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Ghostbusters 2
DOS19893.8/5 action
Ghostbusters 2 is an abandoned action game based on the movie of the same name, set in New York. Ghostbusters 2 was developed by Dynamix and released by Activision in 1989. It's part of a series of games based on the popular Ghostbuster franchise, being the olny one developed for DOS.
Protostar: War on the Frontier
DOS19934.1/5 vehicle simulation
Batman: the Caped Crusader
DOS19884/5 action-adventure
Batman: The Caped Crusader is an action-adventure video game released in the late 1980s. It was developed and published by Ocean Software and was available on various home computer systems of that era, including the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, Atari ST and, of course, DOS. The game was a graphic action-adventure that combine...
Star Wars: Dark Forces
DOS1995protected4.3/5 shooter
Hexen: Beyond Heretic
DOS1995protected4.2/5 shooter
The Cycles
DOS19894.2/5 racing
Bram Stoker's Dracula
DOS19934/5 shooter
DeskMate
DOS19842.8/5 application
Deskmate is a software suite developed by Tandy Corporation that provided a graphical user interface (GUI) and a set of applications for personal computers. It was often bundled with Tandy's TRS-80 and Tandy 1000 series of computers in the late 1980s and early 1990s.Deskmate included various applications such as a word processor, spreadsheet, calen...
Monopoly Deluxe
DOSWindows 3.x19924/5 strategy
Monopoly Deluxe is an abandoned turn-based top-down Monopoly adaptation of the classic board game, developed by Parker Brothers and released by Virgin Interactive in 1992. Monopoly Deluxe was published for DOS, Windows 3.1, and Macintosh.
Nuclear War
DOS19894/5 strategy
Nuclear War is an abandoned turn-based strategy game designed by Eric Hyman and Jon Van Caneghem. Nuclear War was developed and released by New World Computing in 1989 for Amiga and, later, for DOS, and it's loosely based on a card game of the same name. Nuclear War took a satirical approach to the grim possibility of a global nuclear war and succe...
Star Trek: Judgment Rites
DOS1993protected4.2/5 adventure
Thexder
DOS19873.6/5 action
Wizardry 7: Crusaders of the Dark Savant
Windows XP/98/95LinuxDOS1992protected4.2/5 rpg
Wizardry VII: Crusaders of the Dark Savant is a first-person perspective party-based RPG developed and released by Sir-tech Software in 1992 for Windows, Linux and DOS. Wizardry 7 is the seventh chapter in the Wizardry series and it's part of the Dark Savant trilogy, set in a world where sci-fi themes (space travel, androids) are mixed with fantasy...
Eagle Eye Mysteries in London
DOS19944/5 adventure
SimAnt: The Electronic Ant Colony
DOS19914.1/5 simulation
Ultima Underworld 2: Labyrinth of Worlds
DOS1993protected4.1/5 rpg
DOS Navigator v 1.5
DOS1991freeware4/5 application
1942: The Pacific Air War
DOS1994protected4.2/5 vehicle simulation
Penthouse electric jigsaw
DOS1990NSFW3.7/5 puzzle
Another World
DOS1991protected4.1/5 action-adventure
Lombard RAC Rally
DOS19884.4/5 racing
Dark Sun 2: Wake of the Ravager
DOS1994protected4/5 rpg
Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol
Windows 3.x1995protected4/5 rpg
Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol is fantasy RPG game released in 1995 for Windows 3.x, but it runs flawlessy even Windows XP (see this faq if you want to play Mordor in a virtual machine). Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol is a mix of first-person and top-down perspective dungeon crawler; the game shows the dungeon in by both perspectives at onc...
Millennia: Altered Destinies
DOS19953.5/5 vehicle simulation
Gobliiins
DOSMac OS1991protected4.2/5 adventure
Gobliiins is a peculiar adventure game designed by Pierre Gilhodes, developed by French company Coktel Vision and released by Sierra On-Line in 1991 for DOS, Mac, Amiga and Atari ST. In Gobliiins, you control multiple goblins and you must find a way to progress to the next area by solving typical adventure puzzles. The story is almost non-exis...
Populous
DOS19893.9/5 strategy
Populous is an abandoned strategy game designed by the video game celebrity Peter Molyneux, developed by Bullfrog. Populous was released by Electronic Arts in 1989 for DOS and for a long list of other 16-bit and 8-bit systems, both console and PCs. Populos is a really unique game: it gave the name to the the whole god-game genre since, well, in the...
Arj
DOS19904.3/5 application
ARJ is a file compression utility and file format created by Robert K. Jung. The name "ARJ" stands for "Archived by Robert Jung." It was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a compression tool for MS-DOS and other systems. ARJ offered high compression ratios and various features, such as archive encryption and error recovery.
Castles 2: Siege and Conquest
DOSMac OS1992protected4.2/5 strategy
Fire and Forget
DOS19883.8/5 racing
Teresa: House Guest
DOS1993NSFW3.8/5 adventure