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The most popular first-person shooter games

First-person shooters (FPS for short) are shoot'em all action video games in which the player shoots its way from level to level through a first-person perspective. The most popular FPS series are Doom, Half-life, and Quake.
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Blake Stone 2: Planet Strike

DOS1994protected JAM Productions
Blake Stone: Planet Strike picks up where the first left off — more aliens, more guns, and more corridors that all look suspiciously alike. Released in 1994 for DOS, it&rsquo...
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Magic Carpet 2: The Netherworlds

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1996protected Bullfrog
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Terminal Terror

DOS1994 Pie in the Sky Software
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Strife

DOS1996protecteddemo Velocity
Strife from 1996 is a first-person shooter game developed by Rogue Entertainment and published by Velocity, based on the Doom engine. It's often remembered for being one of the ear...
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Krazy Ivan

Windows XP/98/951996 Psygnosis
If Krazy Ivan (1996, Windows XP) had a motto, it’d be “Blow it up first, ask later.” You pilot a massive mech across post-apocalyptic battlefields, obliterating a...
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X-COM: Alliance

Windows XP/98/952002canceled MicroProse Software
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Super 3-D Noah's Ark

DOS1995protected Wisdom Tree
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Nova 9: The Return of Gir Draxon

DOS1991 Dynamix
If you ever wanted to pilot a hovering tank while yelling at a computer screen, Nova 9 has you covered. A sequel to Stellar 7, it puts you in the cockpit against Gir Draxon’s...
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Colosso Secret

DOS1997freeware Campana Productions
Colosso Secret (1997, DOS) is the moody prequel/sequel/parallel universe to Colosso Revenge, where secrets abound and subtlety is tossed out the window. Imagine Indiana Jones in a ...
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Postal 2

Windows XP/98/95LinuxMac OS2003protected Running With Scissors
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Zeitgeist

Windows XP/98/951996 Taito
Zeitgeist — also known as Jupiter Strike in some markets — is a PlayStation-era space shooter that boldly says: "Let’s do Star Fox, but with less personality and ...
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Dark Horizons Lore: Invasion

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux2004freeware
Jumping forward to 2004, Dark Horizons Lore: Invasion ditches swords and sorcery for giant mechs stomping across futuristic battlefields. It’s a squad-based online multiplaye...
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Secret Agent: The Escape

DOS1996 PhreAk Software
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Infestation

DOS1990 Psygnosis
Infestation drops you onto a hostile alien world where the welcome committee consists mostly of things with too many legs and way too many teeth. The game mixes exploration and act...
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Shadow Warrior

DOS1997protected 3d Realms
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Interphase

DOS1989 The Assembly Line
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In Extremis

DOS1993 Blue sphere
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Vaxine

DOS1991 The Assembly Line
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Transland

DOS1996 Origin Systems