Abandonware DOS title

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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Powerslave

DOS1996 first-person shooter
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Robocop 3

DOS1992 first-person shooter, racing: car
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Galaxian

DOS1983 shoot 'em up
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SWIV 3D

DOS1996 third-person shooter
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Corridor 7: Alien Invasion

DOS1994protected first-person shooter
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Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II

Windows XP/98/951997protected first-person shooter
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Blood Money

DOS1990 shoot 'em up
Blood Money (1990) answers the question: what if every level in a shoot-'em-up was a different kind of sci-fi fever dream? You fly through alien-infested caverns, collect cash, and try not to get obliterated by things that look li...
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Terminal Terror

DOS1994 first-person shooter
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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...
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Knightmare

DOS1986 shoot 'em up
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Krazy Ivan

Windows XP/98/951996 first-person shooter, mech simulation
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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. E...
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Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf

DOS1994 shoot 'em up
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Command Adventures: Starship

DOS1995 shoot 'em up
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River Raid remake

DOS1995freewareremake shoot 'em up
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Operation: Inner Space

Windows 3.x1994protecteddemo space combat, shoot 'em up
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Alien Cabal

DOS1997freeware first-person shooter
Imagine Doom got abducted by aliens, experimented on, and sent back to Earth with a case of amnesia. That’s Alien Cabal (1997). It’s a weird mix of FPS action and X-Files paranoia, with pixelated bad guys who look like...
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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...
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Platoon

DOS1987 run and gun
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Catacomb Armageddon

DOS1993protected first-person shooter
If Catacomb Abyss was “Doom for wizards,” then Catacomb Armageddon is “Doom with a Halloween costume budget.” Bigger levels, more enemies, and slightly more coherent level design make this sequel a fun, if ...
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Rush'n Attack

DOS1989 run and gun
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Sopwith

DOS1984freeware shoot 'em up
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Armor Alley

DOSMac OS1991 shoot 'em up
In Armor Alley, you command a helicopter in a warzone that looks like a side-scrolling office meeting gone wrong. It’s strategy meets action: you must manage resources, deploy units, and not crash into the ground every five ...
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Zaxxon

DOS1984 shoot 'em up
Back in 1984, Zaxxon was the future. Isometric graphics? Whoa. Shadow effects? Mind blown. But mostly, it was a game about flying a chunky spaceship through a heavily fortified space base while crashing into walls at high speed. T...
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Day of the Viper

DOS1990 first-person shooter
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Uridium

DOS1988 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 ...
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X-Fighter

DOS1987 shoot 'em up
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Redneck Rampage

DOS1997protected first-person shooter