Take command of a gunboat on an urgent mission to intercept stolen military intelligence and destroy the enemy’s advanced weapon systems! Battle Stations Blockade is an intense 3D rail shooter presented in voxel style. Receive orders and then set out on treacherous waters as you control a pair of gun turrets, shooting down aircraft, destroying boats and battleships, clearing mines, taking out paratroopers and more.

But watch your health! Each turret has a damage meter that will need to be replenished by eliminating targets, or you’ll fail the mission. Complete your assignments to climb in rank and unlock better weapons for your gunboat turrets, enabling you to shoot for even higher scores. Man both turrets in solo play or team up with a friend in local co-op!

A deadly virus outbreak has plagued the planet and the United Nations has set up quarantine zones around the globe.

Rumors have spread that there are survivors trapped inside the quarantine zones, along with footage of grotesque, reanimated corpses roaming the streets. As the world’s governments search for the origin of the infection, they’ve deploy highly skilled mercenaries as the last hope for humanity. The fate of humanity is in your hands. It's your turn to fight the walking dead.

Create unique, customizable characters and arm yourself with 10 types of weapons. You’ll need the firepower when you get attacked by up to 100 zombies at once!

SCRAMBLE FORMATION is a shooting game released by TAITO in 1986.
Pilot your phantom jet into battle, capturing enemy planes along the way to enable formation change.
Formations can be air-to-air, air-to-ground or a hybrid of the two, and matching these to counter the enemy is the key to victory!

The "Arcade Archives" series has faithfully reproduced many classic Arcade masterpieces.
Players can change various game settings such as game difficulty, and also reproduce the atmosphere of arcade display settings at that time. Players can also compete against each other from all over the world with their high scores.
Please enjoy the masterpiece that built a generation for video games.

The fast-paced twin-stick shooter game in the grim post-apocalyptic Renaissance setting.
It had been more than a hundred years since the terrible plague devoured the whole continent and turned almost everyone there in the maddened mutants. Only a few survivors managed to find refuge behind the huge walls of the fortress-cities. Although you are one of them, your luck has run out as you got infected while foraging outside the city walls. Now your only hope is to fight through the hordes of mutants and chimeras and to find the cure!

This game is an intense, fast-paced rogue-lite twin-stick shooter that will push your skills to the limit! Take control of a powerful drone and prepare to face off against hordes of enemies standing in your way. Are you ready for the ultimate challenge?
Start your adventure with one of four primary weapons and defeat enemies in upcoming arenas. Use your shield and dash to not get hit by the different types of enemies. Some shoot at you, some explode, and some have their guard up against you at all times. The further you progress, the tougher they get!
Collect currency and upgrade your drone with new weapons and passive skills. Choose a secondary weapon as your back-up and useful skills like energy absorbtion and level them up after each run! Prepare for challenging bossfights along the way as you move forward!

Get ready for the start of something big: Volume 1 of the monumental Irem Collection. If you're a fan of retro gaming or looking for a new challenge, the Image Fight series and X-Multiply are must-play classic Shoot 'Em Ups. Originally released during the golden age of arcade gaming in the late 1980s and early 1990s, these games have become cult classics among retro gaming enthusiasts.

Image Fight, released in 1988, set the standard for the franchise with its challenging gameplay and impressive graphics that were cutting-edge for their time. It startet off a short series renowned for it's crearive combat mechanics and immense level of difficulty.

In 1992's Image Fight 2, you'll experience even more action-filled gameplay and engaging features. Featuring stunning fully-voiced cutscenes, the game puts you in the role of a sci-fi anime protagonist.

X Multiply, a spin-off of the Image Fight series released in 1989, takes the gameplay and perspective in a different direction: A switch from top-down to side-scrolling action.
The overall theme changes just as radically with its unique setting taking place inside the human body; a biological world filled with microscopical organic enemies and obstacles.
It's known for its challenging gameplay and powerful graphics - including tentacles featuring physics-based animations - which were among the best you could find in arcades at the time.

Story
A last ditch effort to destroy what was once to be our savior. A final mission to eliminate a disastrous future. A single ship against Earth’s entire military. The Andraste is the only hope to defeat...the Devil Engine.

