Category description: Now referred to as "shoot-em-ups" or the short form "shmups", these often sci-fi based games can be the ultimate test of a player's reflexes. "Bullet hell" games fill the screen with projectiles and other obstacles, as the player attempts to navigate their ship among them, blasting everything on screen.
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Space Pilot

Views: 11,2511993SharewareSpace Shooting Yosemite Software
Space Pilot is a decent space dogfighting game. The concept is simple: shoot the other ships! The controls are a bit … VIEW

Spaced-Out Invaders

Views: 12,5681995Full versionSpace Shooting PLBM Games
The original Space Invaders was released by Taito in Japan and North America in 1978. Eighteen years later, Spaced-Out … VIEW

Spacejab

Views: 8,7982004FreewareSpace Shooting Upr00ted Tree Software
This fanmade space shooting game definitely has the look and feel of an early QuickBasic project (those of you who … VIEW

Spiffy Spaceguy

Views: 9,0201997FreewareSpace Shooting Tom Darby & Chuck Lantz
A simplistic, yet very playable shooting game. You fly your ship (your 'spiffy' spaceship?) through space shooting at … VIEW

Spin

Views: 2,8491996FreewareSpace Shooting Ground Up Software
Spin is a simple single-player space shooting game with 360-degree movement intended to show off the company's "Ground … VIEW

Star Hammer

The space shoot-em-up includes simplistic mission-based gaming with an emphasis on action ... blowing stuff up! One … VIEW

Star Mines II

Views: 13,2111995FreewareSpace Shooting Jari Karjala
Star Mines 2 centers around your quest for "Bonusoids". You are given your spaceship (with unlimited fuel and … VIEW

Star Wars: Tie Fighter

Views: 17,5881994DemoSpace Shooting LucasArts
In this demo of the classic Star Wars universe game Tie Fighter, you play as a pilot in the Imperial Navy, and fly a … VIEW

Star Wrek

Views: 11,1991998FreewareSpace Shooting Sami Kyöstilä
Star Wrek is a one-on-one space dogfighting game which can be played against the computer or against a second … VIEW

Starcom

Views: 5,0451997Full versionSpace Shooting Grey Software
Starcom is a generically named but rather impressive shmup with both horizontal and vertically-scrolling levels. It … VIEW

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