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	VisiCalc 1.0
1981	6	Wizardry 1: Proving grounds of the mad overlord Softporn Adventure Akalabeth: World of Doom
1982	22	Zork I: The Great Underground Empire PC-Man Microsoft Decathlon
1983	51	The Hobbit Donkey Kong Lode Runner
1984	60	Soko-Ban Alley Cat The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1985	62	Ultima 4: Quest of the Avatar Rambo First Blood Part 2 Spacewar
1986	74	Norton Commander 5.5 Space Quest 1: The Sarien Encounter Alter Ego: Female Version
1987	124	Tetris Ultima 1: The First Age of Darkness Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards
1988	163	Pool of Radiance Ultima 5: Warriors of Destiny Arkanoid
1989	232	SimCity Bubble Bobble Pipe Dream
1990	223	Prince of Persia The Secret of Monkey Island The Oregon Trail
1991	177	Eye of the Beholder Civilization Eye of the Beholder 2: The Legend of Darkmoon
1992	215	Ultima 7 Part 1: The Black Gate Dune Street Fighter 2
1993	205	Doom The Settlers Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame
1994	151	X-COM: Ufo Defense Warcraft: Orcs and Humans Lode Runner: The Legend Returns
1995	122	True love Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness The Need for Speed
1996	80	Civilization 2 Master of Orion 2: Battle at Antares Command & Conquer: Red Alert
1997	61	Virtua Cop 2 Magic: The Gathering Age of Empires
1998	34	Dune 2000 House of the Dead Railroad Tycoon 2
1999	28	Age of Empires 2: The Age of Kings SimCity 3000 Three Sisters' Story
2000	11	3D Ultra Lionel Traintown Zeus: Master of Olympus Patrician 2: Quest for Power
2001	12	Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magick Obscura Empire Earth Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
2002	11	Sid Meier's SimGolf Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 Icewind Dale 2
2003	4	Uplink: Hacker Elite ResidualVM Van Buren (Fallout 3)
2004	3	Blues Brothers RPG Pyjamarama Dark Horizons Lore: Invasion
2005	2	Gal Pani X Baseball Mogul 2006
2007	1	Doszip Commander
2008	1	D-Fend Reloaded
2009	1	Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars
2017	1	DBGL: DOSBox Game Launcher

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