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	19	Zork I: The great underground empire Microsoft Decathlon PC-Man
1983	46	The Hobbit Lode Runner Digger
1984	51	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Alley Cat Soko-Ban
1985	52	Spacewar Ultima 4: Quest of the Avatar Ultima 3: Exodus
1986	67	Norton Commander 5.5 Turbo Prolog 2.0 Alter Ego: Female Version
1987	114	Tetris Maniac Mansion Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards
1988	141	Arkanoid Ultima 5: Warriors of Destiny Wasteland
1989	189	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Dungeon master Bubble Bobble
1990	181	Prince of Persia The Secret of Monkey Island The Oregon trail
1991	152	Civilization Lemmings Formula 1 Grand Prix (a.k.a. World Circuit)
1992	171	Angband Dune II: The building of a dynasty Ultima 7 Part 1: The Black Gate
1993	162	Doom The Settlers Interactive Girls Club Games
1994	123	X-COM: Ufo defense (a.k.a. Ufo: Enemy unknown) Lode Runner: The Legend Returns Warcraft: Orcs and Humans
1995	91	True love Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity The Need for Speed
1996	51	Command & Conquer: Red Alert Holiday Island Civilization 2
1997	41	Magic: The Gathering Virtua Cop 2 Hercules
1998	21	House of the Dead Dune 2000 Railroad Tycoon 2
1999	17	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 Ground Control
2001	5	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	3	The Temple of Elemental Evil Uplink: Hacker Elite ResidualVM
2004	2	Beyond Divinity 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

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