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Leisure Suit Larry 2: Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places)

DOS1988NSFW adventure
Released in 1988, Leisure Suit Larry 2: Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) sends Larry into an increasingly outrageous international adventure filled with spies, tropi...
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Bushido

DOS1983 action
Step into feudal Japan with Bushido, a game that tries to simulate samurai life on a machine barely capable of rendering a convincing circle. Still, there’s something charmin...
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Silent Service

DOSMac OS1985protecteddemo vehicle simulation
Silent Service is a submarine simulation game developed and published by MicroProse. The first game in the series, Silent Service, was released in 1985. It was designed by Sid...
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Police Quest 2: The Vengeance

DOS1988protected adventure
Police Quest 2: The Vengeance continues the realistic police adventure series with a new investigation, deeper mechanics, and more opportunities to experience the daily challenges ...
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Film Studio Tycoon Alpha

Windows Vista/7/82022 simulation
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Dungeon Keeper

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protected strategy
Ah, Dungeon Keeper, where you’re not the hero—you’re the evil overlord. And it feels so good. Released in 1997, this Bullfrog classic flipped the script on fantas...
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Amulets & Armor

DOS1997freeware rpg
Imagine Doom and Ultima Underworld had a low-budget child who was homeschooled in a basement filled with Mountain Dew cans. That’s Amulets & Armor. A mix of first-person ...
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Gunship

DOS1986demo vehicle simulation
Gunship is a landmark helicopter simulation that treats you less like a player and more like a trainee pilot who forgot to read the manual. It demands attention to instrumentation,...
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Ugh!

DOS1992 action
Ugh! answers the eternal question: what if a stone-age delivery service were the basis for an entire video game? You play as a caveman whose main skills include grunting, flying a ...
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Dreamweb

DOS1994freeware adventure
Dreamweb (1994) went full dark cyberpunk, and it didn’t pull its punches. You play Ryan, a man convinced he’s on a mission from mysterious forces to kill seven people w...
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Warlords

DOS1990 strategy
Warlords is a fantasy strategy game that turns the world into a massive board game of conquest. You command heroes, raise armies, capture cities, and summon mythical creatures in a...
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Tomb Raider

DOS1996protected action-adventure
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Frontier: Elite 2

DOS1993 vehicle simulation
Few games capture the feeling of “the galaxy is huge and you are spectacularly insignificant” quite like Frontier: Elite 2. Released in 1993, this ambitious sequel thro...
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Apache strike

DOS1989 vehicle simulation
Ah, Apache Strike (1989), the game where you're the lone helicopter pilot flying through blocky cities that look like they were made of leftover Lego bricks. Your mission? Blow up ...
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Battle Chess

DOS1988protected strategy
You’ve never really lived until you’ve watched a rook pick up a pawn and slam dunk it into the floor. Battle Chess (1988) turns the world’s most intellectual boar...
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Lure of the Temptress

DOS1992freeware adventure
Lure of the Temptress (1992, DOS) is dark fantasy done right — with muddy streets, suspicious peasants, and a villainess who’s equal parts charm and cruelty. As Diermot...
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Tetris

DOS1987 puzzle
Tetris is the kind of game that looks harmless until you realize you’ve been staring at falling blocks for three hours straight. Released in 1987, this deceptively simple puzzle ...
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Tristan Pinball

DOS1991 action
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Mines of Titan

DOS1989 rpg
Mines of Titan is a science fiction role-playing adventure set on the harsh surface of Saturn's moon, where survival depends on exploration, resource management, and careful decisi...
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Cadaver

DOS1990 action-adventure
Ever wonder what it’s like to be a grave-robbing dwarf with a flair for interior dungeon decoration? Cadaver grants that peculiar wish. As Karadoc, you’ll wander an eer...
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American McGee's Alice

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2000 action-adventure
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The Magic Candle

DOS1989 rpg
Released in 1989 for DOS, The Magic Candle is a classic RPG with more depth than a wizard’s library. You must keep a sacred candle burning to prevent evil from escaping &mdas...
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J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I

DOS1990 rpg
Italicized title: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I. Bringing Tolkien’s legendary novel to computers was never going to be an easy task, but this role-playing ad...
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Lyle in Cube Sector

Windows XP/98/952006 action-adventure
Lyle in Cube Sector (2006, Windows) looks like it fell out of a lost NES cartridge and landed straight on your hard drive. This indie metroidvania has you tossing cubes, exploring ...
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Test Drive 3: The Passion

DOS1990 racing
Test Drive 3: The Passion takes the “driving simulator” label and adds just enough early-’90s flair to make you feel like a rebel with a V8. Forget endless racetr...
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FIFA Soccer Manager

Windows XP/98/951997 sports
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Temple of Apshai Trilogy

DOS1985 rpg
The Temple of Apshai Trilogy is a series of classic role-playing games developed by Automated Simulations (later known as Epyx) in the late 1970s and early 1980s. These games were ...
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Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord

DOS1981 rpg
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord is a role-playing video game that was first released in 1981. It's one of the pioneering titles in the dungeon-crawling genre and one ...
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Flight of the Amazon Queen

DOS1995freeware adventure
Flight of the Amazon Queen is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Interactive Binary Illusions and originally released in 1995. The game is heavily inspired by the likes ...
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Hacker 2: The Doomsday Papers

DOS1986 simulation
Hacker 2: The Doomsday Papers doubles down on everything the original attempted, raising the stakes from “interesting breach of security” to “global catastrophe.&...