Abandonware DOS title

Abandonware shooter games sorted by release date

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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Raiden

DOS1994 shoot 'em up
Raiden is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up game developed by Seibu Kaihatsu and first released in arcades in 1990 and later for many home computers and consoles. Raiden follows the classic vertical scrolling shoot 'em up format. Players control a spaceship known as the R-9C "Red-Ray" and navigate vertically scrolling levels filled with wave...
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Raptor: Call of the Shadows

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1994protecteddemo shoot 'em up
Raptor: Call of the Shadows is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up video game developed by Cygnus Studios and published by Apogee Software. The game was first released in 1994 for MS-DOS and later ported to other platforms. In Raptor, players control a fighter jet through various levels filled with enemy aircraft, ground targets, power-ups and boss...
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Rise of the Triad: Dark War

DOS1994protected first-person shooter
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Terminal Terror

DOS1994 first-person shooter
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The Chaos Engine

DOS1994protected run and gun
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Total Carnage

DOS1994 shoot 'em up
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Traffic department 2192

DOS1994freeware shoot 'em up
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Tubular Worlds

DOS1994 shoot 'em up
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Xatax

DOS1994 shoot 'em up
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Xerix II: The Caverns of Mars

DOS1994 shoot 'em up
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XQuest

DOS1994remake shoot 'em up
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Abuse

DOSLinuxMac OS1995freeware run and gun, platform
The year is 1995, and Abuse brings us one of the slickest, darkest run-and-gun shooters ever to crawl out of a DOS/Linux/Mac basement. You play a guy in prison for a crime he didn’t commit (sure, pal), armed to the teeth and mowing down mutants like it’s casual Friday. It’s gritty, fast, and has mouse aiming — in 1995! That ...
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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 to the days when “arcade-style” meant “your wrist will hurt after 15 minutes.” It’s not com...
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Command Adventures: Starship

DOS1995 shoot 'em up
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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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Descent

DOS1995protecteddemo first-person shooter
Descent is a first person shooter with a unique six degree of freedom gameplay developed by Parallax Software and released by Interplay Productions in 1995.. You control a spaceship and must pilot it in a mine, through a series of 3d levels. The goal of the game is to find a series of keys, shoot down enemy ships and find your way to the next level.
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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 fail to shoot enough birds, the game ends.
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Hexen: Beyond Heretic

DOS1995protected first-person shooter
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Jungle Strike

DOS1995 shoot 'em up
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Mega Man X

DOS1995protected run and gun, platform
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Radix: Beyond the Void

DOS1995 first-person shooter
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River Raid remake

DOS1995freewareremake shoot 'em up
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Space Invaders

DOS1995remake shoot 'em up
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Star Wars: Dark Forces

DOS1995protected first-person shooter
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Super 3-D Noah's Ark

DOS1995protected first-person shooter
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Terminal Velocity

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS1995protected first-person shooter
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The Terminator: Future Shock

DOS1995 first-person shooter
The Terminator: Future Shock is an abandoned science fiction first-person shooter game based on the popular Terminator movies franchise, set in a dystopian world where machines has taken over the Earth. The Terminator: Future Shock was developed by Bethesda Softworks and released in 1995 for DOS.
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The Ultimate Doom

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1995protected first-person shooter
Ultimate DOOM is an expanded version of the original DOOM (1993), developed by id Software and released in 1995. It includes all three original episodes of DOOM along with a brand-new fourth episode, Thy Flesh Consumed. The game follows the Doomguy, a lone space marine battling his way through hordes of demons after an experiment by the Union ...
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William Shatner's TekWar

DOS1995 first-person shooter