Shooter

Description

Shooters are action games in which the player character shoots enemies.

The shooting is usually performed with firearms in these games; however, any weapon that dispatches projectiles qualifies, which makes many games (e.g. Heretic) that rely on medieval ranged weaponry or even magical projectiles shooters as well.

There are many shooter sub-genres, including fixed-screen shooters, scrolling shooters, rail shooters, and others.

Since the emergence of 3D graphics, 3D shooters, popularized by Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, have become the leading representatives of the genre. This sub-genre is sometimes referred to as first-person shooter, though this definition is not very precise, since the genre's distinguishing feature are 3D environments, not the perspective; some 3D shooters allow players to switch between perspectives, while others enforce a third-person view.

3D shooters may incorporate elements of other genres, most commonly role-playing (e.g. System Shock games and Deus Ex).

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Testament MSX (1988) and PC-88 (1987) The continent of Diodoran is ruled by five dragons residing in the Dark Sky. One day, a horde of monsters...
Testament Amiga (1997) You are a soldier on an expedition to find the crypt of the ancient magus Ghuwta, the mightiest of the...
Tester Phase One Xbox 360 (2010) Tester Phase One is a fast-paced vertically-scrolling space shooter, in which the player controls a spaceship and takes on endless...
Tetra Horror Spectravideo (1984) In Tetra Horror the player takes on the role of an adventurer who has found a treasure map of the...
Tetsuo Gaiden CD-i (1997) Tetsuo Gaiden is a shoot 'em up in the style of Galaga. The player controls a small spaceship at the...
Tex Atomic's Big Bot Battles Windows (2001) Tex Atomic's Big Bot Battles is a giant robot sport-fighting game. If you had Championship Wrestlers piloting Monster Trucks through...
Thalion: The First Year Amiga (1990) and Atari ST (1990) A compilation of four games from the Atari ST's most renowned publisher – Thalion: Chambers of Shaolin Leavin' Teramis Seven...
Theseus: Return of the Hero Windows (2005) The alien threat has run rampant. After the events of Alien Shooter the outbreak has spread to most parts of...
Thexder Windows (1995) Assume the role of a transforming robot in this remake of the 1987 game. You'll travel through many worlds as...
Thexder DOS (1987), Amiga (1987), Apple II (1987), NES (1985), MSX (1986), TRS-80 CoCo (1988), Macintosh (1990), Apple IIgs (1987), PC-88 (1985), PC-98 (1986), Sharp X1 (1985) and FM-7 (1985) A platform shooter from Japan, Thexder offers many levels and diverse enemies that gradually increase in difficulty. You pilot a...
Thexder Neo PlayStation 3 (2010) and PSP (2009) Thexder Neo is a enhanced remake of the original PC version of Thexder, originally released in 1985.Maintaining the original gameplay,...
They Call Me... The Skul DOS (1996), Windows (1996) and Windows 3.x (1996) In the North Putnam Maximum Security Correction Facility, strange things have been going on. Rumors of secret experiments taking place...
They Came from Verminest '83 Windows (2012) The planet Verminest is spreading its insect army to your planet. Drive them back then destroy the nest of Queen...
The Thing Windows (2002), PlayStation 2 (2002) and Xbox (2002) Set after the events of the 1982 John Carpenter movie, The Thing is a squad based 3rd person shooter, where...
This is a Cry for Help Windows (2008) and Macintosh (2008) This Is a Cry for Help is a disc with the collected works of Edmund McMillen for ten years (1998-2008)....
Thor's Hammer DOS (1995) As in ages past, the shadow of a great evil falls across your homeland. In a trial that marks the...
Threat DOS (1995) After a long interstellar voyage the colonists established residence on the asteroid, in a complex named Astral. Sadly, troubles were...
The Three Dragon Story SEGA Master System (1989) and MSX (1989) The Three Dragon Story is a vertically scrolling shooter similar to Knightmare. The player controls a lone hero moving in...
Threshold VIC-20 (1981), ColecoVision (1983), Commodore 64 (1983), Atari 2600 (1982), Atari 8-bit (1981), Apple II (1981) and Thomson TO (1984) Threshold is a simple shoot'em up game. You are in control of a spaceship at the bottom of the screen...
The Thrill of Combat Windows (2009) The Thrill of Combat is an independent game by Mark Essen (messhof) for one or two players cooperatively. Players control...
Thrust Commodore 64 (1986), ZX Spectrum (1986), Atari 2600 (2000), Amstrad CPC (1986), Atari 8-bit (1986), Atari ST (1988), Vectrex (2004), BBC Micro (1986), Electron (1986) and Commodore 16, Plus/4 (1987) Thrust brings realistic physics and inertia-based movement into arcade games, directly influencing titles like Oids, as well as Exile from...
Thunderbirds NES (1989) An evil alien named Hood wants the Thunderbirds to turn over all their vehicles to him within a 60 day...
ThunderBlade Amiga (1988), Atari ST (1988), Commodore 64 (1988), ZX Spectrum (1988), DOS (1989), SEGA Master System (1988), TurboGrafx-16 (1990), Amstrad CPC (1988), MSX (1989) and Sharp X68000 (1990) Aboard the lethal Gunship Gladiator helicopter, it is your job to ensure that a coup fails to install a dictator...
Thunderbolt Commodore 64 (1987) Thunderbolt is set in the future and is about the war between humans and the planet Proxima. Both experiment with...
Thunder Brigade Windows (1998) Thunder Brigade is an arcade hover tank game. 50-ton armored war machines fly in the air and race each other...