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Dark Horizons Lore: Invasion
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux2004freeware vehicle simulation
Jumping forward to 2004, Dark Horizons Lore: Invasion ditches swords and sorcery for giant mechs stomping across futuristic battlefields. It’s a squad-based online multiplaye...
3d World Boxing
DOS1992 sports
Released in 1992, 3D World Boxing tried its best to bring the sweet science into the third dimension. The result is less Rocky and more “two mannequins in pajamas slap each o...
Mortal Kombat 2
DOS1994protecteddemo action
Mortal Kombat II is an arcade fighting game released by Midway in 1993. It's the sequel to the original Mortal Kombat (1992). The game introduced several new fighters, includi...
Beyond Columns
DOS1989remake puzzle
Beyond Columns is what happens when someone looks at Tetris and says, “What if we made it... slightly fancier?” This match-three puzzle game involves dropping shiny col...
Battlecruiser 3000AD
DOSWindows XP/98/951996 vehicle simulation
Battlecruiser 3000AD (1996) is less a game and more a test of faith. Ambitious beyond reason, it promised total control of a massive starship—crew management, planetary landi...
Moraff's Revenge
DOS1988 rpg
Star Wars Chess
DOSWindows 3.x1993 strategy
Psi 5 Trading Company
DOS1986protected vehicle simulation
Imagine being the captain of a space freighter crewed entirely by neurotic aliens, each with a personality straight out of a sitcom. That’s Psi 5 Trading Company in a nutshel...
People's General
Windows XP/98/951998protected strategy
Fleet Sweep
DOS1983 shooter
Fleet Sweep takes the high drama of naval warfare and filters it through early-80s minimalism. Think less cinematic spectacle and more abstract tension as you maneuver through trea...
Laser Surgeon: The Microscopic Mission
DOS1987 simulation
Lawn Mower
DOS1987 action
Lords of Midnight
DOS1984remake strategy
Released in 1984, Lords of Midnight is one of those rare games that feels more like a living legend than a product. Blending strategy, role-playing, and a kind of emergent storytel...
Hardball 2
DOS1989 sports
Normality
DOS1996protecteddemo adventure
Normality is a first-person adventure video game developed by Gremlin Interactive and released in 1996. The game is set in a dystopian future where a totalitarian regime known as t...
Billy The Kid
DOS1990 action
Saddle up, pardner. Billy The Kid puts you in the dusty boots of the infamous outlaw himself. This is the Wild West, DOS-style — pixel pistols, wanted posters, and dialogue t...
Heroes of the 357th
DOS1992 vehicle simulation
The Cool Croc Twins
DOS1992 action
Color Buster
DOS1992 puzzle
Color Buster (1992, DOS) is Sokoban’s rebellious cousin. You push colored blocks across labyrinthine floors like an underpaid warehouse worker in a pastel fever dream. Simple...
Round 42
DOS1986 shooter
Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom
DOS1984 shooter
Welcome to a future where zooming through tunnels and dodging neon obstacles is considered heroic. Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom is a proto-3D arcade shooter that tries its best to i...
Sabre Team
DOS1994protected strategy
Nippon Safes, Inc.
DOS1992freeware adventure
Amulets & Armor
DOS1997freeware rpg
Imagine Doom and Ultima Underworld had a low-budget child who was homeschooled in a basement filled with Mountain Dew cans. That’s Amulets & Armor. A mix of first-person ...
Lollypop
DOS1994 action
Jack in the Dark
DOS1993 action-adventure
Earthworm Jim 2
DOS1996protected action
If the first game was controlled chaos, Earthworm Jim 2 is joyful anarchy. It cranks up the weirdness, throwing genre shifts and unexpected mechanics at the player with gleeful aba...
Little Big Adventure 2 (Twinsen's Odyssey)
DOSWindows XP/98/951997protected action-adventure
3-D Helicopter Simulator
DOS1987 vehicle simulation
Released in 1987, this is less of a simulator and more of a fever dream where you pilot a flying box over a grid pretending to be terrain. 3-D Helicopter Simulator was ambitious fo...
Zyconix
DOS1992 puzzle
Imagine Tetris went on a sugar binge and had an identity crisis. That’s Zyconix (1992, DOS) in a nutshell. It’s a tile-matching puzzle game where nothing quite behaves ...






























