This shooter has very good graphics and sound. Much like Tyrian, items can be purchased to upgrade your ship using money you collect for destroying enemies. The game is sidescrolling instead of vertical scrolling, which is unusual for a PC shooter. A wide variety of weapons and upgrades make for a lot of fun variation in gameplay.

Downloads

Complete version history:

Stargunner v1.1a Registered (40,347,807 bytes)	11 April 1997	DOS
Stargunner v1.1 Shareware Episode (5,379,786 bytes)	21 February 1997	DOS
Stargunner v1.0b Shareware Episode (5,340,972 bytes)	19 November 1996	DOS

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Availability

Apogee generously released this game as freeware under the Stargunner Freeware License in June 2005.