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
Virus
DOS1988 third-person shooter
OverKill
DOS1992freeware shoot 'em up
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...
Hovertank One
DOS1991 tank simulation, first-person shooter
Obliterator
DOS1989 run and gun
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...
Tubular Worlds
DOS1994 shoot 'em up
P47 Thunderbolt
DOS1990 shoot 'em up
Dalek Attack
DOS1992 shoot 'em up
Forgotten Worlds
DOS1991 shoot 'em up
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 ...
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...
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.
Star Trek Combat Arena
DOS1989 shoot 'em up
Encounter
DOS1984 shoot 'em up
Lethal Tender
DOS1993 first-person shooter
LineWars
DOS1990 shoot 'em up, space simulation
Dick Tracy
DOS1990 run and gun
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...
Radix: Beyond the Void
DOS1995 first-person shooter
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...
Hoverforce
DOS1990 first-person shooter
Darius Gaiden
Windows XP/98/951998 shoot 'em up
X-COM: Alliance
Windows XP/98/952002canceled first-person shooter
Colosso Secret
DOS1997freeware first-person shooter
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...
Paratrooper
DOS1982 shoot 'em up
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...
CHAMP Asteroids
DOS1997remake shoot 'em up