The most popular abandonware shooter games

Shooter video games are all about shooting targets and avoiding being shot down. The kind of game is often defined by the player perspective (FPS stands for First Person Shooter, TPS stands for Third Person Shooter), or by gameplay: shoot'em up, run and gun, shooting gallery.

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Gremlins 2: The New Batch

DOS19903.4/5 run and gun

Interphase

DOS19894.1/5 first-person shooter

Ajax

DOS19893.4/5 shoot 'em up

Ack-Ack Attack!

DOS1995remake4.2/5 shoot 'em up

Invaders 78

DOS2000freewareremake4.2/5 shoot 'em up

Crossfire

DOS19823.7/5 shoot 'em up

Virus

DOS19883.9/5 third-person shooter

Paratrooper

DOS19824/5 shoot 'em up

Space Harrier

DOS19893.7/5 rail shooter, third-person shooter

Space Harrier is a 3rd-person view rail-shooter developed by Sega in 1985. Space Harrier was a hit in the arcades, and later it was converted for a number of platforms, including DOS (4 years later!). The sequels - Space Harrier 3D and Space Harrier II - were never ported to DOS.

William Shatner's TekWar

DOS19954/5 first-person shooter

Super Stardust

DOS19964.2/5 shoot 'em up

Colosso Revenge

DOS1997freeware3.6/5 first-person shooter

Armor Alley

DOSMac OS19913.9/5 shoot 'em up

Stargate

DOS19833.6/5 shoot 'em up

Ken's Labyrinth

DOS1993freeware3.5/5 first-person shooter

Unreal (Ordilogic)

DOS19913.1/5

X-COM: Alliance

Windows XP/98/952002canceled3.8/5 first-person shooter

Die Hard 2: Die Harder

DOS19923.6/5 shooting gallery

Hoverforce

DOS19903.3/5 first-person shooter

Soviet

DOS19904.1/5 shoot 'em up, vehicular combat

Netherworld

DOS19902.9/5 shoot 'em up

Terminal Terror

DOS19943.8/5 first-person shooter

Dragonfly

DOS19863.2/5 shoot 'em up

Encounter

DOS19843.5/5 shoot 'em up

Menace

DOS19882.8/5 shoot 'em up

Menace is a classic shoot 'em up video game that was developed by DMA Design, a company later known as Rockstar North, and initially released in 1988. The game was originally released for the Amiga and Atari ST home computer systems and for DOS. The player's objective is to navigate their spacecraft through various levels filled with enemy ships, o...