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Multi-directional shooter

Game genre theme

A shooter sub-genre defined by open two dimensional environment with freedom of orientation and movement.

94
games
33
platforms
Jungle Strike (Amiga AGA)
Jungle Strike
AGA 1994
Photon Storm (Amiga OCS)
Photon Storm
OCS 1990
Project Root (Windows)
Project Root
WIN 2014-05-02
Diamond (ZX Spectrum)
Diamond
SPC 1988
Jungle Strike (MS-DOS)
Jungle Strike
DOS 1995
Cannon Fodder (Mega Drive)
Cannon Fodder
GEN 1994
Cosmo Tank (Game Boy)
Cosmo Tank
GB 1990-06-08
Cannon Fodder 2 (MS-DOS)
Cannon Fodder 2
DOS 1995
Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf (Super Nintendo)
Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf
SNES 1992-10
Quartz (Amiga OCS)
Quartz
OCS 1989
Soviet Strike (Saturn)
Soviet Strike
SAT 1997-02
Cannon Fodder (Amiga OCS)
Cannon Fodder
OCS 1993

The first video game about Multi-directional shooter was released in 1982.

Electronic Arts, Virgin and Atari has published most of these games

Usually characterized with rather open environments but not quite on the level of open world.

Generally does not include side-scrollers, though as cave flyers testify, this is not absolute rule.

Parent group

Shoot 'em up

Child groups

Arena shooter, Cave-flyer

Platforms

Amiga 12
MS-DOS 10
Linux 7
Windows 7
Atari ST 6
C64 5
Arcade 4
SNES 4
GB 4
Mega Drive 4
Amiga AGA 3
Game Gear 3
X360 2
Mac OS X 2
Jaguar 2
PS 2
Saturn 1
MSX 1
Lynx 1
GBC 1
Tandy Coco 1
PS Vita 1
Atari 400/800 1
ColecoVision 1
3DO 1
C16/Plus4 1
Amstrad CPC 1
Master System 1
N64 1
Atari 2600 1

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