Abandonware DOS title

The best hotseat games

Games supporting hotseat multiplayer mode can be played by more than one player (usually two) on the same PC taking turns playing the game. Many strategy games offer an hotseat multiplayer mode.
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Acquire

DOS1989 IBM
Acquire (1989, DOS) brings boardroom drama to your DOS screen, turning you into a hotel tycoon in a game where the real enemy is... math. It's a faithful adaptation of the classic board game, complete with mergers, hostile takeove...
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Pinball World

DOS1995 Spidersoft Limited
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The Ball Game

DOS1991 Esprit Software Programs
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Big Business

DOS1990 Off The Wall Productions
Step into the gray, morally ambiguous world of corporate domination with Big Business. It’s Monopoly with fewer dice and more spreadsheets. Crush your competitors, manipulate markets, and remember — hostile takeovers a...
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Full Metal Planete

DOSMac OS1990 Hitech Productions
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Trivial Pursuit

DOS1989
Trivial Pursuit is a popular trivia board game that was adapted into a computer game for various platforms, including DOS. In the game, players answer trivia questions from various categories in order to collect pie pieces th...
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Risk: the World Conquest Game

DOS1989 Mastertronic
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Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021

DOS1987freeware Thinking Machine Associates
Welcome to the future, where space empires are managed entirely via text and colored dots. Anacreon puts you in charge of an interstellar civilization and lets you conquer galaxies with the graphical intensity of an Excel spreadsh...
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Loopz

DOS1990 Audiogenic
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Empire II: The Art of War

DOSWindows XP/98/951995 White Wolf Productions
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Bandit Kings of Ancient China

DOS1989 KOEI
Based on a classic Chinese novel, Bandit Kings of Ancient China combines strategy, RPG elements, and about 800 names you’ll never remember. You play one of 108 outlaws trying to overthrow a corrupt regime — think Roman...
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Fidelity Chessmaster 2100

DOS1989 The Software Toolworks
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Aquanoid

DOS1992remake
Aquanoid (1992) takes the classic Breakout formula and throws it underwater, because bricks are apparently much more intimidating when they're wet. You control a paddle, you bounce a ball, you try to pretend you're not just playin...
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Nobunaga's Ambition 2

DOS1989 KOEI
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Zaxxon

DOS1984 Sega
Back in 1984, Zaxxon was the future. Isometric graphics? Whoa. Shadow effects? Mind blown. But mostly, it was a game about flying a chunky spaceship through a heavily fortified space base while crashing into walls at high speed. T...
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Rampart

DOS1992 Atari
Rampart is an abandoned mix of strategy and shooter game designed by Dave Ralston and John Salwitz, developed by Atari and released by Electronic Arts in 1992 for DOS. Rampart was converted from the original arcade version to a nu...
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Ms. Pac-Man

DOS1984 Atarisoft
Ms. Pac-Man is a classic arcade game released by Midway in 1982 (1984 for DOS) as a follow-up to the original Pac-Man (1980), developed by Namco. While its core gameplay is similar - navigating a maze, eating dots, and a...
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Mychess

DOS1984 The Software Toolworks
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Pinball Illusions

DOS1995 Digital Illusions
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Risk

Windows 3.x1991 Azeroth
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Mini Putt

DOS1988 Artech Studios
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The Battle of the Bulge: Tigers in the Snow

DOS1982protected Tactical Design Group
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Trivial Pursuit Deluxe

DOS1992 Oxford Digital Enterprises
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Robot Rascals

DOS1987 Ozark Softscape
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California Games 2

DOS1990 Epyx
The sequel nobody asked for, but we’re still kinda glad happened. California Games 2 adds even weirder sports: jet-skiing, hang gliding, and bodyboarding, which is like surfing but with less dignity. The graphics are improve...
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Gary Grigsby's War in Russia

DOS1993protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Jeopardy!

DOS1987 Sharedata
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Carl Lewis Challenge

DOS1992 Teque
Carl Lewis Challenge is a sports simulation video game that was released in 1992 by Psygnosis for various platforms, including the Amiga, Atari ST, and DOS. Named after the famous American track and field athlete Carl Lewis, the g...
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Hole in One

DOS1995 Really Interesting Software Company