The best abandonware action games
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ZZT
DOS1991freeware4.2/5 maze, action puzzle
Extreme Pinball
DOS19954.2/5 pinball
Disney's Aladdin
DOS19944.2/5 platform
Bubble Bobble
DOS19894.2/5
Bubble Bobble is perhaps one of the most popular (and cute!) platform arcade games of all times. The goal of Bubble Bobble is simple: clear each screen from various monsters and reach the final stage. In order to get rid of enemies, dinosaurs Bub and Bob can spit bubbles to trap them, then pop the bubbles to kill them.
Prince of Persia
DOSMac OS19904.2/5 platform
Prince of Persia is an abandoned DOS platform game set in Middle East, developed and released by Broderbund in 1990. Designer Jordan Mechner created a game that made a lasting impression of gamers thanks to a clever use of a tecnique called rotoscoping which makes the animation of the protagonist very realistic.
Antix
DOS1985remake4.2/5
Ms Pac PC
DOS1995remake4.2/5 maze
Disney's The Jungle Book
DOSWindows XP/98/951995protected4.2/5 platform
Pinball Fantasies
DOS19944.2/5 pinball
Montezuma's Revenge
DOS19844.2/5 metroidvania, platform
The Lost Vikings
DOS19934.2/5 platform, action puzzle
The Lost Vikings is an old DOS platform-puzzle game, developed by Silicon & Synapse and published by Interplay Productions in 1993. In The Lost Vikings you have to solve puzzles by controlling three characters (glorious vikings!), each with a single skill of its own.
Rampage
DOS19884.2/5
Super Mariio Bros
DOS1994remake4.2/5 platform
The Blues Brothers
DOS19914.2/5 platform
The Blues Brothers is a platformer that follows the adventures of Jake and Elwood Blues as they try to put their band back together. The player controls one of the Blues Brothers through various levels, each filled with obstacles, enemies, and puzzles. The ultimate goal is to collect musical notes and instruments to assemble the band. develope...
Hocus Pocus
DOS1994protected4.2/5 platform
Blackthorne
DOS19944.2/5 platform
Blackthorne is a sci-fi / fantasy abandoned action platform game designed by Ronald Millar, developed by Blizzard Entertainment (yes, the creators of Diablo and World of Warcraft) and was released by Interplay Productions in 1994 for DOS and Mac. Blackthorne was also published for SNES, Sega 32X, Game Boy Advance and other systems.
Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone
DOS19924.2/5 beat 'em up
Dilbert's Desktop Games
Windows XP/98/9519974.2/5
Rocket Ranger
DOS1988protected4.2/5
Frankenstein
DOS19944.2/5 platform
PC-Man
DOS1982remake4.2/5 maze
PC-Man is an abandoned top-down Pac-Man clone in every regard: from the shape of the protagonist, to the cute ghosts. PC-Man was designed by Greg Kuperberg, developed by Orion Software and released in 1982 for DOS. As PC-Man, you have to move through a one screen maze to collect dots (pills? wafers?) and avoid being touched by one of the usual Pac-...
Tom and Jerry
DOS19934.2/5 platform
Ugh!
DOS19924.2/5
Bio Menace Episode 2: The Hidden Lab
DOS1993freeware4.2/5 platform, run and gun
Atomic Bomberman
Windows XP/98/9519974.2/5 maze
Golden Axe
DOS19914.2/5 beat 'em up
Golden Axe is a classic arcade game developed by Sega and released in 1989. It's a side-scrolling beat 'em up game set in a fantasy world where players choose one of three characters: a barbarian, a dwarf, or an amazon, each with their own strengths and abilities.The game follows the quest of these heroes to rescue the King and Princess of Yuria fr...
Oliver & Company
DOS19894.2/5
Asterix and Obelix
DOS19964.2/5 platform
Lucky Luke
Windows XP/98/9519974.2/5 platform
Commander Keen 1: Marooned on Mars
DOS19904.2/5 platform
Commander Keen 1: Marooned on Mars is a platform video game developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software in 1990 as shareware for MS-DOS. The game follows the adventures of an eight-year-old genius named Billy Blaze, who uses his homemade spaceship to travel to various alien planets to save the Earth from alien invaders known as V...