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American Conquest
Windows XP/98/952002protected strategy
American Conquest is the kind of game that throws hundreds of little soldiers at you and says, "Good luck, General!" Set during the early colonization of the Americas, this RTS blends history with chaos in a way that’s both ...
Armour-Geddon
DOS1992 vehicle simulation
Armour-Geddon is what you get when someone combines Wargames with a midlife crisis. Set in a post-nuke world where you pilot tanks, helicopters, and laser cannons to stop a doomsday device, it’s a strange cocktail of strateg...
Aspetra
DOS1996 rpg
Welcome to Aspetra, a 1996 DOS game that tried to cram an epic sci-fi RPG into your beige box PC — and mostly succeeded! Think “Star Trek meets budget constraints.” You explore strange new worlds, meet weirdly sp...
Computer Diplomacy
DOS1984 strategy
Do you enjoy betrayal, backstabbing, and pretending to be a global power while actually being terrible at geography? Computer Diplomacy is the digital version of the classic board game, where alliances are fleeting and wars are fo...
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, rough-around-the-edges driving game where speed is on...
Die Hard 2: Die Harder
DOS1992 shooter
Dragonflight
DOS1991 rpg
Dungeons of Kroz
DOS1989freeware action
Einstein Writer 7
DOS1985 application
Flightmare
DOS1984freeware shooter
Fort Apache
DOS1992 strategy
Galleons of Glory
DOS1990 simulation
Galleons of Glory is an abandoned educational historical simulation game developed and published by Broderbund in 1990. As Magellan your mission is to circumnavigate the world while managing your crew and ship.
Gazza 2
DOS1991 sports
Golden Oldies: Volume 1 - Computer Software Classics
DOS1985 adventure
Hannibal
DOS1993 strategy
Highway Patrol 2
DOS1990 racing
Inve$t
DOS1990 simulation
Javelin
DOS1985 application
Jetstrike
DOS1994 action
Lincity NG
Windows 10/11LinuxMac OS2005freeware simulation
Lincity-NG is an open-source city simulation game and a continuation of the original Lincity game. The "NG" stands for "New Generation." The game is designed to be a city-building and management simulation where players take on th...
Mystery of the Mummy
DOS1988 adventure
Pick 'n Pile
DOS1990 puzzle
Project Neptune
DOS1989 action
Quandaries
DOS1997 simulation
S.T.U.N. Runner
DOS1990 racing
Shadow Knights
DOS1990 action
Silly Master Blaster
DOS1985 action
Skyglobe 3.5
DOS1992 application
SkyGlobe is an astronomy software that was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was a DOS-based planetarium program that allowed users to explore the night sky in real-time or by adjusting dates and times. Some of it...
Solo Flight
DOS1985 vehicle simulation
Not many people know that the first games created by Sid Meier were flight simulations. Solo Flight was published by MicroProse in 1983 for Commodore 64, Apple II, Atari, and a year later, in 1984, for PC. The game takes place in ...
Striker 95
DOS1995 sports