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Spider-Man 2: The Game
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2004 third-person action-adventure
Spider-Man 2: The Game, released in 2004, finally gave players what they had been quietly demanding for years: the freedom to swing through a fully realized New York City like a ca...
Grand Theft Auto
DOSWindows XP/98/951997 racing: car
The original Grand Theft Auto drops you into a city where rules are more of a suggestion than an obligation. In Grand Theft Auto, you play from a top-down perspective that somehow ...
Batman: the Caped Crusader
DOS1988
Half comic book, half arcade game, Batman: The Caped Crusader (1988) offers a delightfully weird aesthetic with its paneled visual style and pulp serial vibe. You’ll punch, p...
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2002protected racing: car
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is an open-world action-adventure game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games in 2002. It's the fourth main entry in the GTA series...
Grand Theft Auto 2
Windows XP/98/951999 racing: car
Grand Theft Auto 2 refines the original formula and then adds more attitude, more chaos, and more ways to get into trouble. In Grand Theft Auto 2, gangs matter, reputation matters,...
Star Wars: Yoda Stories
Windows XP/98/951997
Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams
Windows XP/98/952002 third-person action-adventure
Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams is an enhanced version of the original Silent Hill 2, released in 2001 for the Xbox. It later appeared on PC and PlayStation 2 under titles like Dire...
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Windows XP/98/952001 third-person action-adventure
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone brings the wizarding world to life with a mix of exploration, puzzles, and light action that feels appropriately magical. It captures the sens...
Castlevania
DOS1990 metroidvania, platform
Castlevania, originally released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1986, was developed and published by Konami. The game was known in Japan as Akumajo Dracula (Devil's Castl...
Captain Comic, The Adventures of
DOS1988freeware metroidvania
Before space marines were gritty and everything exploded in brown and grey, there was The Adventures of Captain Comic. This is early PC platforming in all its clunky, jumpy, 4-colo...
American McGee's Alice
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2000 third-person action-adventure
Captain Comic 2: Fractured Reality
DOS1990freeware metroidvania
In Captain Comic 2: Fractured Reality, our fearless spandex-wearing space explorer returns—but this time, he's bouncing between dimensions like a malfunctioning microwave. Th...
Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures
Windows 3.xMac OS1996demo
Indiana Jones and His Desktop Adventures is a charmingly odd experiment that shrinks globe-trotting archaeology into bite-sized missions designed for quick play sessions. Viewed fr...
Outcast
Windows XP/98/951999protected third-person action-adventure
Another World
DOSMac OS1991protected platform
Another World (1991) is a cinematic platformer with big ideas, minimal UI, and a shocking willingness to let you die within five seconds of starting. You play as a scientist who ge...
Castle Wolfenstein
DOS1984 maze
Before Doom and Wolfenstein 3D turned PC gaming into a pixelated bloodbath, there was Castle Wolfenstein. A stealth game in 1984? Believe it. You sneak around a Nazi fortress, stea...
Cosmic Spacehead
DOS1993 platform
Cosmic Spacehead is a cheerful point-and-click adventure wrapped in platformer segments, starring a purple alien who’s equal parts explorer and goofball. You’ll travel ...
D/Generation
DOS1991 isometric action-adventure
D/Generation is a slick blend of action, puzzle-solving, and corporate dystopia. You’re a courier dropped into a high-security biotech facility to deliver a package, only to ...
Bloodrayne
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2003protected third-person action-adventure, third-person shooter
Beverly Hills Cop
DOS1990 racing: car, platform
Take Eddie Murphy’s swagger, remove the charm, add some DOS chiptunes, and you get Beverly Hills Cop—a game adaptation that asks: “What if being a wisecracking de...
Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon
DOS1988freeware
If Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon were a person, it would be that eccentric uncle who insists he once met a genie “for real.” This 1988 Arabian-fantasy adventure m...
Dizzy: Prince of the Yolkfolk
DOS1993 platform
If Dizzy was an egg on an adventure, Dizzy: Prince of the Yolkfolk turns that concept up a notch with a proper fairytale plot. Released in 1993 for DOS, the game sees Dizzy set out...
Thief: The Dark Project
Windows XP/98/951998protected first-person action-adventure
Thief: The Dark Project is a first-person stealth video game developed by Looking Glass Studios and published by Eidos Interactive. Released in 1998, it is considered a groundbreak...
Below The Root
DOS1984 platform, metroidvania
Based on a book series almost nobody remembers, Below The Root drops you into a serene world of treehouses, talking children, and deeply philosophical moral choices. Combat does no...
Ranx: The Video Game
DOS1990
A gloriously grimy cyberpunk romp, Ranx: The Video Game drops you in a future where technology, attitude, and questionable hygiene coexist in uneasy harmony. Based on the French co...
Eternam
DOS1992protected first-person action-adventure
Eternam is a gloriously strange hybrid of 3D exploration, adventure puzzles, and comedic sci-fi. You play Don Jonzon, a man just trying to enjoy a vacation—only to end up cha...
Flashback: The Quest for Identity
DOS1993protected platform
Flashback: The Quest for Identity feels like a playable sci-fi movie that misplaced its budget but kept its ambition. You wake up with amnesia, which is gaming shorthand for &ldquo...
Castle Adventure
DOS1984freeware interactive fiction, dungeon crawl
Castle Adventure is what happens when a medieval fantasy RPG gets crammed into a game smaller than your average selfie. ASCII graphics? Check. Typing commands like “GET SWORD...
Asterix: Operation Getafix
DOS1989
Operation Getafix (1989) is what happens when you turn a beloved comic series into a game with the precision of a wild boar wearing gloves. You play as Asterix on a quest to help G...
Driller
DOS1987 first-person action-adventure
In 1987, Driller arrived as a revolutionary 3D game that looked light-years ahead of its time. Using the Freescape engine, it let players explore a fully 3D world—on a DOS ma...






























