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Operation Combat: Computer Battle Game
DOS1990 strategy
PC*Bert
DOS1997freeware action
LineWars
DOS1990 shooter
Zyconix
DOS1992 puzzle
Imagine Tetris went on a sugar binge and had an identity crisis. That’s Zyconix (1992, DOS) in a nutshell. It’s a tile-matching puzzle game where nothing quite behaves ...
Kings of the beach
DOS1988 sports
18th Airborne
DOS1993 shooter
18th Airborne is what happens when a military recruitment pamphlet and a tactical shooter have a baby. You’re thrown into the boots of a paratrooper with a mission, a gun, an...
Lords of the Realm 3
Windows XP/98/952004protected simulation
Released in 2004, Lords of the Realm III is an interesting, sometimes controversial attempt to modernize a beloved strategy franchise. The move to full 3D and a more streamlined ap...
Battle Master
DOS1991 strategy
In Battle Master (1991), you play as a heavily armored murder-hobo leading an army across a fantasy world that really doesn’t want you there. It’s part action-RPG, part...
The Big Three
DOS1989 strategy
GrailQuest
DOS1989 adventure
In the late 80s, when gamebooks were trying to escape paper and sneak into floppy disks, GrailQuest shows up wearing Monty Python armor and refusing to be taken seriously. In Grail...
Shadow of the Comet
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1993protected adventure
Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess
DOS1989protected adventure
Sci-Mutant Priestess (1989) is French, weird, and proud of it. You play as a rebellious mutant in a post-apocalyptic, sci-fi world ruled by bio-psychic cults. Obviously. It’s...
Dragonriders of Pern
DOS1987 strategy
Based on Anne McCaffrey’s novels, Dragonriders of Pern (1987) is an odd duck. It tries to blend diplomacy, strategy, and a dash of action into one package. You don’t ju...
King's Quest 5: Absence makes the heart go yonder
DOSWindows 3.x1990protected adventure
Ikari Warriors 2: Victory Road
DOS1988 shooter
Ikari Warriors 2: Victory Road in 1988 continued the tradition of heroic soldiers storming impossible odds while carrying enough ammunition to challenge basic physics. This sequel ...
Gulf Strike
DOS1986 strategy
Gulf Strike places you in the cockpit during a very contemporary-for-1986 conflict, blending strategy and simulation with a dash of headline-inspired drama. You manage missions, al...
Rockstar!
DOS1989 simulation
The Feeble Files
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protected adventure
Basket Master
DOS1990 sports
What happens when a basketball game forgets about realism and goes full cartoon? Basket Master (1990), that’s what. This Spanish-developed DOS gem pits two oddly animated bal...
Snood
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1996freeware puzzle
Fates of Twinion
DOS1993 rpg
Fates of Twinion, released in 1993 for DOS, is a classic action-adventure platformer with a fantasy twist and a surprisingly playful tone. You control a hero navigating colorful wo...
People's General
Windows XP/98/951998protected strategy
Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch
DOS1992 adventure
Aldo's Assault
DOS1991 action
Think of Aldo's Assault as what happens when Mario forgets his plumber license and joins a bootleg army. This 1991 DOS gem throws you into a side-scrolling frenzy of ladders, barre...
Murder on the Zinderneuf
DOS1984 simulation
Jinxter
DOS1988 adventure
Beyond the Black Hole
DOS1989 action
Beyond the Black Hole promises an interstellar voyage into mystery—and delivers... a disorienting 3D shooter that kind of feels like flying a cardboard spaceship through a ka...
Never mind
DOS1989 puzzle
Gapper
DOS1986 puzzle
There’s something oddly hypnotic about Gapper, a game that feels like it was assembled during a coffee-fueled night by someone who really liked simple mechanics and didn&rsqu...
Up Periscope!
DOS1988 vehicle simulation
Up Periscope! from 1988 lets you take command of a submarine, which sounds exciting until you realize just how much responsibility that entails. Managing depth, speed, and position...






























