Abandonware DOS title

The most popular historical games

Some games are set in a specific historical period, usually a period of time particularly enjoyable for gamers such as the midde ages, the discovery of the Americas or the second world war. Historical games take a step further and try to be more faithful to the time period they are set.
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Frontline

DOS19903/5 Cases Computer Simulations
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Austerlitz 1805

DOS19893.9/5 Cornerstone Software
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Nobunaga's Ambition 6

DOS19943.9/5 KOEI
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Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 1

DOS19884/5 SSG Strategic Studies Group
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1869

DOS19923.9/5 Max Design
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Up Periscope!

DOS19884.1/5 Actionsoft
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Merchant Prince

DOS19934.1/5 Holistic Design
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Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain

DOS19894.2/5 LucasArts
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 LucasArts in 1989 for DOS, Amiga, Atari ST.
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Austerlitz

DOS1989protected3.5/5 Tactical Design Group
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Conquest of Japan

DOS19924.1/5 Impressions Games
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Sword of the Samurai

DOS1989protected4/5 MicroProse Software
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Midway Campaign

DOS19834/5 Microcomputer Games Inc.
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Great Napoleonic Battles

DOS19913.8/5 Impressions Games
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The Last Express

DOSWindows XP/98/951997protected4.1/5 Smoking Car Productions
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Sherman M4

DOS19894.1/5 Loriciels
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Dawn Patrol

DOS19944.2/5 Rowan Software
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Empire II: The Art of War

DOSWindows XP/98/9519954.1/5 White Wolf Productions
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Pacific General

Windows XP/98/951997protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Zeppelin: Giants of the Sky

DOS19953.9/5 Ikarion Software
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Operation Market Garden

DOS1985protected3.7/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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The Civil War

DOS19953.5/5 Dagger Interactive Technologies
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1893: A World's Fair Mystery

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS20033.6/5
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Advanced Civilization

DOS19954/5 Avalon Hill
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Solidarnosc

DOS19913.4/5 P. Z. Karen Co. Development Group
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Conflict

DOS19904.1/5 Mastertronic
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The Lost Patrol

DOS19913.7/5 Astros Productions
The Lost Patrol is an abandoned multi-type action game set in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam war. The Lost Patrol was developed by Astros Productions (DOS version) and released by Ocean Software in 1991 for DOS, Amiga and Atari ST.
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Defender of the Crown

DOS1991protected3.8/5 Cinemaware
Defender of the crown is a strategy game set in the middle ages, in England. You control a Saxon and must fight Normans to control the country. The player can conquest territories, lay siege to castles, join tournaments, rescue damsels.
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No Greater Glory

DOSMac OS1991protected4.1/5