Abandonware DOS title

Third person 3D perspective sorted by release date

Games with third person 3D perspective represent environment in a full three dimensional way, from a third-person point of view, usually from behind.

Most popular third person 3D games

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Pitstop 2

DOS1984 Synergistic Software
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Solo Flight

DOS1985 MicroProse Software
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 year later, in 1984, for PC. The game takes place in the United States. As a fliying mailmain, the goal of the game is to deliver mail across the U.S.A.
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American Challenge: A Sailing Simulation

DOS1986 Tom Snyder Productions
If your idea of high-octane excitement involves wind direction, tacking angles, and sail trim, then American Challenge: A Sailing Simulation is your digital paradise. This 1986 DOS classic lets you live out the thrilling world of competitive sailing... very slowly. It's you, your boat, and an ocean of pixelated blue waiting to be conquered with you...
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Antarctic Adventure

DOS1986 Konami
Antarctic Adventure (1986) stars a penguin who seems to be training for the Winter Olympics — at full sprint. This early Konami game has you racing across icy terrain, dodging seals, and leaping over yawning crevasses while a relentlessly upbeat tune loops in the background. There’s no real story, no final boss, just pure penguin hustle...
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Crazy Cars

DOS1987 Titus Interactive
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Mach 3

DOS1987 Loriciels
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Sky Runner

DOS1987 Artronic Limited
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Superbike Challenge

DOS1987 Microids
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4x4 Offroad Racing

DOS1988 Epyx
Released in 1988 for DOS, this game lets you drive monster trucks across deserts, swamps, and icy wastelands with all the grace of a drunken forklift. It’s less about speed and more about not flipping your vehicle like a pancake every two seconds. The graphics are basic, the physics are unpredictable, and the soundtrack is nonexistent, but it...
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Fire and Forget

DOS1988 Titus Interactive
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Fire and Forget 2

DOS1988 Titus Interactive
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Pole Position II

DOS1988 Namco
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Super Hang-On

DOSMac OS1988 Sega
Super Hang-On is an abandoned motorcycle arcade racing game, developed by Sega, designed by Yu Suzuki and published by Data East for DOS in 1988 (the arcade was released in 1987). Super Hang-On was converted for a great number of platforms including Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, C64, Genesis, Macintosh, Nintendo 3DS, ZX Spectrum.
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Thud Ridge

DOS1988 ACME Interactive
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Virus

DOS1988
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World Class Leader Board

DOS1988 Access Software
World Class Leader Board is a golf simulation game developed and published by Access Software and released in the late 1980s for various platforms, including the Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST, and PC. Players could choose their clubs, adjust their stance, and navigate through the virtual courses. World Class Leader Board was designed by Bruce ...
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DOS1989 Coktel Vision
You, a motorcycle, and a desert that stretches forever - African Raiders-01 puts you in the Dakar rally with all the elegance of a brick on wheels. Navigate dust storms, sand dunes, and controls that were clearly designed by someone who hates you. But persevere and you’ll find a strangely hypnotic rhythm to its chaos. It’s frustrat...
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After Burner

DOS1989 Sega
If you’ve ever wanted to fly a jet fighter at Mach “Oh no, I crashed again,” After Burner is the game for you. This 1989 DOS classic straps you into an F-14 and launches you straight into the danger zone - no training wheels, no brakes, just pure pixelated chaos. The sky is your playground, and missiles are your confetti. It's fas...
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Austerlitz

DOS1989protected Tactical Design Group
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Crazy Cars 2

DOS1989 Titus Interactive
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Die Hard

DOS1989 Activision
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F40 Pursuit Simulator

DOSMac OS1989 Titus Interactive
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OutRun

DOS1989 Sega
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Space Harrier

DOS1989 Sega
Space Harrier is a 3rd-person view rail-shooter developed by Sega in 1985. Space Harrier was a hit in the arcades, and later it was converted for a number of platforms, including DOS (4 years later!). The sequels - Space Harrier 3D and Space Harrier II - were never ported to DOS.
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Waterloo

DOS1989protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Air Strike USA

DOS1990 Digital Integration
Released in 1990, Air Strike USA is what you'd get if Top Gun had a baby with a Saturday morning cartoon. You pilot a heavily armed jet through side-scrolling skies, shooting down everything that moves and quite a few things that don’t. The plot? America. The gameplay? Explosions. It’s simple, silly, and occasionally seizure-inducing, b...
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Alpha Waves

DOS1990 Infogrames
Alpha Waves is what happens when someone programs a 3D platformer using only triangles and pure imagination. You bounce. That’s it. You bounce through abstract levels that look like a geometry teacher’s daydream, all while calming music lulls you into a weird sense of floating peace. It is part game, part meditation session, and entirel...
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Conqueror

DOS1990 Rainbow Arts
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Das Boot: German U-Boat Simulation

DOS1990protected Artech Studios