Abandonware DOS title

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Scapeghost

DOS1989 adventure
In Scapeghost (1989), you’re not just dead—you’re also on the clock. As police officer Alan Chance, recently murdered and newly spectral, you’ve got one las...
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Hexxagon 2

DOS1993 puzzle
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Number Munchers

DOS1990 puzzle
Math was never supposed to be this exciting. In Number Munchers, you’re a green blob with an appetite for multiplication tables, gobbling up correct answers while dodging &ld...
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Aspetra

DOS1996 rpg
Welcome to Aspetra, a 1996 DOS game that tried to cram an epic sci-fi RPG into your beige box PC — and mostly succeeded! Think “Star Trek meets budget constraints.&rdqu...
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Fantastic Dizzy

DOS1994 action-adventure
Fantastic Dizzy, released in 1994, stars a cheerful egg with an unfortunate talent for getting into trouble. This platform-adventure hybrid mixes exploration, puzzle-solving, and l...
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Color Buster

DOS1992 puzzle
Color Buster (1992, DOS) is Sokoban’s rebellious cousin. You push colored blocks across labyrinthine floors like an underpaid warehouse worker in a pastel fever dream. Simple...
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Escape from Dr. Colosso

DOS1997freeware shooter
In Escape from Dr. Colosso, you find yourself trapped in the lair of a mad scientist whose idea of interior design seems to be “danger first, safety never.” It’s ...
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Escape from delirium

DOS1995 adventure
Escape from Delirium feels like someone took a pulp adventure novel, dipped it in a bucket of chaos, and fed it to a DOS system. You wake up with amnesia (because of course you do)...
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Super Hang-On

DOSMac OS1988 racing
Super Hang-On is an abandoned motorcycle arcade racing game, developed by Sega, designed by Yu Suzuki and published by Data East for DOS in 1988 (the arcade was released in 1987). ...
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X-Men: Children of the Atom

DOS1997demo action
X-Men: Children of the Atom is a fighting video game developed by Capcom and released in arcades in 1994. The game features characters from Marvel Comics' X-Men series, including p...
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Axet

DOS1994freeware action
Few games from 1994 dared to ask the real question: “What if you gave an axe to someone with absolutely no training and dropped them into a dungeon with the reflexes of a slo...
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Subtrade: Return to Irata

DOS1993 simulation
Subtrade: Return to Irata is an abandoned science fiction business simulation game developed by Century Interactive and published by Boeder Software in 1993 for Amiga and later por...
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Mario is Missing!

DOSMac OS1992 adventure
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Tennis Cup 2

DOS1992 sports
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Snoopy and Peanuts

DOS1990 adventure
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Grand Prix Wizard

DOS1996 racing
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Over the Reich

Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.x1996 strategy
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Shogun

DOS1986 action-adventure
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Earthworm Jim 2

DOS1996protected action
If the first game was controlled chaos, Earthworm Jim 2 is joyful anarchy. It cranks up the weirdness, throwing genre shifts and unexpected mechanics at the player with gleeful aba...
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Mario's Time Machine

DOS1993 puzzle
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Sid Meier's Pirates!

DOS1987protected simulation
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President Elect: 1988 Edition

DOS1987protected simulation
President Elect: 1988 Edition is a political simulation game developed by Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) and released in the mid-1980s. The game simulates U.S. presidential elec...
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Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh

Windows XP/98/95DOS1996protected adventure
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Paperboy 2

DOS1991 action
Paperboy 2 is the sequel to the much acclaimed coin-op arcade hit Paperboy in which you have to deliver newspapers to subscribers while avoiding every kind of obstacle. Paperboy 2 ...
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Assault Trooper

DOS1997 shooter
In Assault Trooper, you're the lone soldier with enough ammo to make Rambo blush, dropped behind enemy lines to shoot first and ask “was that a civilian?” later. This 1...
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Le Fetiche Maya

DOS1989 action-adventure
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Othello

DOS1986 strategy
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Nyet

DOS1988freeware puzzle
Before Tetris conquered the world, Nyet gave DOS users their own block-stacking fix. It’s essentially a clone, but with its own quirks and rough edges — the kind of thi...