fiends" in 1986 for Commodore 16. In 1987 Alternative Software named it "Fiends" and re-released it as a single game.Wanted
1984
Zaviga
1984
Gyruss
1984
Gyruss
1984
Gyruss
1984
Gyruss
1984
Gandalf the Sorcerer
1984
Gandalf the Sorcerer
1984
Gandalf the Socerer is a single screen shooter viewed from behind the castle walls looking out into the land, where you play the role of Gandalf and you must protect your castle from attack by Lizardmen trying to get your treasure. Gandalf starts on top of the castle walls and tries to destroy the Lizardmen who appear from the woods and move towards the castle by moving a crosshair and blasting them with fire. Any Lizardman destroyed leaves behind a gold coin.Meteoric Shower
1984
Meteoric Shower
1984
Meteoric Shower is essentially a clone of Space Invaders, Galaxian and Galaga, but it introduces several new concepts: Your ship can move in all four directions, it flips upside down when moving down, and enemies can attack from both above and beneath your ship.Fire Battle
1984
Fire Battle
1984
Fire Battle is a science fiction themed vertical scrolling shoot 'em up game in which you take control of a spacecraft. You gather points by shooting various spacecraft, static guns and robots until your ship is destroyed. The ship has separate weapons for air and ground based enemies. Air based units can be destroyed with a twin bullet gun and ground based units with a slower bomb like weapon. You can play solo or with a friend in alternating turns.
