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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Hollywood Hijinx

DOS1986 interactive fiction
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James Bond 007: Goldfinger

DOS1986 interactive fiction
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Jewels of Darkness

DOS1986 graphic adventure with text parser, interactive fiction
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King's Quest 3: To Heir is Human

DOSMac OS1986protected graphic adventure with text parser
King's Quest 3: To Heir is Human is a fantasy adventure game designed by Roberta Williams, developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1986 for DOS and for other platforms such as Apple 2, Amiga, Atari ST, Macintosh. King's ...
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Leather Goddesses of Phobos

DOS1986 interactive fiction
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Moonmist

DOS1986 interactive fiction
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Passengers on the Wind

DOS1986 interactive fiction, visual novel
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Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man

DOS1986 interactive fiction
Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man is an abandoned text-based adventure game designed by Scott Adams, developed and released by Adventure International in 1986 for DOS but was also published for Acorn Electron, Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro...
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Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos

DOS1986 interactive fiction
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Silicon Dreams

DOS1986 interactive fiction
Silicon Dreams by Level 9 Computing is a trilogy of interactive fiction (text adventure) games released in the mid-1980s. The trilogy includes three separate games: Snowball, Return to Eden, and The Worm in Paradise. Each game com...
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Skullduggery: Adventures in Horror

DOS1986 interactive fiction
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Space Quest 1: The Sarien Encounter

DOSMac OS1986 graphic adventure with text parser
Space Quest I: The Sarien Encounter is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line, released in 1986. It was created by the duo of Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe, who later became known as the "Two Guys from An...
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Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy

DOSMac OS1986 interactive fiction
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Tass Times in Tonetown

DOS1986 interactive fiction
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The Black Cauldron

DOS1986freeware graphic adventure with text parser
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The Fellowship of the Ring

DOS1986 interactive fiction
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The Pawn

DOS1986 interactive fiction
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Transylvania

DOS1986freeware interactive fiction
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Trinity

DOS1986 interactive fiction
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Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego?

DOS1986 trivia / quiz
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Acheton

DOS1987 interactive fiction
Acheton (1987, DOS) is one of those text adventures where the game cheerfully tries to kill you every five minutes — and does so with words. You're tossed into a sprawling, brain-melting maze of puzzles so obscure they might...
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Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor

DOS1987 interactive fiction
If you ever wanted to roleplay in a text adventure where a coconut is of utmost importance, Beyond Zork has your back. This is Infocom at its most delightfully weird: part RPG, part parser game, all nonsense. You’ll customiz...
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Border Zone

DOS1987 interactive fiction
Welcome to Border Zone (1987, DOS), where the Cold War is hot and your only weapon is your brain (and maybe a good map). This text-based espionage thriller from Infocom combines spy drama with multiple protagonists and a real-time...
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Bureaucracy

DOSMac OS1987 interactive fiction
Douglas Adams, the twisted genius behind Hitchhiker’s Guide, brings you the most terrifying adventure of all: paperwork. Bureaucracy turns mundane modern life into a text-based hellscape of lost forms, passive-aggressive cle...
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Deja Vu: A Nightmare Comes True

DOS1987 point and click adventure
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Demon's Forge

DOS1987 interactive fiction
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Gnome Ranger

DOS1987 interactive fiction
Gnome Ranger is an abandoned fantasy adventure game, developed and published by Level 9 Computing in 1987 for DOS. Gnome Ranger was designed by Peter Austin who also designed the sequel Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid's Back.
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Indiana Jones: Revenge of the Ancients

DOS1987 interactive fiction
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Kingdom of Hamil

DOS1987 interactive fiction
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Knight Orc

DOSMac OS1987 interactive fiction
Knight Orc is a text-based adventure game released in 1987 by Level 9 Computing, a British game development studio renowned for creating interactive fiction during the 1980s. In Knight Orc, you play as Grindleguts the Orc, fl...