Rail shooters sorted by release date

Rail shooter games

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  Star Wars

  DOS19884.1/5 Atari
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  After Burner

  DOS19893.6/5 Sega

  After Burner is an abandoned DOS combat flight simulation game with elements of rail shooters, with similarities to earlier Sega titles like Space Harrier. After Burner was designed by Yu Suzuki and developed by Sega as a coin-op and then converted to various home computers and consoles in 1989.

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  Operation Wolf

  DOS19894.3/5 Taito
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  Safari Guns

  DOS19893.5/5
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  Space Harrier

  DOS19893.7/5 Sega

  Space Harrier is a 3rd-person view rail-shooter developed by Sega in 1985. Space Harrier was a hit in the arcades, and later it was converted for a number of platforms, including DOS (4 years later!). The sequels - Space Harrier 3D and Space Harrier II - were never ported to DOS.

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  Star Wars: Rebel Assault

  DOSMac1993protected3.5/5 LucasArts
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  Virtua Cop

  Windows XP/98/9519974.2/5 Sega
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  Virtua Cop 2

  Windows XP/98/9519974.2/5 Sega

  Virtua Cop 2 is an abandoned light gun first-person rail shooter game designed by Yu Suzuki, developed and released by Sega in 1997 for Windows, and also published for Saturn, Dreamcast and PlayStation 2. Virtua Cop 2 is the second title in the Virtua Cop series that became much popular in the arcades at the time.

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  House of the Dead

  Windows XP/98/9519984.2/5 Sega

  House of the Dead is an old horror-themed rail shooter game, developed and released by Sega in 1998. The whole gameplay can be summarized in a single sentence "a first-person 3D shooting gallery with zombies". House of the Dead runs on older version of Windows, so you may need a virtual machine to play it properly.