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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Alien Alley

Views: 1,0751994FreewareSpace Shooting Dave Roberts
Alien Alley is not a great game, but it wasn't really intended to be. It's a demo to show off what programmers could … VIEW

Alien Attack

Views: 8,3121996FreewareSpace Shooting Eldon D Martin
Alien Attack is a simple text-mode game (except for its CGA title screen) that plays like a very simple version of Space … VIEW

Alien Attack

Views: 8,8401997SharewareSpace Shooting Po-Shen Loh
Alien Attack is a decently impressive game, especially when you see that it was coded from scratch (except for the sound … VIEW

ANIMAC

Views: 17,6061991FreewareSpace Shooting Craig Pell
ANIMAC (or "American Neutral Investigators' Mapierian Anticomplex") is an interesting game which, according to its … VIEW

Argon

Views: 15,7571995FreewareSpace Shooting Lewis Collins
Argon is a variation of Asteroids. It is a space shooting game with CGA graphics, but yet it includes SoundBlaster sound … VIEW

Astrofire

Views: 24,6351994Full versionSpace Shooting ORT Software
Astrofire is a well-made Asteroids inspired space shooting game. It features great pre-rendered graphics, powerful sound … VIEW

Attack of Green Slimey Space Scum

Views: 8,9442007FreewareSpace Shooting Don Christie
The most exciting part about "Attack of Green Slimey Space Scum" may be its name, misspelled as it is. Okay that's a bit … VIEW

Avenger

Views: 9,0791997SharewareSpace Shooting Deadline
Avenger is a single-screen-per-level shmup that takes place in spaaaaaace. Similar to Space Invaders or Galaga. Unlike a … VIEW

Axia

Axia is an Asteroids-type game where the screen rotates along with your ship. This demo version of the … VIEW

B.A.D

B.A.D stands for "BLASTING, ANNIHILATION & DESTRUCTION", but given that this game is not particularly fun, it ended up … VIEW

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