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The Lurking Horror
DOS1987 adventure
From 1987’s text adventure golden age, The Lurking Horror proves you don’t need graphics to be terrified. You’re a student trapped on a snowy university campus du...
Ultima 7 Part 2: Serpent Isle
DOS1993 rpg
As sequels go, Serpent Isle is less “more of the same” and more “everything is different, good luck.” Shipwrecked on a strange new land, you’ll deal w...
Borland Turbo Pascal 3.0
DOS1986 application
Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2000protected rpg
If Baldur’s Gate was a sprawling epic, Shadows of Amn is the Shakespearean sequel with better everything: graphics, writing, drama. Your soul is stolen (again), your allies a...
Dragon's Lair 3: The Curse of Mordread
DOS1992protected adventure
By 1992, Dragon’s Lair 3: The Curse of Mordread continued Dirk’s tradition of “failing spectacularly until you don’t.” Once again, you guide the world...
L'Eternauta: Gli Invasori della Città Eterna
DOS1994 action-adventure
Based on the legendary Argentine comic, L'Eternauta: Gli Invasori della Città Eterna (1994) is bleak, atmospheric, and proudly uninterested in holding your hand. Set in a sn...
Norton Utilities 8
DOS1994 application
Frontier: First Encounters
DOS1995 vehicle simulation
Bad Blood
DOS1990 rpg
Set in a post-apocalyptic world where leather vests are apparently immune to radiation, Bad Blood lets you wander the wasteland deciding whether to be a brute, a brainiac, or a mut...
Allan Border's Cricket
DOS1993 sports
In Allan Border’s Cricket (1993), you get to live the thrill of... waiting. A lot. But when the action kicks in, it’s surprisingly engaging. Named after the Australian ...
Mean Streets
DOS1989protected adventure
Mean Streets (1989) throws you into a gritty sci-fi detective story where neon lights, flying cars, and criminal conspiracies are just part of a normal workday. You play as a priva...
QBasic Nibbles
DOS1991freeware action
Dangerous Dave
DOS1990protected action
Dangerous Dave is the kind of platformer that defined the early ’90s shareware scene: simple, fast, and just tricky enough to make you shout at your monitor. You guide Dave t...
Moria
DOS1992freeware rpg
DND
DOS1984 rpg
Before there was Baldur’s Gate or Skyrim, there was DND. This 1984 DOS dungeon crawler is as old-school as it gets, complete with ASCII graphics, endless hallways, and monste...
Mixed-up Fairy Tales
DOS1991 adventure
Railroad Tycoon Deluxe
DOS1993 simulation
Railroad Tycoon Deluxe feels like someone took the original game, showered it with confetti, tuned the engine, and handed it back with a wink. Better colors, refined scenarios, and...
Chasm: The Rift
DOS1997 shooter
Before Half-Life, there was Chasm: The Rift, a game where time-traveling mutants explode into limbs and every room looks like it was decorated by a doom-metal band. A first-person ...
Weird Dreams
DOS1988 puzzle
Weird Dreams is an abandoned action - puzzle game developed and released by Rainbird Software in 1988 for DOS, but also published for Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64. Weird Dreams is...
Electroman
DOS1992freeware action
Electroman is a cheerful little platformer with a big grin and zero interest in realism. You play as a cartoonish superhero zipping through levels full of gadgets, traps, and enemi...
Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti does a Llittle Undercover Work
DOS1991NSFW adventure
Uridium
DOS1988 shooter
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 (incl...
Last Ninja
DOS1988 action-adventure
Bloodstone: an Epic Dwarven Tale
DOS1993 rpg
If you’ve ever dreamed of being a grumpy bearded guy swinging an axe and saving the world before second breakfast, Bloodstone: an Epic Dwarven Tale is your jam. Released in 1...
Operation: Inner Space
Windows 3.x1994protecteddemo shooter
Worms
DOSMac OS1995protecteddemo strategy
Blasteroids
DOS1989 shooter
Blasteroids is a video game developed and released by Atari, Inc. in 1987. It's a sequel to the classic arcade game Asteroids, which was released in 1979. In Blasteroids, players c...
3-Demon
DOS1983 action
3-Demon from 1983 is basically Pac-Man with a taste for LSD. You’re in a first-person maze, munching dots while glowing ghosts try to ruin your day. It’s surprisingly c...
The Crack of Doom
DOS1989 adventure
Master of Magic
DOSWindows XP/98/951994protected strategy
Master of Magic is a turn based 4x strategy game developed by SimTex and published by the well know Microprose, very similar to Civilization, with a fantasy twist. You play as a wi...






