Gameplay
Devil Engine is a high octane, classic styled side scrolling shoot-em-up heavily influenced by the best in the genre from the 32-bit era, featuring a variety of incredible locations, hand drawn pixel art, and a blood-pumping soundtrack that brings the dark future to life.

Wreak havoc through backwater farmlands as a pothead alien with a buzzsaw flying saucer!

Take flight as a blunt-smokin’ alien in a buzzsaw saucer as he terrorizes farms and recklessly grinds through herds of livestock! Excessive Trim is a pseudo-3D vertical scrolling slice ’em up presented in stark black, white and red 3-tone pixel art. Take control of your circular bladed UFO and try to survive while you collect precious leaves.

Perform dashes to buzz through lines of stampeding cattle, avoid farm machinery, zip between trees and rock formations, cut down angry agriculturalists and more! Tag specific dash points for bonus leaves. Find backwater shops where you can choose between upgrades to give you more health or grant multipliers. But watch out! There’s always bound to be a tradeoff. Survive as long as you can through a procedurally generated stage loop, shoot for the high score and change your color palette to customize the experience.

"DAIOH" is a shooter released by ATHENA in 1993.
The true old-school shooter with traditional mechanics and a solid challenge that shooter fans long for.
This title includes a Japanese Version with a 2-button design where players switch between weapons by collecting items, and an International Version where players choose between all 6 weapons, using a different button for each.

The "Arcade Archives" series has faithfully reproduced many classic Arcade masterpieces.
Players can change various game settings such as game difficulty, and also reproduce the atmosphere of arcade display settings at that time. Players can also compete against each other from all over the world with their high scores.
Please enjoy the masterpiece that built a generation for video games.

An arcade space shooter which follows the adventure of a team of elite pilots during what seems at first a routine training in virtual reality.

In this mind-blowing journey through retrowave aesthetic environments and synthwave music you will shoot your way through the simulations (or not?) of the units and minions of the evil Skal Empire.

FUR Squadron keeps the gameplay of classic 90's on-rails shooters alive, while bringing it up to date with even smoother controls and a refreshingly modern and sleek visual style.

" BURNING FORCE " is a shooter released by NAMCO (Bandai Namco Entertainment) in 1989.
Pilot the AIRBIKE or AIRPLANE, acquire various items that exist along the way to increase your power, and defeat the bosses in each stage to clear the game. Use the jump platform to jump over obstacles.

The "Arcade Archives" series has faithfully reproduced many classic Arcade masterpieces.
Players can change various game settings such as game difficulty, and also reproduce the atmosphere of arcade display settings at that time. Players can also compete against each other from all over the world with their high scores.
Please enjoy the masterpiece that built a generation for video games.

Forget everything you know about the gameplay of the POSTAL series. POSTAL: Brain Damaged, the daring, player acclaimed spin-off, is here to take you on your wildest ride along the POSTAL Dude yet. This isn’t Paradise anymore, not even Edensin. This time the story happens within the twisted psyche of the POSTAL DUDE, himself! And it isn’t the open world sandbox you might expect, either.

The spin-off takes the gameplay into a whole new - yet instantly familiar direction of first-person shooter classics of the 90s and 2000s. Level-based non-stop action and exploration, a wide roster of fantastic and nightmarish enemies and bosses, an arsenal of very unconventional guns, and tons of secrets to discover. All that spiced-up by what made the world of POSTAL games so special: the boundless humor!

Popcorn Rocket is a silly food based old-school arcade space shooter. Pilot the Popcorn Rocket as you blast through hordes of food spaceships in order to save the galaxy from the evil Nebula Empire! With a wacky cast of heroes and villains, Popcorn Rocket will leave your stomach wanting more!

Blast off for a retro arcade experience in RedRaptor, a vertical shoot’em up inspired by genre classics of the ’90s! Assume the role of an ace pilot on a mission to intercept an unknown threat that’s already eliminated nearly all allied forces. If you hope to survive and bring down the enemy, you’ll need to upgrade your ship along the way and push your skills to the limit!

Take to the skies, the planet’s lower orbit, enemy space stations, asteroid fields and more as swarms of enemy ships and environmental hazards try to take you down. Manage your shields and watch your health! With each run, you’re able to apply persistent upgrades to your ship’s stats, from weapon level to lasers and even wingmen. Can you overcome 5 stages of bullet hell action and discover what awaits in the abyss beyond?

