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Cougar Force
DOS1990 action
Cougar Force feels like the ’80s exploded into a side-scrolling action game. Big guns, big hair, and bigger explosions define this run-and-gun romp where subtlety is for othe...
Lords of Doom
DOS1990 rpg
Lords of Doom, released in 1990, wears its dark fantasy influences proudly and with very little restraint. Everything about the game feels intense, from the name to the atmosphere,...
Great Napoleonic Battles
DOS1991 strategy
Great Napoleonic Battles is the kind of game that assumes you are ready to command armies and possibly rewrite history before breakfast. In Great Napoleonic Battles, strategy is ev...
World Karate Championship
DOS1986 action
Crime Time
DOS1990 adventure
Crime Time blends point-and-click adventure with a murder mystery that’s as much about wit as it is about clues. You play an innocent man framed for murder, scrambling to gat...
Quest for the Unicorn
DOSWindows XP/98/95Linux1990freeware rpg
No Greater Glory
DOSMac OS1991protected simulation
FlixMix
DOS1993 puzzle
FlixMix feels like someone took a film editor’s desk, scattered it across a computer screen, and invited you to tidy up at speed. The premise is deceptively simple: assemble ...
Sierra Championship Boxing
DOSMac OS1985 sports
Sierra Championship Boxing is an abandoned sports boxing game, developed by Evryware and released by Sierra On-Line in 1985. You can issue instructions to the boxer between rounds,...
Renegade Legion Interceptor
DOS1990protected strategy
Wing Commander 3
Windows XP/98/95DOSMac OS1994protected vehicle simulation
Subbuteo
DOS1990 sports
Companions of Xanth
DOS1993protected adventure
Based on Piers Anthony’s pun-filled fantasy world, Companions of Xanth is like walking into a joke book that got lost in a spellbook. You play a guy from the "real world" suc...
Mini Putt
DOS1988 sports
Front Lines
DOS1994 strategy
Front Lines, released in 1994, is a straightforward DOS action game that wears its inspiration proudly. You’re thrown into military combat scenarios with minimal narrative fr...
Hard Drivin' 2
DOS1990 racing
Hard Drivin' 2 takes everything its predecessor attempted and pushes it a little further, like a sequel that insists it has matured but still enjoys causing vehicular embarrassment...
Monday Night Football
DOS1989 sports
The Invaders
DOSWindows XP/98/951989remake shooter
Castle Adventure
DOS1984freeware action-adventure
Castle Adventure is what happens when a medieval fantasy RPG gets crammed into a game smaller than your average selfie. ASCII graphics? Check. Typing commands like “GET SWORD...
Monopoly (Adam Stevens)
DOS1998 strategy
Sherlock Holmes: Another bow
DOS1985 adventure
McDonald Land
DOS1992 action
McDonald Land (1992) is one of the strangest brand tie-ins ever to grace DOS, and that’s saying something. You play as Ronald McDonald himself, jumping across colorful platfo...
Bagman
Windows Vista/7/82013freewareremake action
No, it’s not about a guy who holds your groceries. Bagman is a retro-style indie throwback where you’re a pickaxe-wielding convict trying to steal bags of cash from a m...
Lightspeed
DOS1990 simulation
Microsoft Multiplan 4.2
DOS1988 application
Aspetra
DOS1996 rpg
Welcome to Aspetra, a 1996 DOS game that tried to cram an epic sci-fi RPG into your beige box PC — and mostly succeeded! Think “Star Trek meets budget constraints.&rdqu...
Mirror Magic
Windows XP/98/95Linux1995freeware puzzle
Taipan for Windows
Windows XP/98/952002freeware simulation
In Taipan for Windows, you’re not a hero, you’re a 19th-century capitalist trying to get rich trading tea, silk, and the occasional bit of opium in the South China Sea....
Rex Nebular and the cosmic gender-bender
DOS1992protected adventure
What if Leisure Suit Larry and Monkey Island had a love child in outer space, raised by gender-swapped aliens? You’d get Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender-Bender, a hilarious...
Guldkorn Expressen
DOS1991 puzzle
Guldkorn Expressen sounds cheerful, and in many ways it is—a Scandinavian oddity that feels like it was assembled with equal parts whimsy and educational intent. You guide a ...






























