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Märchen Adventure Cotton 100%

The Super Famicom/PlayStation side-scrolling shoot 'em up sequel to Fantastic Nights Dream: Cotton featuring the eponymous witch Cotton in another quest for delicious candy.

Touhou 17.5 - Gouyoku Ibun

An upcoming spin-off to the Touhou Project franchise, focused on horizontal danmaku combat.

Andro Dunos II

Sequel to Visco's NeoGeo horizontal shoot-'em-up.

Wings of Wor

A side-scrolling shooter where an angel called Wor must defeat "The Destroyer." Known as Gynoug outside of North America.

Xevious

Xevious is one of the first vertical scrolling shoot-em-up arcade games.

Advanced Busterhawk Gley Lancer

A horizontal shoot 'em up with an adaptable options system initially released only on the Japanese Mega Drive. Later released worldwide via the Wii Virtual Console. Stick to it, and believe in your power!

Thunder Dragon 2

A 1993 shoot 'em up.

Guardian Force

A tank themed shoot-'em-up game released for the Sega Saturn in 1998. It was later brought to arcade hardware.

Magical Night Dreams: Cotton Boomerang

Magical Night Dreams: Cotton 2

Superlative Night Dreams: Cotton Rock 'n' Roll

A revival of the Cotton cute-'em-up brand

Mobile Suit Gundam: Luna II no Tatakai

A Gundam shoot-'em-up for multiple Japanese computers, including, fittingly enough, Bandai RX-78 Gundam.

Castle Shikigami 2

Top-down shooter featuring a variety of witches and wizards aboard flying brooms, firing spells at incoming enemies. Features co-operative play and sold at a budget price in most areas.

Fantastic Night Dreams: Cotton

A "cute 'em up" originally released in Japanese arcades in 1991. It was the first game in the Cotton series. Driven by her sugar cravings, Cotton helps the fairy kingdom remove the dark mist that is terrorizing their dreamlike world.

Darius Burst: Another Chronicle EX

An enhanced version of the Darius Burst: Another Chronicle, which in turn was an enhanced port of the PSP game Darius Burst.

Fantastic Night Dreams: Cotton Reboot!

An HD remake of the Sharp X68000 version of the original Cotton game.

Galaxy Crisis

Galaxy Crisis is the built-in title for the GameKing III. It is a sci-fi themed vertical-scrolling shooter.

Crisis Wing

A sci-fi vertical shoot 'em up from Pieslice Productions.

X2

A vertical shoot'em'up and the sequel to Team 17's Amiga game: Project-X.

Fire Mustang

A horizontal shoot 'em up with WW2 fighter planes originally developed by NMK for the arcades and later ported to the Sega Mega Drive.

Sol Cresta

Arcade style shoot em up from PlatinumGames and Hamster inspired by Moon Cresta and Terra Cresta. Teased as an April Fools joke in 2020 but announced a year later.

REVO

REVO is a neon space shoot ‘em up fueled by a nostalgia for arcade classics and 1980’s science fiction like Galaga, TRON, and The Last Starfighter.

Raiden IV

Raiden IV is the continuation of the bullet hell Raiden series, picking up after Raiden III. Released in 2009, it's up to the player to defeat the alien race of the Cranassians.

Razion

Upcoming shoot'em up for NeoGeo.

Centipede Recharged

A vector graphics re-imagining of Atari's classic arcade title.

Space Cruiser

Space Cruiser was one of many space shoot-'em-ups from Taito.

Natsuki Chronicles

A horizontal Shoot 'Em Up game by Japanese developer Qute.

Foobar Versus the DEA

Vertical shoot-em-up released in 1996 for Classic Mac OS developed by Funner. Featuring vibrant comic-inspired graphics, the game's protagonist Foobar flies off to rescue his boyfriend Ned.

Cyclone II

Shoot-em-up inspired by Asteroids released in 1996 for Classic Mac OS developed by High Risk Ventures.

Tempest 4000

Jeff Minter is working on a new update to his trippy take on Tempest for modern consoles.

Exception

Exception is a doujin shoot-em-up developed by Primitive.

Spirit Arena

Spirit Arena

Kim Kim Dan Dan

Kim Kim Dan Dan was a shoot-'em-up released by dB-Soft for Sharp X1, Bandai Gundam RX-78, and Mitsubishi Multi-8.

Sesshouseki - Malice Eater

A doujin shoot-em-up developed by Project Noise, featuring a position-based power-up system.

Shikhondo: Soul Eater

A Korean shoot-'em-up heavily influenced by the Touhou Project series, Shikhondo follows the Grim Reaper and her companion as they hunt down escaped youkai and extricate the souls they collected.

Q-YO Blaster

A 2d horizontal pixel Shoot 'Em Up featured in strange world.

Sprite × Xevious

Sprite × Xevious is a cross-promotion by Coca-Cola archiving Xevious online for free with the added benefits of unlimited lives, and Sprite.

Bio-Ship Paladin

Bio-Ship Paladin is a scrolling shooter that was originally released in arcades with a home follow-up on the Genesis.

Uchūsen: Ultimate Ploid Battle

Uchūsen is a homebrew NES shoot-'em-up released in June 2020.

Nova 2001

Nova 2001 is an arcade shooter released by Universal in 1984.