Abandonware DOS title

abandonware games sorted by popularity

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Framed

DOS1995 action-adventure
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Bomb Run

DOS1991 action
Bomb Run (1991, DOS) sounds like an action-packed thriller—and then you play it and realize you’re just trying to drop bombs in the right spots while flying what feels ...
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Druglord

DOS1991 simulation
In Druglord, you’re back on the mean streets, older, wiser, and with slightly better ASCII. Think of it as Drug Wars’s bigger, nastier cousin. You start broke, deal wit...
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The Light Corridor

DOS1990 puzzle
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The Untouchables

DOS1989 shooter
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Xiphos

DOS1990 vehicle simulation
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The Three Musketeers

DOS1987 adventure
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Mini Putt

DOS1988 sports
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Knights of the Desert

DOS1983protected strategy
Before WWII games flooded the market, Knights of the Desert (1983, DOS) was already reenacting the North African campaign in pixels. You command Rommel’s Afrika Korps—o...
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18th Airborne

DOS1993 shooter
18th Airborne is what happens when a military recruitment pamphlet and a tactical shooter have a baby. You’re thrown into the boots of a paratrooper with a mission, a gun, an...
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The Kristal

DOS1989 adventure
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The Train Escape to Normandy

DOS1988protected vehicle simulation
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Side Arms Hyper Dyne

DOS1988 shooter
Side Arms: Hyper Dyne is a side-scrolling shoot-'em-up arcade game developed and published by Capcom in 1986 and later ported on various platforms. Players control a "mobilsui...
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Battle for Atlantis

DOS1990 strategy
Fancy a war under the sea? Battle for Atlantis (1990) asks the age-old question: what if submarines had grudges? This top-down, action strategy title throws you into a deep-sea tur...
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Inve$t

DOS1990 simulation
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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...
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Dungeons of Kroz 2

DOS1989 action
Dungeons of Kroz 2 didn’t reinvent the wheel—it sharpened it and rolled it over your face. Released the same year as the original, it’s tougher, faster, and even ...
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The Taking of Beverly Hills

DOS1991 action-adventure
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Varicella

DOSWindows XP/98/95Linux1999freeware adventure
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Flash Gordon: Il Rapimento di Dale

DOS1992 action-adventure
Flash Gordon: Il Rapimento di Dale throws you into a pulpy sci-fi serial where subtlety is left at the airlock. Based on the adventures of the square-jawed space hero, the game lea...
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Mine Shaft

DOS1983 action
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Novatron

DOS1982 racing
Released in 1982, Novatron is one of those early DOS titles that tried to imagine the future using about twelve pixels and a prayer. It’s an arcade-style shooter that borrows...
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Sleepwalker

DOS1993protected action
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Austerlitz

DOS1989protected strategy
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African Trail Simulator

DOS1990 racing
Part racing game, part endurance test, African Trail Simulator dares you to hop on a pixel bike and brave the wild. You’ll encounter hostile terrain, wildlife, and the occasi...
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Zyll

DOS1984 adventure
Released in 1984, Zyll is what happens when a Dungeons & Dragons dungeon master learns to code and decides to build a text adventure inside a coffee machine. There are no graph...
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Madball

DOS1985 action
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Postal

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protected shooter