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Frederik Pohl's Gateway
DOS19924.1/5 Legend Entertainment
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.
Nomad
DOS19934.1/5 Papyrus Design Group
Master of Orion
DOS1993protected4.1/5 SimTex
Starflight
DOS19864.1/5 Binary Systems
Starflight is a classic space exploration and role-playing video game released in 1986 by Binary Systems and published by Electronic Arts. It is known for its innovative gameplay, as well as its open-ended approach to space exploration and storytelling.The game is set in a massive, procedurally generated universe with thousands of star systems to e...
Frontier: Elite 2
DOS19934.1/5 Frontier Developments
Frontier: Elite II is a classic space simulation and trading game released in 1993, developed by David Braben and his company Frontier Developments. Frontier is the sequel to the pioneering 1984 game Elite and is often considered a landmark title in the space simulation genre.
Protostar: War on the Frontier
DOS19934.1/5 Tsunami Media
Frontier: First Encounters
DOS19954.1/5 Frontier Developments
Star Wars: TIE Fighter
DOS1994protected4.1/5 LucasArts
Galaxy
DOS19814.1/5 Microcomputer Games Inc.
Independence War 2: Edge Of Chaos
Windows XP/98/952001protected4.1/5 Particle Systems
Star Wars: X-Wing
DOS1993protected4.1/5 LucasArts
Solar Winds: The Escape
DOS19934.1/5 Stone Interactive Media
Tau Ceti
DOS19874.1/5
Wing Commander: Privateer
Windows XP/98/95DOSMac OS1993protected4.1/5 Origin Systems
Spacewar
DOS19854.1/5
Spacewar is one of the earliest digital computer games and is often considered the first interactive video game. It was created in 1962 by Steve Russell, Martin Graetz, and Wayne Wiitanen at the MIT. The game was developed on the PDP-1 minicomputer; this is a DOS port, released in 1985.Spacewar! features two spaceships, controlled by players, that ...
Elite
DOS1987freeware4.1/5 Firebird
Space Quest 5: The Next Mutation
DOS1993protected4.1/5 Dynamix
Xatax
DOS19944/5 Pixel Painters Corporation
Planet's Edge
DOS1991protected4/5 New World Computing
Star Trek: the Kobayashi alternative
DOS19854/5 Micromosaics
Elite Plus
DOS1991freeware4/5 Realtime Games
Space Rogue
DOS19894/5 Origin Systems
Space Rogue is a science fiction RPG developed by Richard Garriott's Origin and desined by Paul Neurath. Space Rogue combines a 3D space simulation with a top down view RPG gameplay. As a space pilot you can hunt bounties, buy and sell goods, land on starbases or outposts and talk to NPCs, do quests, etc.
Wing Commander
DOS1990freeware4/5 Origin Systems
Wing Commander 1 is a space combat simulator video game; the first game in the Wing Commander series. Wing Commander 1 was developed and published by Origin Systems in 1990. The game was created by Chris Roberts and became known for its innovative use of cinematic storytelling and cutting-edge graphics at the time.In Wing Commander, playe...
Star Control 3
DOS1996protected4/5 Legend Entertainment
Space Quest 2: Vohaul's Revenge
DOS1987protected4/5 Sierra On-Line
Descent: FreeSpace - The Great War
Windows XP/98/951998protected4/5 Volition
Galaxian
DOS19834/5 Namco
LineWars
DOS19904/5 Safari Software
LineWars 2
DOS19944/5 Safari Software
Star General
Windows XP/98/95DOS1996protected4/5 Catware, Inc.
Star General is a turn-based strategy game developed by Catware and published by SSI (Strategic Simulations, Inc.). It was released in 1996 for MS-DOS and later for Windows. The game is set in a science fiction universe where players take command of one of five different factions, each vying for control of the galaxy.In Star General, players comman...