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Road Rash
Windows XP/98/951996 racing
Road Rash is an abandoned motorcycle racing game developed by Papyrus Design Group and released by Electronic Arts in 1996. Road Rash runs on Windows XP/98/95 but was also published for Amiga, Sega Genesis, Sega Master System, 3DO...
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
DOS1996freeware strategy
Command & Conquer: Red Alert is a real-time strategy (RTS) video game developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive in 1996. It is part of the Command & Conquer series and is set in an alternate history...
The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall
DOS1996freeware rpg
The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall is an old school first-person 3D RPG developed by Bethesda Softworks and released in 1996 for DOS. Daggerfall is the second chapter in popular The Elder Scrolls series. The open world gameplay, the ...
X-Tetris
Windows XP/98/951996NSFW puzzle
Civilization 2
Windows XP/98/951996 strategy
Civilization II is a turn-based strategy game developed by MicroProse and released in 1996. It's the second installment in the "Civilization" series, created by Sid Meier. The game builds upon the concept of its predecessor, Civil...
Master of Orion 2: Battle at Antares
DOSWindows XP/98/951996protected strategy
Master of Orion II is a 4X turn-based sci-fi strategy game set in space. Master of Orion 2 gives the player an empire to run by controlling food and production, managing economy and researching new technology. The player can wage ...
Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1996protecteddemoNSFW adventure
Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail! is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line. It is the sixth installment in the Leisure Suit Larry series and was released in 1996. The game was designed by Al Lowe, t...
Quake
DOSWindows XP/98/951996protecteddemo shooter
Quake is a first-person shooter (FPS) video game developed by id Software and released in 1996. It is the successor to id Software's immensely popular "Doom" series and is known for its groundbreaking 3D graphics, fast-paced gamep...
FIFA Soccer 97
DOSWindows XP/98/951996 sports
FIFA Soccer 97 is a football video game developed and published by EA Sports as part of the FIFA series. Released in 1996 for various platforms, it was the fourth installment in the FIFA series and introduced several new features....
Jane's Combat Simulations: Advanced Tactical Fighters
DOS1996 vehicle simulation
Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures
Windows 3.xMac OS1996demo action-adventure
Ancient Domains of Mystery (ADOM) v1.1
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1996freeware rpg
ADOM is what happens when a rogue, a wizard, and a hungry troll walk into a dungeon and never come out. Released in 1996, this roguelike classic is brutal, brilliant, and unapologetically text-heavy. Permadeath is the norm, the st...
Monster Truck Madness
Windows XP/98/951996 racing
Death Rally
DOS1996freeware racing
Holiday Island
Windows 3.x1996 simulation
Discworld 2: Mortality Bytes!
DOS1996 adventure
CHAMP Pac-em
DOS1996remake action
Crusader: No Regret
DOS1996protecteddemo shooter
Super Street Fighter 2
DOS1996 action
Super Street Fighter II is an enhanced version of the iconic arcade fighting game Street Fighter II, developed and published by Capcom. It was released in 1993 as an upgrade to Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting and introduce...
Battle Arena Toshinden
DOS1996 action
Battle Arena Toshinden was the first game in the Toshinden series and was originally released for the Sony PlayStation in 1995 and later for DOS. Battle Arena Toshinden introduced 3D graphics to the fighting game genre, allow...
Conquest of the New World (Deluxe Edition)
DOSWindows XP/98/951996protected strategy
Conquest of the new world is a turn-based strategy game that lets you control one of 6 different nations in their attempt to colonize the new continent. The gameworld is represented in an isometric point of view. Combat is a mini-...
Championship Manager 2: The Italian Leagues Season 96/97
DOS1996 sports
Asterix and Obelix
DOS1996 action
When in Gaul, punch like the Gauls do. In Asterix and Obelix (1996), you control the iconic French duo on a globetrotting beat-‘em-up adventure that mostly involves sending Romans flying like ragdolls. It’s all charmin...
Alien Trilogy
DOS1996 shooter
Alien Trilogy is a first-person shooter video game released in 1996 for various platforms, including the PlayStation, Sega Saturn, and MS-DOS. Developed by Probe Entertainment and published by Acclaim Entertainment, the game is ba...
Z
DOS1996protected strategy
Welcome to Z, the real-time strategy game where psychotic robots with British accents duke it out over territory in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Think Command & Conquer if the developers had a few too many pints and a twisted...
SimCopter
Windows XP/98/951996 vehicle simulation
Duke Nukem 3D
DOS1996protecteddemo shooter
Duke Nukem 3D is a classic first-person shooter that was developed by 3D Realms (formerly known as Apogee Software) and published by GT Interactive. It was released in 1996 for MS-DOS and later for various other platforms, includi...
Fable
DOS1996 adventure
Great Naval Battles vol. 5: Demise of the Dreadnoughts 1914-18
DOS1996protected vehicle simulation
Great Naval Battles vol. 5: Demise of the Dreadnoughts 1914-18 is an abandoned naval simulation game, developed for DOS only by Divide by zero and released by SSI Strategic Simulations Inc. in 1996. As the title implies, Great Nav...
Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh
Windows XP/98/95DOS1996protected adventure