Top 10 Sci-Fi Video Games of the 1980s

A terrorist organization named Red Falcon declares war on humanity and tries to take over the Earth. Two soldiers, Bill Rizer and Lance Bean, are sent to stop the Earth's destruction.

Bounty hunter Samus Aran descends below the planet Zebes to infiltrate the labyrinthine Space Pirate base and hunt down the deadly, life-sucking species known as the Metroids.

The sequel to Galaxian (1979), the player controls a spaceship and faces waves of enemy aliens that try to destroy, capture, or collide with the spaceship.

The classic space trading game. You and your Cobra Mk III battle wagon have to become 'Elite.' but this is only achieved if you do very suicidal things You start the game with the rating 'Harmless,' and must work your way up the ranks by trading and blowing the rocket fuel out of everything you see.

It is the year 2084, the world we all once knew is now overrun by robots. The majority of mankind was eliminated by the robots during a cybernetic revolt. As the player, you must rescue the surviving humans while defeating an endless wave of killer robots.

A lab assistant robot volunteers to be enhanced for fighting to stop a mad scientist from world domination.

You control a small starfighter that must mine asteroids in the face of opposition to gain the necessary weapons to defeat the dreaded Sinistar.

A spacecraft known as the Vic Viper must defend itself from the various alien enemies, in this horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game.

Defend the human population from swarms of attacking aliens.

You control a yellow crab-shaped shooter that travels along the outside rim of a 3-dimensional tunnel, shooting enemies down the alleys of the tunnel while avoiding any coming down the alleys. The tunnel takes on many different forms, and the shooter has a special "superzapper" that enables it to kill all enemies present in the tunnel.