The best 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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Mega Man
DOS1990 run and gun, platform
Outbound
Windows XP/98/952001freeware third-person shooter
Robotron 2084
DOS1983 shoot 'em up
Robocop 3
DOS1992 first-person shooter, racing: car
Alien Cabal
DOS1997freeware first-person shooter
Imagine Doom got abducted by aliens, experimented on, and sent back to Earth with a case of amnesia. That’s Alien Cabal (1997). It’s a weird mix of FPS action and X-Files paranoia, with pixelated bad guys who look like...
SWIV 3D
DOS1996 third-person shooter
CHAMP Asteroids
DOS1997remake shoot 'em up
Side Arms Hyper Dyne
DOS1988 shoot 'em up
Side Arms: Hyper Dyne is a side-scrolling shoot-'em-up arcade game developed and published by Capcom in 1986 and later ported on various platforms. Players control a "mobilsuit," a futuristic combat robot, in a war against al...
Armor Alley
DOSMac OS1991 shoot 'em up
In Armor Alley, you command a helicopter in a warzone that looks like a side-scrolling office meeting gone wrong. It’s strategy meets action: you must manage resources, deploy units, and not crash into the ground every five ...
Invaders 78
DOS2000freewareremake shoot 'em up
CyClones
DOS1994protected first-person shooter
Night Raid
DOS1992remake shoot 'em up
Secret Agent: The Escape
DOS1996 first-person shooter
Blasteroids
DOS1989 shoot 'em up
Blasteroids is a video game developed and released by Atari, Inc. in 1987. It's a sequel to the classic arcade game Asteroids, which was released in 1979. In Blasteroids, players control a spaceship tasked with destroying asteroid...
Total Carnage
DOS1994 shoot 'em up
Galactix
DOS1992 shoot 'em up
Krazy Ivan
Windows XP/98/951996 first-person shooter, mech simulation
Llamatron 2112
DOS1992 shoot 'em up
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 c...
Zaxxon
DOS1984 shoot 'em up
Back in 1984, Zaxxon was the future. Isometric graphics? Whoa. Shadow effects? Mind blown. But mostly, it was a game about flying a chunky spaceship through a heavily fortified space base while crashing into walls at high speed. T...
Capone
DOS1988 shooting gallery
Chicago, 1920s. You’ve got a tommy gun, a fedora, and a score to settle. Capone is part gangster sim, part shooting gallery, and part fever dream. The graphics are muddy, the gameplay’s clunky, and the story’s to...
In The Hunt
Windows XP/98/951993 shoot 'em up
Invasion of the Mutant Space Bats of Doom
DOS1995 shoot 'em up
Operation: Inner Space
Windows 3.x1994protecteddemo space combat, shoot 'em up
Chopper Duel
DOS1993freeware shoot 'em up
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...
Prince of Evil
DOS1993
Project-X
DOS1994 shoot 'em up
Star Trek Combat Arena
DOS1989 shoot 'em up
Space Commanders
DOS1983remake shoot 'em up