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

DOS19933.8/5 Zeppelin Games

Bio Menace Episode 1: Dr. Mangle's Lab

DOS1993freeware4/5 Apogee Software

Bio Menace Episode 2: The Hidden Lab

DOS1993freeware4.3/5 Apogee Software

Bio Menace Episode 3: Master Cain

DOS1993freeware4.3/5 Apogee Software

Duke Nukem 2

DOS19934.2/5 Apogee Software

Halloween Harry

DOS1993freeware4.2/5 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 and Robert Crane.

Xargon

DOS1993freeware4/5 Epic MegaGames

Alien Breed: Tower Assault

DOS1994protected4.2/5 Team 17

The Chaos Engine

DOS1994protected4.2/5 Bitmap Brothers

Abuse

DOSLinuxMac1995freeware3.9/5 Crack dot Com

Earthworm Jim

DOS1995protected4.1/5 Shiny Entertainment

Mega Man X

DOS1995protected4/5 Capcom

Alien Rampage

DOS19964.1/5

Earthworm Jim 2

DOS1996protected4.4/5 Shiny Entertainment

Mega Man X3

Windows XP/98/9519984.2/5 Capcom

Mega Man X4

Windows XP/98/9519984.1/5 Capcom

Mega Man X4 is an abandoned side scrolling action-platform video game that was released for Windows, the Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn in 1997 and 1998. Mega Man X4 is part of the Mega Man X series, which is a spin-off of the original Mega Man series, and it was developed by Capcom. Mega Man X4 is set in a dystopian future where h...