| GAME |
COMPANY |
INFORMATION |
| 1943 |
|
Vertical
shooter, good conversion |
| Altair |
|
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| Anarchy |
|
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| Andes
Attack |
|
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| Armalyte |
|
Conversion
of the C64 classic, but not half as good. |
| Asteriods
Deluxe |
|
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| Atomic
Robokid |
|
Slow
moving sluggish shooter, overrated |
| Awesome |
Psygnosis |
Awesome
graphics, poor gameplay. Lots of game styles though... Also on Amiga |
| Better
Dead Than Alien |
|
Absolutely
crap Galaxians clone, extremely jerky! |
| Blasteroids |
|
Asteroids
with addons. Port of the arcade version |
| Bloodmoney |
DMA |
Mr/Heli
style shootemup, also on Amiga and C64! |
| Chaos
Engine |
Bitmap
Brothers |
Overrated
overhead style runabout game. Also for Amiga |
| Custodian |
|
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| Cybernoid |
|
These
were excellent on the C64 and Spectrum, but by the time they got
to 16bit computers were looking dated... |
| Cybernoid
2 |
|
...still
a lot of fun to play though - lots of strategic bits! |
| Cyberstorm |
|
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| Darius+ |
|
Awful
'conversion' of the arcade, nothing was done right in this! The
Amiga was disgraced with it too |
| Dark
Fusion |
|
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| Defender
2 |
|
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| Dogs
of War |
ELITE |
|
| Dragon
Breed |
|
The
ST (and Amiga for that matter) wasn't really up to converting this
accurately - get the arcade emulated on instead. |
| Dragon
Spirit |
|
Conversion
of vertical scrolling arcade original, you play a firebombing dragon.
Good on PC-Engine! |
| Eye
of Horus |
|
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| Fire
Blaster |
|
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| Flying
Shark |
|
Vertical
scroller, ok conversion of original arcade, but gameplay is not
identical to arcade. |
| Forgotten
Worlds |
|
Arcade
side scroller, 2 player, but missing the originals 'twisty button'
stick - and loses a lot in the process. |
| Foundations
Waste |
|
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| Frenetic |
|
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| Gemini
wing |
|
Conversion
of arcade |
| Goldrunner |
|
One
of the first ST shootemups, it wowed with its crisp graphics and
fast scrolling. Strangely, every scrolling game after this could
not do scrolling as well!! |
| Goldrunner
2 |
|
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| Gridrunner |
|
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| Hellbent |
|
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| Hellraider |
|
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| Hunt
for Red October |
|
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| Hyperdrome |
|
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| Ikari
Warriors |
|
Conversion
of arcade, missing the twisty stick control again, sadly. |
| Insects
in space |
|
Conversion
of C64 original, you played a semi-naked mother, trying to retrieve
her babies from space insects:) |
| J.U.G |
|
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| Jupiter
probe |
|
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| Lethal
Xcess (Wings of Death II) |
|
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| Leathernecks |
|
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| Leavin
Terimis |
|
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| Line
of Fire |
|
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| Llamatron |
|
YES!
a superb robotron clone, the ST one was even better than the pc
one...(But not better than the Amiga one =) |
| Megaroids |
|
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| Menace |
|
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| Mercs |
|
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| Millipede |
|
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| Missile
Command |
|
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| Mission
Genocide |
|
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| Mr
Heli |
|
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| Narco
police |
|
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| Netherworld |
|
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| Oids |
|
My
all time fave ST game, based on Gravitar/Thrust... |
| Outlands |
|
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| Phobia |
|
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| Plutos |
|
Early
Starforce style shooter. |
| Pursuit
to Earth ,the |
|
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| P-47 |
|
Conversion
of Jaleco's arcade original, also on PC-Engine |
| Quadralien |
|
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| Revenge
of the Mutant Camels |
|
Jeff
Minter's bonkers trip through LSD-land. (I love it!) |
| R-TYPE |
|
Great
conversion of the arcade original, apart from some jumpy scrolling |
| R-TYPE
2 |
|
Likewise,
good conversion, but seemed to be pretty slow... The Amiga had a
nice version |
| Saint
Dragon |
|
An
average side scroller, but had unusual graphics and characters which
made it stand out otherwise |
| Scramble
Spirits |
|
Little
known Sega coinop conversion, with a fair attempt to copy the originals
zooming effects |
| Shoot
em up construction kit |
|
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| Sidearms |
|
One
of my favourite Capcom shooters, yet again, poor scrolling! |
| Sidewinder |
|
|
| Silkworm |
|
Conversion
of the jeep/tank original, the Amiga version was the best, and even
better than the arcade one! (I have the PCB, so I know!) |
| Skyfighter |
|
|
| Slap
Fight |
|
Vertically
scrolling game which starts really slow, but becomes compulsively
addictive - very hard mind you! Great on C64, and on original arcade... |
| Space
Invaders |
|
|
| ST
Protector |
|
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| Stardust |
|
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| Starglider |
Argonaut |
Not
really a 2D scrolling game at all, but historically very important
- wireframe 3D shooting gameplay with strategical nuances - not
many 3D shooters since have imparted such an atmosphere or style! |
| Starglider
2 |
Argonaut |
The
followup, and not as good as the original imho! |
| Stargoose |
|
Pretty
poor vertical scroller, really bad looking spaceship as well. |
| Star
Ray |
|
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| Star
Wars |
|
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| Swiv |
|
Pseudo-sequel
to Silkworm (see SNES review for explanation!) |
| TetraQuest |
|
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| Trifide |
|
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| Uridium |
|
'Conversion'
of C64 original. Shame the C64 ran rings around the ST when it came
to scrolling :/ |
| Vindicator |
|
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| Warhawk |
|
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| Warp |
|
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| Wings
of Death |
|
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| Wizball |
Sensible
Software |
Spaced-out
game, also on C64. I can't even begin to describe it, sorry! :) |
| Xevious |
|
Conversion
of old arcade original. |
| Xenon |
Bitmap
Brothers |
On
of the best BB games, with two style of 'ships' interchangeable
during gameplay. I still play this today! |
| Xenon
II |
Bitmap
Brothers |
This
got stupid reviews when it came out (one mag gave it 110%) but to
be honest I didn't like it that much. Sluggish and low on firepower
most of the way, it didn't play smoothly or well. |
| X-Out |
Rainbow
Arts (?) |
I
had this on Amiga, and gave the megadrive shooters a run for their
money at the time. Sadly though, the gameplay was fiddly and too
hard for me... |
| Z-Out |
Rainbow
Arts (?) |
...Same
for Z-Out, but I can't remember enough about them to distinguish
them apart! |
