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Ikari III: The Rescue
DOS1990 action
Ikari III: The Rescue takes the military action of its predecessors and adds one crucial ingredient: punching. Released in 1990 for DOS, it shifts from run-and-gun chaos toward bea...
Elevator
DOS1986freeware action
Elevator is one of those early arcade-style games that sounds boring on paper and becomes oddly stressful in practice. You’re navigating elevators, rescuing people, and avoid...
Zoop
DOS1995 puzzle
Imagine if Tetris, Columns, and a pack of highlighters had a baby. That’s Zoop. You’re in the center of the screen, and colorful shapes are marching toward you from all...
Time Slaughter
DOS1996freeware action
Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space
DOS1993 vehicle simulation
Finally, a game where you don’t blast aliens—you launch real people into space, with all the white-knuckled tension of 1960s NASA. Buzz Aldrin’s Race into Space i...
Rescue Rover 2
DOS1991protected puzzle
Seven Cities of Gold (Commemorative Edition)
DOS1993protected simulation
Rogue
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS1984 rpg
Rogue is one of the first RPGs in the history of video gaming. It's a text-based dungeon crawler in which you have to fight your way in the dungeon to recover the Amulet of Yendor....
Alice in Wonderland
DOS1989 adventure
101: The Airborne Invasion of Normandy
Windows XP/98/951998 strategy
So you think you're ready to storm Normandy? Think again. 101: The Airborne Invasion of Normandy drops you into the chaos of World War II with all the grace of a paratrooper landin...
Horror Zombies from the Crypt
DOS1990 action
Horror Zombies from the Crypt sounds like it should be terrifying, but in practice it leans more toward quirky than genuinely scary. Released in 1990, it mixes action and adventure...
Fire Power
DOS1988 action
Few titles announce their intentions as clearly as Fire Power. This is top-down tank warfare with all the subtle grace of a marching band in a library. You roll into battle, shells...
Dragonsphere
DOS1994protecteddemo adventure
By 1994, point-and-click adventures were everywhere, but Dragonsphere carved out its niche with lush graphics, an intriguing plot, and plenty of puzzles. You play a young king task...
La Abadia del Crimen
DOS1987 action-adventure
La Abadía del Crimen (1987) is famously unforgiving, and it knows it. Inspired by Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose, this is an isometric adventure where breaking the...
Flame Dragon Plus: Marks of Wind
DOS1998 rpg
Contraption Zack
DOS1992 puzzle
In Contraption Zack, you play as a kid with more mechanical gadgets than common sense. Your job? Fix a series of increasingly absurd machines in a puzzle platformer that’s eq...
Crazy Cars 2
DOS1989 racing
Crazy Cars 2 upgrades the formula with a plot about crooked cops and stolen Ferraris. You’ll speed across vast American highways, dodging patrol cars that spawn with supernat...
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 ...
Theatre of War
DOS1992protected strategy
Up Periscope!
DOS1988 vehicle simulation
Up Periscope! from 1988 lets you take command of a submarine, which sounds exciting until you realize just how much responsibility that entails. Managing depth, speed, and position...
The Price is Right
DOS1990 puzzle
Ready to guess wildly about the cost of household objects from the comfort of a DOS screen? The Price is Right (1990, DOS) brings the TV game show to your keyboard with a mixture o...
Outpost
Windows 3.x1994 simulation
Day of the Viper
DOS1990 shooter
Released in 1990, Day of the Viper is a first-person shooter before shooters really found their footing. Imagine a blend of Doom and a bargain-bin puzzle game, but with robots. You...
Stunts
DOS1990 racing
Reunion
DOS1994 strategy
In Reunion, you return to a solar system that’s moved on without you—like showing up to your own birthday party two centuries late. Your mission? Rebuild civilization, ...
Realms
DOS1991 strategy
Part strategy, part fantasy empire builder, Realms gives you a continent to wrangle and a surprising number of ways to embarrass yourself. You recruit armies, juggle rebellious pop...
Duck Tales: The Quest for Gold
DOS1990 action
DuckTales: The Quest for Gold takes everyone’s favorite miserly duck, Scrooge McDuck, and sends him globetrotting for treasure. It’s part platformer, part management si...
Risky Woods
DOS1992protected action
3D Ultra Lionel Traintown
Windows XP/98/952000 puzzle
If your childhood involved model trains and elaborate setups that your cat kept destroying, 3D Ultra Lionel Traintown is digital therapy. Released in 2000 for Windows XP, it mixes ...
Might and Magic 4: Clouds of Xeen
DOS1992protecteddemo rpg
With Might and Magic 4: Clouds of Xeen, the series heads to the colorful world of Xeen, where the sky is bright, the monsters are plentiful, and the sense of adventure is delightfu...






























