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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Die Hard

DOS19893.4/5 third-person shooter

Ikari Warriors 2: Victory Road

DOS19883.6/5 run and gun

Unreal (Ordilogic)

DOS19913.1/5

Tempest 2000

DOS1996remake4.2/5 shoot 'em up

Tempest 2000 is a video game developed by Llamasoft and published by Atari Corporation. It was released in 1994 for DOS, Mac, the Atari Jaguar console, etc. Tempest 2000 is an enhanced remake of the original Tempest, which was released in arcades in 1981.In Tempest 2000, players control a claw-shaped ship that moves around the edges of geometric sh...

Traffic department 2192

DOS1994freeware3.7/5 shoot 'em up

SWIV 3D

DOS19963.7/5 third-person shooter

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

DOS19903.4/5 run and gun

Space Commanders

DOS1983remake3.8/5 shoot 'em up

Jungle Strike

DOS19954.1/5 shoot 'em up

The Godfather

DOS19913.2/5 run and gun

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.

Blood Money

DOS19903.9/5 shoot 'em up

Blood Money is an abandoned classic sci-fi themed side-scrolling shoot'em up. Blood Money was designed by David Jones, developed by DMA Design and released by Psygnosis in 1990 for DOS, Amiga, Atari ST, C64. Blood Money features different vehicles for different levels, power ups and an energy bar that depletes when colliding with enemies or the env...

Radix: Beyond the Void

DOS19954.1/5 first-person shooter

Flying Tigers 2

DOS19943.3/5 shoot 'em up

Obliterator

DOS19892.9/5 run and gun

Narco Police

DOS19903.5/5 third-person shooter

Crossfire

DOS19823.7/5 shoot 'em up

Invaders 78

DOS2000freewareremake4.2/5 shoot 'em up

Catacomb Armageddon

DOS1993protected3.3/5 first-person shooter

Stargate

DOS19833.6/5 shoot 'em up

Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom

DOS19843.5/5 shoot 'em up

Strife

DOS1996protecteddemo4/5 first-person shooter

Strife from 1996 is a first-person shooter game developed by Rogue Entertainment and published by Velocity, based on the Doom engine. It's often remembered for being one of the earlier games to blend first-person shooter gameplay with RPG elements, such as dialogue with NPCs, quests, and an overarching storyline.In Strife, players assume the role o...