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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Tempest 2000

DOS1996remake shoot 'em up

Tempest 2000 is a video game developed by Llamasoft and published by Atari Corporation. It was released in 1994 for DOS, Mac, the Atari Jaguar console, etc. Tempest 2000 is an enhanced remake of the original Tempest, which was rel...

Halloween Harry

DOS1993freeware run and gun, platform

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...

Mega Man X4

Windows XP/98/951998 run and gun, platform

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...

Seek and Destroy

DOS1996 shoot 'em up

Seek and Destroy was a shoot'em up published by the well known Epic Megagames in 1996 that tried to change the usual shoot'em up gameplay for the better. Instead of wave after wave of enemies to shoot down, you are given short mis...

Hexen: Beyond Heretic

DOS1995protected first-person shooter

Star Wars

DOS1988 space simulation, rail shooter, space combat

Virtua Cop

Windows XP/98/951997 rail shooter

Virtua Cop is a light-gun arcade game released by Sega in 1994, developed by the Sega AM2 division (also known for games like Virtua Fighter). It was a pioneering title in the genre, offering a fully 3D shooter experience with pol...

Ack-Ack Attack!

DOS1995remake shoot 'em up

In Ack-Ack Attack! (1995, DOS), you operate an anti-aircraft gun and do your best to shoot down waves of enemy planes with what appears to be a potato cannon. The game is loud, frantic, and wonderfully simple — a throwback t...

House of the Dead

Windows XP/98/951998 rail shooter

House of the Dead is an old horror-themed rail shooter game, developed and released by Sega in 1998. The whole gameplay can be summarized in a single sentence "a first-person 3D shooting gallery with zombies". House of the De...

Xenon 2: Megablast

DOS1990 shoot 'em up

Xenon 2: Megablast is a classic shoot'em up developed by Bitmap Brothers and released by Image Works in 1990 for DOS and for a plethora of other systems. Xenon was good, Xenon 2 was far better. Compared to today standards Xenon 2 ...

The Ultimate Doom

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1995protected first-person shooter

Ultimate DOOM is an expanded version of the original DOOM (1993), developed by id Software and released in 1995. It includes all three original episodes of DOOM along with a brand-new fourth episode, Thy Flesh Consumed. The g...

Alien Trilogy

DOS1996 first-person shooter

Alien Trilogy is a first-person shooter video game released in 1996 for various platforms, including the PlayStation, Sega Saturn, and MS-DOS. Developed by Probe Entertainment and published by Acclaim Entertainment, the game is ba...

Star Wars 2

DOS1989 shoot 'em up

Lethal Tender

DOS1993 first-person shooter

MDK

DOSMac OSWindows XP/98/951997protected third-person shooter

Marathon

Windows XP/98/95Linux1994freeware first-person shooter

Radix: Beyond the Void

DOS1995 first-person shooter

Soviet

DOS1990 shoot 'em up, vehicular combat

Unreal Gold

Windows XP/98/95LinuxMac OS2000 first-person shooter

Unreal Gold is a first-person shooter (FPS) video game developed by Epic MegaGames and published by GT Interactive. It was originally released in 1998 for Windows. Unreal Gold is an enhanced edition of the original Unreal game, an...

Raptor: Call of the Shadows

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1994protecteddemo shoot 'em up

Raptor: Call of the Shadows is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up video game developed by Cygnus Studios and published by Apogee Software. The game was first released in 1994 for MS-DOS and later ported to other platforms. In Rap...

Marathon 2: Durandal

Windows XP/98/95Linux1996 first-person shooter

Wolfenstein 3D

DOSMac OS1992protecteddemo first-person shooter

Wolfenstein 3D is the first-person shooter that popularized the whole genre in the early 90s and is considered one of the greatest games ever made. Wolfenstein 3D was designed by John Romero and Tom Hall (id Software) and released...

Flying Tigers

DOS1994 shoot 'em up

Flying Tigers is an abandoned vertical-scrolling sci-fi themed shoot 'em up game developed and released by Ticsoft in 1994 for MS-DOS only. Flying Tigers is the first chapter of the two parts Flying Tigers video game series.

Xenon 2000: Project PCF

Windows XP/98/952000remake shoot 'em up

Xenon 2000: Project PCF is a vertical-scrolling shoot 'em up video game and originally released in 2000. It is a sequel to the earlier game "Xenon 2: Megablast," which was developed by The Bitmap Brothers and released in 1989.In X...

Raiden

DOS1994 shoot 'em up

Raiden is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up game developed by Seibu Kaihatsu and first released in arcades in 1990 and later for many home computers and consoles. Raiden follows the classic vertical scrolling shoot 'em up f...