Abandonware DOS title

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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Heavy Barrel

DOS19893.4/5 run and gun
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The Operative: No One Lives Forever

Windows XP/98/9520003.7/5 first-person shooter
The Operative: No One Lives Forever is a first-person shooter with stealth gameplay elements, developed by Monolith Productions and released by Fox Interactive in 2000 for Windows, Mac and PS2. As Cate Archer, a spy working for a secret organization in the 60s, you have to find out who killed your colleagues. No One Lives Forever is the first of th...
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Blake Stone 2: Planet Strike

DOS1994protected4.1/5 first-person shooter
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Eagle's Rider

DOS19913.9/5 shoot 'em up
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Ken's Labyrinth

DOS1993freeware3.5/5 first-person shooter
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Solar Winds: The Escape

DOS19934.1/5 shoot 'em up
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Magic Carpet 2: The Netherworlds

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1996protected3.9/5 first-person shooter
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Trantor: The Last Stormtrooper

DOS19893.1/5 run and gun
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Uridium

DOS19883.9/5 shoot 'em up
Uridium is a classic shoot 'em up video game that was originally developed by Andrew Braybrook and published by Hewson Consultants in 1986 for various home computer platforms (including MS-DOS). In Uridium, players control a spaceship known as the Manta, and the objective is to destroy a series of enemy spacecraft, as well as ground-based inst...
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Galaxian

DOS19834/5 shoot 'em up
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Flying Tigers 2

DOS19943.3/5 shoot 'em up
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Catacomb Abyss

DOS1992protected3.7/5 first-person shooter
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Revenge of Defender

DOS19893.5/5 shoot 'em up
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Xenon 2: Megablast

DOS19904.2/5 shoot 'em up
Xenon 2: Megablast is a classic shoot'em up developed by Bitmap Brothers and released by Image Works in 1990 for DOS and for a plethora of other systems. Xenon was good, Xenon 2 was far better. Compared to today standards Xenon 2 is perhaps a mediocre shoot 'em up, but at the time every shooter fan loved it. Plus, it was developed by Bitmap Brother...
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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.
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Robotron 2084

DOS19833.9/5 shoot 'em up
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Super 3-D Noah's Ark

DOS1995protected4.2/5 first-person shooter
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Outbound

Windows XP/98/952001freeware3.9/5 third-person shooter
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Major Stryker

DOSWindows XP/98/951993freeware4/5 shoot 'em up
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CHAMP Asteroids

DOS1997remake3.9/5 shoot 'em up
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Xenon 2000: Project PCF

Windows XP/98/952000remake4.1/5 shoot 'em up
Xenon 2000: Project PCF is a vertical-scrolling shoot 'em up video game and originally released in 2000. It is a sequel to the earlier game "Xenon 2: Megablast," which was developed by The Bitmap Brothers and released in 1989.In Xenon 2000, players control a spaceship and engage in fast-paced shooting action as they face off against waves of enemy ...
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Battlezone

DOS19834.2/5 first-person shooter
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Ajax

DOS19893.4/5 shoot 'em up
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Infestation

DOS19904/5 first-person action-adventure, first-person shooter
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Robocop 3

DOS19923.9/5 first-person shooter, racing: car
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Into the Eagle's Nest

DOS19873.9/5 shoot 'em up
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Rise of the Triad: Dark War

DOS1994protected3.9/5 first-person shooter
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Operation: Inner Space

Windows 3.x1994protecteddemo3.7/5 space combat, shoot 'em up
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Galactic Battle

DOS19903.4/5 shoot 'em up
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Exterminator

DOS19903.5/5 shooting gallery