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Time Pilot '84: Further Into Unknown World is a scrolling multidirectional shooter released in arcades in 1984 by Konami. The different time periods of 1982's Time Pilot are replaced by a top-down view of a science fiction landscape that varies in color and type of enemies. [1] It adds the ability for the player to launch guided missiles.
This is a list of light-gun games, video games that use a non-fixed gun controller, organized by the arcade, video game console or home computer system that they were made available for. Ports of light-gun games which do not support a light gun (e.g. the Sega Saturn version of Corpse Killer ) are not included in this list.
Sinistar is a 1983 [a] multidirectional shooter arcade video game developed and manufactured by Williams Electronics. [3] It was created by Sam Dicker, [4] Jack Haeger, [4] Noah Falstein, [5] RJ Mical, Python Anghelo, [1] and Richard Witt. [4]
An Italian arcade cabinet of Phoenix.The game was distributed in Japan and Europe before its release to American arcades. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, several game companies made outer-space themed shooter games, which involved players destroying alien space fleets.
Space King (Space Invaders clone, released by Leijac) Space King 2 (Space Invaders Part II clone, released by Leijac) Rich Man (Gee Bee clone, released by Leijac) Space Ship (Star Fire clone, released by Leijac) Space War (Intruder in North America, Space Laser in Europe, released by Leijac (JP), Game Plan (NA), and Taito (EU)) 1980. Maze ...
The most successful arcade game companies of this era included Taito (which ushered in the golden age with the shooter game Space Invaders [4] and produced other successful arcade action games such as Gun Fight and Jungle King), Namco (the Japanese company that created Galaxian, Pac-Man, Pole Position and Dig Dug) and Atari (the company that ...
Sol Cresta [a] is a vertically scrolling shooter video game developed and published by PlatinumGames. [1] It is the fifth and final entry in the Cresta series, following the Japan-exclusive 1997 game Terra Cresta 3D for the Sega Saturn [2] [3] and the first game in the series to not be developed by Japan-based studio Nichibutsu.
The Turbo-charged World of Japan's Game Centers, by Brian Ashcraft; The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games, by Bill Kurtz; The First Quarter: A 25 Year History of Video Games, by Steven L. Kent; Gamester's Guide to Arcade Video Games, by Paul Kordestani; Game Over, by David Sheff; Playing the Past: History and Nostalgia in Video Games, edited ...