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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IBM Centipede
DOS1983 shoot 'em up
Interpose
DOS1996 shoot 'em up
Rambo 3
DOS1988 run and gun
Rambo III is an action video game based on the 1988 action film of the same name, featuring the iconic character John Rambo, portrayed by Sylvester Stallone. The game was developed and published by various companies for different ...
Knightmare
DOS1986 shoot 'em up
Platoon
DOS1987 run and gun
Space Invaders 2001
Windows XP/98/952001remake shoot 'em up
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...
Command Adventures: Starship
DOS1995 shoot 'em up
Flightmare
DOS1984freeware shoot 'em up
The Invaders
DOSWindows XP/98/951989remake shoot 'em up
Ikari Warriors 2: Victory Road
DOS1988 run and gun
In Extremis
DOS1993 first-person shooter
Revenge of Defender
DOS1988 shoot 'em up
Aka Starglider 2 with an attitude, Revenge of Defender (or Defender of the Crown’s evil twin in name only) is a 3D space shooter where your main enemy is not the aliens—it’s the frame rate. Piloting your sleek fi...
Il Grande Gioco di Tangentopoli
DOS1993 shooting gallery, shoot 'em up
Amok
DOS1996 third-person shooter
Ever wanted to pilot a walking death machine through a series of exploding industrial hellscapes while being shot at from every angle? Welcome to Amok. This 1996 mech-shooter is a glorious mess of 3D environments, big explosions, ...
Astrotit
DOS1987NSFW shoot 'em up
Yes, Astrotit (1987) is really the name, and no, it’s not what you think — though it does feel like it was named by a bored teenager. This side-scrolling shooter puts you in command of a spaceship shaped suspiciously l...
Assault Trooper
DOS1997
In Assault Trooper, you're the lone soldier with enough ammo to make Rambo blush, dropped behind enemy lines to shoot first and ask “was that a civilian?” later. This 1997 top-down shooter screams “keyboard-mashi...
Die Hard 2: Die Harder
DOS1992 shooting gallery
Meteors
DOS1989 shoot 'em up
Tubular Worlds
DOS1994 shoot 'em up
Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom
DOS1984 shoot 'em up
Welcome to a future where zooming through tunnels and dodging neon obstacles is considered heroic. Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom is a proto-3D arcade shooter that tries its best to impress—bless its pixelated heart. You fly, y...
Exterminator
DOS1990 shooting gallery
Kaeon
DOS1992 shoot 'em up
Ken's Labyrinth
DOS1993freeware first-person shooter
Last Duel: Inter Planet War 2012
DOS1989 shoot 'em up, vehicular combat
Mach 3
DOS1987 third-person shooter
Menace
DOS1988 shoot 'em up
Menace is a classic shoot 'em up video game that was developed by DMA Design, a company later known as Rockstar North, and initially released in 1988. The game was originally released for the Amiga and Atari ST home computer syste...
Mystical
DOS1990protected run and gun
Phantis
DOS1987 shoot 'em up
Safari Guns
DOS1989 shooting gallery, rail shooter