Abandonware DOS title

Games featuring hotseat multiplayer mode sorted by year, newest first

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.
decisive-civil-war-2-08

Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 2

DOS19893.9/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group
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Face Off!

DOS19894.1/5 MindSpan
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 modes.
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Fidelity Chessmaster 2100

DOS19893.9/5 Software Toolworks
gengis-khan-1-03

Gengis Khan

DOS19893.7/5 KOEI
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John Madden Football

DOS19894/5 Electronic Arts
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 Apple II and Commodore 64 and later released for DOS (in 1989). The Madden series became extremely popular and the sequels...
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Last Duel: Inter Planet War 2012

DOS19893.5/5 Capcom
microleague-baseball-2-04

MicroLeague Baseball 2

DOS19893.9/5 MicroLeague Multimedia
nobunaga-ambition-2-03

Nobunaga's Ambition 2

DOS19893.9/5 KOEI
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Nuclear War

DOS19894.1/5 New World Computing
Nuclear War is an abandoned turn-based strategy game designed by Eric Hyman and Jon Van Caneghem. Nuclear War was developed and released by New World Computing in 1989 for Amiga and, later, for DOS, and it's loosely based on a card game of the same name. Nuclear War took a satirical approach to the grim possibility of a global nuclear war and succe...
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Oil Imperium

DOS19894.1/5 reLINE Software
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Ports of Call

DOS19894.1/5 International Software Development
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Qix

DOS19894.1/5 Taito
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Remote Control

DOS19893/5 Softie
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Risk: the World Conquest Game

DOS19893.8/5 Mastertronic
scrabble-01

Scrabble

DOS19893.6/5
star-saga-2-2

Star Saga: Two - The Clathran Menace

DOS19893.9/5 Masterplay Publishing Corporation
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Time Bandit

DOS19894.3/5 MichTron
Time Bandit is a classic top-down arcade-style video game that was released in 1982 for various home computer systems, such as the Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, and others. It was developed by MichTron. In Time Bandit, players control a character who must navigate through a series of maze-like levels, battling various enemies and collecting treasure a...
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Trivial Pursuit

DOS19893.4/5
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 that correspond to those categories. The goal is to collect all the pie pieces and complete a full pie before your opponents.
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Westphaser

DOS19893.2/5 Loriciels
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Arnhem: The Market Garden Operation

DOS19882.8/5 Cases Computer Simulations
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Battle Chess

DOS1988protected4.2/5 Interplay Productions
Chess was a niche genre in video gaming. There were lots of chess simulations: black and white very old games, licensed games from chess champions, etc. No one ever attempted to broaden the audience until Interplay published Battle Chess. Battle Chess appeal was almost entirely focused on the animations when two pieces ended on the same square.
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Bubble Ghost

DOS19884.1/5 ERE Informatique
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California Games

DOS19884.1/5 Epyx
decisive-civil-war-1-03

Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 1

DOS19884/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group
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EGA Bomb

DOS19883.7/5
encyclopedia-war-ancient-battles-03

Encyclopedia of War: Ancient Battles

DOS19882.8/5 Cases Computer Simulations
firezone-04

Firezone

DOS19883.1/5 Arcadia Systems
miniputt-04

Mini Putt

DOS19883.8/5 Artech Studios