Abandonware DOS title

abandonware games sorted by popularity

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Chaos Overlords

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1996protected strategy
Chaos Overlords is a cyberpunk-themed strategy game developed by Stick Man Games and published by New World Computing in 1996. Set in a dystopian future, the game focuses on contro...
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Prophecy of the Shadow

DOS1992protected rpg
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Skyfox II: The Cygnus Conflict

DOS1988 vehicle simulation
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Strike Commander

DOS1993protected vehicle simulation
Strike Commander is combat flight simulation game created by Chris Roberts (the designer behind Wing Commander) and Jeff George. Strike Commander was developed by Origin Systems an...
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Sword of the Samurai

DOS1989protected strategy
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Sherlock Holmes: Another bow

DOS1985 adventure
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Toonstruck

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS1996protected adventure
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Conflict in Vietnam

DOS1986 strategy
This one's not for the faint of heart. Conflict in Vietnam tries to simulate the complexity and chaos of guerrilla warfare in a game where every click can cost lives. The graphics ...
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Bass Tour

DOS1992 sports
Think of Bass Tour (1992) as the road trip version of virtual fishing. More simulation than arcade, it lets you travel, pick locations, study conditions, and obsess over bait types...
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Five-a-side Indoor Soccer

DOS1986 sports
Five-a-side Indoor Soccer is what happens when football trades muddy boots for squeaky sneakers and decides walls are friends, not boundaries. Released in the mid-80s, it captures ...
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Grand Prix 500 2

DOS1991 racing
Grand Prix 500 2 throws you onto a motorcycle and politely suggests you try not to die at high speed. Unlike car racing games, this one reminds you that two wheels are inherently a...
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Microsoft Cobol

DOS1982 application
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Murders in Venice

DOS1989 adventure
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The Hunt for Red October

DOSMac OS1987 vehicle simulation
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Yendorian Tales: The Tyrants of Thaine

DOS1997 rpg
In The Tyrants of Thaine, the graphics get a modest upgrade, but the soul remains pure: this is RPG comfort food. You’re once again cast as the world's most overworked advent...
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Fleet Command

DOS1999protected vehicle simulation
Fleet Command invites you to command modern naval forces with the calm authority of someone who definitely read the manual. This is strategy on a grand scale: radar screens glowing...
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Big Business

DOS1990 simulation
Step into the gray, morally ambiguous world of corporate domination with Big Business. It’s Monopoly with fewer dice and more spreadsheets. Crush your competitors, manipulate...
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The Civil War

DOS1995 strategy
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Renegade Legion Interceptor

DOS1990protected strategy
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Uninvited

DOSMac OS1987 adventure
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Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show

DOS1989 sports
Saddle up for an awkward mix of minigames that vaguely resemble rodeo events. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show tries to recreate the excitement of a 19th-century traveling circus but ...
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Ace 2.02

DOS2001 application
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Mickey's Space Adventure

DOS1985 adventure
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Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II

Windows XP/98/951997protected shooter
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Basket Master

DOS1990 sports
What happens when a basketball game forgets about realism and goes full cartoon? Basket Master (1990), that’s what. This Spanish-developed DOS gem pits two oddly animated bal...
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X-Fighter

DOS1987 shooter
X-Fighter feels like one of those early experiments where developers were still figuring out what “space combat” should even look like. It is simple, direct, and unapologetical...
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Solidarnosc

DOS1991 simulation
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Jaws

DOS1989 simulation
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DeskMate

DOS1984 application
Deskmate is a software suite developed by Tandy Corporation that provided a graphical user interface (GUI) and a set of applications for personal computers. It was often bundled wi...
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CyClones

DOS1994protected shooter
CyClones is a first-person shooter where you take on the role of a bio-engineered super-soldier fighting alien invaders. The controls are smooth, the weapons varied, and the level ...