Run and gun shooters sorted by release date

Run and gun games - sometimes called scrolling shooters - are a mix of platform games and shoot 'em ups. The player is in control of a character - usually a soldier loaded with guns - who walks and shoots in real gravity environments. Contra, Rambo 3, Alien Breed are three of the most popular run and gun games.

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Arnie 2

DOS1993 Zeppelin Games

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...

Bio Menace Episode 1: Dr. Mangle's Lab

DOS1993freeware Apogee Software

Mutants! Explosions! Green slime! Bio Menace kicks off with Dr. Mangle’s Lab, a side-scrolling blast of carnage where you, Snake Logan (yes, really), shoot your way through a monster-infested city with a machine gun and a ba...

Bio Menace Episode 2: The Hidden Lab

DOS1993freeware Apogee Software

Snake Logan is back, and this time the lab is... hidden! The Hidden Lab cranks up the challenge with more grotesque mutants, more lethal traps, and slightly improved sarcasm. It’s like episode one, but with less common sense...

Bio Menace Episode 3: Master Cain

DOS1993freeware Apogee Software

The trilogy concludes in Master Cain, where Snake Logan faces the ultimate evil: a villain with a name that sounds like a Bond bad guy and a plan straight from Saturday morning cartoons. Expect one last hurrah of mutant-blasting m...

Duke Nukem 2

DOS1993 Apogee Software

Halloween Harry

DOS1993freeware Interactive Binary Illusions

Halloween Harry is a DOS science fiction multi-directional scroller shooter game. Halloween Harry - later renamed Alien Carnage - was published by Apogee, developed by Interactive Binary Illusions and designed by John Passfield an...

Xargon

DOS1993freeware Epic MegaGames

Alien Breed: Tower Assault

DOS1994protected Team 17

Alien Breed: Tower Assault (1994) takes everything you loved about the original - creepy corridors, limited ammo, sudden death - and adds something revolutionary for the time: non-linear level design. That's right, you can now die...

The Chaos Engine

DOS1994protected Bitmap Brothers

Abuse

DOSLinuxMac OS1995freeware Crack dot Com

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...

Earthworm Jim

DOS1995protected Shiny Entertainment

Mega Man X

DOS1995protected Capcom

Alien Rampage

DOS1996

Alien Rampage (1996) is what happens when Duke Nukem gets stranded on a hostile alien planet and decides subtlety is for cowards. It’s a side-scrolling shooter dripping with gore, attitude, and the occasional terrible pun. E...

Earthworm Jim 2

DOS1996protected Shiny Entertainment

Mega Man X3

Windows XP/98/951998 Capcom

Mega Man X4

Windows XP/98/951998 Capcom

Mega Man X4 is a side-scrolling action-platformer video game released by Capcom for Windows, Sony PlayStation, and Sega Saturn in 1997 and 1998. It is part of the Mega Man X series, a spin-off of the original Mega Man franchise.Se...

Ghosts 'n Goblins remake

Windows 10/112004freewareremake

Ghosts 'n Goblins is an iconic arcade game developed by Capcom, first released in 1985. It’s widely remembered for its challenging gameplay and its distinct horror-fantasy aesthetic. This is a faithful remake.In Ghosts 'n Go...