Abandonware DOS title

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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Star Crusader

DOS1994 space simulation, space combat
Star Crusader is an abandoned science fiction first-person 3D space combat simulator, developed by Take-Two Interactive and published by GameTek in 1994 for both DOS and Amiga platforms. In the game, you must choose which side to ...
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Arctic Fox

DOS1987 tank simulation, first-person shooter
Tank controls + polar bears + Cold War vibes = Arctic Fox. In this early vehicular combat sim, you're piloting a futuristic snow tank across an icy wasteland to stop some aliens or Russians or alien Russians. The plot is thin, the...
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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 ...
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Up Periscope!

DOS1988 submarine simulation
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Apache strike

DOS1989 helicopter simulation, flight 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 bad guys in a first-person view that resembles a s...
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Tornado

DOS1993protected flight simulation
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F-14 Tomcat

DOS1990 flight simulation
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Jet

DOS1985 flight simulation
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Armour-Geddon

DOS1992 tank simulation, helicopter simulation, flight simulation
Armour-Geddon is what you get when someone combines Wargames with a midlife crisis. Set in a post-nuke world where you pilot tanks, helicopters, and laser cannons to stop a doomsday device, it’s a strange cocktail of strateg...
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The Dam busters

DOS1985 flight simulation
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Merlin Challenge

DOS1993 helicopter simulation, flight simulation
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Solo Flight

DOS1985 civilian flight simulation, flight simulation
Not many people know that the first games created by Sid Meier were flight simulations. Solo Flight was published by MicroProse in 1983 for Commodore 64, Apple II, Atari, and a year later, in 1984, for PC. The game takes place in ...
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Starglider

DOS1986 space combat, space simulation
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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.
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MiG-29M Super Fulcrum

DOS1989 flight simulation
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Blue Max: Aces of the Great War

DOS1990protected flight simulation
Forget missiles—Blue Max: Aces of the Great War takes you back to when air combat meant leather helmets, canvas wings, and a healthy fear of gravity. Released in 1990 for DOS, it’s a flight sim that drops you into WWI&...
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Microsoft Space Simulator

DOS1994 realistic space simulation, space simulation
Microsoft Space Simulator is a space flight simulator game developed by Bruce Artwick Organization and published by Microsoft in 1994. It is part of the broader range of simulation games that Microsoft released during the 1990s, b...
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Metaltech: Earthsiege

DOS1994 mech simulation
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Wing Commander: Privateer

Windows XP/98/95DOSMac OS1993protected space exploration, space combat, space simulation
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Falcon 3.0

DOS1991protected flight simulation
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WinTrek

Windows 3.x1992 space exploration, space simulation
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Extreme Assault

DOS1997 flight simulation, first-person shooter
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MiG-29 Fulcrum

DOS1991 flight simulation
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Skyfox II: The Cygnus Conflict

DOS1988 space combat, space simulation
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Abrams Battle Tank

DOS1989 tank simulation
Get ready to drive a tank very slowly while also being very stressed. Abrams Battle Tank (1989, DOS) puts you in the commander’s seat of America’s steel behemoth, and somehow turns desert combat into a tactical crawl. ...
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Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain

DOS1989 flight simulation
Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain is an abandoned historical combat flight simulation game set in Great Britain (obviously) during World War 2. Their Finest Hour was designed by Lawrence Holland, developed and released by L...
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Ultrabots

DOS1993 first-person shooter, mech simulation
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Conqueror

DOS1990 tank simulation
Conqueror is what happens when a tank simulator and an arcade game go on a date and forget their purpose. You drive a tank in a pseudo-3D landscape, blow up stuff, and command squads like a battlefield conductor with no baton. It&...
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Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space

DOS1993 board game, realistic space simulation, space simulation
Finally, a game where you don’t blast aliens—you launch real people into space, with all the white-knuckled tension of 1960s NASA. Buzz Aldrin’s Race into Space is a strategy sim with rocket science and Cold War ...