The best abandonware vehicle simulation games
Vehicle simulation games put the player right in the pilot’s seat, for an immersive and realistic game experience. Vehicles can be cars, airplanes, spaceships, or tanks. Simulation is often based on details in order to augment realism, like full-features dashboards, controls, gauges, and indicators.
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Gunboat
DOS1990protected naval simulation
Chuck Yeager's Air Combat
DOS1991 flight simulation
Chuck Yeager's Air Combat is a combat flight simulation video game released in 1991 by Electronic Arts. The game is named after and endorsed by the real-life aviation legend, Chuck Yeager, who was the first pilot to break the soun...
B-17 Flying Fortress
DOS1992 flight simulation
B-17 Flying Fortress (1992) is the kind of game where you don't just fly the plane—you are the plane. One moment you're the pilot, the next you're the nose gunner swatting Luftwaffe pests like you're at the world’s ang...
Night Hawk: F-117A Stealth Fighter
DOS1991protected flight simulation
Falcon 3.0
DOS1991protected flight simulation
Red Baron
DOS1990protected flight simulation
A-10 Tank Killer
DOS1989 flight simulation
Explosions? Check. Missiles? Check. Graphics that look like someone spilled gray soup on your monitor? Double check. A-10 Tank Killer lets you pilot a flying war machine and rain chaos upon tiny pixel tanks that may or may not be ...
Silent Service 2
DOSMac OS1990protected submarine simulation
Jane's Combat Simulations: Advanced Tactical Fighters
DOS1996 flight simulation
Battlehawks 1942
DOS1988 flight simulation
Welcome to the skies of World War II, where dogfights are fast, fuel is low, and you probably forgot to raise your landing gear. Battlehawks 1942 (1988) is a flight sim with just enough realism to make you sweat and just enough ar...
The Train Escape to Normandy
DOS1988protected
Carrier command
DOS1989 naval simulation
Part RTS, part simulation, Carrier Command was ahead of its time in the same way that an aircraft carrier is ahead of a canoe. You control a futuristic warship, launch aircraft and amphibious units, and fight over tiny islands tha...
Dark Horizons Lore: Invasion
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux2004freeware first-person shooter, mech simulation
Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space
DOS1993 board game, realistic space simulation, space simulation
Finally, a game where you don’t blast aliens—you launch real people into space, with all the white-knuckled tension of 1960s NASA. Buzz Aldrin’s Race into Space is a strategy sim with rocket science and Cold War ...
F-22 Lightning 2
DOS1996 flight simulation
Aces of the Pacific
DOS1992 flight simulation
Aces of the Pacific (1992, DOS) takes to the skies over WWII’s Pacific Theater, where you can dogfight in legendary aircraft and prove your piloting prowess — or spin into the sea with style. The graphics are dated, bu...
Ka-50 Hokum
DOS1995 naval simulation
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
DOS1991 flight simulation
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe is a combat flight simulation game developed and published by Lucasfilm Games (later known as LucasArts) in 1991. It was designed for MS-DOS systems and later released for Amiga computers. The game ...
Strike Commander
DOS1993protected flight simulation
Strike Commander is combat flight simulation game created by Chris Roberts (the designer behind Wing Commander) and Jeff George. Strike Commander was developed by Origin Systems and released by Electronic Arts in 1993 for DOS.
Gunship
DOS1986demo helicopter simulation, flight simulation
Heroes of the 357th
DOS1992 flight simulation
F-15 Strike Eagle III
DOS1992 flight simulation
F-15 Strike Eagle III is a combat flight simulation video game released in 1992. It was developed by MicroProse and is the third installment in the F-15 Strike Eagle series. The game was designed for various computer platform...
Apache Longbow
DOSWindows XP/98/951995protected flight simulation, helicopter simulation
Step into the cockpit of the Apache Longbow, a 1995 combat flight simulator where you’ll experience the thrilling sensation of trying to figure out keyboard controls before getting shot down by invisible enemies. It's a seri...
Falcon AT
DOS1988 flight simulation
A320 Airbus
DOS1993 civilian flight simulation, flight simulation
Released in 1993 for DOS, A320 Airbus is less “Top Gun” and more “Intro to Aeronautical Bureaucracy.” It’s a flight simulator so realistic, even real pilots needed a manual. You’ll experience th...
Star Trek: Starfleet Command
Windows XP/98/951999protected space combat, space simulation
F-19 Stealth Fighter
DOS1988protected flight simulation
Evasive Action
DOS1993 flight simulation
Apollo 18: Mission to the Moon
DOS1987 realistic space simulation, space exploration
Apollo 18: Mission to the Moon (1987) lets you relive the lunar missions in all their... spreadsheet-like glory. This game is as educational as it is punishing; you’ll learn about thrust vectors, fuel efficiency, and your to...
Team Yankee
DOS1990 tank simulation