Shoot 'em up sorted by release date
Shoot 'em ups were extremely popular in the '80s and '90s. In a classic shoot 'em up, the player controls a vehicle, a spaceship or an aircraft with the only goal of destroying the largest number of enemies as possible while dodging bullets and staying alive. Through the years, shoot 'em ups evolved to include features like end level bosses, multiple weapons and power-ups. Some of the most popular DOS shoot 'em ups were: Raptor, Tyrian 2000, Xenon 2.
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Chopper Duel
DOS1993freeware
Dragon Force - Day 3
DOS1993 Mirinae Software
Il Grande Gioco di Tangentopoli
DOS1993
In The Hunt
Windows XP/98/951993 Irem Software Engineering
Major Stryker
DOSWindows XP/98/951993freeware Apogee Software
Solar Winds 2: Galaxy
DOS1993 Stone Interactive Media
Solar Winds: The Escape
DOS1993 Stone Interactive Media
Astro Fire
DOS1994freewareremake ORT Software
Astro Fire (1994) is the illegitimate love child of Asteroids and a particularly angry fireworks show. You pilot a tiny ship with a death wish through an endless barrage of asteroids, enemies, and power-ups that may or may not be ...
Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf
DOS1994 Electronic Arts
Flying Tigers
DOS1994 Ticsoft
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.
Flying Tigers 2
DOS1994
Highway Hunter
DOS1994 Safari Software
LineWars 2
DOS1994 Safari Software
Operation: Inner Space
Windows 3.x1994protecteddemo Software Dynamics
Project-X
DOS1994 Team 17
Raiden
DOS1994 Seibu Kaihatsu Inc.
Raiden is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up game developed by Seibu Kaihatsu and first released in arcades in 1990 and later for many home computers and consoles. Raiden follows the classic vertical scrolling shoot 'em up f...
Raptor: Call of the Shadows
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1994protecteddemo Cygnus Studios
Raptor: Call of the Shadows is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up video game developed by Cygnus Studios and published by Apogee Software. The game was first released in 1994 for MS-DOS and later ported to other platforms. In Rap...
Space Federation
DOS1994 Interplay Productions
Total Carnage
DOS1994 Midway Manufacturing Company
Traffic department 2192
DOS1994freeware P Squared
Tubular Worlds
DOS1994
Xatax
DOS1994 Pixel Painters Corporation
Xerix II: The Caverns of Mars
DOS1994 Twilight
XQuest
DOS1994remake
Ack-Ack Attack!
DOS1995remake PLBM Games
In Ack-Ack Attack! (1995, DOS), you operate an anti-aircraft gun and do your best to shoot down waves of enemy planes with what appears to be a potato cannon. The game is loud, frantic, and wonderfully simple — a throwback t...
Command Adventures: Starship
DOS1995 Future Vision
Invasion of the Mutant Space Bats of Doom
DOS1995 Pop Software
Jungle Strike
DOS1995 Electronic Arts
River Raid remake
DOS1995freewareremake
Space Invaders
DOS1995remake