Abandonware DOS title

Games for kids

Video games in the 80s and the 90s were mainly aimed at teens (or a young audience anyway). Educational games were sometimes designed with a younger audience in mind: kids. Those games were simpler, often involved some kind of educational purpose and were specifically marketed for kids.

Most popular for kids games

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Beethoven 2

DOS1993 Rozner Labs Software Group
Yes, it’s that Beethoven—the slobbery St. Bernard, not the piano guy. In Beethoven 2, you control a surprisingly agile dog on a quest to rescue your kidnapped puppies. Along the way, you’ll bark at birds, jump on trash cans, and drool on everything in sight. It’s as ridiculous as it sounds, with controls that feel like you'r...
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Bunny Bricks

DOS1993 Silmarils
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Creatures Village

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2001protected Creature Labs
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Designasaurus

DOS1988 Compton's NewMedia
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Donald Duck's Playground

DOS1986 Sierra On-Line
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Donald's Alphabet Chase

DOS1988 Westwood Studios
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Eagle Eye Mysteries in London

DOS1994 Stormfront Studios
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Eagle Eye Mysteries: The Original

DOS1993 Stormfront Studios
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EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus

DOS1991 Sierra On-Line
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Follow the Reader

DOS1992 Disney Software
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Learn The Alphabet

DOS1993 Compedia Software & Hardware
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Lego Loco

Windows XP/98/951998 Intelligent Games
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Mario is Missing!

DOSMac OS1992 The Software Toolworks
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Mario Teaches Typing

DOSMac OS1992 Interplay Productions
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Mario's Game Gallery

DOSMac OS1995 Presage Software
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Mario's Time Machine

DOS1993 The Software Toolworks
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McDonald Land

DOS1992 Visual Concepts Entertainment
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Mickey's Runaway Zoo

DOS1991 Westwood Studios
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Mickey's Space Adventure

DOS1985 Sierra On-Line
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Mixed-up Fairy Tales

DOS1991 Sierra On-Line
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Mixed-up Mother Goose

DOS1987 Sierra On-Line
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Mystery at the Museums

DOS1993 Artech Studios
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Number Munchers

DOS1990 MECC
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Oliver & Company

DOS1989 Coktel Vision
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Pepper's Adventures in Time

DOS1993 Sierra On-Line
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Quarky & Quaysoo's Turbo Science

DOS1992 Jeff Tunnell Productions
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SimTown

Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.xMac OS1995 Maxis
SimTown is a city-building simulation game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. It was released in 1995 as a spin-off of the immensely popular SimCity series. Unlike SimCity, which focuses on managing an entire city, SimTown allows players to build and manage a smaller town or neighborhood.In SimTown, players start with a blank canv...
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The Bugs Bunny Hare-Brained Adventure

DOS1990 Riedel Software Productions