352nd played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1980 Developer: Atari Publisher: Atari Oldie time! The very plain and boring reason we’re playing this today is that we were going through the book, updating our checks on games we’ve covered, and we accidentally went one too far and checked Missile […]
Posts Tagged ‘shoot ’em up’
#14 Missile Command
Posted: 31st July 2014 by Jeroen in UncategorizedTags: 1980, arcade, atari, shoot 'em up
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#1001 Alien Zombie Death
Posted: 11th July 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2010, pompom games, psp, shoot 'em up
347th played so far Genre: Shoot Em Up Platform: PSP Year of Release: 2010 Developer: PomPom Games Publisher: PomPom Games After the release of the list’s second edition, 20 games were removed, with twelve of them unplayed so far. For completeness and because we wanted to try some of them, we decided to still play […]
#12 Defender
Posted: 21st June 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1980, arcade, shoot 'em up, williams electronics
342nd played so farGenre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1980 Developer: Williams Electronics Publisher: Williams Electronics How’s this for some pleasant Sunday gaming? As I was playing the game to prepare for the blog, I was told that it was apparently one of the most difficult games ever. How’s that for fun? […]
#997: Army of Two: The 40th Day
Posted: 22nd May 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2010, buzz monkey, ea montreal, electronic arts, playstation 3, playstation portable, shoot 'em up, xbox 360
334th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Playstation 3/Playstation Portable/Xbox 360 Year of Release: 2010 Developer: EA Montreal/Buzz Monkey Publisher: Electronic Arts After the release of the list’s second edition, 20 games were removed, with twelve of them unplayed so far. For completeness and because we waned to try some of them, we […]
324th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1979 Developer: Atari Publisher: Atari Some games are so well-known, they require no introduction. Our Thoughts I mean, do I really need to describe Asteroids? Line graphics, little ship that rotates and moves ahead, firing at rocks to split and destroy them. […]
317th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1985 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Our original plan for today was actually to play Salamander, but on further reading we found out that it had a prequel, Gradius (or Nemesis in most non-Japanese arcade versions), and is a part of a longer […]
#500 Metroid Fusion
Posted: 9th March 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2002, game boy advance, nintendo, platform, shoot 'em up
313rd played so far Genre: Platform/Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Game Boy Advance Year of Release: 2002 Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo It’s been a while since we played the surprise discovery (for us) Super Metroid. While we knew some things about the series, we weren’t entirely expecting it to be this much fun. As one of […]
287th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: VCS Year of Release: 1977 Developer: Atari Publisher: Atari Here’s an interesting landmark for you: As far as we can work out, Combat is the first game on the list that was developed specifically for a home gaming onsole and at home gaming, the Atari VCS […]
#244 Syndicate
Posted: 9th October 2013 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1993, bullfrog productions, electronic arts, shoot 'em up, Strategy, Various
276th played so far Genre: Strategy/Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Various Year of Release: 1993 Developer: Bullfrog Productions Publisher: Electronic Arts One of the game studios we admire and miss is Bullfrog. They’ve made some games we spent way too much time on. We’ve played Dungeon Keeper for the blog before, are looking forward to Theme […]
267th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1977 Developer: Midway Publisher: Midway And now for a trip back in time. One of the oldest game in the books, we now move slightly past Pong and Breakout to the first shoot ’em up on the list. Considering the size of […]