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Abandonware DOS is an ever growing database of old PC computer games developed for MS-DOS and, in a small part, for Windows systems. Some of the games are available for download, some are not. Find here that favourite game from the past that you remeber so fondly; search by genre, keyword or year of release. For a full list of features see the Want to help? page.

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GOG weekend sale

20th January 2019sales and freebies

It's time for the usual Good Old Games weekend sale. This time the games on sale are mainly action oriented: Unreal, Jazz Jackrabbit, Descent, Cyberia, Prehistorik, Redneck Rampage. There are also a few point & click adventures: Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, Full Throttle. Go spend some money!
Cadaver: action, platform, adventure

18th January 2019retro game spotlight

Cadaver (and the expansion Cadaver: The Payoff) is a blend of adventure and platform game. The gameplay reminds me of the glorious Head over Heels, with a fantasy setting, an inventory and the fact that you can die... and I died a lot, when I played it back in the day.
Flight simulations at dawn

12th January 2019new content

For a game collector like me, flight simulators are something to look for. The original big boxes of flight sims published a few decades ago included all sort of items: keyboard layouts, maps, huge manuals. I own a few and I plan to buy some more.Anyway... I have to admit... I always found flight sims controls a challenge. Taking ...

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Space exploration: Frontier: First Encounters

Released in 1995Get Space exploration games

Space exploration games are self-explanatory. The gameplay is all about flying a starship in the vastness of space and doing collateral activities such as space exploration, trading commodities, space combat, mining asteroids, etc. The single most popular space trading and combat series is Elite.
Space combat: Star Wars: X-Wing

Released in 1993Get Space combat games

In space combat games flying a starship is not enough, you have to be a good fighter to kill enemies and survive in space. The gameplay involves space combat (obviously) and, sometimes, exploration, trading, dialogues, etc. Two of the most popular space combat game series are Wing Commander and X-Wing / Tie Fighter.

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Featured retro companies

Probe Entertainment

Based in:

United Kingdom
Established in: 1984
Closed in: 2000
See Probe Entertainment games

GameTek

Based in:

U.S.A.
Established in: 1987
Closed in: 1998
See GameTek games

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To abandonware or not?

Where does the love for old abandoned games comes from? Our childhood, perhaps. What's left of that age? What do we miss so much? The long afternoons spent walking in the worlds of Ultima or the hours passed impersonating Duke Nukem. Here we are now, slightly aged, eager to pay homage to all those wonderful DOS games.

After all, it's about passion and remembering.

The games listed here are no longer supported by their respective developers (as far as I know). If you find out that a game is still on sale or "protected", please let me know and I'll remove it from Abandonware DOS as soon as possible.