The most popular 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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Space Invaders 2001
Windows XP/98/952001remake3.6/5 shoot 'em up
Command Adventures: Starship
DOS19953.6/5 shoot 'em up
007: License to Kill
DOS19894/5 shoot 'em up
Blake Stone 1: Aliens of Gold
DOS1993protected4.1/5 first-person shooter
Astrotit
DOS1987NSFW3.5/5 shoot 'em up
Outbound
Windows XP/98/952001freeware3.9/5 third-person shooter
Galaxian
DOS19834/5 shoot 'em up
Defender
DOS19834.2/5 shoot 'em up
Witchaven
DOSWindows XP/98/951995protected4.2/5 first-person shooter
Witchaven is an abandoned fantasy first-person shooter (or "slasher", since you'll wield melee weapons) developed by Capstone and released by IntraCorp in 1995 for DOS and Windows. Witchaven includes RPG elements such as experience and leveling your character but it's primarily an action game with swords and spells.
Xenon
DOS19883.9/5 shoot 'em up
Xenon, released in 1988, was a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up video game developed by The Bitmap Brothers. Xenon was initially released for the Commodore 64, and later, it was ported to other platforms, including DOS, the ZX Spectrum and Amiga.In Xenon, players control a futuristic tank-like craft and navigate through levels filled with enemy ve...
Virus
DOS19883.9/5 third-person shooter
Uridium
DOS19883.9/5 shoot 'em up
Uridium is a classic shoot 'em up video game that was originally developed by Andrew Braybrook and published by Hewson Consultants in 1986 for various home computer platforms (including MS-DOS). In Uridium, players control a spaceship known as the Manta, and the objective is to destroy a series of enemy spacecraft, as well as ground-based inst...
Alien Breed: Tower Assault
DOS1994protected4.2/5 run and gun
Redneck Rampage
DOS1997protected4/5 first-person shooter
Game Over
DOS19882.9/5 run and gun, platform
Game Over is an abandoned side scrolling shooter/platform game designed by Ignacio Ruiz Tejedor, Pedro Sudón Aguilar, developed and released by Dinamic Multimedia in 1988 for DOS. Game Over isn't exactly one of the best games ever made... be prepared for clunky controls and repetitive level design that may test your patience.
Blake Stone 2: Planet Strike
DOS1994protected4/5 first-person shooter
Bram Stoker's Dracula
DOS19934/5 first-person shooter
The Terminator: Future Shock
DOS19954.1/5 first-person shooter
The Terminator: Future Shock is an abandoned science fiction first-person shooter game based on the popular Terminator movies franchise, set in a dystopian world where machines has taken over the Earth. The Terminator: Future Shock was developed by Bethesda Softworks and released in 1995 for DOS.
Corridor 7: Alien Invasion
DOS1994protected4/5 first-person shooter
Crusader: No Remorse
DOS1995protected3.9/5
Crusader is an action-oriented computer game. The player controls a super soldier that defects from the current world government and joins the Resistance. The world is shown in an isometric view.
Ultimate Doom
DOS1995protected4.1/5 first-person shooter
Silpheed
DOS19884/5 shoot 'em up
Alien Syndrome
DOS19894.2/5 run and gun
Exterminator
DOS19903.5/5 shooting gallery
Rise of the Triad: Dark War
DOS1994protected3.9/5 first-person shooter
Flying Tigers
DOS19944.1/5 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.
Amok
DOS19963.5/5 third-person shooter
Crusader: No Regret
DOS1996protected4/5
William Shatner's TekWar
DOS19954/5 first-person shooter
Alcatraz
DOS19923.6/5 run and gun