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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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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Shooting Gallery

DOS19903.7/5 shooting gallery, shoot 'em up
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MDK

DOSMac OSWindows XP/98/951997protected4/5 third-person shooter
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Jackal

DOS19894.1/5 run and gun
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Hexen: Beyond Heretic

DOS1995protected4.2/5 first-person shooter
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Storm

DOS19872.5/5 run and gun
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Batalia

DOS19862.8/5 shoot 'em up
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Dalek Attack

DOS19923.9/5 shoot 'em up
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Cabal

DOS19894.1/5 shooting gallery
Cabal is an abandoned arcade conversion of a popular shooter game set in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Cabal was developed by TAD Corporation and released by Capcom in 1989 for DOS.
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Sky Shark

DOS19893.6/5 shoot 'em up
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Sirwood

DOS19903.3/5 run and gun
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Mach 3

DOS19873/5 third-person shooter
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IBM Centipede

DOS19833.6/5 shoot 'em up
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Xenon

DOS19883.9/5 shoot 'em up
Xenon, released in 1988, was a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up video game developed by The Bitmap Brothers. Xenon was initially released for the Commodore 64, and later, it was ported to other platforms, including DOS, the ZX Spectrum and Amiga.In Xenon, players control a futuristic tank-like craft and navigate through levels filled with enemy ve...
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EGA-Roids

DOS1986freewareremake3.7/5 shoot 'em up
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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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Eagle's Rider

DOS19913.9/5 shoot 'em up
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Blort!

DOS19873.7/5 shoot 'em up
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X-COM: Alliance

Windows XP/98/952002canceled3.8/5 first-person shooter
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Invasion of the Mutant Space Bats of Doom

DOS19953.8/5 shoot 'em up
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Transland

DOS19963/5 first-person shooter
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Operation: Inner Space

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

DOSMac OS19904/5 first-person shooter, tank simulation
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Fox Ranger

DOS19923.6/5 shoot 'em up
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Rush'n Attack

DOS19893.9/5 run and gun
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Side Arms Hyper Dyne

DOS19883.8/5 shoot 'em up
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Lethal Tender

DOS19934.1/5 first-person shooter
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Kaeon

DOS19923.5/5 shoot 'em up
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Iskib

DOS19892.7/5 run and gun
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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...