An arcade game from Data East, Cobra Command is a 2D, side-scrolling helicopter shooter in the tradition of Choplifter. Your mission: blast your way through six stages (Sumatra, Java, Borneo, South China Sea, Siam, and Enemy HQ) and rescue the hostages. A...

Star Soldier is an overhead vertical shooter and the second title in Hudson Soft's Caravan Shooting series (after Star Force), first released for the NES in 1986, and 1988 in North America. It was followed by numerous sequels and spinoffs, including S...

Gyruss is very similar to Galaga in it's basic concept. However, the game is presented in a forced 3D perspective akin to "Tempest". The player's ship faces into the center of the screen is able to move around the perimeter of an implici...

The game places the player in the cockpit of a helicopter (codenamed Airwolf), where the player must attempt to shoot down enemy aircraft and rescue prisoners. The game contains thirty missions, each with the objective being to rescue prisoners being held...

The player takes a role of a fighter pilot working to repel an alien invasion. Aliens have invaded Earth, and have built four land bases. These bases are designed to drain Earth's energy and feed it to their mother space station. If the space station is a...

Terrorism has reached new heights. AATOM (Atomic Age Terrorist Organization of Miracali) has constructed their own nuclear power plant, and threaten the world with atomic terror. The world powers have decided to initiate operation THUNDERCADE to stop AAT...

Air Fortress has a fairly typical alien invasion storyline: the people of the planet Farmel, having recently gained the technology for space travel, eagerly explored the galaxy only to find a herd of monstrous "Air Fortresses" moving in their direction. L...

King's Knight is a vertically scrolling shooter, where the main objective is to dodge or destroy all onscreen enemies and obstacles. Various items, however, add depth to the game. As any character, the player can collect various power-ups to increase ...

This port of Sky Shark for the NES is true to the spirit of the original quarter-eating arcade cabinet, and is arguably one of the most difficult shooters on the system. Piloting a bi-plane, the player must take out land based targets such as tanks and tu...

Twin Eagle is a vertically scrolling arcade style shooter. You control a helicopter, and need to earn points by shooting or bombing the various (and numerous!) enemies you'll encounter. Planes, helicopters, tanks, anti-aircraft guns, foot soldiers, an...

Pirates have raided the storage depots of the Federation and stolen valuable minerals, jewels, ammunition and the latest battle weaponry. The Cybernoid ship has been depatched with instructions to retrieve the stolen booty and to return it to storage with...

After Burner is a 1987 Japanese arcade game by Sega. It is the first game in the After Burner series. It was also available on the Sega Master System console....

In the game, the player's ship is placed in a level with a number of bases to destroy. When all the bases are gone, the stage boss appears; when the boss is defeated, the player moves on to the next level. There are two buttons: shoot and bomb; the no...

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 le...

Twin Cobra is a two-player helicopter scrolling shooting game published by Taito Corporation, distributed in North America by Romstar, and one of the more popular arcade games developed by Toaplan. The game is a sequel to Tiger Heli, and it was ported to ...

Somewhere in the future, deep in the void of outer space, a huge monster has appeared. Piloting the last ship remaining in your fleet, your goal is to fly inside and destroy this monster from the inside out. Ingested spaceships, parasites, and the monster...

The Burai, a race of evil super-brain aliens, have launched their plan to conquer the universe with their army of half-organic, half-robot creatures -- the robo-mutants. It's up to you to stop them! Strap on your jet pack, and get ready to become the ulti...

In the follow-up to Moon Cresta, a well-guarded planet is being invaded. You will have to make a succession of passes over the landscape, shooting out ground turrets and aliens. Numbered bases release power-ups when shot - these can either be used in comb...

Galda has decided to attack earth and it is up to you to stop him. Galda has taken Iris, the sister of Lace captive. You are Lace who, taking his father's sword, goes off to defeat Galda. You have the ability to change into a dragon and are in that fo...

Ostensibly based on the 1984 movie, The Last Starfighter is 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 mov...