Abandonware DOS title

abandonware games sorted by popularity

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Gone Fishing

DOS1989 sports
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Robotron 2084

DOS1983 shooter
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Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective

Windows XP/98/951991protected adventure
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Heroes of the 357th

DOS1992 vehicle simulation
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The Goonies

DOS1985 action
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Trivial Pursuit

DOS1989 strategy
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 va...
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Tetris (Academysoft)

DOS1996 puzzle
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Black Hole

DOS1993 puzzle
Black Hole (1993) is a space shooter where you're thrown into the gravitational madness of, you guessed it, a black hole. The physics are wild, the enemies are relentless, and you&...
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Nova 9: The Return of Gir Draxon

DOS1991 shooter
If you ever wanted to pilot a hovering tank while yelling at a computer screen, Nova 9 has you covered. A sequel to Stellar 7, it puts you in the cockpit against Gir Draxon’s...
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Spellbreaker

DOS1985 adventure
The last entry in Infocom’s Enchanter trilogy, Spellbreaker is where the training wheels come off. It’s unforgiving, cryptic, and expects you to understand spellcraft l...
fort-apache-02

Fort Apache

DOS1992 strategy
tracon2-02

Tracon 2

DOS1990 simulation
might-magic-7-03

Might and Magic 7: For Blood and Honor

DOS1999protected rpg
Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) developed by New World Computing and released in 1999. It is the seventh installment in the long-runni...
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Duck Tales: The Quest for Gold

DOS1990 action
DuckTales: The Quest for Gold takes everyone’s favorite miserly duck, Scrooge McDuck, and sends him globetrotting for treasure. It’s part platformer, part management si...
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Car and Driver

DOS1992 racing
Ever wanted to read Car and Driver magazine and then actually drive the cars featured in it? Well, someone in 1992 said “why not both?” and Car and Driver the game was ...
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Great Naval Battles vol. 3: Fury in the Pacific 1941-1944

DOS1995protected vehicle simulation
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Action in the North Atlantic

DOS1989 strategy
If you’ve ever dreamed of commanding a WWII convoy while cold, stressed, and staring at a pixelated radar screen, Action in the North Atlantic (1989, DOS) has you covered. It...
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Xmas Lemmings

DOS1992freeware puzzle
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Bloodwych

DOS1989 rpg
Step into a dungeon, take a left at the creepy skeleton, and say hello to Bloodwych, the 1989 DOS game that proves co-op first-person dungeon crawling can be both confusing and odd...
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Barbie Super Model

DOS1993 action
If Barbie was mildly passive in her 1992 debut, Barbie Super Model (1993) puts her on the runway—literally. You’ll practice walking, dodging obstacles, and matching out...
startrek-rebel-universe-01

Star Trek: The Rebel Universe

DOS1988 adventure
In Star Trek: The Rebel Universe (1988, DOS), the Enterprise is stranded in a dangerous sector where the Federation has gone rogue. You command the crew in an open-world style adve...
bit-storm-03

BitStorm

DOS1999 puzzle
1999’s BitStorm is what happens when someone decides to make a strategy game and forgets to put the brakes on the caffeine. It’s fast, it’s furious, and you&rsquo...
morphman-2

Morphman

Windows XP/98/951993 adventure
iron-cross-03

Iron Cross

DOS1994 strategy
Released in 1994 for DOS, Iron Cross is a historical strategy game that tries very hard to make military planning look sexy. Spoiler: it doesn’t. You’re dealing with Wo...
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Slicks 'n' Slide

DOS1993 racing
gato-05

GATO

DOS1984 vehicle simulation
If you’ve ever dreamed of commanding a submarine in the middle of the Cold War but didn’t want to deal with actual torpedoes, GATO is your safe harbor. Released in 1984...
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MicroProse Soccer

DOS1988protected sports
MicroProse Soccer is an abandoned action-oriented soccer game, developed by Sensible Software and released by MicroProse Software in 1988. The appeal of MicroProse Soccer was its s...
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Rings of Zilfin

DOS1987protected rpg
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Hannibal

DOS1993 strategy
Released in 1993, Hannibal is a strategy game that asks you to think like a military commander facing impossible odds—and occasionally impossible interface decisions. Inspire...
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Ultima 8: The Lost Vale

DOS1994canceled rpg
The Lost Vale is the great “what if” of the Ultima series. Developed as an expansion to Pagan but never officially released, it became the stuff of legend. Players were...