Abandonware DOS title

abandonware games sorted by popularity

servevolley-2

Serve & Volley

DOS1988 sports
wheretimestood-1

Where Time Stood Still

DOS1987protected action-adventure
voodoisland-splash

Voodoo island

DOS1985 adventure
microleague-baseball-2-04

MicroLeague Baseball 2

DOS1989 sports
mickey-runaway-zoo-03

Mickey's Runaway Zoo

DOS1991 puzzle
archipelagos-title

Archipelagos

DOS1989 puzzle
Archipelagos is like a fever dream after watching too much Myst. You’re dropped onto strange, floating islands inhabited by stone monoliths and evil terrain-infecting sludge....
tracon-for-win-01

Tracon for Windows

Windows 3.x1993 vehicle simulation
ibm-fixed-disk-organizer-01

IBM Fixed Disk Organizer

DOS1983 application
robot-odissey-01

Robot Odissey

DOS1985 strategy
dangerous-streets-04

Dangerous Streets

DOS1994 action
Dangerous Streets is a fighting game that clearly wanted to be the next Street Fighter—and instead became a cult oddity. The character roster is bizarre, the animations oddly...
kronolog-title

Kronolog: The Nazi Paradox

DOS1993 adventure
What if the Nazis won? Kronolog: The Nazi Paradox (1993, DOS) takes that nightmare seriously. You play a time traveler trying to fix history, navigating through an oppressive, Orwe...
teen-agent-01b

Teen Agent

DOS1995freeware adventure
Teen Agent is a charming, tongue-in-cheek adventure about a teenager recruited to save the world because, well, why not? With its colorful art, witty dialogue, and delightfully abs...
avon-splash

Avon

DOS1989 adventure
If Shakespeare wrote video games and then decided, “You know what this needs? A parser and some pixelated drama,” you'd get Avon. In this interactive fiction gem from 1...
realms-of-chaos-03

Realms of Chaos

DOSMac OSLinux1995protected action
hoverforce-4

Hoverforce

DOS1990 shooter
Hoverforce takes flight combat and wraps it in a futuristic package that feels both ambitious and slightly experimental. Released in 1990, it lets you pilot a hovercraft through mi...
bushido-03

Bushido

DOS1983 action
Step into feudal Japan with Bushido, a game that tries to simulate samurai life on a machine barely capable of rendering a convincing circle. Still, there’s something charmin...
border-zone-01

Border Zone

DOS1987 adventure
Welcome to Border Zone (1987, DOS), where the Cold War is hot and your only weapon is your brain (and maybe a good map). This text-based espionage thriller from Infocom combines sp...
daffy-duck-pi-02

Daffy Duck PI: The Case of the Missing Letters

DOS1991 puzzle
Daffy Duck PI: The Case of the Missing Letters is a Looney Tunes spin on the classic edutainment formula. As Daffy, you’re on the trail of a nefarious plot to steal the alpha...
postal-03

Postal

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protected shooter
temple-elemental-evil-04

The Temple of Elemental Evil

Windows XP/98/952003protected rpg
The Temple of Elemental Evil is a computer role-playing game (CRPG) released in 2003 by Troika Games and published by Atari. The game is set in the World of Greyhawk, one of D...
hamburger-hell-02

Hamburger Hell

DOS1986remake action
Hamburger Hell from 1986 is one of those titles that practically dares you to ask, “What were they thinking?” The premise is gloriously absurd, and the execution doesn&...
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...
sexy-droids-05

Sexy Droids

DOS1992NSFW puzzle
zorro-3

Zorro

DOS1995 action
From the dusty archives of 1995 DOS gaming comes Zorro, a side-scrolling platformer that asks the question: what if the legendary masked hero had the reflexes of a hungover sloth? ...
xixit-1

Xixit

DOS1995 puzzle
Xixit is a puzzle game that feels like it is constantly trying to outwit you, presenting challenges that require both logic and a bit of creative thinking. It does not rely on flas...
sink-or-swim-05

Sink or Swim

DOS1993 puzzle
Sink or Swim is basically what happens when someone asks, “What if we turned a rescue operation into a slapstick puzzle show?” You guide lifeboat-juggling hero S.S. Dav...
glider-02

Glider 4.0

Windows 3.xMac OS1994 action
Few games make you appreciate the aerodynamic potential of a paper airplane quite like Glider 4.0. Set inside a house that feels more like a playground of hazards, you’ll nav...