Abandonware DOS title

abandonware games sorted by popularity

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Mine Shaft

DOS1983 action
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Space Miner

DOS1983 shooter
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Star Fleet 1: The War Begins

DOSMac OS1985 strategy
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Afterlife

DOSWindows XP/98/95LinuxMac OS1996protected simulation
Afterlife is a simulation strategy game developed and published by LucasArts. It was released in 1996 for Microsoft Windows and later made available on other platforms. The game was designed by Michael Stemmle and was known for it...
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The Quest for the Time-bird

DOS1989 adventure
Based on the French comic series, The Quest for the Time-bird (1989, DOS) offers a fantasy adventure full of personality, odd creatures, and enough lore to fill a small library. The gameplay blends exploration with puzzle-solving ...
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Berlin 1948

DOS1989 adventure
Berlin 1948 throws you into post-war Germany as a secret agent on a noir-flavored mission through a city drenched in trench coats and suspicion. It’s one part spy thriller, one part historical fiction, and three parts trying...
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The Scoop

DOS1989 adventure
A detective adventure inspired by Agatha Christie’s collaborative story, The Scoop (1989, DOS) turns you into a newspaper reporter poking around a suspicious death with nothing but intuition, a notebook, and an impressive to...
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Grand Prix Circuit

DOSMac OS1988 racing
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Sango Fighter

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1993freeware action
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Hamburger Hell

DOS1986remake action
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Warhammer 40000: Chaos Gate

Windows XP/98/951998protected strategy
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Master of Orion 3

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2003protected strategy
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Moraff's World

DOS1991 rpg
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Kurtan

DOS1990 puzzle
Little-known but oddly captivating, Kurtan (1990, DOS) feels like someone’s ambitious homebrew fantasy experiment gone right. You play a wandering warrior exploring a pixelated land filled with cryptic dialogue and strange e...
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Arcade Pool

DOS1994 sports
Arcade Pool (1994) is like playing a game of billiards in your best friend’s basement—if your best friend happened to be a DOS machine with a serious competitive streak. It’s shockingly addictive, with physics th...
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Port Royale

Windows XP/98/952002protected simulation
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Where in Europe is Carmen Sandiego?

DOSMac OS1988 adventure
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Caesars Palace

DOS1989 strategy
More smoke-filled backrooms than a noir film and enough slot machines to trigger déjà vu—Caesars Palace is your low-res Vegas getaway. You're given a pile of chips and left to your vices: blackjack, poker, roul...
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Stargunner

DOS1996 shooter
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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). Super Hang-On was converted for a great number of ...
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Betrayal

DOS1990protected strategy
Ah, Betrayal—a game with a name that really sets the tone. Is it about backstabbing? Politics? Lost love? Not really. It’s actually a hybrid of strategy and role-playing where you move pieces around a map like a fantas...
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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 ported to DOS. Subtrade is an updated multiplayer clo...
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Final Frontier

DOS1989 strategy
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Return to Krondor

Windows XP/98/951998protected rpg
If you liked Betrayal at Krondor, Return to Krondor is that younger cousin who tries real hard to live up to the family name. It's got 3D graphics (for 1998), turn-based combat, and a plot that’s practically marinated in Ray...
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Laxius Power

Windows XP/98/95Windows 10/112002NSFW rpg
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Dylan Dog: Murderers

DOS1992 action-adventure
Released in 1992, Dylan Dog: Murderers brings Italy’s most famous nightmare investigator to the DOS screen with all the moody atmosphere you’d expect. It’s part point-and-click adventure, part gothic fever dream,...
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Aquanoid

DOS1992remake action
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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Dig Dug

DOS1983 action
Dig Dug is a classic maze arcade action game that was first released by Namco in 1982 as a coin-op and later for a number of other systems. The gameplay of Dig Dug involves digging tunnels through the earth to reach and defeat the...