Fixed shooter
Game genre theme
1670
games
139platforms
A shooter sub-genre where each level fits within a single screen and the main character movement is fixed to a single axis of motion (commonly left and right along the bottom) or no movement at all.
Notable people involved: Bill Kendrick, David Enderson, Boris van Schooten, Jeff Minter and Jun Wada
Alternate names: 1DoF shooter, Gallery shooter, Space Invaders-like
DOS 1983
CPC 1986
VCS 1983-01
ARCD 1980
C64 1984
SPC 1983
SPC 1983
PET 1981
CPC 2001
IIE 1981
VCS 1982
IIE 1981
Popular tags
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Child groups
Space Invaders-like, Depthcharge-like, Centipede-like, Galaxian-like
Games by year
The first Fixed shooter video game was released on January 28, 1947.
Atari, Sirius Software, Taito and Commodore published most of these games.
Platforms
Arcade | 120 | |
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ZX Spectrum | 120 | |
BBC | 105 | |
C64 | 102 | |
Apple II E | 97 | |
VIC-20 | 90 | |
Linux | 88 | |
MS-DOS | 69 | |
Atari 2600 | 65 | |
Atari 400/800 | 46 | |
Tandy Coco | 41 | |
Amstrad CPC | 38 | |
Mac OS Classic | 30 | |
ZX 81 | 30 | |
Commodore PET | 28 | |
MSX | 28 | |
Dragon32 | 23 | |
Amiga | 22 | |
C16/Plus4 | 21 | |
TRS-80 | 18 | |
Oric | 18 | |
Windows | 17 | |
Atom | 17 | |
Memotech MTX | 17 | |
Atari ST | 15 | |
Electron | 15 | |
APF | 13 | |
BeOS | 13 | |
OS/2 | 12 | |
BSD | 10 |
Most common companies
Atari | 39 | |
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Sirius Software | 20 | |
Taito | 18 | |
Commodore | 16 | |
Namco | 15 | |
Mastertronic | 14 | |
Sega | 12 | |
Romik | 12 | |
Imagic | 11 | |
Brøderbund | 11 | |
Superior Software | 11 | |
Cascade Games | 11 | |
Rabbit Software | 11 | |
Nintendo | 10 | |
Bally Midway | 10 | |
Interceptor Micros | 10 | |
Hudson Soft | 10 | |
General Masters | 9 | |
Bug-Byte | 8 | |
Acornsoft | 8 |