Shoot 'em up sorted by release date
Shoot 'em ups were extremely popular in the '80s and '90s. In a classic shoot 'em up, the player controls a vehicle, a spaceship or an aircraft with the only goal of destroying the largest number of enemies as possible while dodging bullets and staying alive. Through the years, shoot 'em ups evolved to include features like end level bosses, multiple weapons and power-ups. Some of the most popular DOS shoot 'em ups were: Raptor, Tyrian 2000, Xenon 2.
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Astro Dodge
DOS1982 Digital Marketing Corporation
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 Funatics Software
Crossfire
DOS1982 Sierra On-Line
Paratrooper
DOS1982 Orion Software
Defender
DOS1983 Williams Entertainment
Fleet Sweep
DOS1983 Mirror Images Software
Galaxian
DOS1983 Namco
IBM Centipede
DOS1983 IBM
Robotron 2084
DOS1983 Williams Entertainment
Sea Dragon
DOS1983 Adventure International
Space Commanders
DOS1983remake Columbia Data Products
Space Miner
DOS1983
Stargate
DOS1983 Williams Entertainment
Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom
DOS1984 Sega
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 COMPUTE! Publications
Encounter
DOS1984
Flightmare
DOS1984freeware
Sopwith
DOS1984freeware BMB Compuscience
Zaxxon
DOS1984 Sega
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
Spacewar
DOS1985
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
Batalia
DOS1986 The Right Brothers
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
EGA-Roids
DOS1986freewareremake Designer Software
Knightmare
DOS1986 Konami
Round 42
DOS1986
Astrotit
DOS1987NSFW Rudeware
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...
Blort!
DOS1987 Hennsoft
With a name like Blort!, you'd expect a fart joke or a kids’ cartoon gone wrong, but no—it’s a 1987 arcade-style blaster for DOS. You play as a cosmic defender shooting weird blob-like aliens while dodging pixela...
Into the Eagle's Nest
DOS1987 Pandora