Underdog games: underrated worth playing sorted by release date

Underrated underdog games

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  Alter Ego: Female Version

  DOS19864.1/5 Activision
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  Alter Ego: Male Version

  DOS19864.1/5 Activision
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  Starflight

  DOS19864.2/5 Binary Systems
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  Airball

  DOS19873.3/5 MicroDeal
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  Driller

  DOS19874.1/5 Incentive

  Driller (also known as Space Station Oblivion) is an abandoned action-adventure game developed by Incentive and released by Epyx in 1987 based on the Freescape Engine. In Driller, you control an excavation probe in a real 3d environment, through a first person view. The goal of the game is to place a drilling rig in each of the 8 regions of the moo...

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  Roadwar Europa

  DOS1987protected3.9/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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  4th & Inches

  DOS1988protected3.2/5 Accolade
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  Battle Chess

  DOS1988protected4.2/5 Interplay Productions

  Chess was a niche genre in video gaming. There were lots of chess simulations: black and white very old games, licensed games from chess champions, etc. No one ever attempted to broaden the audience until Interplay published Battle Chess. Battle Chess appeal was almost entirely focused on the animations when two pieces ended on the same square.

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  Feud

  DOS19884.2/5 Binary Design
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  Knight Games

  DOS19883.8/5 Mastertronic

  Olympic games were something back in the 80s and the 90s: Winter Games, Summer Games, California Games, anything-you-can-think-of games. Some imaginative developer thought that the world needed a different kind of "multisport" action game and came up with he idea behind Knight Games.

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  Shadowgate

  DOSWindows 3.xMac19884.1/5 ICOM Simulations

  Shadowgate is an abandoned fantasy-themed adventure game developed by ICOM Simulations and released by Mindscape in 1988 for Macintosh, DOS, and also for Amiga, Apple IIgs, Atari ST, NES. Shadowgate uses the ICOM MacVenture engine (Deja Vu, Uninvited). Shadowgate was later remade in an enhanced version for Windows 3.1.

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  Virus

  DOS19884/5
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  Bombuzal

  DOS19893.6/5 Image Works
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  Fast Food Dizzy

  DOS19894/5 Codemasters
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  Stormlord

  DOS19894/5 Hewson Consultants

  Stormlord is an abandoned DOS platform game set in a fantasy world, developed and published by Hewson Consultants in 1989 and designed by Raffaele Cecco. There was some controversy about the scantily clothed fairies in the game.

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  Time Bandit

  DOS19894/5 MichTron
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  Altered Destiny

  DOS1990protected3.8/5 Accolade

  Altered Destiny is a sci-fi themed point and click adventure game designed by Michael Berlyn, developed and released by Accolade in 1990. Altered Destiny runs on DOS but was also published for Amiga.

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  Cadaver

  DOS19903.9/5 Bitmap Brothers
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  Hugo's House of Horrors

  DOS1990protected3.8/5 Gray Design Associates
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  Power Drift

  DOS19904.1/5 Sega
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  Red Baron

  DOS1990protected4/5 Dynamix
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  D/Generation

  DOS19914/5 Software Toolworks
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  Hill Street Blues

  DOS19914/5 Krisalis

  Hill Street Blues is an old DOS "driving" game developed by Krisalis in 1991. The gameplay it's similar to a Grand Theft Auto clone (we're talking about GTA 1 or 2) in which you are the police and you have to apprehend criminals. Hill Street Blues is a rare example of game based on a TV series.

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  Monuments of Mars

  DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac1991freeware3.3/5 Scenerio Software
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  QBasic Gorillas

  DOS1991freeware3.9/5 Microsoft
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  Scorched Earth

  DOS1991protected4.1/5
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  SimAnt: The Electronic Ant Colony

  DOS19914.1/5 Maxis
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  Supaplex

  DOS1991freeware4.1/5 Think!Ware Development
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  Darklands

  DOSLinuxWindows XP/98/95Mac1992protected3.9/5 MicroProse Software

  Darklands was a unique historical isometric RPG that mixed real historical data from medieval Germany during the 15th century with a touch of folklore and fantasy. Unfortunately it was also the only Microprose RPG of that kind and beauty. The original game box contained a huge manual with info on european folklore (including the live...

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  Dylan Dog: Murderers

  DOS19923.7/5 Simulmondo