Abandonware shooter games sorted by release date
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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Astro Dodge
DOS1982 shoot 'em up
Astro Dodge (1982) is basically Frogger — in space. You control a tiny spacecraft tasked with dodging endless waves of meteors, space debris, and possibly your own questionable life choices. There’s no shooting, no exp...
Cosmic Crusader
DOS1982 shoot 'em up
Cosmic Crusader is proof that sometimes simple is perfect. You’re a lone pilot defending space against endless waves of enemies, in a game that’s basically a love letter to classic arcade shooters. The controls are tig...
Crossfire
DOS1982 shoot 'em up
Crossfire is what happens when you throw a tank into a maze, give it infinite ammo, and tell it to go wild. Released in 1982, it’s all about twitch reflexes and precise shooting as enemies pour in from every angle. The maze ...
Paratrooper
DOS1982 shoot 'em up
Battlezone
DOS1983 first-person shooter
In 1983, Battlezone asked: what if vector graphics could give you war-induced vertigo? You’re in a tank, in a wireframe world, fighting other tanks. That’s it. But it’s oddly immersive—thanks to a pseudo-3D...
Defender
DOS1983 shoot 'em up
Released in 1983, this classic arcade-style shooter has you defending humanoids from alien abductions. Fly your ship across a scrolling landscape, blasting enemies and saving innocent bystanders. It's like playing a game of whack-...
Fleet Sweep
DOS1983 shoot 'em up
Galaxian
DOS1983 shoot 'em up
IBM Centipede
DOS1983 shoot 'em up
Robotron 2084
DOS1983 shoot 'em up
Sea Dragon
DOS1983 shoot 'em up
Space Commanders
DOS1983remake shoot 'em up
Space Miner
DOS1983 shoot 'em up
Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator
DOS1983 space combat
Stargate
DOS1983 shoot 'em up
Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom
DOS1984 shoot 'em up
Welcome to a future where zooming through tunnels and dodging neon obstacles is considered heroic. Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom is a proto-3D arcade shooter that tries its best to impress—bless its pixelated heart. You fly, y...
Devastator
DOS1984 shooting gallery, shoot 'em up
Encounter
DOS1984 shoot 'em up
Flightmare
DOS1984freeware shoot 'em up
Sopwith
DOS1984freeware shoot 'em up
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...
Space Commanders 2
DOS1985remake shoot 'em up
Spacewar
DOS1985 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 ...
Striker
DOS1985 shoot 'em up
Batalia
DOS1986 shoot 'em up
Batalia (1986) is what happens when war games and spreadsheet programs fall in love. This early DOS strategy title throws you into tactical battles with graphics that would struggle to impress a calculator. But don’t be fool...
Dragonfly
DOS1986 shoot 'em up
EGA-Roids
DOS1986freewareremake shoot 'em up
Knightmare
DOS1986 shoot 'em up
Round 42
DOS1986 shoot 'em up
Astrotit
DOS1987NSFW shoot 'em up
Yes, Astrotit (1987) is really the name, and no, it’s not what you think — though it does feel like it was named by a bored teenager. This side-scrolling shooter puts you in command of a spaceship shaped suspiciously l...