Action & Shooters

Super Metroid for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System is a masterpiece of the action-adventure genre that defined an entire gameplay style. Developed by Incom Corporation and published by Nintendo in 1994, this iconic title follows bounty hunter Samus Aran on the planet Zebes as...

Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System is a legendary action-platformer that brought Capcom's brutal difficulty and gothic horror charm to 16-bit gaming. Originally released as an arcade classic, this SNES port delivers one of the most challenging and rewarding side-scrolling...

Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow is a fan-made version of the Game Boy Advance classic, created by fans and not by Konami, and this one comes from DarkPrinceAlucard in 2016. The game it builds on arrived in 2003, set in the year 2035, following Soma...

Armorines: Project S.W.A.R.M. is a first person shooter for the Nintendo 64, developed by Acclaim Studios London and published by Acclaim Entertainment in 1999. The setup is pure pulp science fiction: the invasion has begun, an alien species has infested Earth, and now they...

Van Helsing for the Game Boy Advance is an action game developed by Saffire and published by VU Games in 2004, arriving alongside the monster hunting film of the same name. You play as the legendary hunter Van Helsing, sent deep into the mysterious...

Silent Scope on the Game Boy Advance is Konami's arcade sniper shooter made portable, developed by Now Production, published by Konami and released in 2002. The arcade version debuted in 1999 with its distinctive mounted rifle and scope view, and this cartridge marked the...

Metroid Fusion brought Samus Aran back in 2002, developed by Nintendo R&D1 for Game Boy Advance. While lending mission support on planet SR388, Samus is attacked by an X parasite, an organism that can mimic the abilities of any creature it infects. She survives...

Metroid: Zero Mission, developed by Nintendo R&D1 and published by Nintendo in 2004, retells Samus Aran's very first mission for Game Boy Advance. Space Pirates have carried the parasitic organisms known as Metroids to the planet Zebes and fortified their strongholds there, so the...

Mega Man & Bass is a Capcom action platformer, released for Game Boy Advance in 2002 after first appearing on Nintendo's Super Famicom. The trouble starts when a robot villain named King breaks into Dr. Wily's laboratory and then the Robot Museum to steal...

Medal of Honor Infiltrator brings the World War II series to the Game Boy Advance, developed by Netherock and published by Electronic Arts in 2003. You play Corporal Jake Murphy across five daring missions against the Axis powers, and the clever part is that...

Invader is a shooter for the Game Boy Advance, developed by Lost Boys Games and published by Xicat Interactive in 2002. The setup is pure science fiction: the human solar system of Alpha Nerconis is under attack by an alien swarm bent on total...

Grand Theft Auto Advance brings Rockstar's long running series to the Game Boy Advance, developed by Digital Eclipse Software and published by Rockstar Games in 2004. The story is built on revenge: you are framed for a murder after one last job for Vinnie,...

Hell's fury has been unleashed, billions are dead, and the job of saving what is left of humanity falls to one marine with a very large gun. DOOM II on Game Boy Advance is Torus Games' handheld conversion of id Software's record breaking sequel,...

Castlevania: Circle of the Moon arrived with the Game Boy Advance itself in 2001, and for a lot of players it was the first thing they ever put in the system. Konami's game casts you as Nathan Graves, a young hunter trapped inside Dracula's...

Ace Combat Advance brought Namco's flight combat series to a handheld for the first time, arriving on the Game Boy Advance in 2005. Developed by Human Soft and published by Namco Hometek, Ace Combat Advance puts you in the cockpit as the newest pilot...

Spider-Man 3 is an action game for the Nintendo DS, developed by Vicarious Visions and published by Activision in 2007. It ties into the film of the same year and lets players take both sides of the hero: the familiar red suit Spider-Man and,...

Moshi Monsters: Moshling Zoo arrived on the Nintendo DS in 2011, developed by Mind Candy and published by Activision. It was the first of three Moshi Monsters games for the system, and it brought the bright cast of Moshlings to a handheld screen built...

Hot Wheels: Beat That! is pure toy box racing. Developed by Human Soft and published by Activision in 2007 for Nintendo DS, it takes the little cars off the shelf and puts them on track at full speed. Thirty vehicles are modeled from Hot...

Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters was released in 2011, developed for the Nintendo DS by Griptonite Games and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The game is inspired by the feature film that brought the enduringly popular DC Comics hero to the big...

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars was developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games in 2009, and it is an entirely original entry in the celebrated series rather than a shrunken version of a console game. Chinatown Wars views Liberty City from above,...

Cooking Mama 3: Shop & Chop came to Nintendo DS in 2009, developed by Japan Art Media and published by Taito. Fresh from the harvest in Gardening Mama, Mama heads back to her kitchen roots with new recipes, new dish combinations and, as the...

Contra 4 celebrated the series' 20th anniversary on Nintendo DS in 2007, developed by WayForward Technologies and published by Konami. Set after the events of Contra III: The Alien Wars, it follows mercenaries Bill Rizer and Lance Bean as they battle a new extraterrestrial...

Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin landed on Nintendo DS in 2006 as Konami's celebration of 20 years of vampire hunting action. It puts two heroes in your hands: Jonathan Morris, a vampire hunter, and his close friend Charlotte, a girl with tremendous magical ability. Amid...

Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia came from Konami in 2008, arriving after the success of Dawn of Sorrow and Portrait of Ruin on Nintendo DS. You play as Shanoa, a member of Ecclesia, an organization that has sworn to defeat the evil forces of Dracula....

Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow is Konami's 2005 Nintendo DS entry and a direct sequel to Aria of Sorrow. The year is 2036, one year after those events, and Soma Cruz finds himself at the center of a mysterious cult's plan to resurrect their evil...

