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Heart of China
DOS19914.1/5 adventure
Spear of Destiny
DOS19924.2/5 shooter
Myst
Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.xMac OS1995protecteddemo4.1/5 adventure
Myst is a classic puzzle-adventure video game that was first released in 1993. It was developed by Cyan, a small independent game development studio. The game was initially released for the Macintosh platform and later ported to other systems, including Windows, PlayStation, and more.Myst is a first-person point-and-click adventure game. Players ex...
Descent
DOS1995protecteddemo4.2/5 shooter
Descent is a first person shooter with a unique six degree of freedom gameplay developed by Parallax Software and released by Interplay Productions in 1995.. You control a spaceship and must pilot it in a mine, through a series of 3d levels. The goal of the game is to find a series of keys, shoot down enemy ships and find your way to the next level.
Rendezvous with Rama
DOS19853.7/5 adventure
Rendezvous with Rama is an interactive fiction (text adventure) game released in 1984. Telarium, a subsidiary of Spinnaker Software, was known for producing narrative-driven games based on popular literary works. This adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke's novel is one of the earlier attempts to translate a science fiction classic into an interactive for...
Paperboy
DOS19884.1/5 action
Paperboy was one of (if not THE) arcade hit of 1985. It was developed by Atari for the arcades and later published by Mindscape for DOS in 1988. More conversion were made for quite a few other platforms. Paperboy gameplay is peculiar: you control a boy riding a bicycle and your goal is to deliver as many newspapers as you can to a number of ho...
Runaway City
DOS1995NSFW4.2/5 adventure
Digger
DOS19834.2/5 action
Digger is an abandoned action game developed and released by Windmill Software back in 1983 for PC only. Gameplay is a mix of two classics: Dig Dug and Mr. Do!: dig down, get gems, avoid death, reach the next level and so on.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2000protected4.3/5 rpg
Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption is an action role-playing game released in 2000 by Nihilistic Software and published by Activision. It is based on the "Vampire: The Masquerade" tabletop RPG by White Wolf Publishing. The game combines traditional RPG elements with real-time combat. Players control Christof and a party of vampire allies, cu...
Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0
DOS19884.1/5 vehicle simulation
Dilbert's Desktop Games
Windows XP/98/9519974.2/5 action
A Night with Troi
DOS1991NSFW4/5 adventure
Super Solvers: Gizmos & Gadgets
DOS19934/5 puzzle
SimEarth
DOSWindows 3.x19904.2/5 simulation
SimEarth is a simulation in which you can shape and mold a planet in almost every way you can imagine. In SimEarth our planet is simulated as a whole: life, climate, atmosphere are all aspects of a single Gaia-like Earth. SimEarth can be played in two modes: game and experimental. In game mode, you have to to develop (and preserve) Earth with limit...
Panzer General 2
Windows XP/98/951997protected4.1/5 strategy
Xonix
DOS1984remake4/5 action
SimuSex
DOS1992NSFW4.3/5 simulation
Turbo Assembler (TASM)
DOSWindows 3.xWindows XP/98/9519894.1/5 application
Turbo Assembler, often referred to as TASM, is an x86 assembler for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. As a key component of Borland's suite of development tools, TASM was packaged alongside Turbo Debugger (TD), forming the Turbo Assembler/Turbo Debugger (TASM/TD) bundle. Turbo Assembler was favored for its speed and compatibility with the popular ...
Gal Pani X
Windows XP/98/952000freewareNSFW4.1/5 action
Gal Pani X is an action-puzzle game reminiscent of the classic arcade Qix, developed by D2 and released in 2000 for Windows. Gal Pani X is an adult-themed Doujin game: it was made by fans and wasn't for profit.
The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel
DOS19924.2/5 adventure
Strip Poker 3
DOS1991NSFW4/5 strategy
Rogue
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS19844.2/5 rpg
Rogue is one of the first RPGs in the history of video gaming. It's a text-based dungeon crawler in which you have to fight your way in the dungeon to recover the Amulet of Yendor. Rogue became popular around 1980 on mainframes and later ported to various platforms, including DOS in 1984. Rogue is simply the father of all the roguelike games that c...
The Chessmaster 2000
DOS19864.2/5 strategy
SimSafari
Windows XP/98/9519984/5 simulation
Magic Pockets
DOS19924.1/5 action
Magic Pockets is a platform game developed by The Bitmap Brothers and published by Renegade Software. It was released in 1991 for the Atari ST, Amiga, and MS-DOS platforms. In Magic Pockets, players control a character known as the Bitmap Kid, who possesses magical pockets that can produce a variety of useful items. The game is a side-scrollin...
Castle Wolfenstein
DOS19844.1/5 action-adventure
NHL 96
DOS19954.2/5 sports
Frederik Pohl's Gateway
DOS19924.1/5 adventure
Frederik Pohl's Gateway is one of the best abandoned adventures games from Legend Entertainment. Gateway is an interactive fiction with graphics and an improved interface (unusual for IFs), based on the Frederik Pohl's novel Gateway. Tt was designed by Michael Verdu and Glen R. Dahlgren and published by Legend Entertainment in 1992.
Deluxe Paint 2
DOS19884.3/5 application
Deluxe Paint, often abbreviated as DPaint, was a popular bitmap graphics editor and animation software package. It was developed by Electronic Arts (EA) and released in the mid-1980s. Deluxe Paint was initially designed for the Commodore Amiga computer, which was known for its advanced graphics capabilities at the time.
3D Studio 3
DOS19934.1/5 application