Abandonware vehicle simulation games sorted by release date
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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MiG-29 Fulcrum
DOS1991 flight simulation
Night Hawk: F-117A Stealth Fighter
DOS1991protected flight simulation
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
DOS1991 flight simulation
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe is a combat flight simulation game developed and published by Lucasfilm Games (later known as LucasArts) in 1991. It was designed for MS-DOS systems and later released for Amiga computers. The game ...
Wing Commander 2: Vengeance of the Kilrathi
DOS1991protected space combat, space simulation
Aces of the Pacific
DOS1992 flight simulation
Aces of the Pacific (1992, DOS) takes to the skies over WWII’s Pacific Theater, where you can dogfight in legendary aircraft and prove your piloting prowess — or spin into the sea with style. The graphics are dated, bu...
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...
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, deploying units, tracking smugglers, and launching airstr...
B-17 Flying Fortress
DOS1992 flight simulation
B-17 Flying Fortress (1992) is the kind of game where you don't just fly the plane—you are the plane. One moment you're the pilot, the next you're the nose gunner swatting Luftwaffe pests like you're at the world’s ang...
Comanche: Maximum overkill
DOS1992 helicopter simulation, flight simulation
Cybercon III
DOS1992 first-person action-adventure
Epic
DOS1992protected space combat, space simulation
F-15 Strike Eagle III
DOS1992 flight simulation
F-15 Strike Eagle III is a combat flight simulation video game released in 1992. It was developed by MicroProse and is the third installment in the F-15 Strike Eagle series. The game was designed for various computer platform...
Great Naval Battles: North Atlantic 1939 - 1943
DOS1992protected naval simulation
Heroes of the 357th
DOS1992 flight simulation
Pacific Islands
DOS1992 tank simulation
Shuttle: The Space Flight Simulator
DOS1992 realistic space simulation, space simulation
Space MAX
DOS1992 space simulation, realistic space simulation
Stunt Island
DOS1992protected flight simulation, civilian flight simulation
Thunderhawk AH-73M
DOS1992 flight simulation
WinTrek
Windows 3.x1992 space exploration, space simulation
A320 Airbus
DOS1993 civilian flight simulation, flight simulation
Released in 1993 for DOS, A320 Airbus is less “Top Gun” and more “Intro to Aeronautical Bureaucracy.” It’s a flight simulator so realistic, even real pilots needed a manual. You’ll experience th...
Aces Over Europe
DOS1993 flight simulation
Strap into your Spitfire, because Aces Over Europe (1993, DOS) is here to show you that flying over 1940s Europe was as dangerous as it was polygonal. As a follow-up to Aces of the Pacific, this one tightens the mechanics, adds gr...
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 ...
Dogfight: 80 Years of Aerial Warfare
DOS1993 flight simulation
Evasive Action
DOS1993 flight simulation
Eye of the Storm
DOS1993 space simulation, space combat
Frontier: Elite 2
DOS1993 space exploration, space combat, space simulation
Frontier: Elite II is a classic space simulation and trading game released in 1993, developed by David Braben and his company Frontier Developments. Frontier is the sequel to the pioneering 1984 game Elite and is often considered ...
Nomad
DOS1993 space exploration, space simulation
Protostar: War on the Frontier
DOS1993 space combat, space exploration, space simulation
Star Wars: X-Wing
DOS1993protected space simulation, space combat