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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Great Naval Battles: North Atlantic 1939 - 1943

DOS1992protected naval simulation
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Battlehawks 1942

DOS1988 flight simulation
Welcome to the skies of World War II, where dogfights are fast, fuel is low, and you probably forgot to raise your landing gear. Battlehawks 1942 (1988) is a flight sim with just e...
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MiG-29 Fulcrum

DOS1991 flight simulation
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Air Trax

DOS1983 civilian flight simulation, flight simulation
Ah yes, Air Trax from 1983 - a game where “flight” is more of a philosophical concept. It’s clunky, it's slow, and it looks like it was coded in someone’s g...
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Shuttle: The Space Flight Simulator

DOS1992 realistic space simulation, space simulation
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Wing Commander 3

Windows XP/98/95DOSMac OS1994protected space combat, space simulation
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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...
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Skyfox II: The Cygnus Conflict

DOS1988 space combat, space simulation
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Advanced Destroyer Simulator

DOS1990 naval simulation
Welcome aboard, Captain! Advanced Destroyer Simulator throws you into the high seas with all the firepower and radar beeps a '90s DOS machine can handle. Manage torpedoes, dodge de...
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Silent Service

DOSMac OS1985protecteddemo submarine simulation
Silent Service is a submarine simulation game developed and published by MicroProse. The first game in the series, Silent Service, was released in 1985. It was designed by Sid...
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F-16 Combat Pilot

DOS1989 flight simulation
F-16 Combat Pilot throws you into the sleek, agile Fighting Falcon and says, “Good luck, pilot,” before pushing you straight into the chaos of modern air warfare. What ...
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Dark Horizons Lore: Invasion

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux2004freeware first-person shooter, mech simulation
Jumping forward to 2004, Dark Horizons Lore: Invasion ditches swords and sorcery for giant mechs stomping across futuristic battlefields. It’s a squad-based online multiplaye...
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Battlecruiser 3000AD

DOSWindows XP/98/951996 space exploration, space simulation, space combat
Battlecruiser 3000AD (1996) is less a game and more a test of faith. Ambitious beyond reason, it promised total control of a massive starship—crew management, planetary landi...
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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 i...
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Ka-50 Hokum

DOS1995 naval simulation
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Archimedean Dynasty

DOS1996protected naval simulation, submarine simulation
In Archimedean Dynasty, humanity did the logical thing after wrecking the surface world: moved underwater and started shooting each other in submarines. It's part tactical sim, par...
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3-D Helicopter Simulator

DOS1987 civilian flight simulation, helicopter simulation, flight simulation
Released in 1987, this is less of a simulator and more of a fever dream where you pilot a flying box over a grid pretending to be terrain. 3-D Helicopter Simulator was ambitious fo...
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Harpoon II

DOS1994protected naval 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 yea...
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Wing Commander: Armada

DOS1994protected space combat, space simulation
Wing Commander: Armada is space combat simulation game developed by Origin Systems and released by Electronic Arts in 1994 for DOS. Wing Commander: Armada is part of the Wing Comma...
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Starglider 2

DOSMac OS1989 space simulation, space combat
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Heroes of the 357th

DOS1992 flight simulation
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Epic

DOS1992protected space combat, space simulation
Epic (1992, DOS) lives up to its name—or at least tries very, very hard. It’s a space combat game bursting with ambition, tossing you into dogfights that feel massive e...
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Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0

DOS1988 civilian flight simulation, flight simulation
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The Hunt for Red October

DOSMac OS1987 naval simulation
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Heavy Metal

DOS1989 tank simulation
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ATAC: The Secret War Against Drugs

DOS1992 flight simulation
ATAC (1992) is what you get when someone says, “What if we made SimCity, but for waging the War on Drugs?” You play as the head of an anti-narcotics task force, deployi...
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Red Storm Rising

DOS1989 submarine simulation
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 s...
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Thunderhawk AH-73M

DOS1992 flight simulation
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Psi 5 Trading Company

DOS1986protected space exploration, space simulation
Imagine being the captain of a space freighter crewed entirely by neurotic aliens, each with a personality straight out of a sitcom. That’s Psi 5 Trading Company in a nutshel...