Abandonware DOS title

Military themed games sorted by year, newest first

The navy, the army, the air force, were all an inspiration for a number of games belonging to many different genres, from run and gun action games to flight simulations. Whether or not you like military themes, the top quality of these games was often enough to attract lots of players.
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LHX Attack Chopper

DOS1990 Electronic Arts
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MacArthur's War

DOS1990 SSG Strategic Studies Group
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Panzer Battles

DOS1990 SSG Strategic Studies Group
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Red Baron

DOS1990protected Dynamix
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Silent Service 2

DOSMac OS1990protected MicroProse Software
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Team Yankee

DOS1990 Oxford Digital Enterprises
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688 Attack Sub

DOS1989 Electronic Arts
Dive, dive! This 1989 DOS simulator puts you in control of a nuclear submarine, though most of the action involves pushing buttons and waiting very patiently. Think of it as the “Microsoft Excel of naval warfare,” only...
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A-10 Tank Killer

DOS1989 Dynamix
Explosions? Check. Missiles? Check. Graphics that look like someone spilled gray soup on your monitor? Double check. A-10 Tank Killer lets you pilot a flying war machine and rain chaos upon tiny pixel tanks that may or may not be ...
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Abrams Battle Tank

DOS1989 Dynamix
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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Apache strike

DOS1989 Activision
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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Austerlitz 1805

DOS1989 Cornerstone Software
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Boot Camp

DOS1989 Konami
Boot Camp (1989, DOS) is the game that turns military training into a button-mashing festival of pain. Ever dreamed of surviving basic training without breaking a sweat? This is it—if your definition of “not sweating&r...
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Cabal

DOS1989 TAD Corporation
If Rambo had a twin brother who preferred hiding behind sandbags and tossing grenades like candy, Cabal would be his biography. This over-the-top shooter puts you in the boots of a one-man army mowing down everything that moves&md...
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Decisive Battles of the American Civil War: Vol. 2

DOS1989 SSG Strategic Studies Group
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Dive Bomber

DOS1989
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F-16 Combat Pilot

DOS1989 Digital Integration
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Harpoon

DOS1989protected Three-Sixty Pacific
heavy-barrel-02

Heavy Barrel

DOS1989 Data East
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Heavy Metal

DOS1989 Access Software
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Navy Seal

DOS1989 Cosmi Corporation
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Nuclear War

DOS1989 New World Computing
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 car...
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Operation Wolf

DOS1989 Taito
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Red Storm Rising

DOS1989 MicroProse Software
Red Storm Rising is a submarine simulation video game developed and published by MicroProse in 1988, based on the novel of the same name by Tom Clancy and Larry Bond. The game is set during a hypothetical World War III scenario, f...
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Risk: the World Conquest Game

DOS1989 Mastertronic
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Rush'n Attack

DOS1989 Konami
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Steel Thunder

DOS1989protected Accolade
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Waterloo

DOS1989protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Airborne Ranger

DOS1988 MicroProse Software
Strap in and crawl through the mud - Airborne Ranger (1988) is here to chew bubblegum and infiltrate enemy lines. And it's all out of bubblegum. This tactical action game lets you drop behind enemy territory, blow things up, and l...
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Annals of Rome

DOS1988 Personal Software Services
In Annals of Rome, you don’t just play history — you command it, badly. This 1988 strategy title lets you take control of the Roman Empire and try to keep it from falling apart, which it will, probably because you let ...