Jessie Sullivan – a paranormal detective who worked for Re.Surs Anomaly Enforcement Administration (RAEA) in Modern-City. On a cold evening, Detective Sullivan receives a message from the Superintendent, a longtime colleague. The message says that there has been a terrifying incident that occurred in Social District of Modern-City. This incident disrupted the work of a vital processing building of the Re.Surs (the perfect source of energy). This peculiar event will entail the discovery of an extremely dangerous criminal who wants to encroach, in the truest sense of the word, the precarious peace in Modern-City and throughout the Continent.<h2 class="bb_tag">Features </h2> <ul class="bb_ul"><li>A story-driven game of fighting through different places, you will visit technological Modern-City and Nexus Tower labs, the pyramids in Saxara-City, as well as the abandoned places of Enjoy-City - the city of pleasure. </li><li>Use multiple weapons to fight the armies of enemies. </li><li>Use the heroes’ arsenal and abilities in the battle against the bosses that will come your way. </li><li>Approach the battle wisely: switch heroes in time and use their ultimate abilities to overcome your enemies. </li><li>Uncover the secrets of Re.Surs - specific source of dark energy and stop the interdimensional invasion of demons.</li></ul><h2 class="bb_tag">Unique Heroes To Play</h2> <ul class="bb_ul"><li>Detective Jessie has the skills to dash quickly, which allows her to take better positions, and her ultimate ability allows you to destroy multiple enemies at the same time! </li><li>Basil B has control abilities: enemies have no chance to get close to him, and the ultimate ability allows you to apply this effect massively! </li><li>Helga Hoft can move easily vertically and is also assisted by a hand-held drone turret in battle, making her the most valuable hero in battles against large hordes of enemies! </li><li>W̸͔̊ȟ̴̹̘͝ǫ̸̘́͝ ̶̨̤͒̇i̷̝̾s̵͖̳̒ ̶̏̇ͅṫ̵͉̰h̶͉͗̃ͅa̸͖̚t̵̻͇̄͠ ̷̲̚m̸̲̩̽ä̶͇́ṉ̸̈͂?̶͇̿[ </li></ul> Wake up, Detective. People are waiting for you again.

"STRIKE GUNNER" is a shooter released by ATHENA in 1991.
Manipulate the "S.T.G. Strike Gunner" and challenge the aliens to a battle to recapture the earth!
Select from a total of 10 weapon unit types to find one for each stage, with each weapon unit usable for one stage only.

The "Arcade Archives" series has faithfully reproduced many classic Arcade masterpieces.
Players can change various game settings such as game difficulty, and also reproduce the atmosphere of arcade display settings at that time. Players can also compete against each other from all over the world with their high scores.
Please enjoy the masterpiece that built a generation for video games.

This roguelike dungeon exploration bullet hell puts your reflexes to the test in random dungeons that keep you guessing!

Dodge, dart and defeat hordes of enemies through procedurally generated dungeons. Collect unique loot as you better your odds of surviving each playthrough with rare items to power-up your character for the next run!

Hordes and powerful bosses look to make your life a living (bullet) hell. Level up and loot where you can in order to make it to the end! Achieve greatness against all odds and grant that elusive final wish!

"ZING ZING ZIP" is a shooter released by ALLUMER in 1992.
Operate the 1P aircraft with fast vertical movement speed or the 2P aircraft with fast horizontal movement speed to defeat the evil empire.
Aim to clear the screen by making full use of various items and rolling special moves that make you invincible or power up while activated.

The "Arcade Archives" series has faithfully reproduced many classic Arcade masterpieces.
Players can change various game settings such as game difficulty, and also reproduce the atmosphere of arcade display settings at that time. Players can also compete against each other from all over the world with their high scores.
Please enjoy the masterpiece that built a generation for video games.

