Run & gun games
Keep moving and keep firing: side-scrolling shooters on foot, most of them built for two players.
39 run & gun games to play in your browser with a controller. Free every day; log in with Discord to play.
- Alien 3 (Sega Genesis, 1993, Arena Entertainment): Ripley hunts xenomorphs through Fury 161's prison with a pulse rifle, flamethrower and grenades, rescuing cocooned prisoners before the timer runs out.
- Metal Slug X (Arcade, 1999, SNK): Run, gun and drive tanks through hand-drawn war zones in this remix of Metal Slug 2.
- Sunset Riders (Arcade, 1991, Konami): Four bounty hunters ride into the Wild West to collect on the most wanted outlaws.
- Metal Slug (Arcade, 1996, SNK): The original Metal Slug: hand-drawn chaos, rescued prisoners and the SV-001 tank.
- Metal Slug 2 (Arcade, 1998, SNK): Mummies, aliens and new vehicles join the fight as Eri and Fio enlist.
- Metal Slug 3 (Arcade, 2000, SNK): The series at its biggest: branching paths, zombies, giant crabs and a trip to space.
- Metal Slug 4 (Arcade, 2002, Playmore): A new squad fights a cyber-terrorist group, with a combo meter for big scores.
- Metal Slug 5 (Arcade, 2003, SNK Playmore): Slide, shoot and pilot new Slugs against a mysterious cult in the last Neo Geo Metal Slug.
- Shock Troopers (Arcade, 1997, SNK): Pick a commando or a squad and blast through jungles and bases in top-down action.
- Shock Troopers: 2nd Squad (Arcade, 1998, SNK): More top-down mayhem, with vehicles to hijack and a new squad on the mission.
- Contra (Arcade, 1987, Konami): Bill and Lance take on an alien invasion in the arcade original of the run-and-gun classic.
- Mercs (Arcade, 1990, Capcom): Three mercenaries storm a hostile country to rescue a kidnapped president.
- Commando (Arcade, 1985, Capcom): Super Joe fights alone behind enemy lines with a rifle and a pocket full of grenades.
- Ikari Warriors (Arcade, 1986, SNK): Two commandos fight their way north through the jungle, commandeering tanks as they go.
- Gunforce 2 (Arcade, 1994, Irem): Fast run-and-gun action from the makers of R-Type, with weapons to swap and vehicles to ride.
- Midnight Resistance (Arcade, 1989, Data East): Rotate your aim in eight directions and buy new weapons to rescue your kidnapped family.
- Contra (NES) (NES, 1988, Konami): Bill and Lance run and gun through jungles, bases and an alien hive, two players at once, in the home version made famous by the Konami Code's 30 lives.
- Super C (NES, 1990, Konami): Bill and Lance stop a new alien invasion in the NES follow-up to Contra, with overhead stages between the side-scrolling ones, two players at once.
- Contra III: The Alien Wars (Super Nintendo, 1992, Konami): Bill and Lance fight an alien invasion through a burning city, on motorcycles and hanging from missiles, two players at once.
- Gunstar Heroes (Sega Genesis, 1993, Sega): Gunstar Red and Blue mix four weapons into fourteen kinds of shot and throw enemies around, in Treasure's explosive first game, two players at once.
- Contra: Hard Corps (Sega Genesis, 1994, Konami): Choose one of four soldiers, including a werewolf and a small robot, for a fast, branching Contra with a long parade of bosses and several endings.
- Jackal (NES, 1988, Konami): Two jeeps roll into enemy territory, blasting bases with grenades and missiles and ferrying rescued prisoners to the helicopter.
- Cybernator (Super Nintendo, 1993, Konami): Jake's Assault Suit mech carries a chargeable laser and a punch through a near-future war, with the story told inside the stages.
- Pocky & Rocky (Super Nintendo, 1993, Natsume): Shrine maiden Pocky and the raccoon Rocky fight possessed yokai through forests and castles, two at once, with cards and leaves for weapons.
- Pocky & Rocky 2 (Super Nintendo, 1994, Natsume): Pocky teams with a partner she can throw at enemies, with new companions in each stage, to rescue the kidnapped Princess Luna.
- Sunset Riders (SNES) (Super Nintendo, 1993, Konami): Four bounty hunters chase wanted men through the Old West, two at once, with shootouts, saloon brawls and a bonus round on horseback.
- Super Turrican 2 (Super Nintendo, 1995, Ocean): Turrican's armor gets a grappling beam, a gyroscopic force field and Mode 7 vehicle stages in Factor 5's last Turrican, with a soundtrack to match.
- Zombies Ate My Neighbors (Super Nintendo, 1993, Konami): Zeke and Julie rescue neighbors from zombies, chainsaw maniacs and giant babies with squirt guns and weed whackers across 55 levels, two players at once.
- Ranger X (Sega Genesis, 1993, Sega): A mech and its Indra bike fight across a war-torn planet with weapons powered by sunlight, in a technical showpiece of rotation and parallax.
- Vectorman (Sega Genesis, 1995, Sega): An orbot made of spheres morphs into drills, bombs and a buggy to clean up a polluted Earth, in BlueSky's pre-rendered showpiece.
- Zombies Ate My Neighbors (Genesis) (Sega Genesis, 1993, Konami): The same 55 levels of neighbors to rescue and monsters to squirt, two players at once, on the Genesis.
- Operation C (Game Boy, 1991, Konami): Contra on the Game Boy: five stages with the spread gun, homing missiles and top-down levels, from the jungle to the alien base.
- Blaster Master: Enemy Below (Game Boy Color, 2000, Sunsoft): Jason dives back underground in the tank SOPHIA, blasting mutants through side-scrolling caverns and on foot in overhead dungeons.
- Duke Nukem (Game Boy Color, 1999, GT Interactive): Duke runs, jumps and blasts his way through alien-infested side-scrolling levels with heavy weapons, a jetpack and plenty of one-liners.
- Turok 2: Seeds of Evil (Game Boy Color) (Game Boy Color, 1998, Acclaim): Turok runs, jumps and shoots through side-scrolling jungles, ruins and caverns to stop the Primagen, in a 2D take on the N64 shooter.
- Aliens: Infestation (Nintendo DS, 2011, Sega): A squad of Colonial Marines searches the derelict Sulaco and the planet below in a side-scrolling Metroidvania, where marines lost to the xenomorphs are gone for good.
- Contra 4 (Nintendo DS, 2007, Konami): Bill and Lance fight an alien invasion across both screens with grappling hooks and spread guns, in a punishing return to 2D Contra.
- Metal Slug 7 (Nintendo DS, 2008, Ignition Entertainment): The Peregrine Falcons take on the Future Rebel Army in side-scrolling shootouts full of tanks, hostages and explosions.
- Scurge: Hive (Nintendo DS, 2006, SouthPeak Games): Bounty hunter Jenosa Arma fights through an infested research station before the Scurge infection takes her over.