The most popular abandonware vehicle simulation games
Vehicle simulation games put the player right in the pilot’s seat, for an immersive and realistic game experience. Vehicles can be cars, airplanes, spaceships, or tanks. Simulation is often based on details in order to augment realism, like full-features dashboards, controls, gauges, and indicators.
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Falcon 3.0
DOS1991protected flight simulation
After Burner
DOS1989 flight simulation, rail shooter
If you’ve ever wanted to fly a jet fighter at Mach “Oh no, I crashed again,” After Burner is the game for you. This 1989 DOS classic straps you into an F-14 and launches you straight into the danger zone - no tra...
Star Wars: X-Wing
DOS1993protected space simulation, space combat
1942: The Pacific Air War
DOS1994protected flight simulation
This one’s a flight sim for people who think Top Gun didn’t have enough fuel gauges. 1942: The Pacific Air War puts you in the cockpit of World War II fighter planes, complete with dials, switches, and enough acronyms ...
Pacific Islands
DOS1992 tank simulation
Deep space: Operation Copernicus
DOS1986 space combat, space simulation
Independence War
Windows XP/98/951997protected space combat, space exploration, space simulation
Flight of the Intruder
DOS1990 flight simulation
Tornado
DOS1993protected flight simulation
F-14 Tomcat
DOS1990 flight simulation
Air Strike USA
DOS1990 flight simulation, third-person shooter
Released in 1990, Air Strike USA is what you'd get if Top Gun had a baby with a Saturday morning cartoon. You pilot a heavily armed jet through side-scrolling skies, shooting down everything that moves and quite a few things that ...
F-16 Combat Pilot
DOS1989 flight simulation
Wing Commander: Privateer
Windows XP/98/95DOSMac OS1993protected space exploration, space combat, space simulation
Jet
DOS1985 flight simulation
LHX Attack Chopper
DOS1990 helicopter simulation, flight simulation
Aquanox
Windows XP/98/952001protected first-person shooter, submarine simulation
Dive into Aquanox (2001), where post-apocalyptic submarines battle it out beneath the ocean in a world that’s half Waterworld, half neon rave. With moody lighting and dialogue that screams “we’re trying to be dee...
Evasive Action
DOS1993 flight simulation
Strike Commander
DOS1993protected flight simulation
Strike Commander is combat flight simulation game created by Chris Roberts (the designer behind Wing Commander) and Jeff George. Strike Commander was developed by Origin Systems and released by Electronic Arts in 1993 for DOS.
Das Boot: German U-Boat Simulation
DOS1990protected submarine simulation
Heroes of the 357th
DOS1992 flight simulation
Ultrabots
DOS1993 first-person shooter, mech simulation
Transarctica
DOS1993
Harpoon
DOS1989protected board game, naval simulation
Archimedean Dynasty
DOS1996protected naval simulation, submarine simulation
In Archimedean Dynasty, humanity did the logical thing after wrecking the surface world: moved underwater and started shooting each other in submarines. It's part tactical sim, part gritty sci-fi novella, and entirely German in it...
Silent Service 2
DOSMac OS1990protected submarine simulation
688 Attack Sub
DOS1989 submarine simulation
Dive, dive! This 1989 DOS simulator puts you in control of a nuclear submarine, though most of the action involves pushing buttons and waiting very patiently. Think of it as the “Microsoft Excel of naval warfare,” only...
Great Naval Battles: North Atlantic 1939 - 1943
DOS1992protected naval simulation
Jetfighter 2: Advanced Tactical Fighter
DOS1990 flight simulation
A320 Airbus
DOS1993 civilian flight simulation, flight simulation
Released in 1993 for DOS, A320 Airbus is less “Top Gun” and more “Intro to Aeronautical Bureaucracy.” It’s a flight simulator so realistic, even real pilots needed a manual. You’ll experience th...
Comanche: Maximum overkill
DOS1992 helicopter simulation, flight simulation