Shoot 'em up
Shoot 'em ups were extremely popular in the '80s and '90s. In a classic shoot 'em up, the player controls a vehicle, a spaceship or an aircraft with the only goal of destroying the largest number of enemies as possible while dodging bullets and staying alive. Through the years, shoot 'em ups evolved to include features like end level bosses, multiple weapons and power-ups. Some of the most popular DOS shoot 'em ups were: Raptor, Tyrian 2000, Xenon 2.
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Llamatron 2112
DOS1992 Llamasoft
Major Stryker
DOSWindows XP/98/951993freeware Apogee Software
Megapede
DOS1992
Menace
DOS1988 DMA Design
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 syste...
Meteors
DOS1989 Apogee Software
Netherworld
DOS1990 Hewson Consultants
Night Raid
DOS1992remake Argo Games
Operation Harrier
DOS1990 Creative Materials
Operation: Inner Space
Windows 3.x1994protecteddemo Software Dynamics
OverKill
DOS1992freeware Tech-Noir
P47 Thunderbolt
DOS1990 NMK Co.
Paratrooper
DOS1982 Orion Software
Phantis
DOS1987 Dinamic Multimedia
Project-X
DOS1994 Team 17
R-Type
DOS1989 Irem Software Engineering
R-Type is a horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up developed and published by Irem in 1987. The game quickly gained popularity for its challenging gameplay and impressive graphics at the time. R-Type is known for its tough and m...
Raiden
DOS1994 Seibu Kaihatsu Inc.
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...
Raptor: Call of the Shadows
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1994protecteddemo Cygnus Studios
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...
Revenge of Defender
DOS1989 Epyx
River Raid remake
DOS1995freewareremake
Robotron 2084
DOS1983 Williams Entertainment
Rotox
DOS1991 Creative Materials
Round 42
DOS1986
Sarge
DOS1989
Sea Dragon
DOS1983 Adventure International
Seek and Destroy
DOS1996 Safari Software
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...
Shooting Gallery
DOS1990 Arcanum Computing
Side Arms Hyper Dyne
DOS1988 Capcom
Side Arms: Hyper Dyne is a side-scrolling shoot-'em-up arcade game developed and published by Capcom in 1986 and later ported on various platforms. Players control a "mobilsuit," a futuristic combat robot, in a war against al...
Silpheed
DOS1988 Game Arts
Sky Shark
DOS1989 Toaplan
Solar Winds 2: Galaxy
DOS1993 Stone Interactive Media