Vehicle Shooters
Be it space ship scrolling sideways through the sky or a 3D tank pounding a Battlezone, shooting from the comfort of a super vehicle is a blast. Here are the very best of that genre.
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Arkanoid
Not the original but clearly the best; Arkanoid elevated the breakout genre to its pinnacle. More...
Asteroids
Asteroids was the last great black-and-white video game. Like all early videogames, it was a product of ingenious programming: the programme scarcely uses more memory than this word processed file... More...
Battlezone
Years ahead of it's time, Battlezone was a first person tank combat simulator. It featured a fully interactive 3D environment that consisted of wire-frame 3D graphics. More...
Combat
This is the original, the granddad, this was the single celled organism that evolved into the fragging FPS games we know today. Yes it's old and simple but for simple don't read crap, read pure; this is the distiled essence of every multi-player shooting game since. More...
Cosmic Ark
A little known classic for the Atari 2600 which offers intense gameplay in its simplest form. Unlike most games for the 2600 this offers two distinct gameplay styles which alternate as the game progresses. More...
Cybernoid
Raffaele Cecco's platform shooter still stands strong today. Choose your wepons carefully. More...
Defender
Defender was the next step forward on from 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids.' Instead of one static screen, you could fly around left and right, up and down. Crucially, the aliens were less predictable than the ones in ' Space Invaders' meaning that you had to keep adapting your strategy as you played. More...
Missile Command
Do you remember the time when we all lived in fear of nuclear annihilation? The scariness of those days when a senile idiot had his finger poised on the 'button'? Do you remember the 'button'? If you do, then you'll probably remember Missile Command. More...
Panzer Dragoon Zwei
Sega had pioneered the rear view shooter with After Burner and on possibly the least loved of all consoles; the Saturn, they brought the genre to it's zenith. More...
Paperboy
I'm sure everyone who ventured in an arcade in the 1980s remembers the Paperboy machine: it was vibrant, bright and it had a great big set of handlebars so that you could 'get into character.' More...
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