Abandonware DOS title

The most popular for kids games

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.
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Lego Loco

Windows XP/98/951998 Intelligent Games
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The Smurfs

DOSWindows XP/98/951996 Infogrames
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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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Designasaurus

DOS1988 Compton's NewMedia
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The Incredible Toon Machine

Windows 3.x1994 Jeff Tunnell Productions
The Incredible Toon Machine is a puzzle video game developed by Jeff Tunnell Productions and published by Sierra On-Line in 1994. It serves as the successor to the game Sid & Al's Incredible Toons and is part of the The Incredible Machine series. The game tasks players with solving puzzles by assembling Rube Goldberg-style contraptions. Ea...
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Pepper's Adventures in Time

DOS1993 Sierra On-Line
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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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Donald Duck's Playground

DOS1986 Sierra On-Line
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Thomas the Tank Engine 2

DOS1993 Peakstar Software
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Donald's Alphabet Chase

DOS1988 Westwood Studios
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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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The Manhole: CD-ROM Masterpiece Edition

Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.xMac OS1994protectedremake Cyan Worlds
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Eagle Eye Mysteries in London

DOS1994 Stormfront Studios
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Follow the Reader

DOS1992 Disney Software
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Eagle Eye Mysteries: The Original

DOS1993 Stormfront Studios
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Number Munchers

DOS1990 MECC
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Mickey's Space Adventure

DOS1985 Sierra On-Line
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EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus

DOS1991 Sierra On-Line
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Quarky & Quaysoo's Turbo Science

DOS1992 Jeff Tunnell Productions
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McDonald Land

DOS1992 Visual Concepts Entertainment
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Creatures Village

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2001protected Creature Labs
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The Feeble Files

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protected Adventure Soft
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Beethoven 2

DOS1993 Rozner Labs Software Group
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Learn The Alphabet

DOS1993 Compedia Software & Hardware
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Mystery at the Museums

DOS1993 Artech Studios
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Thomas the Tank Engine

DOS1992 Peakstar Software