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8-Bit

In the style of games made the 8-bit generation of game consoles & computers, or sometimes authentically created to run on original hardware. Common 8-Bit consoles include the Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Master System, and the Commodore 64

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Shoot 'Em Up

Shoot 'Em Up or shmup games are a subset of shooter games where the player continually moves forward while waves of enemies enter the screen. Both shooting and dodging are critical to advancing. See also Bullet Hell.

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Lester (C64)
A brand new C64 metroidvania platform game set in a space station where security drones have gone rogue.
knifegrinder
Platformer
GIF
Riftwalker
An explosive fast-paced arcade space shooter.
Plan B
Shooter
EXO-TICAL
Space Adventure for ZX Spectrum
Roolandoo
Action
Apocryph: an old-school shooter
Apocryph is an old-school fantasy shooter inspired by Hexen, Heretic, Painkiller and Strife.
Bigzur
Shooter
Exolon: REDUX
Combat action remake
Ben James
Action
Play in browser
Rabbit's Quest
Explore, Engage and Upgrade in this retro metroidvania.
directshift
Adventure
Project Home
A hack-n-slash/bullet-hell shooter
AnukeVerified Account
Shooter
Play in browser
Arengius
8-bit arcade chaos!
Yal
Shooter
GIF
Death Strike
Old school SHMUP
darkbits
Shooter
MAGE and the Grimoire of BEAST
A slightly naughty GBC-style SHMUP (STG)!
Circle Yousu ga Okashii.
Shooter
Play in browser
GIF
Don't Dig Up the Dead
A horror shmup adventure. Can you find all the relics and defeat evil?
Brian Vaughn / Morning Toast
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
Moonflight Classic
A Halloween sidescroller - fly across the night sky as Bel the witch!
sparrowhousegames
Action
Kiwii: A New Adventure
Cedric Stoquer
Platformer
Play in browser
High Tide
Short action game made for the "My First Game Jam Summer '21"
Brett_Messy
Action
Play in browser
Vallation (ZX Spectrum)
Slick shoot 'em up action for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum
Psytronik Software
Shooter
GIF
4 GIGA BOSS FIGHTS
Fight your way through an onslaught of more than 4 billion boss fights in top-down arcade action
GuerraGames
Shooter
Play in browser
GIF
BuzzKill
Try your hand against a different type of invader
Brian Vaughn / Morning Toast
Shooter
Play in browser
GIF
Twinkle Witch ~save the sweets!!~
A retro-inspired cute-em-up
shinji
Shooter
One Finger Doom
Doom in one finger!
Marvin Advergames
Shooter
Play in browser
Starblaster (ZX Spectrum Next 2.08+)
Only 3 words describe this game - Pew, Pew and Pew
Kevman3D
Shooter
GIF
Don't Let Them In
Hunt them down, keep them out!
NPJarcade
Action
Tad-Bubble!
A GameBoy homebrew featuring Tad and his Miracle Bubble fighting off the pond's dangerous bosses.
Gapucho
Action
Play in browser
Sub Chase 64
A Commodore 64 arcade style remake of Sub Chase (VIC 20)
Karsten Senkel
Shooter
Santron (C64)
A Christmas version of Neutron, a challenging SHMUP for the C64
SarahJaneAvory
Shooter
Strongerman
Run right n' shoot stuff!
Gypopothomas
Shooter
Play in browser
Dark Space
Retro side-scrolling shooter
Taska
Shooter
Frontier Force (Alpha Demo)
Shooter for SEGA Master System
helpcomputer0
Shooter
Reptilians World War
Shmup game where reptilians invade us after WW2.
Rainbirth
Shooter
Pentasma
Shooter-Defence hyprid arcade action!
hijong park
Shooter
STALKER 1989
1989
Urukhai
Shooter
Play in browser
Nintendoodle
Doodle Jump redesigned for the NES
byAdam
Platformer
Play in browser
GIF
The Burning Rose
The burning rose is a action shmup game of tense combo chaining and score driven gameplay
grandtraindelta
Shooter
Play in browser
LIGHTSHIFT - Interstellar Hunters
"Manipulate time in this stunning 2D shmup, as you blast your way through space and futuristic cities!"
Lavie_Azure
Shooter
GIF
Pike 'n Shot
A side scrolling, renaissance era, Pike'n'Shoot'em up.
James Edward Smith
Action
Thalassophobe
Answer the Call of the Void in a subaquatic side-scrolling shooter for the NES!
Icon_Ninja
Shooter
DEAD ZONE Zx Spectrum 48/128k
PCNONOGames
Shooter
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