Abuse

Abuse is a side-scrolling shooter in which Nick Vrenna fights his way out of an underground prison overrun by mutants. You aim with the mouse and move with the keyboard, a control scheme that was new at the time.

Crack dot Com released the game and its source code into the public domain.

How to set it up

1. Install DOSBox Staging or another DOS emulator.
2. Unzip the download into a folder of its own.
3. Start DOSBox Staging and type mount c "<folder>\abuse", where <folder> is where you unzipped the download, then c:.
4. Type install.exe, and install the game. Then start it from the folder it installed to.