Abandonware DOS title

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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Magic Carpet

DOSMac OS1994protected first-person shooter
Magic Carpet is an action shooter game set in a fictional Middle East developed by Bullfrog and released by Electronic Arts in 1994 for DOS and Macintosh. Your goal is to fly around a magic carpet and collect mana to expand your castle. When you reach the required mana "equilibrium" you move on to the next world and so on.
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Magic Carpet 2: The Netherworlds

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1996protected first-person shooter
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Major Stryker

DOSWindows XP/98/951993freeware shoot 'em up
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Marathon

Windows XP/98/95Linux1994freeware first-person shooter
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Marathon 2: Durandal

Windows XP/98/95Linux1996 first-person shooter
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MDK

DOSMac OSWindows XP/98/951997protected third-person shooter
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Mega Man

DOS1990 run and gun, platform
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Mega Man 3

DOS1992 run and gun, platform
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Mega Man X

DOS1995protected run and gun, platform
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Mega Man X3

Windows XP/98/951998 run and gun, platform
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Mega Man X4

Windows XP/98/951998 run and gun, platform
Mega Man X4 is a side-scrolling action-platformer video game released by Capcom for Windows, Sony PlayStation, and Sega Saturn in 1997 and 1998. It is part of the Mega Man X series, a spin-off of the original Mega Man franchise.Set in a dystopian future where humans and robots coexist, Mega Man X4 follows two playable characters: Mega Man X and Zer...
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Megapede

DOS1992 shoot 'em up
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Menace

DOS1988 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...
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Meteors

DOS1989 shoot 'em up
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Mystical

DOS1990protected run and gun
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Narco Police

DOS1990 third-person shooter
Narco Police is a tactical action game developed by Dinamic Software and released in 1990. It was available on various platforms, including MS-DOS, Amiga, Atari ST, and ZX Spectrum. The game is set in a dystopian near-future world where drug cartels have become powerful enough to control entire regions. The player assumes the role of a leader of an...
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Netherworld

DOS1990 shoot 'em up
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NetWars

DOS1993freeware space combat
NetWars, developed by Novell, is a 3D space shooter video game originally released in 1993 for DOS. NetWars was designed primarily as a promotional tool to demonstrate the networking capabilities of Novell's NetWare, a network operating system that was popular in the 1990s. The game showcased the ability to play multiplayer games over a network, hi...
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Night Raid

DOS1992remake shoot 'em up
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Nitemare 3D

DOSWindows 3.x1994protected first-person shooter
Nitemare 3D is a first-person shooter video game developed and published by David P. Gray under the Gray Design Associates label. It was released in 1994 as a follow-up to the earlier adventure games in the "Hugo" series. The protagonist, Hugo, embarks on a mission to rescue his girlfriend, Penelope, who has been kidnapped by the evil Dr. Hame...
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Nova 9: The Return of Gir Draxon

DOS1991 first-person shooter, tank simulation
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Obliterator

DOS1989 run and gun
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Operation Bodycount

DOS1994 first-person shooter
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Operation Harrier

DOS1990 shoot 'em up, flight simulation
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Operation Wolf

DOS1989 rail shooter, shooting gallery
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Operation: Inner Space

Windows 3.x1994protecteddemo space combat, shoot 'em up
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Outbound

Windows XP/98/952001freeware third-person shooter
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OverKill

DOS1992freeware shoot 'em up
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P47 Thunderbolt

DOS1990 shoot 'em up
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Paratrooper

DOS1982 shoot 'em up