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Pinball Magic
DOS1990 action
Fantasy Empires
DOS1993protected strategy
Released in 1993, Fantasy Empires is a turn-based strategy game that politely assumes you enjoy spreadsheets as much as swords. Managing kingdoms, armies, and resources, it offers ...
Battlestar
Windows 3.x1996freeware strategy
No, not that Battlestar. Battlestar (1996) is more obscure than a reboot that never happened. Set in deep space with a top-down view and UI only a Windows 3.x user could love, it m...
Enigma
DOS1996freeware action
Released in 1996 for DOS, Enigma is what happens when a puzzle game decides it’s not content with simply challenging you—it wants to tease you, mock you, and eventually...
Alice: The Personal Pascal
DOS1985 application
Luigi and Spaghetti
DOS1992 action
Luigi and Spaghetti (1992, DOS) sounds like a dinner order but is actually an educational puzzle adventure. You guide a tiny robot named Luigi (no, not that one) through logic puzz...
Final Frontier
DOS1989 strategy
Final Frontier is a late-80s slice of space ambition, the kind that assumes you’re perfectly happy staring at menus while imagining epic interstellar conquest. It’s str...
J.R.R. Tolkien's Riders of Rohan
DOS1997 strategy
Caverns of Chaos
DOS1992 adventure
Despite the ominous title, Caverns of Chaos (1992) plays like the lovechild of rogue-like masochism and old-school dungeon crawling. There’s loot, traps, monsters, and more w...
Search for the Titanic
DOS1989protected simulation
Search for the Titanic (1989) proves that even shipwreck hunting can be turned into a spreadsheet simulator. You manage budgets, hire crews, buy sonar equipment, and hope your sear...
Seastalker
DOS1984 adventure
Sokoban
Windows XP/98/951999 puzzle
Super Huey II
DOS1988protected vehicle simulation
IBM Fullscreen Definition FSDPC
DOS1984 application
Roller Coaster Rumbler
DOS1989 shooter
Backgammon
DOS1986 strategy
X-COM: Alliance
Windows XP/98/952002canceled shooter
Super Hang-On
DOSMac OS1988 racing
Super Hang-On is an abandoned motorcycle arcade racing game, developed by Sega, designed by Yu Suzuki and published by Data East for DOS in 1988 (the arcade was released in 1987). ...
Jammit
DOS1994 sports
Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS1994protected adventure
Doom: The Roguelike
DOS2005freeware rpg
Long before indie developers made “roguelike” a buzzword, someone decided to fuse Doom with permadeath and ASCII graphics. The result: Doom: The Roguelike (2005). On pa...
Knights of the Desert
DOS1983protected strategy
Before WWII games flooded the market, Knights of the Desert (1983, DOS) was already reenacting the North African campaign in pixels. You command Rommel’s Afrika Korps—o...
Side Arms Hyper Dyne
DOS1988 shooter
Side Arms: Hyper Dyne is a side-scrolling shoot-'em-up arcade game developed and published by Capcom in 1986 and later ported on various platforms. Players control a "mobilsui...
Gamma Force in Pit of a Thousand Screams
DOS1988 adventure
Great Naval Battles vol. 3: Fury in the Pacific 1941-1944
DOS1995protected vehicle simulation
Diggers 2: Extractors
DOS1995 puzzle
In Diggers 2: Extractors, released in 1995, the digging franchise doubled down on strategy while adding a dash of science fiction flair. This time, your miners aren’t just bu...
Caesars Palace (Interplay)
Windows XP/98/951997 strategy
Hamurabi remake
DOS1996freewareremake simulation
The 1996 Hamurabi remake takes one of the oldest strategy concepts in gaming and gives it a modest DOS-era facelift. At its core, it’s still about managing resources, feeding...
Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O'Fun
DOS1989 sports
Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O'Fun, released in 1989 for DOS, is a platformer that looks cheerful but hides a surprisingly mean streak. Set in a circus filled with traps, clowns, and ...
Zoop
DOS1995 puzzle
Imagine if Tetris, Columns, and a pack of highlighters had a baby. That’s Zoop. You’re in the center of the screen, and colorful shapes are marching toward you from all...






























