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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Super Star Wars
DOS1992 platform, run and gun
The Untouchables
DOS1989 run and gun
Interphase
DOS1989 first-person shooter
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. E...
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 shoo...
Blake Stone 2: Planet Strike
DOS1994protected first-person shooter
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’s basically Blake’s victory lap, but with a...
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.
Corridor 7: Alien Invasion
DOS1994protected first-person shooter
Sopwith
DOS1984freeware shoot 'em up
Crusader: No Regret
DOS1996protecteddemo
Solar Winds: The Escape
DOS1993 shoot 'em up
Mega Man 3
DOS1992 run and gun, platform
Xatax
DOS1994 shoot 'em up
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 ...
Redneck Rampage
DOS1997protected first-person shooter
Forgotten Worlds
DOS1991 shoot 'em up
Wings of Fury
DOS1989 shoot 'em up
Darius Gaiden
Windows XP/98/951998 shoot 'em up
Blake Stone 1: Aliens of Gold
DOS1993protected first-person shooter
Before Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold, the world only knew of one man who could mow down Nazis in a maze of corridors — then Blake showed up with a laser gun and a mission to rid the universe of alien gold hoarders. Released in...
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...
Attack of the Mutant Camels
DOS2001freewareremake shoot 'em up
If you've ever stared at a camel and thought, "What if it shot lasers and had a personal grudge against humanity?", Attack of the Mutant Camels is the fever dream you've been waiting for. Released in 2001 for DOS — yes, some...
Contra: Locked and Loaded
Windows 10/112013freewareremake run and gun
Galaxian
DOS1983 shoot 'em up
Infestation
DOS1990 first-person action-adventure, first-person shooter
LineWars
DOS1990 shoot 'em up, space simulation
Operation Harrier
DOS1990 shoot 'em up, flight simulation
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 an...
Stargunner
DOS1996 shoot 'em up
Stellar 7
DOSMac OS1990 first-person shooter, tank simulation