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Games featuring modem multiplayer mode

Games supporting modem play can be played by multiple players on PCs connected using... guess what?... a modem. Back in the day, being able to play via modem didn't involve Internet at all.
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Star Control 3

DOS1996protected Legend Entertainment
Star Control 3 continues the series' blend of space exploration, alien diplomacy, strategy, and combat, taking players back into a galaxy populated by numerous civilizations with t...
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Star General

Windows XP/98/95DOS1996protected Catware, Inc.
Star General is a 1996 turn-based strategy game that takes the familiar mechanics of military campaigns and moves them into a science-fiction setting. Players command futuristic ar...
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Star Trek: Birth of the Federation

Windows XP/98/951999 MicroProse Software
Star Trek: Birth of the Federation is a turn-based strategy video game set in the Star Trek universe. The game was developed by MicroProse Software and published by Infogrames for ...
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Star Trek: Starfleet Command

Windows XP/98/951999protected Interplay Productions
Star Trek: Starfleet Command (1999, Windows XP) is a dream come true for anyone who memorized warp core schematics. It’s a tactical space combat simulator that rewards patien...
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Star Wars Rebellion

Windows XP/98/951998protected
Star Wars Rebellion is a grand strategy game that turns the original trilogy into a massive galactic campaign. Released in 1998, it lets players command either the Rebel Alliance o...
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Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2001protected LucasArts
Released in 2001 for PC, Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds is what happens when someone looks at Age of Empires II and says, “This is good, but what if there were AT-ATs stom...
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Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II

Windows XP/98/951997protected LucasArts
Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II continues Kyle Katarn's story while transforming the series into a more ambitious 3D action adventure. Released in 1997, it introduces light...
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Streets of SimCity

Windows XP/98/951997 Maxis
Streets of SimCity takes the city-building world of SimCity and drops the player directly onto its streets. Instead of calmly planning roads and zoning districts from above, you ca...
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Strife

DOS1996protecteddemo Velocity
Strife from 1996 is a first-person shooter game developed by Rogue Entertainment and published by Velocity, based on the Doom engine. It's often remembered for being one of the ear...
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Syndicate Wars

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1996protected Bullfrog
Synidcate Wars takes everything its predecessor did and dials it up to an almost reckless degree, swapping the isometric restraint for full 3D chaos and giving you even more ways t...
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Tempest 2000

DOS1996remake Atari
Tempest 2000 is a video game developed by Llamasoft and published by Atari Corporation. It was released in 1994 for DOS, Mac, the Atari Jaguar console, etc. Tempest 2000 is an enha...
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Terminal Velocity

Windows XP/98/95DOS1995protected Terminal Reality
Terminal Velocity is all about speed, freedom, and blowing things up while flying at ridiculous velocities. The open environments give a sense of scale rarely seen at the time, and...
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Tetris Classic

DOSWindows 3.x1992 Spectrum HoloByte
Tetris Classic is exactly what it promises: a faithful, no-nonsense version of the puzzle titan that defined a generation. It doesn’t try to be flashy or revolutionary; instead, ...
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The Civil War

DOS1987 Avalon Hill
The Civil War is a historical strategy game that places the player in command during the American Civil War, with armies, resources, territory, and battlefield decisions all compet...
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The Civil War

DOS1995 Dagger Interactive Technologies
The Civil War from 1995 takes a more developed approach to the American conflict, presenting its historical subject through strategy, military planning, and campaign management. Th...
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The Grandest Fleet

DOS1994 Quantum quality productions
The Grandest Fleet is a naval strategy game that puts the player in charge of ships, fleets, and the complicated business of winning battles at sea without accidentally sending hal...
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The Need for Speed

DOS1995 Electronic Arts
The Need for Speed marked the beginning of a racing series that would eventually become one of gaming's most recognizable names. The original game focuses on fast cars, realistic-f...
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The Perfect General

DOS1991 White Wolf Productions
Strategy fans, sharpen your wits: The Perfect General (1991, DOS) marches onto the battlefield with hex-based tactics, satisfyingly crunchy mechanics, and a strict “no button...
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The Settlers II: Veni, Vidi, Vici

DOSMac OS1996protected Blue Byte Software
The Settlers II: Veni, Vidi, Vici takes everything that worked in the original and polishes it until it shines like a freshly forged sword. The graphics are warmer, the maps are bi...
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The Ultimate Doom

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1995protected id Software
The Ultimate Doom expands the classic demon-blasting formula with an additional episode and plenty more reasons to wonder why opening that suspicious door seemed like a good idea. ...
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Theme Hospital

DOSWindows XP/98/951997protecteddemo Bullfrog
Theme Hospital takes the serious business of healthcare and turns it into one of the funniest management simulations ever made. Instead of simply treating ordinary illnesses, you r...
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Total Annihilation

Windows XP/98/951997protected Cavedog Entertainment
Total Annihilation is a landmark real-time strategy game that takes large-scale warfare and refuses to keep it small. Players gather resources, construct factories, build armies, a...
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Total Annihilation Kingdoms

Windows XP/98/951999protected Cavedog Entertainment
Total Annihilation Kingdoms takes the large-scale real-time strategy formula of its predecessor and moves it into a fantasy setting. Instead of armies of machines, players command ...
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Transport Tycoon

DOS1994 Chris Sawyer Productions
Transport Tycoon is one of the great classic transportation management games, turning the seemingly simple task of moving things from A to B into an obsession with timetables, rout...
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Transport Tycoon Deluxe

DOSWindows XP/98/951995 Chris Sawyer Productions
Transport Tycoon Deluxe expands the original transportation-management formula with more vehicles, larger maps, additional environments, and plenty of opportunities to turn an inno...
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Tyrian 2000

DOS1999freeware Eclipse Software
Tyrian 2000 is what happens when a classic shoot ’em up decides to go all in and then some. Released in 1999, it delivers relentless action, an absurd variety of weapons, and mor...
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V for Victory: D-day Utah Beach

DOS1991protected Atomic Games
V for Victory: D-Day Utah Beach is a turn-based wargame that puts you in command during one of the most important military operations of the Second World War. The game focuses on t...
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Vette!

DOS1989 Sphere
Vette! is a driving game built around the unmistakable spectacle of cruising a high-performance Corvette through San Francisco. Instead of confining you to a neat racing circuit, t...
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Virtua Cop

Windows XP/98/951997 Sega
Virtua Cop brings Sega's arcade light-gun shooting formula to the PC, turning the player into a one-person police department with a remarkably short tolerance for criminals. The ga...
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Virtua Cop 2

Windows XP/98/951997 Sega
Virtua Cop 2 takes the arcade shooting formula of its predecessor and expands it with larger environments, more enemies, and even more opportunities to behave like a movie police o...