Abandonware DOS title

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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Rotox

DOS1991 shoot 'em up
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Silpheed

DOS1988 shoot 'em up
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Stargunner

DOS1996 shoot 'em up
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Stellar 7

DOSMac OS1990 first-person shooter, tank simulation
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William Shatner's TekWar

DOS1995 first-person shooter
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R-Type

DOS1989 shoot 'em up
R-Type is a horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up developed and published by Irem in 1987. The game quickly gained popularity for its challenging gameplay and impressive graphics at ...
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The Terminator: Rampage

DOS1993 first-person shooter
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Virus

DOS1988 third-person shooter
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Chasm: The Rift

DOS1997 first-person shooter
Before Half-Life, there was Chasm: The Rift, a game where time-traveling mutants explode into limbs and every room looks like it was decorated by a doom-metal band. A first-person ...
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Space Invaders

DOS1995remake shoot 'em up
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Rush'n Attack

DOS1989 run and gun
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Major Stryker

DOSWindows XP/98/951993freeware shoot 'em up
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Magic Carpet 2: The Netherworlds

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1996protected first-person shooter
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Outbound

Windows XP/98/952001freeware third-person shooter
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Crusader: No Remorse

DOS1995protecteddemo
The original Crusader: No Remorse sets the tone for the series: brutal, explosive, and unapologetically action-focused. You’re a rogue operative taking on a dystopian corpora...
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OverKill

DOS1992freeware shoot 'em up
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Abuse

DOSLinuxMac OS1995freeware run and gun, platform
The year is 1995, and Abuse brings us one of the slickest, darkest run-and-gun shooters ever to crawl out of a DOS/Linux/Mac basement. You play a guy in prison for a crime he didn&...
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Wings of Fury

DOS1989 shoot 'em up
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Mega Man 3

DOS1992 run and gun, platform
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Shadow Warrior

DOS1997protected first-person shooter
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Night Raid

DOS1992remake shoot 'em up
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Powerslave

DOS1996 first-person shooter
Known as Exhumed in some regions, Powerslave is a first-person shooter with a heavy dose of Egyptian flavor. Think mummies, scarabs, and plenty of mystical traps, all wrapped up in...
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Terminal Terror

DOS1994 first-person shooter
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Into the Eagle's Nest

DOS1987 shoot 'em up
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Thexder 2: Firehawk

DOS1990 run and gun
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Paratrooper

DOS1982 shoot 'em up
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Mega Man

DOS1990 run and gun, platform
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Rise of the Triad: Dark War

DOS1994protected 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 (incl...
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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-Fil...