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1982

A classic arcade side-scroller where you drive a moon buggy, jumping over craters and rocks while shooting enemies ahead and overhead. Its appeal is quick timing and chasing high scores.

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)
Sci-fi setting
Action-packed real-time combat
Challenging difficulty

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Terra Lander

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2015PCPlayStationNintendo Switch2.99 €

Sci-fi setting
Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)
Gameplay comes before story

A retro arcade shooter in the spirit of the classics, where you guide a ship with scarce fuel through twenty increasingly tough levels to the landing pad. Every move and shot burns fuel, which you replenish by blowing up fuel dumps.

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Galaga

Gameplay comes before story

A classic arcade shooter where you pilot a fighter along the bottom of the screen and blast waves of insect-like aliens. The tractor beam that captures your ship, which you can rescue for double firepower, gives it its hook.

Point Perfect

Gameplay comes before story

A mouse-driven arcade game where you guide your cursor through a procedurally generated gauntlet of retro enemies, drawing boxes around foes so the mothership can shoot them down. It demands precise reflexes and a steady hand.

Madrobot X

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

A classic retro shoot 'em up in pixel art where a robot escapes a mad scientist's lab with help from a fellow robot. The focus is on quick reflexes and arcade action.

Project Mercury

Sci-fi setting

A pixel-art run-and-gun platformer set in a sci-fi world, where you fight a mysterious threat on foot and on a hoverbike. The focus is on fast shooting and precise platforming.

Xevious

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

A 1982 arcade classic in which you pilot the Solvalou fighter through vertically scrolling waves of alien enemies, shooting air targets and bombing ground ones at once. It was a pioneering title for the shoot-'em-up genre.

Jet Gunner

Challenging difficulty

A 2D run-and-gun shooter in an 8-bit style that pays homage to punishing NES-era classics with tough difficulty, boss fights and retro sound.

Blue Rider

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

An arcade shooter where you fight to survive as the Blue Rider in a valley flooded with bullets. It nods to classic console heroes and leans on fast reflexes.

Super Cyborg

Sci-fi setting

An old-school, relentless run-and-gun shooter in the vein of 90s classics: as an elite cyborg you blast through aliens on a mysterious island. Fast action and steep challenge are the focus.

Planet Cube: Edge

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

A fast 2D run-and-gun platformer where you shoot, jump and dash through rooms packed with enemies. Precise platforming and shooting are tightly interwoven.