Space colonies have to face a massive threat to their existence: gargantuan aliens from an eldritch nebula invade our galaxy, and their only instinct is to eat and digest whole starships! The player takes the role of the last soldier of the highly specialized "Gastro Force", elite troopers trained to infiltrate the enormous alien guts to fight them from the inside! Thanks to the sacrifice of your comrades, only one station-swallowing alien monstrosity has to be vanquished. It's up to you to set up the bomb that will blast it out of existence, but will you survive the endless swarms... Featuring: <ul class="bb_ul"><li>Make your way over xx intricate levels drenched in gastric juices! </li><li>A variety of weapons to choose, from a humble metal pipe to rocket launchers! </li><li>Weapon upgrade system </li><li>Old-school shooter action </li><li>Exciting boss fights! </li><li>Solve the misteries of the abandoned space station</li></ul>

You'll find legions of enemies, so it's lucky that you'll have tons of weapons and the ability to upgrade ships. The universe is once again facing a terrible threat. An unknown but powerful entity from another dimension has entered our reality and is attempting to wipe out all sentient life. The inhabited planets of the galaxy are too divided to take action. It's up to you, the bravest and finest pilot in the galaxy, to face the enemy alone and prevail against overwhelming odds! Assume the role of an elite space pilot and jump into an epic adventure to save the universe from inevitable doom. Travel the galaxies and unleash an arsenal of the deadliest weapons and devices ever installed in a spaceship!

"BOSCONIAN" is a shooter released by NAMCO (Bandai Namco Entertainment) in 1981.
Take control of a space patrol fighter and take down the space pirate BOSCONIAN!
Enemy bases can be destroyed by destroying all of their turrets or by firing missiles into the center of the base, which will cause a massive explosion.
Destroy all the enemy bases in a round to clear each stage.

The "Arcade Archives" series has faithfully reproduced many classic Arcade masterpieces.
Players can change various game settings such as game difficulty, and also reproduce the atmosphere of arcade display settings at that time. Players can also compete against each other from all over the world with their high scores.
Please enjoy the masterpiece that built a generation for video games.

As a recent graduate of the Earth Aviation Academy, you've been assigned to the distant reaches of known space. Your mission is to investigate peculiar behavior among the colonists and confront unknown threats in the ZPDN-A sector.

Refine your piloting skills, expand your arsenal, and accomplish your mission.

Game features:
- 9 stunning levels - explore vibrant alien worlds.
- Earn points and trade them for ammunition.
- Upgrade your arsenal as you progress - Impulse gun, missiles, plasma gun, mines, homing shells, laser gun, energy shield, and Perun's Exhalation!
- Secrets hidden in space - Locate and eliminate eight alien fish.
- Choose from three spaceship classes that suit your play style.
- Confront formidable bosses in each level.

Also featured in the game:
- Escort and safeguard cargo ships.
- Liberate colonists.
- Enjoy the adventure!

Astro Flame Starfighter is a classic scrolling shooter with modern 3D graphics. Upgrade the systems of your spaceship, upgrade your weapons and sweep away hordes of enemies on your way.

Features:
- Stunning visual effects
- Upgrade spaceship and weapons between missions
- Epic battles with formidable bosses
- 15 levels

"MAD SHARK" is a shooter released by ALLUMER in 1993.
Players take control of a fighter craft facing off against countless enemies.
Use bombs and power-up items with a variety of effects for an advantage as you fight your way through the stages.

The "Arcade Archives" series has faithfully reproduced many classic Arcade masterpieces.
Players can change various game settings such as game difficulty, and also reproduce the atmosphere of arcade display settings at that time. Players can also compete against each other from all over the world with their high scores.
Please enjoy the masterpiece that built a generation for video games.

You love shooting stuff non-stop while your whole screen keeps exploding for days? Then this game’s for you, son! Buy and upgrade an assortment of tanks and weapons to roll them into battle! Those machineguns, plasma cannons, railguns, cannons, bombs and missiles will be worth everything you spend on ’em!

Best PS4 Shoot Em Up Games

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Battle Stations Blockade

Zomborg

Arcade Archives SCRAMBLE FORMATION

REMEDIUM

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Irem Collection Volume 1

Devil Engine: Complete Edition

Excessive Trim

Arcade Archives DAIOH

FUR Squadron

Arcade Archives BURNING FORCE

POSTAL: Brain Damaged

Popcorn Rocket

RedRaptor

Re.Surs

Arcade Archives STRIKE GUNNER

Mystic Gate

Arcade Archives ZING ZING ZIP

Gastro Force

Jets'n'Guns 2

Arcade Archives BOSCONIAN

Vostok 2061

Astro Flame Starfighter

Arcade Archives MAD SHARK

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