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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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Game Critics Awards in 1998: Homeworld, Half-Life, Grim Fandango

15th September 2018top games and awards

The Game Critics Awards are annual awards held after the very popular E3 video game conference since 1998. As you can see, 1998 saw the birth of great classics for every kind of gamer: Half-Life for shooter lovers, Homeworld for RTS gamers, Grim Fandango for adventure addicts and Alpha Centauri for the ones who can't wait for the next Sid Meier game.1998...
Text only gaming: it's not always about interactive fiction

8th September 2018new content

Text only games are a curious phenomenon. Unlike other kind of old games, they survived to this day in one form or the other. Maybe that's because it doesn't take a huge team to develop a game completely (or partially) devoid of graphics. When I say text-only games, some of you already thought about interactive fiction. With this update I ...
Action and arcades: Comix Zone and other games

1st September 2018new content

I was browsing platform games on Abandonware DOS when I noticed something was missing. I talking about a game I loved and I bet most of you played it at least once: Comix Zone. So... here it is, available with this content update along other action and arcade games. Comix Zone action 1995Pharaoh's Tomb action 1990Forgotten Worlds shooter 1991James Pond 2: ...
Xenon 2 Megablast: Bitmap Brothers' shoot'em up

25th August 2018new content

Xenon was good, Xenon 2 was far better. Compared to today standards Xenon 2 is perhaps a mediocre shoot 'em up, but at the time every shooter fan loved it. Plus, it was developed by Bitmap Brothers (you can recognize the Bitmap Brothers graphics style just looking at the screenshots.

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Featured keyword: Engine: ICOM MacVenture

The MacVenture adventure games is a series of games developed by ICOM Simulations. MacVenture games were notable for introducing a menu-based point-and-click interfacein which object are dragged and dropped directly from the environment to the inventory.
Get Engine: ICOM MacVenture games

Featured developer: Dynamix

Based in:

U.S.A.
Established in: 1984
Closed in: 2001
See Dynamix games

Featured publisher: Infogrames

Based in:

France
Established in: 1983
Closed in: 2009
See Infogrames 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.