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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
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)
Platformer
Rabbit's Quest
Explore, Engage and Upgrade in this retro metroidvania.
directshift
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
Riftwalker
An explosive fast-paced arcade space shooter.
Plan B
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Shooter
Mega Alien Destroyer
julianmartinezgames
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Shooter
Santron (C64)
A Christmas version of Neutron, a challenging SHMUP for the C64
SarahJaneAvory
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Shooter
GIF
Death Strike
Old school SHMUP
darkbits
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Shooter
GIF
BuzzKill
Try your hand against a different type of invader
Brian Vaughn / Morning Toast
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
GIF
4 GIGA BOSS FIGHTS
Fight your way through an onslaught of more than 4 billion boss fights in top-down arcade action
GuerraGames
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
Exolon: REDUX
Combat action remake
Ben James
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(35 total ratings)
Action
Play in browser
Nintendoodle
Doodle Jump redesigned for the NES
byAdam
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Platformer
Play in browser
Surgevania
Mini-metroidvania shoot 'em up
Donitz
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(27 total ratings)
Action
Play in browser
Project Home
A hack-n-slash/bullet-hell shooter
AnukeVerified Account
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(22 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
Unwieldy Wand
A cute-em-up I made for the GMTK Game Jam 2020
Michirin
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
GIF
Invader Overload
A tribute to Space Invaders Extreme
Brian Vaughn / Morning Toast
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
GIF
Pike 'n Shot
A side scrolling, renaissance era, Pike'n'Shoot'em up.
James Edward Smith
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Action
EXO-TICAL
Space Adventure for ZX Spectrum
Roolandoo
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Action
STALKER 1989
1989
Urukhai
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
Witch 'Em Up!
Cute witch shoot 'em up
Tinchetsu
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
High Tide
Short action game made for the "My First Game Jam Summer '21"
Brett_Messy
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Action
Play in browser
Apocryph: an old-school shooter
Apocryph is an old-school fantasy shooter inspired by Hexen, Heretic, Painkiller and Strife.
Bigzur
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(41 total ratings)
Shooter
GIF
Moonflight Classic
A Halloween sidescroller - fly across the night sky as Bel the witch!
sparrowhousegames
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Action
Vallation (ZX Spectrum)
Slick shoot 'em up action for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum
Psytronik Software
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Shooter
Alisa C64
Commodore 64 mini game written in Basic. Based on my main project: Alisa.
Casper Croes
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Action
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
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
One Finger Doom
Doom in one finger!
Marvin Advergames
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
GIF
Twinkle Witch ~save the sweets!!~
A retro-inspired cute-em-up
jocelyn
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Shooter
Kiwii: A New Adventure
Cedric Stoquer
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(29 total ratings)
Platformer
Play in browser
Strongerman
Run right n' shoot stuff!
Gypopothomas
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
GIF
Don't Let Them In
Hunt them down, keep them out!
NPJarcade
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Action
1999: Megallennium 6-in-1 Mega Cart
6.5 brilliant and surreal games rescued from the vaults of 1989.
Willy Elektrix
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Star Claws Trilogy Arcade
Star Wars, now with 100% more cats!
1CC Games
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
Space Outlaw Alice
Hissatsu Studios
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Platformer
Spaceoid
A no-kill space shooter
potof
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
GIF
Frantic reload
A stealth shoot-em-up where your ammo changes each time you kill an enemy
Bad Piggy
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Action
Rigel Attack
VIC 20 shoot-em-up
AJ Layden
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Shooter
Dark Space
Retro side-scrolling shooter
Taska
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Shooter
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