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	21	Zork I: The Great Underground Empire PC-Man Microsoft Decathlon
1983	48	The Hobbit Lode Runner Digger
1984	54	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	118	Tetris Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards Ultima 1: The First Age of Darkness
1988	143	Arkanoid Ultima 5: Warriors of Destiny Pool of Radiance
1989	201	SimCity Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Dungeon Master
1990	191	Prince of Persia The Secret of Monkey Island The Oregon Trail
1991	157	Eye of the Beholder Civilization Lemmings
1992	184	Speedball 2 Angband Ultima 7 Part 1: The Black Gate
1993	181	Doom The Settlers Interactive Girls Club Games
1994	132	X-COM: Ufo Defense Warcraft: Orcs and Humans Lode Runner: The Legend Returns
1995	97	True love Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity The Need for Speed
1996	56	Command & Conquer: Red Alert Master of Orion 2: Battle at Antares Civilization 2
1997	51	Virtua Cop 2 Magic: The Gathering Hercules
1998	23	House of the Dead Dune 2000 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