Abandonware sports games sorted by release date
Sports games follow real-life rules either by creating a detailed and realistic simulation of physical sports, or by focusing on quickness and dexterity. Simulated sports can be real ones (American football, baseball, soccer) or fictional (like fantasy or futuristic sports).
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Microsoft Decathlon
DOS1982 olympic sports, multi-sport
Microsoft Decathlon was a popular sports video game released by Microsoft in 1980. It was one of the earliest sports simulation games, notable for its variety of events and competitive gameplay. In Microsoft Decathlon, player...
IBM 9-Hole Miniature Golf
DOS1983 golf
MicroLeague baseball
DOS1984 baseball
Archery
DOS1985freeware unconventional sports
Archery (1985) is what happens when someone says, “Hey, what if we made a bow-and-arrow game with the graphical fidelity of a cave painting?” You shoot arrows. That’s it. You aim, fire, and pray the pixel lands w...
Armchair Quarterback
DOS1985 american football
Armchair Quarterback lets you live the dream of yelling at your TV — but on your DOS machine, and with even less control. It’s part simulator, part quiz show, and all weird. You make play calls, analyze stats, and pray...
Pro Manager
DOS1985 baseball
Sierra Championship Boxing
DOSMac OS1985 boxing
Sierra Championship Boxing is an abandoned sports boxing game, developed by Evryware and released by Sierra On-Line in 1985. You can issue instructions to the boxer between rounds, create custom boxers or choose from a list of pre...
Tournament Tennis
DOS1985 tennis
World tour golf
DOS1985 golf
Alex Higgins World Snooker
DOS1986 pool / snooker
The title Alex Higgins World Snooker might imply world-class snooker. What it delivers is 1986 DOS ball physics that sometimes feel like they were modeled in an alternate dimension. But who needs realism when you have charm, right...
Five-a-side Indoor Soccer
DOS1986 soccer
Mean 18
DOS1986 golf
Tag Team Wrestling
DOS1986 wrestling
World Games
DOS1986 multi-sport
10th Frame
DOS1987 unconventional sports
Time to hit the lanes in 10th Frame, a bowling simulator so committed to realism it even simulates the wait between turns. You line up your shot, set your spin, and pray the ancient gods of DOS let your pixel ball behave. The grap...
Earl Weaver Baseball
DOS1987 baseball
Hardball!
DOS1987 baseball
Poko Memorial: 18 Hole Miniature Golf
DOS1987 golf
Street sports baseball
DOS1987 baseball
Street sports basketball
DOS1987 basketball
Superstar Ice Hockey
DOS1987 winter sports, hockey
Volleyball Simulator
DOS1987 volleyball
World Darts
DOS1987 unconventional sports
4th & Inches
DOS1988protected american football
Before Madden became a household name, 1988 gave us this DOS football classic, where plays are drawn like cave paintings and players move like molasses in January. Yet, for its time, this was the real deal. You could call plays, m...
Bop'N Wrestle
DOS1988protected wrestling
If pro wrestling in the '80s had a fever dream after drinking too much neon paint, it would be called Bop'N Wrestle (1988, DOS). You play as Gorgeous Greg, who’s about as gorgeous as a punch to the face, battling an array of...
California Games
DOS1988 unconventional sports, multi-sport
Radical! Gnarly! And other 80s slang words! California Games is what happens when sports simulations meet neon-colored vibes and a love of spandex. You’ll hacky sack, BMX race, and throw frisbees in pixelated glory. Half the...
Dolphin Boating Simulator
DOS1988 water sports
Fast Break
DOS1988protected basketball
Kings of the beach
DOS1988 volleyball
Knight Games
DOS1988 multi-sport, unconventional sports
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" act...