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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Crossfire

DOS1982 shoot 'em up
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Virus

DOS1988 third-person shooter
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OverKill

DOS1992freeware shoot 'em up
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Cabal

DOS1989 shooting gallery
If Rambo had a twin brother who preferred hiding behind sandbags and tossing grenades like candy, Cabal would be his biography. This over-the-top shooter puts you in the boots of a one-man army mowing down everything that moves&md...
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Hovertank One

DOS1991 tank simulation, first-person shooter
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Obliterator

DOS1989 run and gun
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Blake Stone 2: Planet Strike

DOS1994protected first-person shooter
Blake Stone: Planet Strike picks up where the first left off — more aliens, more guns, and more corridors that all look suspiciously alike. Released in 1994 for DOS, it’s basically Blake’s victory lap, but with a...
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Tubular Worlds

DOS1994 shoot 'em up
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P47 Thunderbolt

DOS1990 shoot 'em up
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Dalek Attack

DOS1992 shoot 'em up
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Forgotten Worlds

DOS1991 shoot 'em up
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Strife

DOS1996protecteddemo 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 ...
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Blasteroids

DOS1989 shoot 'em up
Blasteroids is a video game developed and released by Atari, Inc. in 1987. It's a sequel to the classic arcade game Asteroids, which was released in 1979. In Blasteroids, players control a spaceship tasked with destroying asteroid...
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Crusader: No Remorse

DOS1995protecteddemo
Crusader is an action-oriented computer game. The player controls a super soldier that defects from the current world government and joins the Resistance. The world is shown in an isometric view.
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Star Trek Combat Arena

DOS1989 shoot 'em up
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Encounter

DOS1984 shoot 'em up
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Lethal Tender

DOS1993 first-person shooter
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LineWars

DOS1990 shoot 'em up, space simulation
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Dick Tracy

DOS1990 run and gun
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Xenon

DOS1988 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 Sp...
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Radix: Beyond the Void

DOS1995 first-person shooter
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Baal

DOS1989 run and gun
Released in 1989 for DOS, Baal is what happens when demons invade and the only thing standing between Earth and eternal damnation is a guy with a really big gun and absolutely no concern for platforming physics. You’re dropp...
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Hoverforce

DOS1990 first-person shooter
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Darius Gaiden

Windows XP/98/951998 shoot 'em up
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X-COM: Alliance

Windows XP/98/952002canceled first-person shooter
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Colosso Secret

DOS1997freeware first-person shooter
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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...
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Paratrooper

DOS1982 shoot 'em up
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Game Over

DOS1988 run and gun, platform
Game Over is an abandoned side scrolling shooter/platform game designed by Ignacio Ruiz Tejedor, Pedro Sudón Aguilar, developed and released by Dinamic Multimedia in 1988 for DOS. Game Over isn't exactly one of the best gam...
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CHAMP Asteroids

DOS1997remake shoot 'em up