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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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...
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Vaxine

DOS1991 first-person shooter
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Jungle Strike

DOS1995 shoot 'em up
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Obliterator

DOS1989 run and gun
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Platoon

DOS1987 run and gun
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Iskib

DOS1989 run and gun
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Soviet

DOS1990 shoot 'em up, vehicular combat
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Ack-Ack Attack!

DOS1995remake shoot 'em up
In Ack-Ack Attack! (1995, DOS), you operate an anti-aircraft gun and do your best to shoot down waves of enemy planes with what appears to be a potato cannon. The game is loud, frantic, and wonderfully simple — a throwback t...
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Dawn Raider

DOS1990 shoot 'em up
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Secret Agent: The Escape

DOS1996 first-person shooter
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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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The Invaders

DOSWindows XP/98/951989remake shoot 'em up
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Hoverforce

DOS1990 first-person shooter
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Super Stardust

DOS1996 shoot 'em up
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Transland

DOS1996 first-person shooter
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P47 Thunderbolt

DOS1990 shoot 'em up
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Major Stryker

DOSWindows XP/98/951993freeware shoot 'em up
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Capone

DOS1988 shooting gallery
Chicago, 1920s. You’ve got a tommy gun, a fedora, and a score to settle. Capone is part gangster sim, part shooting gallery, and part fever dream. The graphics are muddy, the gameplay’s clunky, and the story’s to...
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Side Arms Hyper Dyne

DOS1988 shoot 'em up
Side Arms: Hyper Dyne is a side-scrolling shoot-'em-up arcade game developed and published by Capcom in 1986 and later ported on various platforms. Players control a "mobilsuit," a futuristic combat robot, in a war against al...
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Netherworld

DOS1990 shoot 'em up
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Duck Hunt

DOS1995freewareremake shooting gallery, fishing and hunting
Duck Hunt is a faithful remake based on the original light gun game Duck Hunt published by Nintendo in 1984. Duck Hunt was a shooting gallery game with a straightforward gameplay: use your gun to shoot down ducks. If you...
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X-Fighter

DOS1987 shoot 'em up
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Striker

DOS1985 shoot 'em up
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Crossbow: The Legend of William Tell

DOS1990 shooting gallery
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Die Hard 2: Die Harder

DOS1992 shooting gallery
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Jackal

DOS1989 run and gun
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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...
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Radix: Beyond the Void

DOS1995 first-person shooter
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Guerrilla War

DOS1987 run and gun