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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Space Miner

DOS1983 shoot 'em up

Star Wars: Rebel Assault

DOSMac OS1993protected rail shooter

Vaxine

DOS1991 first-person shooter

Encounter

DOS1984 shoot 'em up

Thunderblade

DOS1989 shoot 'em up

Devastator

DOS1984 shooting gallery, shoot 'em up

Galactic Battle

DOS1990 shoot 'em up

Flying Tigers 2

DOS1994 shoot 'em up

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

DOS1990 run and gun

Striker

DOS1985 shoot 'em up

Ajax

DOS1989 shoot 'em up

Escape from Dr. Colosso

DOS1997freeware first-person shooter

Die Hard

DOS1989 third-person shooter

Dick Tracy

DOS1990 run and gun

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.

If It Moves, Shoot It!

DOS1989 shoot 'em up

NetWars

DOS1993freeware space combat

NetWars, developed by Novell, is a 3D space shooter video game originally released in 1993 for DOS. NetWars was designed primarily as a promotional tool to demonstrate the networking capabilities of Novell's NetWare, a network operating system that was popular in the 1990s. The game showcased the ability to play multiplayer games over a network, hi...