Abandonware DOS title

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Alien Olympics

DOS1994 sports
Released in 1994, Alien Olympics answers the age-old question: “What if the Olympics were hosted by Martians on acid?” This wacky collection of mini-games has you compe...
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Omikron: The Nomad Soul

Windows XP/98/951999protected action-adventure
Omikron: The Nomad Soul (1999, Windows XP) is the kind of game that leans across the table and says, “What if we mashed every genre together and asked David Bowie to help?&rd...
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Silverball

DOS1993 action
Silverball is an abandoned DOS pinball action game developed by Digital Extremes, designed by James Schmalz and published by MicroLeague Multimedia in 1993. Silverball is one of th...
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Space Quest 5: The Next Mutation

DOS1993protected adventure
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Day of the Viper

DOS1990 shooter
Released in 1990, Day of the Viper is a first-person shooter before shooters really found their footing. Imagine a blend of Doom and a bargain-bin puzzle game, but with robots. You...
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Hexxagon

DOS1993 puzzle
xfighter-splash

X-Fighter

DOS1987 shooter
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Perry Mason

DOS1985 adventure
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Star General

Windows XP/98/95DOS1996protected strategy
Star General is a turn-based strategy game developed by Catware and published by SSI (Strategic Simulations, Inc.). It was released in 1996 for MS-DOS and later for Windows. The ga...
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Bubble Pop

DOS1997 action
The name screams “budget shareware,” and Bubble Pop delivers. It’s the digital equivalent of popping bubble wrap, except someone decided it needed high scores and...
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Secret of the Silver Blades

DOSMac OS1990protected rpg
Secret of the Silver Blades is a fantasy RPG set in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons universe, developed and released by SSI Strategic Simulations Inc. in 1990 for DOS, Macintos...
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Bio Menace Episode 3: Master Cain

DOS1993freeware action
The trilogy concludes in Master Cain, where Snake Logan faces the ultimate evil: a villain with a name that sounds like a Bond bad guy and a plan straight from Saturday morning car...
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Return to Kroz

DOS1990freeware action
Kroz returns, and with it, your CRT monitor’s worst nightmare: ASCII graphics! Return to Kroz takes you back to a time when @ meant “you,” and everything else was...
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Baseball Mogul

Windows XP/98/951997 sports
Baseball Mogul (1997) was the original release that kicked off the whole franchise. Developed by Clay Dreslough and published by Infinite Monkey Systems, this was a pioneer in the ...
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Micheal Jordan in Flight

DOS1993 sports
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Beyond the Titanic

DOS1986 adventure
Before Titanic was a movie with a lot of weeping, there was Beyond the Titanic, a text adventure where surviving the iceberg is just the beginning. The game takes the historic disa...
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Obitus

DOS1991 rpg
Obitus is a role-playing video game developed by Psygnosis and released in 1991 for various platforms including the Amiga, Atari ST, and DOS. It combines elements of role-playing g...
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Operation Bodycount

DOS1994 shooter
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Alex Higgins World Snooker

DOS1986 sports
The title Alex Higgins World Snooker might imply world-class snooker. What it delivers is 1986 DOS ball physics that sometimes feel like they were modeled in an alternate dimension...
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Deadly Racer

DOS1994 racing
Deadly Racer is basically what happens when someone at the office said, “What if racing, but everyone might die?” Released in 1994 for DOS, it’s a fast-paced, rou...
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Red Storm Rising

DOS1989 vehicle simulation
Red Storm Rising is a submarine simulation video game developed and published by MicroProse in 1988, based on the novel of the same name by Tom Clancy and Larry Bond. The game is s...
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Search and Destroy

DOS1988 simulation
In Search and Destroy (1988), you’re a helicopter pilot with one job: blow things up. It’s as straightforward as the title suggests, yet endlessly satisfying. With top-...
wintrek-04

WinTrek

Windows 3.x1992 vehicle simulation
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LHX Attack Chopper

DOS1990 vehicle simulation
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Dark Designs 2: Closing the Gate

DOS1990 rpg
Dark Designs 2: Closing the Gate picks up right where the first game left off, with your party stumbling into yet another world-threatening mess. The stakes are higher, the enemies...
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Midway Campaign

DOS1983 strategy
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Stargate

DOS1983 shooter
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Shadow of the Comet

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1993protected adventure