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Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
DOSWindows 3.xMac OS1993protecteddemo adventure
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line. It was released in 1993 and designed by Jane Jensen. The game is the first installment in the Gabriel Knight series...
Vengeance of Excalibur
DOS1991 rpg
Duke Nukem 2
DOS1993 action
ATAC: The Secret War Against Drugs
DOS1992 vehicle simulation
ATAC (1992) is what you get when someone says, “What if we made SimCity, but for waging the War on Drugs?” You play as the head of an anti-narcotics task force, deploying units, tracking smugglers, and launching airstr...
John Madden Football
DOS1989 sports
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...
Cossacks: The Art of War
Windows XP/98/952001protected strategy
2112
DOS1994 adventure
Welcome to 2112, a game that predicted a grim techno-future back when floppy disks still ruled. This DOS-era oddity throws you into a world that’s part cyberpunk, part fever dream, and entirely confusing. It’s got clun...
Disc
DOS1990 sports
Inca
DOS1992 action-adventure
Battlehawks 1942
DOS1988 vehicle simulation
Welcome to the skies of World War II, where dogfights are fast, fuel is low, and you probably forgot to raise your landing gear. Battlehawks 1942 (1988) is a flight sim with just enough realism to make you sweat and just enough ar...
Bad Dudes VS Dragon Ninja
DOS1988protected action
Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president? If that line doesn’t make you want to punch a ninja through a hotdog stand, nothing will. Bad Dudes VS Dragon Ninja is peak 80s: mullets, muscles, and more side-scrolling be...
Death by Backgammon
DOS1990 strategy
Jack Nicklaus Golf & Course Design: Signature Edition
DOS1992 sports
Ghosts 'n Goblins remake
Windows 10/112004freewareremake action
Ghosts 'n Goblins is an iconic arcade game developed by Capcom, first released in 1985. It’s widely remembered for its challenging gameplay and its distinct horror-fantasy aesthetic. This is a faithful remake.In Ghosts 'n Go...
Mega lo Mania
DOS1992 strategy
Mega lo Mania, also known as Mega-Lo-Mania: The Battle for Elysium in some regions, is a real-time strategy (RTS) video game developed by Sensible Software and published by Image Works. It was originally released in 1991 for vario...
Last Half of Darkness
DOS1989 adventure
Descent
DOS1995protecteddemo shooter
Descent is a first person shooter with a unique six degree of freedom gameplay developed by Parallax Software and released by Interplay Productions in 1995.. You control a spaceship and must pilot it in a mine, through a series of...
Trantor: The Last Stormtrooper
DOS1989 shooter
Veil of Darkness
DOS1993protected action-adventure
Whale's Voyage
DOS1993 rpg
Whale's Voyage is an abandoned science fiction first-person view party-based RPG, developed by neo Software Produktions and released by Pro One Software in 1993. Whale's Voyage is currently abandonware and it was published for PC ...
Scrooge
DOS1991 adventure
Scrooge is an abandoned interactive fiction graphic adventure game developed and released by Leisuresoft in 1991 for DO. Scrooge is based on the popular Christmas tale of the same name.
Heimdall
DOS1992 rpg
Vlad Tepes Dracula
Windows XP/98/951997 strategy
Ack-Ack Attack!
DOS1995remake shooter
In Ack-Ack Attack! (1995, DOS), you operate an anti-aircraft gun and do your best to shoot down waves of enemy planes with what appears to be a potato cannon. The game is loud, frantic, and wonderfully simple — a throwback t...
Contra: Locked and Loaded
Windows 10/112013freewareremake shooter
Lemonade Tycoon
Windows XP/98/95Windows 10/112002remakedemo simulation
Lemonade Tycoon is a business simulation game that allows players to run their own virtual lemonade stand and try to turn it into a successful and profitable business. The game typically involves setting prices, managing inventory...
Lands of Lore 2: Guardians of Destiny
DOSWindows XP/98/951997protected rpg
Great Naval Battles vol. 5: Demise of the Dreadnoughts 1914-18
DOS1996protected vehicle simulation
Great Naval Battles vol. 5: Demise of the Dreadnoughts 1914-18 is an abandoned naval simulation game, developed for DOS only by Divide by zero and released by SSI Strategic Simulations Inc. in 1996. As the title implies, Great Nav...
WitchavenRL
Windows 10/11Linux2013 rpg
Kingdom of Kroz
DOS1988freeware action