Abandonware DOS title

abandonware games sorted by popularity

templeapshai-4

Temple of Apshai Trilogy

DOS1985 rpg
The Temple of Apshai Trilogy is a series of classic role-playing games developed by Automated Simulations (later known as Epyx) in the late 1970s and early 1980s. These games were ...
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World Darts

DOS1987 sports
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Quake 2

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS1997protecteddemo shooter
Quake II is a first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and released in 1997. It is the sequel to the original Quake and was a significant milestone in the evolution...
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Strip Poker 2 plus

DOS1988NSFW strategy
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Rick Dangerous

DOS1989 action
Rick Dangerous is an action-packed platformer game set in the 1940s. As the fearless explorer Rick, you'll navigate treacherous environments, avoid deadly traps, and defeat enemies...
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Dungeon Keeper 3: War for the Overworld

Windows XP/98/952000canceled strategy
Dungeon Keeper 3: War for the Overworld is the ghost of a game that never was. Announced, teased, and then buried alive by shifting studio priorities, it exists only in the fever d...
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Super ZZT

DOS1992 action
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Dark Ages Volume III - Dungeons of Doom

DOS1991freeware action
Dark Ages Volume III: Dungeons of Doom closes out the trilogy with—you guessed it—more doom, dungeons, and ways to fall off platforms you swear you landed on. The serie...
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Donald's Alphabet Chase

DOS1988 puzzle
Donald’s Alphabet Chase is the video game equivalent of hiding fridge magnets and watching a duck hunt them down. In this 1988 edutainment title, the mischievous alphabet let...
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A Personal Nightmare

DOS1989 adventure
A Personal Nightmare (1989) blends horror and detective work into one spooky little cocktail of 1980s DOS game design. You return to your hometown to find it overrun by demonic pos...
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XQuest

DOS1994remake shooter
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Artura

DOS1989 action
Artura is a hack-and-slash side-scroller that looks like someone tried to draw Gauntlet from memory after a power outage. You’re some kind of Celtic warrior on a mystical mis...
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Jet

DOS1985 vehicle simulation
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Manhunter: New York

DOS1988 adventure
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Plan 9 From Outer Space

DOS1992 adventure
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Hockey League Simulator

DOS1990 sports
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Sensible World of Soccer 96/97

DOS1996protected sports
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The Beverly Hillbillies

DOS1993 adventure
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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...
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B-1 Nuclear Bomber

DOS1981 vehicle simulation
Ever wanted to be responsible for ending the world in fewer than ten keypresses? B-1 Nuclear Bomber (1981) gives you that chance, wrapping global annihilation in glorious monochrom...
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Might and Magic: World of Xeen

DOSMac OS1994protecteddemo rpg
Might and Magic: World of Xeen is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) released in 1994, which is a combination of two games: Clouds of Xeen and Darkside of Xeen. These games were par...
stone-age-03

Stone Age

DOS1992 puzzle
liero-04

Liero

DOS1999freeware strategy
privateer-5

Wing Commander: Privateer

Windows XP/98/95DOSMac OS1993protected vehicle simulation
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F29 Retaliator

DOS1990protected vehicle simulation
F29 Retaliator is what happens when a flight simulator decides it wants to be a blockbuster action movie. You’re piloting a fictional next-generation stealth fighter through ...
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Jill of the Jungle

DOS1992 action
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Beneath Apple Manor

DOS1983freeware rpg
Beneath Apple Manor is a pioneering game in the roguelike genre, originally developed and released in 1978 by Don Worth for the Apple II and later re-released for DOS as a "Special...
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Star Trek: the Kobayashi alternative

DOS1985 adventure
If text adventures are your thing, Star Trek: The Kobayashi Alternative (1985, DOS) will either delight or destroy you. You type commands to guide Kirk and crew through a no-win sc...
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MegaTraveller 1: The Zhodani Conspiracy

DOS1990 rpg
MegaTraveller 1: The Zhodani Conspiracy is a science fiction role-playing game (RPG) released in 1990. The Zhodani Conspiracy is the first installment in the MegaTraveller ser...
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Anvil of dawn

DOS1995protected rpg
Anvil of Dawn is what happens when 1995 tries to reinvent the fantasy RPG and ends up creating something strangely beautiful. It’s first-person, it’s real-time, and it&...