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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Devastator

DOS19843.4/5 shooting gallery, shoot 'em up

Galactic Battle

DOS19903.4/5 shoot 'em up

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

DOS19903.4/5 run and gun

Striker

DOS19853.4/5 shoot 'em up

Ajax

DOS19893.4/5 shoot 'em up

Escape from Dr. Colosso

DOS1997freeware3.4/5 first-person shooter

Die Hard

DOS19893.4/5 third-person shooter

Galactix

DOS19923.3/5 shoot 'em up

If It Moves, Shoot It!

DOS19893.3/5 shoot 'em up

NetWars

DOS1993freeware3.3/5 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...

Nitemare 3D

DOSWindows 3.x1994protected3.3/5 first-person shooter

Nitemare 3D is a first-person shooter video game developed and published by David P. Gray under the Gray Design Associates label. It was released in 1994 as a follow-up to the earlier adventure games in the "Hugo" series. The protagonist, Hugo, embarks on a mission to rescue his girlfriend, Penelope, who has been kidnapped by the evil Dr. Hame...