Abandonware sports games sorted by year, newest first
Sports games follow real-life rules either by creating a detailed and realistic simulation of physical sports, or by focusing on quickness and dexterity. Simulated sports can be real ones (American football, baseball, soccer) or fictional (like fantasy or futuristic sports).
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Bar Games
DOS1989 multi-sport, unconventional sports
If you've ever dreamed of throwing darts, arm wrestling, or playing a sleazy round of "Last Call Larry" without actually smelling like stale beer, Bar Games is your digital dive bar. Released in 1989, it’s a collection of mi...
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
DOS1989 multi-sport, unconventional sports
Saddle up for an awkward mix of minigames that vaguely resemble rodeo events. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show tries to recreate the excitement of a 19th-century traveling circus but ends up feeling more like a 1980s office party whe...
Caveman Ugh-Lympics
DOS1989 multi-sport, unconventional sports
Circus Attractions
DOS1989 unconventional sports
Face Off!
DOS1989 hockey, winter sports
Face Off! is an abandoned hockey sports game developed by MindSpan (known for their Hardball series) and released by Gamestar in 1989 for DOS and also for Commodore 64. Face Off supports multiplayer in competitive or cooperative m...
Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O'Fun
DOS1989 unconventional sports
Gone Fishing
DOS1989 fishing and hunting
Grand Monster Slam
DOS1989 unconventional sports
Grand Monster Slam is an action sports game developed by Golden Goblins and published by Rainbow Arts in 1989. The game was released for a variety of platforms, including the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS. The gam...
Grave Yardage
DOS1989 unconventional sports, american football
Hardball 2
DOS1989 baseball
John Madden Football
DOS1989 american football
John Madden Football was the first of a series of american football sports games sponsored by the coach of the same name. The first John Madden Football is an abandoned game developed and released by Electronic Arts in 1988 for Ap...
Lakers vs. Celtics and the NBA Playoffs
DOS1989 basketball
Lakers vs. Celtics and the NBA Playoffs is a classic abandoned action sports basketball video game. Developed and published by Electronic Arts, it was released in 1989 for the Sega Genesis (also known as Mega Drive) and DOS. This ...
Magic Johnson's Basketball
DOS1989 basketball
MicroLeague Baseball 2
DOS1989 baseball
MicroLeague Wrestling
DOS1989 wrestling
MicroLeague Wrestling is an abandoned wrestling action game based on the WWF league, developed by MicroLeague Multimedia and released in 1989 for DOS. MicroLeague Wrestling was also published for Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64.
Monday Night Football
DOS1989 american football
NFL Pro League Football
DOS1989 american football
Pro Tennis Tour
DOS1989 tennis
Shufflepuck Cafè
DOSMac OS1989 unconventional sports
Take Down
DOS1989 wrestling
TKO
DOS1989protected boxing
Wayne Gretzky Hockey
DOS1989 hockey, business simulation, winter sports
4th & Inches
DOS1988protected american football
Before Madden became a household name, 1988 gave us this DOS football classic, where plays are drawn like cave paintings and players move like molasses in January. Yet, for its time, this was the real deal. You could call plays, m...
Bop'N Wrestle
DOS1988protected wrestling
If pro wrestling in the '80s had a fever dream after drinking too much neon paint, it would be called Bop'N Wrestle (1988, DOS). You play as Gorgeous Greg, who’s about as gorgeous as a punch to the face, battling an array of...
California Games
DOS1988 unconventional sports, multi-sport
Radical! Gnarly! And other 80s slang words! California Games is what happens when sports simulations meet neon-colored vibes and a love of spandex. You’ll hacky sack, BMX race, and throw frisbees in pixelated glory. Half the...
Dolphin Boating Simulator
DOS1988 water sports
Fast Break
DOS1988protected basketball
Kings of the beach
DOS1988 volleyball
Knight Games
DOS1988 multi-sport, unconventional sports
Olympic games were something back in the 80s and the 90s: Winter Games, Summer Games, California Games, anything-you-can-think-of games. Some imaginative developer thought that the world needed a different kind of "multisport" act...
MicroProse Soccer
DOS1988protected soccer
MicroProse Soccer is an abandoned action-oriented soccer game, developed by Sensible Software and released by MicroProse Software in 1988. The appeal of MicroProse Soccer was its simplicity and the smooth controls. In the United S...