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare arrived on Nintendo DS in 2007, developed by n-Space and published by Activision Publishing. It was the first time the series brought its modern day combat to Nintendo's handheld, with a story running alongside the console and PC...

Bomberman Land Touch! 2 is the sequel to Hudson Soft's Nintendo DS theme park adventure, developed and published by Hudson Soft in 2008. The game it follows was named Best Online Multiplayer game of 2006 on the Nintendo DS by IGN, and the sequel...

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Mobilized brings the intensity of the Modern Warfare series back to the Nintendo DS, developed by N Space and published by Activision in 2009. It arms you with current military weaponry, vehicles and tactics as you move an elite...

Bomberman Land Touch! is a Nintendo DS game developed by Hudson Soft and published by Atlus in 2006, and it is packed with explosive excitement, as the box promised. It takes the Bomberman series in two directions at once: a long single player adventure...

Ben 10: Protector of Earth is an action game for the Nintendo DS, developed by 1st Playable Productions and published by D3Publisher in 2007. The story starts with a crisis: an interdimensional threat is pulling at the Earth, and Ben Tennyson discovers that his...

Barbie Horse Adventures: Riding Camp is the fourth game in the Barbie Horse Adventures series, based on the Barbie line of dolls by Mattel. It was developed by Pixel Tales, published by Activision Publishing, and released in 2008 on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Wii...

Zoom! is an arcade style puzzle game released in 1990 for the Sega Genesis, developed by Cyclone System and published by Sega of America. You control Zoomer, a round little character with arms and legs, who runs along the edges of a grid and...

Zombies Ate My Neighbors landed in 1993, developed by LucasArts and published by Konami for the Sega Genesis. You play Zeke or Julia, two ordinary teenagers who find their neighborhood overrun by vampires, mummies, zombies and whatever else the drive in movies could dream...

Xenon 2: Megablast arrived on the Sega Genesis in 1992, developed by The Assembly Line and published by Virgin Games, carrying over a design that first made its name on home computers. It is a vertically scrolling shooter with a look and sound all...

Wings of Wor, also known as Gynoug, is a horror themed horizontal shooter developed by NCS and published by DreamWorks for the Sega Genesis in 1991. Where most shooters of the era put you in a spaceship, here you play as Wor, one of...

Vapor Trail is a shooter for the Sega Genesis, developed by Data East and published by Telenet Japan in 1991, following Data East's arcade game. The year is 1999, and a radical terrorist group called DAGGER has neutralised the communication system linking the world's...

Undead Line is an overhead arcade shooter for the Sega Genesis, developed by T&E Soft and published by PAL SOFT in 1991. It sets run and gun action against a backdrop of monsters and the undead, with the straightforward, pick up and play character...

Twinkle Tale is an overhead scrolling fantasy shoot 'em up for the Sega Genesis, developed by Wonder Amusement Studio and published by Toyo Recording in 1992. Instead of a spacecraft, it hands you a young witch named Saria, whose magical floating island has been...

Truxton is a vertically scrolling shooter from ToaPlan, brought to the Sega Genesis in 1989 and published by Sega of America. The setup is pure arcade: the Gidans have blown up your planet's cargo barge and are on their way to Borogo with a...

True Lies arrived on the Sega Genesis in 1994, developed by Beam Software and published by Acclaim Entertainment, and it takes the biggest set pieces of the film and turns them into a lean action game. You play special agent Harry Tasker, a man...

Thunder Force III is TechnoSoft's 1990 shooter for the Sega Genesis, and the point where the series found its final shape. Picking up after the explosive conflict of Thunder Force II, it sends a single fighter craft against enemy strongholds spread across a handful...

Thunder Force II is a science fiction shooter from TechnoSoft, released for the Sega Genesis in 1989 and one of the games that helped introduce players to Sega's 16 bit machine. The story is pure space opera: eighteen years after the planet Nebula was...

The Ooze is an action game developed by Sega Technical Institute and published for the Sega Genesis by Sega of America in 1995. Its hero is Dr. Caine, a scientist who uncovers his company's plan to release a deadly virus into the atmosphere and...

The Lost World: Jurassic Park is an action game released for the Sega Genesis in 1997, developed by Appaloosa Interactive and published by Sega of America. It arrived late in the life of the console, when most attention had already moved to newer hardware,...

The Humans is an action puzzle game developed by Imagitec Design and published by GameTek for the Sega Genesis in 1992. It hands you a tribe of small, shaggy cave people and a world that would very much like to eat them. The joke...

Technocop is a near future action game for the Sega Genesis, developed by Punk Development and published by RazorSoft in 1990. You play a cop with a simple assignment: clear your town of all the criminal scum, one case at a time. What sets...

Task Force Harrier EX is a vertical scrolling shooter for the Sega Genesis, developed by Jorudan and published by Treco in 1991. You fly a Harrier into unfriendly skies and fight your way through squadrons of enemy gunships, fortified bunkers and hostile battleships before...

Target Earth is a 1990 mech action shooter for the Sega Genesis, developed by NCS and published by DreamWorks, and it is the game that introduced western players to the Assault Suits line. The Earth needs you: enemy Chron cyborgs are attacking Earth and...

T2: The Arcade Game brings the Terminator 2 coin op shooter home to the Sega Genesis, converted by Probe Software and published in 1992 by Arena Entertainment. It is a gallery shooter seen from the first person: you hold your ground, sweep a crosshair...

Super Thunder Blade was one of the games that introduced players to the Sega Genesis, a 1988 helicopter shooter developed by Sega Enterprises and published in North America by Sega of America. It carries all the spectacle of Sega's arcade work from that period:...