The most popular run and gun games

Run and gun games - sometimes called scrolling shooters - are a mix of platform games and shoot 'em ups. The player is in control of a character - usually a soldier loaded with guns - who walks and shoots in real gravity environments. Contra, Rambo 3, Alien Breed are three of the most popular run and gun games.

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Mega Man X4

Windows XP/98/951998 Capcom

Mega Man X4 is a side-scrolling action-platformer video game released by Capcom for Windows, Sony PlayStation, and Sega Saturn in 1997 and 1998. It is part of the Mega Man X series, a spin-off of the original Mega Man franchise.Se...

Mega Man X3

Windows XP/98/951998 Capcom

Robocop

DOS1989 Data East

Robocop is an abandoned beat 'em up / run and gun shooter game developed and released by Data East in 1989 for a number of platforms, including DOS. Robocop is a conversion from an arcade game released by Data East in 1988 an...

Duke Nukem

DOS1991 Apogee Software

Duke Nukem was released in 1991 by Apogee Software for MS-DOS, marking the beginning of the Duke Nukem franchise. The game is a side-scrolling action platformer with a sci-fi theme. In this original installment, players control Du...

Bio Menace Episode 1: Dr. Mangle's Lab

DOS1993freeware Apogee Software

Mutants! Explosions! Green slime! Bio Menace kicks off with Dr. Mangle’s Lab, a side-scrolling blast of carnage where you, Snake Logan (yes, really), shoot your way through a monster-infested city with a machine gun and a ba...

The Godfather

DOS1991 Creative Materials

Mega Man

DOS1990 Capcom

Super Star Wars

DOS1992 LucasArts

Rambo 3

DOS1988 Ocean Software

Rambo III is an action video game based on the 1988 action film of the same name, featuring the iconic character John Rambo, portrayed by Sylvester Stallone. The game was developed and published by various companies for different ...

Bio Menace Episode 3: Master Cain

DOS1993freeware Apogee Software

The trilogy concludes in Master Cain, where Snake Logan faces the ultimate evil: a villain with a name that sounds like a Bond bad guy and a plan straight from Saturday morning cartoons. Expect one last hurrah of mutant-blasting m...

Rush'n Attack

DOS1989 Konami

Bio Menace Episode 2: The Hidden Lab

DOS1993freeware Apogee Software

Snake Logan is back, and this time the lab is... hidden! The Hidden Lab cranks up the challenge with more grotesque mutants, more lethal traps, and slightly improved sarcasm. It’s like episode one, but with less common sense...

Alien Syndrome

DOS1989 Sega

Alien Syndrome (1989) is a top-down shooter where you save hostages, shoot aliens, and scream internally because you’re always out of time. It’s frantic arcade action at its finest—like Contra had a baby with Gau...

Duke Nukem 2

DOS1993 Apogee Software

Ikari Warriors 2: Victory Road

DOS1988 SNK Corporation

Platoon

DOS1987 Ocean Software

Halloween Harry

DOS1993freeware Interactive Binary Illusions

Halloween Harry is a DOS science fiction multi-directional scroller shooter game. Halloween Harry - later renamed Alien Carnage - was published by Apogee, developed by Interactive Binary Illusions and designed by John Passfield an...

Abuse

DOSLinuxMac OS1995freeware Crack dot Com

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’t commit (sure, pal), armed to the teeth and...

Xargon

DOS1993freeware Epic MegaGames

Alien Rampage

DOS1996

Alien Rampage (1996) is what happens when Duke Nukem gets stranded on a hostile alien planet and decides subtlety is for cowards. It’s a side-scrolling shooter dripping with gore, attitude, and the occasional terrible pun. E...

Mega Man 3

DOS1992 Hi-Tech Expressions

Contra: Locked and Loaded

Windows 10/112013freewareremake

Heavy Barrel

DOS1989 Data East

Sirwood

DOS1990 Opera Soft

Bionic Commando

DOS1988 Capcom

In Bionic Commando, you're a soldier with no jumping ability—because who needs knees when you have a grappling arm? Swing through 1988 DOS architecture like a pixelated Tarzan, blasting bad guys and trying not to fall to you...

Obliterator

DOS1989 Psygnosis

Game Over

DOS1988 Dinamic Multimedia

Game Over is an abandoned side scrolling shooter/platform game designed by Ignacio Ruiz Tejedor, Pedro Sudón Aguilar, developed and released by Dinamic Multimedia in 1988 for DOS. Game Over isn't exactly one of the best gam...