Abandonware DOS title

abandonware games sorted by popularity

monday-night-football-04

Monday Night Football

DOS1989 sports
boulder-dash-construction-kit-04

Boulder Dash Construction Kit

DOS1987 puzzle
Boulder Dash Construction Kit is both a full game and a level editor, built around the gameplay mechanics of the original Boulder Dash (1984). You still play as Rockford, the pixel...
acrobat-reader-1-01

Acrobat Reader 1

DOS1993 application
Acrobat Reader was the first of a family of application software developed by Adobe Inc. to view, create, manipulate, print and manage Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Acrobat...
arx-fatalis-04

Arx Fatalis

Windows XP/98/95Windows 10/112002protected rpg
Arx Fatalis is basically what happens when someone takes “dungeons and dragons” way too literally. You start trapped in a gloomy underground world because—oops&md...
cutthroats-01

Cutthroats

DOS1984 adventure
In Cutthroats, you’re a diver hired for a treasure-hunting expedition that’s about to go very wrong. This text adventure from Infocom mixes underwater exploration with ...
at-the-carnival-06

At the Carnival

DOS1990freeware puzzle
Step right up to At the Carnival (1990), a puzzle game that mixes traditional brain-teasers with the kind of carnival theming that makes you question whether the developers had eve...
sleepwalker-01

Sleepwalker

DOS1993protected action
shadow-of-the-comet-04

Shadow of the Comet

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1993protected adventure
kurtan-splash

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...
pocahontas-title

Pocahontas

DOS1995 action
metropolis-4

Metropolis

DOS1987 adventure
superhangon-1

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). ...
betrayal-02

Betrayal

DOS1990protected strategy
Ah, Betrayal—a game with a name that really sets the tone. Is it about backstabbing? Politics? Lost love? Not really. It’s actually a hybrid of strategy and role-playin...
jeopardy-junior-03

Jeopardy! Junior Edition

DOS1989 puzzle
operation-market-garden-01

Operation Market Garden

DOS1985protected strategy
silverball-1

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...
jinxter-0004

Jinxter

DOS1988 adventure
hugo2-02

Hugo 2: Whodunit?

DOS1991protecteddemo adventure
Hugo 2: Whodunit? is an old school graphic adventure game designed by David P. Gray, developed by Gray Design Associates and released in 1991 for MS-DOS only. Hugo 2: Whodunit? is ...
starcross-01

Starcross

DOS1982 adventure
shadowsmordor-3

The Shadows of Mordor

DOS1988 adventure
chicago90-splash

Chicago 90

DOS1989 racing
In Chicago 90, you either play as the cops or the crooks in a top-down, crime-infested, vaguely Windy City-esque setting. Think of it as a proto-GTA with more sirens and fewer mora...
rules-of-engagement-2-01

Rules of Engagement 2

DOS1993 strategy
infiltrator-2-01

Infiltrator 2

DOS1988 simulation
Infiltrator 2 basically asks: “What if we took everything from the first game and doubled down?” The result is a sequel that’s larger, louder, and just as gleeful...
minesweeper-04

Minesweeper

Windows 3.x1992 puzzle
Microsoft Minesweeper is an iconic puzzle game that has been included with Microsoft Windows operating systems since Windows 3.1. The game's objective is to clear a rectangular boa...
video-trek-88-02

Video Trek 88

DOS1982 simulation
wordtris-01

Wordtris

DOSMac OS1991 puzzle
highwayfighter-2

Highway Fighter

DOS1995 racing
bureaucracy-02

Bureaucracy

DOSMac OS1987 adventure
Douglas Adams, the twisted genius behind Hitchhiker’s Guide, brings you the most terrifying adventure of all: paperwork. Bureaucracy turns mundane modern life into a text-bas...
lionheart-05

Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader

Windows XP/98/952003protected rpg