Abandonware DOS title

abandonware games sorted by popularity

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Arctic Adventure

DOS1991 action
Arctic Adventure is the sequel nobody asked for to Pharaoh's Tomb, except this time you’re freezing your butt off. As Nevada Smith (not a typo, it’s his real name), you platform-hop through icy ruins in search of... so...
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Hillsfar

DOS1989protected rpg
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Mission Critical

DOS1995protected adventure
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Santa's Xmas Caper

DOS1993 action
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Earl Weaver Baseball

DOS1987 sports
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Jump 'n Bump

DOS1998freeware action
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Mychess

DOS1984 strategy
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Wayne Gretzky Hockey

DOS1989 sports
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Waterloo

DOS1989protected strategy
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Alice in Wonderland

DOS1989 adventure
Step into the rabbit hole - no, really, step carefully, or you’ll glitch right through the floor. Alice in Wonderland (1989, DOS) is a surreal, side-scrolling adventure that loosely follows the Lewis Carroll classic, if Lewi...
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Spy vs Spy 3: Arctic Antics

DOS1988 strategy
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Fantasy Empires

DOS1993protected strategy
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Pinball Dreams 2

DOS1994protected action
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Skale Tracker

Windows XP/98/95LinuxWindows 10/112005freeware application
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Archer Maclean's Pool

DOS1992 sports
For those who think snooker is too posh and billiards too French, there's Archer Maclean's Pool, the most ‘90s way to simulate the timeless art of arguing over whether that shot was really legal. It’s pool in DOS &mdas...
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Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge

DOSLinuxMac OS1990protected rpg
Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge is a role-playing game (RPG) developed by Sir-Tech and released in 1990. It's the sixth installment in the long-running "Wizardry" series. The game begins with the player's party investig...
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Heirs to the Throne

DOS1992 strategy
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Boulder Dash Construction Kit

DOS1987 puzzle
Boulder Dash Construction Kit is both a full game and a level editor, built around the gameplay mechanics of the original Boulder Dash (1984). You still play as Rockford, the pixelated, googly-eyed spelunker, digging through caves...
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Les Manley in: Search for the King

DOS1990protected adventure
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Coaster

DOS1993 simulation
Ever wanted to design a roller coaster so terrifying it’d make your pixelated patrons vomit in joy? Coaster is your twisted playground. Build loops, dives, and stomach-churning curves, then ride them in glorious first-person...
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Ground Control

Windows XP/98/952000protected strategy
Ground Control is a strategy game developed by Massive Entertainment and released by Sierra On-Line in 2000. More precisely Ground Control is a real time tactical game with a sci-fi setting.
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V for victory: Market-Garden

DOS1993protected strategy
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Earthly delights

DOS1984 adventure
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Donald's Alphabet Chase

DOS1988 puzzle
Donald’s Alphabet Chase is the video game equivalent of hiding fridge magnets and watching a duck hunt them down. In this 1988 edutainment title, the mischievous alphabet letters run away, and it’s up to Donald to chas...
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The Twilight Zone

DOS1988 adventure
The Twilight Zone is an abandoned sci-fi themed adventure game based on the popular TV series of the same name. The Twilight zone released in 1988 by First Row Software Publishing for DOS and Amiga. At it's core, The Twilight Zone...
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Dylan Dog: Through the Looking Glass

DOS1992 adventure
Dylan Dog: Through the Looking Glass takes the surrealism of the comics and dives headfirst into nightmare territory. Imagine Carroll’s Wonderland rewritten by Lovecraft and illustrated by Tiziano Sclavi, and you’re ha...
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Exterminator

DOS1990 shooter
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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 thing you’d find on a floppy disk labeled &ldqu...
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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 1997 top-down shooter screams “keyboard-mashi...