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Return to Doom
DOS19883.8/5 Topologika Software
Rocket Ranger
DOS1988protected4.2/5 Cinemaware
Scavengers of the Mutant World
DOS19883.9/5 Interstel Corporation
Side Arms Hyper Dyne
DOS19883.8/5 Capcom
Silpheed
DOS19884/5 Game Arts
Skyfox II: The Cygnus Conflict
DOS19883.7/5 Dynamix
Speedball
DOS19884.2/5 Bitmap Brothers
Star Command
DOS1988protected4/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Star Goose!
DOS19884/5 Logotron
Star Goose is a classic video game developed by Logotron and released in 1988 for various home computer systems of that era, including the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and Amstrad CPC. It is a top-down, vertically scrolling shooter that combines elements of shoot 'em up gameplay with exploration and power-up mechanics.
Star Trek: First Contact
DOS19883.6/5 Simon & Schuster Interactive
Star Trek: The Rebel Universe
DOS19883.8/5 Firebird
Star Wars
DOS19884.2/5 Atari
Starquake
DOS19884/5 Bubble Bus Software
Starquake is a weird DOS science fiction platform game developed by Bubble Bus Software in 1988 and designed by Stephen Crow and Dave Collins. The Commodore 64 version boasts a wonderful soundtrack. Unfortunately, the PC version comes with CGA graphics and no soundtrack.
Stellar Crusade
DOS1988protected3.9/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
The Colony
DOS19883.2/5
The Twilight Zone
DOS19884.2/5
The Twilight Zone is an abandoned sci-fi themed adventure game based on the popular TV series of the same name. The Twilight zone released in 1988 by First Row Software Publishing for DOS and Amiga. At it's core, The Twilight Zone is a text adventure, so you have to type in commands, but it's supported by the graphics.
Uridium
DOS19883.9/5 Graftgold
Uridium is a classic shoot 'em up video game that was originally developed by Andrew Braybrook and published by Hewson Consultants in 1986 for various home computer platforms (including MS-DOS). In Uridium, players control a spaceship known as the Manta, and the objective is to destroy a series of enemy spacecraft, as well as ground-based inst...
Vectorball
DOS19882.9/5 Binary Design
Virus
DOS19883.9/5
Visions of the Aftermath: The Boomtown
DOS19883.4/5 Mindscape
Visions of the Aftermath: The Boomtown is an abandoned simulation game with role-playing elements developed by Mindscape and released in 1988 exclusively for DOS. Visions of the Aftermath is one of the few early examples of games involving survival in a post-apocalyptic environment.
Wasteland
DOS1988protected3.9/5 Interplay Productions
Xenon
DOS19883.9/5 Bitmap Brothers
Xenon, released in 1988, was a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up video game developed by The Bitmap Brothers. Xenon was initially released for the Commodore 64, and later, it was ported to other platforms, including DOS, the ZX Spectrum and Amiga.In Xenon, players control a futuristic tank-like craft and navigate through levels filled with enemy ve...
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
DOS1988protected4.1/5 LucasArts
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Lucasfilm Games (now known as LucasArts). It was first released in 1988 for various platforms, including the Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Amiga, and others.The game follows the adventures of Zak McKracken, a tabloid newspaper reporter, as he uncovers a plot by a...
Adventure Construction Set
DOS19873.9/5 Electronic Arts
Adventure Construction Set is an abandoned application developed by Stuart Smith and published for DOS, Amiga, Apple II and Commodore 64 by Electronic Arts in 1987. As the name suggests, ACS is a game-building system (we're talking about adventure RPGs) that lets you edit maps, items, creatures, etc. Included with ACS is a complete game called...
Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021
DOS1987freeware3.9/5 Thinking Machine Associates
Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021 is one of the first 4x turn-based strategy games, ASCII based. Anacreon is set in space, as most 4x sci-fi games are, and was published by Thinking Machines Associates and designed by George Moromisato who later re-released the game as freeware.
Apollo 18: Mission to the Moon
DOS19874/5 Artech Studios
Arctic Fox
DOS19873.9/5 Dynamix
Astrotit
DOS1987NSFW3.5/5 Rudeware
Blort!
DOS19873.7/5 Hennsoft
Driller
DOS19874.3/5 Incentive Software
Driller (also known as Space Station Oblivion) is an abandoned action-adventure game developed by Incentive and released by Epyx in 1987 based on the Freescape Engine. In Driller, you control an excavation probe in a real 3d environment, through a first person view. The goal of the game is to place a drilling rig in each of the 8 regions of the moo...