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Jazz Jackrabbit Holiday Hare
DOS1994protected action
Dangerous Streets
DOS1994 action
Dangerous Streets is a fighting game that clearly wanted to be the next Street Fighter—and instead became a cult oddity. The character roster is bizarre, the animations oddly...
Rally Championships
DOS1994 racing
Gulf Strike
DOS1986 strategy
Tomb Raider II
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protected action-adventure
Darius Gaiden
Windows XP/98/951998 shooter
Darius Gaiden is a visually stunning side-scrolling shooter where every boss is a giant, weaponized sea creature from a neon-soaked fever dream. You’ll pilot your ship throug...
Eric the Unready
DOS1993protected adventure
If classic fantasy ever needed a designated clown, Eric the Unready would proudly volunteer. This 1993 adventure from Legend Entertainment gleefully demolishes every heroic trope i...
Poker Relay
DOS1989NSFW strategy
Released in 1989 for DOS, Poker Relay (also known as 9 Poker) is less a glamorous casino sim and more a smoky backroom full of pixelated cards and questionable programming. You get...
Hoyle Classic Card Games
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1993 strategy
Karnov
DOS1987 action
Karnov is a classic side-scrolling action arcade game developed by Data East in 1987. The game features a unique protagonist named Jinborov Karnovski, or "Karnov", a fire-breathing...
Five-a-side Indoor Soccer
DOS1986 sports
The Goonies
DOS1985 action
Terminal Terror
DOS1994 shooter
Atlantis: The Lost Tales
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protected adventure
Atlantis: The Lost Tales is a graphic adventure game developed by Cryo Interactive and released in 1997. It is the first in a series of games set around the legendary lost city of ...
Kaeon
DOS1992 shooter
Street sports baseball
DOS1987 sports
Before million-dollar stadiums and sponsorship deals, there was Street Sports Baseball (1987, DOS)—where kids played in backyards, on cracked concrete, and sometimes next to ...
Silicon Dreams
DOS1986 adventure
Silicon Dreams by Level 9 Computing is a trilogy of interactive fiction (text adventure) games released in the mid-1980s. The trilogy includes three separate games: Snowball, Retur...
Rings of Medusa
DOS1990 strategy
Rings of Medusa is a strategy / RPG developed by the German studio Starbyte Software. It was released in 1989 for various platforms including the Commodore 64, Amiga, and MS-DOS.&n...
Millennia: Altered Destinies
DOS1995 vehicle simulation
African Adventure
DOS1997remake adventure
African Adventure is one of those games that feels like it was made during a two-hour layover at the airport - but somehow, it works. Set in the savannah, it combines survival, exp...
Might and Magic 3: Isles of Terra
DOS1991protected rpg
Beast
DOS1984 action
Beast is ASCII horror at its most gloriously minimal. You’re a brave soul (well, a smiley face) trapped in a dungeon with sentient blobs (the titular beasts) that want you ve...
Descent: FreeSpace - The Great War
Windows XP/98/951998protected vehicle simulation
In 1998, Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War decided the world needed fewer corridors and more cosmic dogfights. Instead of bumping into walls like a drunken astronaut, you&rs...
Kurtan
DOS1990 puzzle
Little-known but oddly captivating, Kurtan (1990, DOS) feels like someone’s ambitious homebrew fantasy experiment gone right. You play a wandering warrior exploring a pixelat...
William Shatner's TekWar
DOS1995 shooter
Cavequest
DOS1985 rpg
Back in 1985, Cavequest asked: what if you mixed ASCII graphics with deadly bats and claustrophobia? The answer: a punishingly hard maze crawler that’ll have you screaming at...
Vroom
DOS1994 racing
Slam!
Windows 3.x1993 sports
Dark Castle
DOSMac OS1986 action
Released in 1987, Dark Castle is infamous for two things: its moody castle setting and its protagonist’s uncanny ability to slip on stairs as if they’re coated in banan...
Indiana Jones: Revenge of the Ancients
DOS1987 adventure





























