Abandonware DOS title

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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Magic Carpet

DOSMac OS1994protected3.8/5 first-person shooter
Magic Carpet is an action shooter game set in a fictional Middle East developed by Bullfrog and released by Electronic Arts in 1994 for DOS and Macintosh. Your goal is to fly around a magic carpet and collect mana to expand your castle. When you reach the required mana "equilibrium" you move on to the next world and so on.
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Magic Carpet 2: The Netherworlds

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1996protected3.9/5 first-person shooter
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Major Stryker

DOSWindows XP/98/951993freeware4/5 shoot 'em up
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Marathon

Windows XP/98/95Linux1994freeware4.1/5 first-person shooter
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Marathon 2: Durandal

Windows XP/98/95Linux19964.1/5 first-person shooter
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MDK

DOSMac OSWindows XP/98/951997protected4.2/5 third-person shooter
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Mega Man

DOS19903.9/5 run and gun, platform
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Mega Man 3

DOS19924.1/5 run and gun, platform
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Mega Man X

DOS1995protected4/5 run and gun, platform
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Mega Man X3

Windows XP/98/9519984.2/5 run and gun, platform
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Mega Man X4

Windows XP/98/9519984.1/5 run and gun, platform
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.Set in a dystopian future where humans and robots coexist, Mega Man X4 follows two playable characters: Mega Man X and Zer...
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Megapede

DOS19923/5 shoot 'em up
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Menace

DOS19882.8/5 shoot 'em up
Menace is a classic shoot 'em up video game that was developed by DMA Design, a company later known as Rockstar North, and initially released in 1988. The game was originally released for the Amiga and Atari ST home computer systems and for DOS. The player's objective is to navigate their spacecraft through various levels filled with enemy ships, o...
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Meteors

DOS19893.6/5 shoot 'em up
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Mystical

DOS1990protected3.5/5 run and gun
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Narco Police

DOS19903.5/5 third-person shooter
Narco Police is a tactical action game developed by Dinamic Software and released in 1990. It was available on various platforms, including MS-DOS, Amiga, Atari ST, and ZX Spectrum. The game is set in a dystopian near-future world where drug cartels have become powerful enough to control entire regions. The player assumes the role of a leader of an...
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Netherworld

DOS19902.9/5 shoot 'em up
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NetWars

DOS1993freeware3.3/5 space combat
NetWars, developed by Novell, is a 3D space shooter video game originally released in 1993 for DOS. NetWars was designed primarily as a promotional tool to demonstrate the networking capabilities of Novell's NetWare, a network operating system that was popular in the 1990s. The game showcased the ability to play multiplayer games over a network, hi...
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Night Raid

DOS1992remake3.8/5 shoot 'em up
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Nitemare 3D

DOSWindows 3.x1994protected3.8/5 first-person shooter
Nitemare 3D is a first-person shooter video game developed and published by David P. Gray under the Gray Design Associates label. It was released in 1994 as a follow-up to the earlier adventure games in the "Hugo" series. The protagonist, Hugo, embarks on a mission to rescue his girlfriend, Penelope, who has been kidnapped by the evil Dr. Hame...
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Nova 9: The Return of Gir Draxon

DOS19914.3/5 first-person shooter, tank simulation
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Obliterator

DOS19892.9/5 run and gun
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Operation Bodycount

DOS19944.1/5 first-person shooter
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Operation Harrier

DOS19903.8/5 shoot 'em up, flight simulation
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Operation Wolf

DOS19894.3/5 rail shooter, shooting gallery
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Operation: Inner Space

Windows 3.x1994protecteddemo3.8/5 space combat, shoot 'em up
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Outbound

Windows XP/98/952001freeware3.8/5 third-person shooter
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OverKill

DOS1992freeware3.9/5 shoot 'em up
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P47 Thunderbolt

DOS19903.7/5 shoot 'em up
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Paratrooper

DOS19824/5 shoot 'em up