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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Side Line

Side Line (or Side-Line or Sideline ...) is a Taiwanese-developed game which unfortunately only saw a very limited … VIEW

Skunny: Desert Raid

Views: 2,0871996SharewareSpace Shooting Copysoft
The Skunny series by Copysoft is not regarded as particularly great examples of shareware DOS games, not due to their … VIEW

Smashteroid

Views: 7,0032001FreewareSpace Shooting NewCreature Design
Smasteroids is an unabashed clone of the classic Intellivision game Astrosmash. As a clone, it recreates the original … VIEW

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: 7,4001985FreewareSpace 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 Commanders II

Views: 9841985FreewareSpace 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: 2,0321999FreewareSpace 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: 3,6511993SharewareSpace 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: 5,1131989FreewareSpace 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: 9,7721990FreewareSpace 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

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