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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Crossbow: The Legend of William Tell

DOS19903/5 shooting gallery

Duck Hunt

DOS1995freewareremake3/5 shooting gallery, unconventional sports

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.

Mach 3

DOS19873/5 third-person shooter

Megapede

DOS19923/5 shoot 'em up

Prince of Evil

DOS19933/5

Sea Dragon

DOS19833/5 shoot 'em up

Xerix II: The Caverns of Mars

DOS19943/5 shoot 'em up

Transland

DOS19963/5 first-person shooter

Game Over

DOS19882.9/5 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 games ever made... be prepared for clunky controls and repetitive level design that may test your patience.

Baal

DOS19892.9/5 run and gun

Obliterator

DOS19892.9/5 run and gun

Netherworld

DOS19902.9/5 shoot 'em up

Batalia

DOS19862.8/5 shoot 'em up

Menace

DOS19882.8/5 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 systems and for DOS. The player's objective is to navigate their spacecraft through various levels filled with enemy ships, o...