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.
Solar Winds: The Escape
I had a bit of a problem putting this game in a category, since it includes quite a bit of adventure elements along with … VIEW
Space
Views: 9,9311985FreewareSpace Shooting
Bill Pogue
Space is an unambitiously named shoot-em-up game made in 1985. (It's also called "Space Adventure" at the top of the … VIEW
Space Assault
Views: 2,0402017FreewareSpace Shooting
Roman Hocke
Endless waves of ASCII aliens! That's what you get with this text-mode shoot-em-up in space, created in 2017 for a … VIEW
Space Commanders II
Views: 4,6061985FreewareSpace Shooting
ajf
Space Commanders II is just a Space Invaders clone, but it's interesting for a couple of reasons. First, it is itself a … VIEW
Space Fortress
Views: 5,2391999FreewareSpace Shooting
Kris Asick
Space Fortress is a fun little game where you take command of the aforementioned fortress, and must defend it, as per … VIEW
Space Intruders
Views: 6,0751993SharewareSpace Shooting
Softlair Computer Products
Space Intruders is a clone of Space Invaders. The basic gameplay is identical: Blast the slowly descending invaders ... … VIEW
Space Investors
Views: 7,4011989FreewareSpace Shooting
Pinnacle Software
This textmode / ASCII space invaders type game is pretty basic. You move left and right and shoot down UFOs while … VIEW
Space Miner!
Views: 12,2941990FreewareSpace Shooting
Sights UnScene
"No one has finished level 3!" With that quote from the game's documentation giving you an idea of the level of … VIEW
Space Nightmare
Views: 11,1921994SharewareSpace Shooting
Microdem
A generally well made EGA shoot-em-up game, Space Nightmare includes multiple ships you can select, well drawn & … VIEW
Space Pilot
Views: 11,0031993SharewareSpace 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