Abandonware DOS title

abandonware games sorted by popularity

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MicroMan

Windows 3.x1993freeware action
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Kingdom of Kroz 2

DOS1990 action
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Oxyd Extra

DOS1994 puzzle
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Eagle Eye Mysteries: The Original

DOS1993 adventure
Before London called, Eagle Eye Mysteries: The Original laid the groundwork with a simpler, more classroom-friendly approach to detective work. This is edutainment done with confid...
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Serve & Volley

DOS1988 sports
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Kurtan

DOS1990 puzzle
Little-known but oddly captivating, Kurtan (1990, DOS) feels like someone’s ambitious homebrew fantasy experiment gone right. You play a wandering warrior exploring a pixelat...
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Never mind

DOS1989 puzzle
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Robot Odissey

DOS1985 strategy
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Five-a-side Indoor Soccer

DOS1986 sports
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Kwik Snax Dizzy

DOS1993 puzzle
Everyone’s favorite egg hero returns in Kwik Snax Dizzy (1993, DOS), a fast-paced puzzle game where reflexes and planning matter more than cholesterol levels. You’ll pu...
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Strife

DOS1996protecteddemo shooter
Strife from 1996 is a first-person shooter game developed by Rogue Entertainment and published by Velocity, based on the Doom engine. It's often remembered for being one of the ear...
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Mickey's Space Adventure

DOS1985 adventure
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Zork Quest: Assault on Egreth Castle

DOS1988 adventure
Interactive fiction meets comic book in this spin-off, where you follow a fantasy story through illustrated panels and scripted choices. Zork Quest: Assault on Egreth Castle feels ...
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Classic Hangman

DOS1983 puzzle
ASCII art has never been so morbid. Classic Hangman is exactly what it says on the tin: guess the word or watch your little stick figure meet a tragic end. Letters become lifelines...
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Apollo 18: Mission to the Moon

DOS1987 vehicle simulation
Apollo 18: Mission to the Moon (1987) lets you relive the lunar missions in all their... spreadsheet-like glory. This game is as educational as it is punishing; you’ll learn ...
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Tomahawk

DOS1987 vehicle simulation
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Falcon 3.0

DOS1991protected vehicle simulation
Falcon 3.0 arrived in 1991 and decided that realism wasn’t enough: it wanted obsession. This sequel didn’t just improve graphics and sound, it doubled down on systems, ...
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Litil Divil

DOS1993protected action
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Novatron

DOS1982 racing
Released in 1982, Novatron is one of those early DOS titles that tried to imagine the future using about twelve pixels and a prayer. It’s an arcade-style shooter that borrows...
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Arnhem: The Market Garden Operation

DOS1988 strategy
Arnhem is the kind of wargame where you spend more time reading hex maps than shooting anything. It’s all about recreating Operation Market Garden — you know, that WWII...
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Silicon Dreams

DOS1986 adventure
Silicon Dreams by Level 9 Computing is a trilogy of interactive fiction (text adventure) games released in the mid-1980s. The trilogy includes three separate games: Snowball, Retur...
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Bouncing Babies

DOS1984 action
Ah yes, the golden age of video games: where catching babies yeeted from burning buildings was a fun pastime. In Bouncing Babies, you play as a heroic volunteer with a trampoline, ...
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Escape from Dr. Colosso

DOS1997freeware shooter
In Escape from Dr. Colosso, you find yourself trapped in the lair of a mad scientist whose idea of interior design seems to be “danger first, safety never.” It’s ...
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House of Cards

DOS1989 strategy
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Murders in Venice

DOS1990 adventure
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Oil's Well

DOS1984 action
Oil's Well is an action-puzzle game released by Sierra On-Line in 1983/84. It was originally made for platforms like the Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS, but was la...
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Dinosaur Balls

DOS1992 puzzle
The title Dinosaur Balls might raise eyebrows today, but in 1992 it was just a quirky DOS puzzle game. Think of it as prehistoric Bubble Bobble: you fire colored spheres to match a...
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Guns 'R' Us

DOS1993 simulation
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Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid's Back

DOS1988 adventure
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Little Big Adventure 2 (Twinsen's Odyssey)

DOSWindows XP/98/951997protected action-adventure