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
Traffic department 2192
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
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
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 ...
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...
CHAMP Galagon
DOS1997remake shoot 'em up
Dragon Force - Day 3
DOS1993 shoot 'em up
Fox Ranger
DOS1992 shoot 'em up
Hovertank One
DOS1991 tank simulation, first-person shooter
Sky Shark
DOS1989 shoot 'em up
Stargate
DOS1983 shoot 'em up
IBM Centipede
DOS1983 shoot 'em up