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ShadowForce
DOS1994 adventure
The Last Mission
DOS1987 action
Magnetic Crane
DOS1989 puzzle
Sarakon
DOS1991 puzzle
Joan of Arc
DOS1989 strategy
Devastator
DOS1984 shooter
Back in 1984, Devastator promised arcade-style action on DOS, which is another way of saying “prepare for blocky graphics and relentless difficulty.” It’s a shoot...
Fox Ranger
DOS1992 shooter
Street Sports Soccer
DOS1988 sports
Street Sports Soccer (1988, DOS) trades professional pitches for empty lots, with goalposts made of bricks and wild kids chasing glory. It’s messy, fast, and surprisingly end...
The Dam busters
DOS1985 vehicle simulation
Cannon Fodder 2
DOS1994protected strategy
War of the Lance
DOS1990protected strategy
OverKill
DOS1992freeware shooter
Oxyd
DOS1992 puzzle
Pictionary: The Game of Quick Draw
DOS1989 strategy
Beyond Columns
DOS1989remake puzzle
Beyond Columns is what happens when someone looks at Tetris and says, “What if we made it... slightly fancier?” This match-three puzzle game involves dropping shiny col...
Battlecruiser 3000AD
DOSWindows XP/98/951996 vehicle simulation
Battlecruiser 3000AD (1996) is less a game and more a test of faith. Ambitious beyond reason, it promised total control of a massive starship—crew management, planetary landi...
Icewind Dale 2
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2002protected rpg
Oligopoly
DOS1987 strategy
If you’ve ever stared at a Monopoly board and thought, “This needs more spreadsheets,” then Oligopoly is basically your spiritual home. Released in 1987 for DOS, ...
Sword Quest 1: The Search
DOS1992 rpg
Dungeon Explorer
DOS1990 rpg
Dungeon Explorer takes the term “dungeon” very seriously—there’s a lot of it, and not much else. Released in 1990, this top-down adventure is part RPG, part...
IBM Centipede
DOS1983 shooter
Dragon Force - Day 3
DOS1993 shooter
By 1993, Dragon Force - Day 3 landed as an obscure tactical experiment on DOS. Despite the name, it’s not about a power metal band’s rehearsal schedule but rather a day...
Mission Critical
DOS1995protected adventure
Infidel
DOS1983 adventure
In Infidel, you play a not-so-noble adventurer whose moral compass is spinning like a broken ceiling fan. As a treasure-hungry explorer poking around an ancient Egyptian tomb, you ...
Dragonfly
DOS1986 shooter
In 1986, Dragonfly emerged as one of those simple but strangely addictive action games. Picture a cross between a shooter and an abstract insect simulator. The graphics are blocky,...
Return to Kroz
DOS1990freeware action
Kroz returns, and with it, your CRT monitor’s worst nightmare: ASCII graphics! Return to Kroz takes you back to a time when @ meant “you,” and everything else was...
Passengers on the Wind 2
DOS1987 adventure
Turbo Gomoku
DOS1985 strategy
African Adventure
DOS1997remake adventure
African Adventure is one of those games that feels like it was made during a two-hour layover at the airport - but somehow, it works. Set in the savannah, it combines survival, exp...
Archer Maclean's Pool
DOS1992 sports
For those who think snooker is too posh and billiards too French, there's Archer Maclean's Pool, the most ‘90s way to simulate the timeless art of arguing over whether that s...






























