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	22	Zork I: The Great Underground Empire Microsoft Decathlon PC-Man
1983	49	The Hobbit Lode Runner Digger
1984	54	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Alley Cat Soko-Ban
1985	53	Spacewar Ultima 4: Quest of the Avatar Ultima 3: Exodus
1986	70	Norton Commander 5.5 Turbo Prolog 2.0 Space Quest 1: The Sarien Encounter
1987	120	Tetris Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards Ultima 1: The First Age of Darkness
1988	144	Ultima 5: Warriors of Destiny Arkanoid Pool of Radiance
1989	207	SimCity Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Dungeon Master
1990	198	Prince of Persia The Secret of Monkey Island The Oregon Trail
1991	162	Eye of the Beholder Civilization Lemmings
1992	190	Ultima 7 Part 1: The Black Gate Speedball 2 Angband
1993	183	Doom The Settlers Interactive Girls Club Games
1994	135	X-COM: Ufo Defense Warcraft: Orcs and Humans Lode Runner: The Legend Returns
1995	101	True love The Need for Speed Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity
1996	61	Command & Conquer: Red Alert Master of Orion 2: Battle at Antares Civilization 2
1997	54	Virtua Cop 2 Magic: The Gathering Hercules
1998	26	Dune 2000 House of the Dead Railroad Tycoon 2
1999	22	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	8	Empire Earth Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magick Obscura Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
2002	9	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