Abandonware games by year of release

The so called retro games we publish here on Abandonware DOS were released approximately between the year 1980 and the year 2000. The vast majority were released between 1989 and 1991. Here you can browse the games by year of release.
The number inside the square brackets indicates the games released that year.

year	number of games	popular games
1979	1	IBM VisiCalc 1.0
1981	6	Wizardry 1: Proving grounds of the mad overlord Softporn Adventure Akalabeth: World of Doom
1982	20	Zork I: The Great Underground Empire Microsoft Decathlon PC-Man
1983	47	Lode Runner The Hobbit Digger
1984	53	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Alley Cat Soko-Ban
1985	52	Spacewar Ultima 4: Quest of the Avatar Ultima 3: Exodus
1986	68	Norton Commander 5.5 Turbo Prolog 2.0 Alter Ego: Female Version
1987	116	Tetris Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards Maniac Mansion
1988	141	Arkanoid Ultima 5: Warriors of Destiny Pool of Radiance
1989	194	SimCity Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Bubble Bobble
1990	186	Prince of Persia The Secret of Monkey Island The Oregon Trail
1991	155	Civilization Eye of the Beholder Lemmings
1992	176	Angband Ultima 7 Part 1: The Black Gate Dune II: The building of a dynasty
1993	170	Doom The Settlers Interactive Girls Club Games
1994	128	X-COM: Ufo Defense Lode Runner: The Legend Returns Warcraft: Orcs and Humans
1995	95	True love Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity The Need for Speed
1996	52	Command & Conquer: Red Alert Civilization 2 Holiday Island
1997	44	Magic: The Gathering Virtua Cop 2 Hercules
1998	22	House of the Dead Dune 2000 Axis and Allies
1999	20	Age of Empires 2: The Age of Kings SimCity 3000 Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia
2000	7	Zeus: Master of Olympus Patrician 2: Quest for Power Arrakis
2001	6	Empire Earth Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
2002	8	Sid Meier's SimGolf Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 Icewind Dale 2
2003	2	Uplink: Hacker Elite ResidualVM
2004	1	Blues Brothers RPG
2005	1	Gal Pani X
2007	1	Doszip Commander
2008	1	D-Fend Reloaded
2009	1	Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templar (remake)
2017	1	DBGL: DOSBox Game Launcher

Find out the top games by year of release, from the 80s to the 90s