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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X-COM: Alliance

Windows XP/98/952002canceled first-person shooter

LineWars 2

DOS1994 shoot 'em up, space simulation

Space Harrier

DOS1989 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 3...

The Operative: No One Lives Forever

Windows XP/98/952000 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 ...

Dawn Raider

DOS1990 shoot 'em up

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DOS1994freeware shoot 'em up

Alien Breed

DOS1993protected run and gun

If Doom and Gauntlet had a lovechild, Alien Breed would be the weird kid who hangs out in dark corridors with a shotgun. Released in 1993 for DOS, this top-down shooter throws you into a space station overrun by what can only be d...

P47 Thunderbolt

DOS1990 shoot 'em up

Arnie 2

DOS1993 run and gun

Arnie 2 is the unofficial Schwarzenegger sim where you run around shirtless with guns bigger than your torso, blowing up helicopters, bunkers, and bad guys in increasingly ridiculous quantities. The plot is somewhere between Comma...

CHAMP Centipede

DOS1993remake shoot 'em up

Colosso Secret

DOS1997freeware first-person shooter

Dalek Attack

DOS1992 shoot 'em up

Predator 2

DOS1991 shooting gallery, third-person shooter

Day of the Viper

DOS1990 first-person shooter

EGA-Roids

DOS1986freewareremake shoot 'em up

Shooting Gallery

DOS1990 shooting gallery, shoot 'em up

Wizball

DOS1987 shoot 'em up

Wizball is a shoot 'em up video game developed by Sensible Software and originally released for various home computer platforms in 1987. The game was published by Ocean Software.In Wizball, players control a wizard who ...

Blort!

DOS1987 shoot 'em up

With a name like Blort!, you'd expect a fart joke or a kids’ cartoon gone wrong, but no—it’s a 1987 arcade-style blaster for DOS. You play as a cosmic defender shooting weird blob-like aliens while dodging pixela...

Cosmic Crusader

DOS1982 shoot 'em up

Crossfire

DOS1982 shoot 'em up

Catacomb Abyss

DOS1992protected first-person shooter

Before Doom, there was Catacomb Abyss, where you throw fireballs down corridors at zombies who all apparently graduated from the same school of slow shuffling. It's a first-person shooter without the “shooter” part&mda...

Colosso Revenge

DOS1997freeware first-person shooter

Alcatraz

DOS1992 run and gun

Alcatraz (1992) asks the question: what if Rambo got locked in prison and had to bust out while flexing dramatically the entire time? This top-down action game puts you in the very macho boots of an elite commando trying to escape...