

You were a space marine. But you only had one problem : you had nothing to shoot at and flying you out of earth's orbit was too expensive thanks to budget cuts. The government just won't waste money on a grunt. So your job consisted mainly in preparing holographic PowerVertex presentations for higher ups who never gave you any credit for your work. So you quit, hoping your mad skills in PowerVertex will be sought after. Then one day, a recruiter from the private company "S" bumped into you on the street and asked you if you were a space marine. "I quit" you said. "We have a job just for you! Just sign here right now and we will even give you some icecream!" he said. "Alright" you said. After all, everybody knows Company "S", who created a machine so powerful that it allowed space travel accross different solar systems. What could go wrong anyway? You might put these skills from space marine boot camp into use and you would get icecream on top of that! Next thing you know you wake up in a prison cell inside a spaceship, the VERTEX RIDER, bound for the Colony. "Damn! I came here to kick ass and eat icecream. And I'm all out of icecream!". 25 years later, still no icecream in sight and you are still stuck in that tiny cell. As you wonder if the icecream was just a lie, you hear several explosions and terrified screams all around you, with people mindlessly killing each others as the VERTEX RIDER crashes down toward the Colony's athmosphere. "Damn, those zombies are gonna pay for shooting up my ride!". As the ship's AI open the cells for the evacuation protocol, you stab to death a zombified guard while smiling and say : "I'm in hell and I'm its slave. I am the HELLSLAVE!"


Shooter / Arcade / Action / Science fiction
Xeno Crisis is an arena shooter in which one or two players take control of battle-hardened marines embarking on a deadly mission to confront an alien menace and get home alive! Run and gun your way through thousands of adversaries as you explore the devastated research outpost, searching for survivors, and ultimately facing the origin of the outpost's demise. Outpost 88 is divided into seven distinct areas, each being randomly generated with each play, meaning that your strategy must evolve on the fly if you're to succeed in your mission. Collect dog-tags from vanquished enemies to upgrade your equipment between areas and look out for special weapons which will give you a momentary advantage.

Shooter / Adventure / Action / Science fiction
Halo 2600 is an action-adventure video game developed for the Atari 2600 video game console, inspired by the Halo series of video games. Halo 2600 was written by Ed Fries, former vice president of game publishing at Microsoft, who was involved in Microsoft's acquisition of Halo developers Bungie Studios. Fries decided to create a version of Halo for the Atari 2600 after being inspired by a book called Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System by Ian Bogost and Nick Montfort. The Atari 2600 had such limited RAM, only 128 bytes, that drawing Master Chief was difficult, and creating a game with other characters was even more so. Fries later stated that making the game taught him that constraint is sometimes a fuel for creativity.

Hong Kong 97 is a 1995 multidirectional shooter video game made in Japan for the Super Famicom in disk drive format by HappySoft Ltd., a homebrew game company. The game was designed by the Japanese game journalist Kowloon Kurosawa (クーロン黒沢), who said the game was made in about a week. The game has gained a cult following in Japan and Taiwan for its notoriously poor quality — it has been ranked as a kusoge, which literally means "shitty game", a game considered "so bad that it's good". It has since been given multiple parody treatments. The game also achieved Number One "Wacky Japanese Game of All Time" in the XLEAGUE.TV video game TV show Wez and Larry's Top Tens and was featured in an episode of the Angry Video Game Nerd.

Shooter / Platform / Action / Science fiction
Homebrew version of Mega Man 2 for TurboGrafx 16/PC Engine


Shooter / Indie / Action / Science fiction
The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Your base of operations is the last line of defense against an imminent disaster. Big rocks and lil rocks are pounding the earth. Making matters worse, extra terrestrials or some rogue government are sending over spinner missiles and pulsar bombs designed to end your day and make sure you and yours can never phone home again.
Unofficial port of Wolfenstein 3D for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive.