Abandonware DOS title

Abandonware adventure games sorted by release date

Adventure games focus on cracking enigmas and exploring and contemplating the game world in a narrative-driven scenario. In order to progress within the story arc, the player has to interact with different items, the environment itself, and other non-playing characters (NPC in short).
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A Mind Forever Voyaging

DOSMac OS1985 interactive fiction
If you ever wanted to play a video game that doubles as a philosophical think piece, A Mind Forever Voyaging (1985) is your ride. Released for DOS and Macintosh, this is one of Infocom’s most ambitious works - a text adventu...
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Borrowed Time

DOS1985 interactive fiction
Borrowed Time is a graphic adventure video game developed and published by Interplay Productions. It was released in 1985 for various platforms, including the Apple Macintosh, Apple II, DOS, and Atari ST. The game is notable ...
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Brimstone

DOS1985 interactive fiction
Ever wanted to fight fire with... even more fire? Brimstone tosses you into a magical mess of spells, dungeons, and monsters who woke up on the wrong side of the crypt. It’s a 1985 RPG that oozes charm and confusion in equal...
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Essex

DOS1985 interactive fiction
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Forbidden Castle

DOS1985 interactive fiction
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Golden Oldies: Volume 1 - Computer Software Classics

DOS1985 interactive fiction, life simulation
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James Bond 007: A View to a Kill

DOS1985 interactive fiction
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King's Quest 2: Romancing the Throne

DOS1985protected graphic adventure with text parser
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Mickey's Space Adventure

DOS1985 graphic adventure with text parser
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Mindshadow

DOSMac OS1985 graphic adventure with text parser, interactive fiction
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Mindwheel

DOS1985 interactive fiction
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Perry Mason

DOS1985 interactive fiction
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Rambo First Blood Part 2

DOS1985 interactive fiction
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Rendezvous with Rama

DOS1985 interactive fiction
Rendezvous with Rama is an interactive fiction (text adventure) game released in 1984. Telarium, a subsidiary of Spinnaker Software, was known for producing narrative-driven games based on popular literary works. This adaptation o...
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Sherlock Holmes: Another bow

DOS1985 interactive fiction
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Spellbreaker

DOS1985 interactive fiction
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Star Trek: the Kobayashi alternative

DOS1985 interactive fiction
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The mist

DOS1985 interactive fiction
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The Tracer Sanction

DOS1985 graphic adventure with text parser
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The Wizard of Oz

DOS1985 interactive fiction
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Treasure Island

DOS1985 interactive fiction
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Voodoo island

DOS1985 interactive fiction
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Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

DOS1985 puzzle adventure
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Wishbringer

DOS1985 interactive fiction
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Amnesia

DOS1986 interactive fiction
In Amnesia, you wake up in a hotel room with no idea who you are, where you are, or why someone wants you dead. And no, this isn’t a gritty FPS—it’s a text adventure. That’s right, no graphics, just your im...
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Ballyhoo

DOS1986 interactive fiction
Come one, come all, to the saddest circus ever pixelated. In Ballyhoo, you're stuck in a depressing carnival trying to solve a kidnapping while dealing with clowns, carnies, and the worst text parser since your last therapy sessio...
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Beyond the Titanic

DOS1986 interactive fiction
Before Titanic was a movie with a lot of weeping, there was Beyond the Titanic, a text adventure where surviving the iceberg is just the beginning. The game takes the historic disaster and then says, “What if we added a secr...
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Breakers

DOS1986 interactive fiction
In Breakers, you're a high-tech wrecking crew with a mission: break stuff. Computers, walls, enemy morale—whatever gets in your way. Released in 1986, it feels like a mutant crossbreed of action game and low-budget sci-fi mo...