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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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 ...

Batalia

DOS1986 shoot 'em up

Batalia (1986) is what happens when war games and spreadsheet programs fall in love. This early DOS strategy title throws you into tactical battles with graphics that would struggle to impress a calculator. But don’t be fool...

Stargate

DOS1983 shoot 'em up

Galactix

DOS1992 shoot 'em up

Hoverforce

DOS1990 first-person shooter

Eagle's Rider

DOS1991 shoot 'em up

Robocop 3

DOS1992 first-person shooter, racing: car

CHAMP Asteroids

DOS1997remake shoot 'em up

Corridor 7: Alien Invasion

DOS1994protected first-person shooter

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

DOS1990 run and gun

MDK

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

Terminal Velocity

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS1995protected first-person shooter

Sea Dragon

DOS1983 shoot 'em up

Alien Breed: Tower Assault

DOS1994protected run and gun

Alien Breed: Tower Assault (1994) takes everything you loved about the original - creepy corridors, limited ammo, sudden death - and adds something revolutionary for the time: non-linear level design. That's right, you can now die...

Xenon 2000: Project PCF

Windows XP/98/952000remake 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 X...

Astro Dodge

DOS1982 shoot 'em up

Astro Dodge (1982) is basically Frogger — in space. You control a tiny spacecraft tasked with dodging endless waves of meteors, space debris, and possibly your own questionable life choices. There’s no shooting, no exp...

X-Fighter

DOS1987 shoot 'em up

Space Commanders 2

DOS1985remake shoot 'em up

Jackal

DOS1989 run and gun

Duck Hunt

DOS1995freewareremake shooting gallery, fishing and hunting

Duck Hunt is a faithful remake based on the original light gun game Duck Hunt published by Nintendo in 1984. Duck Hunt was a shooting gallery game with a straightforward gameplay: use your gun to shoot down ducks. If you...

Flying Tigers

DOS1994 shoot 'em up

Flying Tigers is an abandoned vertical-scrolling sci-fi themed shoot 'em up game developed and released by Ticsoft in 1994 for MS-DOS only. Flying Tigers is the first chapter of the two parts Flying Tigers video game series.

Night Raid

DOS1992remake shoot 'em up

Forgotten Worlds

DOS1991 shoot 'em up

Catacomb Armageddon

DOS1993protected first-person shooter

Amok

DOS1996 third-person shooter

Ever wanted to pilot a walking death machine through a series of exploding industrial hellscapes while being shot at from every angle? Welcome to Amok. This 1996 mech-shooter is a glorious mess of 3D environments, big explosions, ...