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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William Shatner's TekWar
DOS19954/5 first-person shooter
Spacewar
DOS19854/5 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 ...
Mega Man X
DOS1995protected4/5 run and gun, platform
Paratrooper
DOS19824/5 shoot 'em up
Silpheed
DOS19884/5 shoot 'em up
Bram Stoker's Dracula
DOS19934/5 first-person shooter
Wings of Fury
DOS19894/5 shoot 'em up
The Terminator: Rampage
DOS19934/5 first-person shooter
Powerslave
DOS19964/5 first-person shooter
Rush'n Attack
DOS19894/5 run and gun
Major Stryker
DOSWindows XP/98/951993freeware4/5 shoot 'em up
Virus
DOS19883.9/5 third-person shooter
Chasm: The Rift
DOS19973.9/5 first-person shooter
CyClones
DOS1994protected3.9/5 first-person shooter
Outbound
Windows XP/98/952001freeware3.9/5 third-person shooter
Terminal Velocity
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS1995protected3.9/5 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.
Into the Eagle's Nest
DOS19873.9/5 shoot 'em up
Thexder 2: Firehawk
DOS19903.9/5 run and gun
Abuse
DOSLinuxMac OS1995freeware3.9/5 run and gun, platform
OverKill
DOS1992freeware3.9/5 shoot 'em up
Shadow Warrior
DOS1997protected3.9/5 first-person shooter
Mega Man
DOS19903.9/5 run and gun, platform
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...
Eagle's Rider
DOS19913.9/5 shoot 'em up
18th Airborne
DOS19933.9/5 shoot 'em up
Solar Winds 2: Galaxy
DOS19933.9/5 shoot 'em up
Rise of the Triad: Dark War
DOS1994protected3.9/5 first-person shooter
Robotron 2084
DOS19833.9/5 shoot 'em up
Blood Money
DOS19903.9/5 shoot 'em up
Blood Money is an abandoned classic sci-fi themed side-scrolling shoot'em up. Blood Money was designed by David Jones, developed by DMA Design and released by Psygnosis in 1990 for DOS, Amiga, Atari ST, C64. Blood Money features different vehicles for different levels, power ups and an energy bar that depletes when colliding with enemies or the env...