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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The Untouchables

DOS19894/5 run and gun

Unreal Gold

Windows XP/98/95LinuxMac20004/5 first-person shooter

Unreal Gold is a first-person shooter (FPS) video game developed by Epic MegaGames and published by GT Interactive. It was originally released in 1998 for Windows. Unreal Gold is an enhanced edition of the original Unreal game, and it includes the base game along with its expansion pack.The game is set on a distant planet called Na Pali, and player...

Redneck Rampage

DOS1997protected4/5 first-person shooter

Super Star Wars

DOS19924/5 platform, run and gun

Bram Stoker's Dracula

DOS19934/5 first-person shooter

Mega Man X

DOS1995protected4/5 run and gun, platform

William Shatner's TekWar

DOS19954/5 first-person shooter

The Terminator: Rampage

DOS19934/5 first-person shooter

Rush'n Attack

DOS19894/5 run and gun

Paratrooper

DOS19824/5 shoot 'em up

Silpheed

DOS19884/5 shoot 'em up

Virus

DOS19883.9/5 third-person shooter

CyClones

DOS1994protected3.9/5 first-person shooter

Shadow Warrior

DOS1997protected3.9/5 first-person shooter

Outbound

Windows XP/98/952001freeware3.9/5 third-person shooter

Into the Eagle's Nest

DOS19873.9/5 shoot 'em up

Thexder 2: Firehawk

DOS19903.9/5 run and gun

Abuse

DOSLinuxMac1995freeware3.9/5 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...

Terminal Velocity

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac1995protected3.9/5 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.

Eagle's Rider

DOS19913.9/5 shoot 'em up

Major Stryker

DOSWindows XP/98/951993freeware3.9/5 shoot 'em up

Mega Man

DOS19903.9/5 run and gun, platform

18th Airborne

DOS19933.9/5 shoot 'em up

OverKill

DOS1992freeware3.9/5 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...