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	49	The Hobbit Lode Runner Donkey Kong
1984	58	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Alley Cat Soko-Ban
1985	57	Spacewar Rambo First Blood Part 2 Ultima 4: Quest of the Avatar
1986	71	Norton Commander 5.5 Alter Ego: Female Version Space Quest 1: The Sarien Encounter
1987	123	Tetris Ultima 1: The First Age of Darkness Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards
1988	154	Arkanoid Ultima 5: Warriors of Destiny Pool of Radiance
1989	214	SimCity Bubble Bobble Dungeon Master
1990	207	Prince of Persia The Secret of Monkey Island The Oregon Trail
1991	166	Eye of the Beholder Civilization Eye of the Beholder 2: The Legend of Darkmoon
1992	203	Ultima 7 Part 1: The Black Gate Dune Speedball 2
1993	194	Doom The Settlers Interactive Girls Club Games
1994	141	X-COM: Ufo Defense Warcraft: Orcs and Humans Lode Runner: The Legend Returns
1995	111	True love The Need for Speed Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness
1996	73	Master of Orion 2: Battle at Antares Command & Conquer: Red Alert Civilization 2
1997	58	Virtua Cop 2 Magic: The Gathering Hercules
1998	29	Dune 2000 House of the Dead Railroad Tycoon 2
1999	23	Age of Empires 2: The Age of Kings SimCity 3000 Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia
2000	8	Zeus: Master of Olympus 3D Ultra Lionel Traintown Patrician 2: Quest for Power
2001	10	Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magick Obscura Empire Earth Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
2002	10	Sid Meier's SimGolf Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 Icewind Dale 2
2003	4	Uplink: Hacker Elite ResidualVM Van Buren (Fallout 3)
2004	1	Blues Brothers RPG
2005	1	Gal Pani X
2007	1	Doszip Commander
2008	1	D-Fend Reloaded
2009	1	Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars
2017	1	DBGL: DOSBox Game Launcher

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