Abandonware DOS title

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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Marathon 2: Durandal

Windows XP/98/95Linux1996 first-person shooter
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Interphase

DOS1989 first-person shooter
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Alien Rampage

DOS1996 run and gun
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. Everything explodes, everything wants to kill you, and the hero growls like he gargles gravel. It’s dumb, loud, and...
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Operation Bodycount

DOS1994 first-person shooter
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Star Goose!

DOS1988 shoot 'em up
Star Goose is a classic video game developed by Logotron and released in 1988 for various home computer systems of that era, including the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and Amstrad CPC. It is a top-down, vertically scrolling shooter that combines elements of shoot 'em up gameplay with exploration and power-up mechanics.
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Blake Stone 2: Planet Strike

DOS1994protected first-person shooter
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Cabal

DOS1989 shooting gallery
Cabal is an abandoned arcade conversion of a popular shooter game set in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Cabal was developed by TAD Corporation and released by Capcom in 1989 for DOS.
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Corridor 7: Alien Invasion

DOS1994protected first-person shooter
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Mega Man X

DOS1995protected run and gun, platform
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Sopwith

DOS1984freeware shoot 'em up
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Crusader: No Regret

DOS1996protecteddemo
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Solar Winds: The Escape

DOS1993 shoot 'em up
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Mega Man 3

DOS1992 run and gun, platform
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Xatax

DOS1994 shoot 'em up
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Spacewar

DOS1985 shoot 'em up
Spacewar is one of the earliest digital computer games and is often considered the first interactive video game. It was created in 1962 by Steve Russell, Martin Graetz, and Wayne Wiitanen at the MIT. The game was developed on the PDP-1 minicomputer; this is a DOS port, released in 1985.Spacewar! features two spaceships, controlled by players, that ...
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Redneck Rampage

DOS1997protected first-person shooter
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Forgotten Worlds

DOS1991 shoot 'em up
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Wings of Fury

DOS1989 shoot 'em up
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Blake Stone 1: Aliens of Gold

DOS1993protected first-person shooter
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007: License to Kill

DOS1989 shoot 'em up
Before James Bond was saving the world with cinematic flair, he was crashing pixelated helicopters in 007: License to Kill. This top-down action game takes the movie and crams it into six bite-sized missions of explosions, awkward flying, and questionable hit detection. You’ll drive, swim, fly, and die - a lot. The controls are about as smoot...
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Attack of the Mutant Camels

DOS2001freewareremake shoot 'em up
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Contra: Locked and Loaded

Windows XP/98/952013freewareremake run and gun
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Galaxian

DOS1983 shoot 'em up
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Infestation

DOS1990 first-person action-adventure, first-person shooter
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Operation Harrier

DOS1990 shoot 'em up, flight simulation
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Robocop

DOS1989 run and gun, beat 'em up
Robocop is an abandoned beat 'em up / run and gun shooter game developed and released by Data East in 1989 for a number of platforms, including DOS. Robocop is a conversion from an arcade game released by Data East in 1988 and it was based on the movie of the same name, Robocop, by Paul Verhoeven. Your goal is to get to the final boss by shoot...
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Stargunner

DOS1996 shoot 'em up
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Stellar 7

DOSMac OS1990 first-person shooter, tank simulation
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Strife

DOS1996protecteddemo first-person shooter
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 earlier games to blend first-person shooter gameplay with RPG elements, such as dialogue with NPCs, quests, and an overarching storyline.In Strife, players assume the role o...