Abandonware DOS title

abandonware games sorted by popularity

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Rush'n Attack

DOS1989 shooter
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Stone Age

DOS1992 puzzle
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Norton Utilities 8

DOS1994 application
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Zool

DOS1992 action
Forget Sonic. Forget Mario. Zool is a ninja from the Nth Dimension, which is apparently a place where hyperactive insects fight sentient sweets. Speed is the name of the game, and ...
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Kasparov's Gambit

DOS1993 strategy
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Pharaoh

Windows XP/98/951999protected simulation
Pharaoh is a city-building strategy game released in 1999 by Impressions Games and published by Sierra Studios. It is set in ancient Egypt and is heavily inspired by Caesar III, an...
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Gateway 2: Homeworld

DOS1993protected adventure
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Shadowlands

DOS1992 rpg
Shadowlands (1992, DOS) hands you a party of adventurers and then expects you to coordinate them like a fantasy air-traffic controller. Instead of a single hero, you manage four ch...
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Ravenloft: Stone Prophet

DOS1995protected rpg
Set in the D&D desert domain of Har’Akir, Ravenloft: Stone Prophet blends horror and ancient-Egypt vibes into a first-person RPG that still feels unusual today. You wande...
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Ultima 8: The Lost Vale

DOS1994canceled rpg
The Lost Vale is the great “what if” of the Ultima series. Developed as an expansion to Pagan but never officially released, it became the stuff of legend. Players were...
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Dangerous Dave: Risky Rescue

DOS1993protected action
Dangerous Dave: Risky Rescue puts Dave back in hero mode, diving into a dangerous compound to rescue his brother. Expect tight platforming, unpredictable enemy patterns, and traps ...
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Rise of the Robots

DOS1994 action
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Berlin 1948

DOS1989 adventure
Berlin 1948 throws you into post-war Germany as a secret agent on a noir-flavored mission through a city drenched in trench coats and suspicion. It’s one part spy thriller, o...
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The Magic Candle 2: The Four and Forty

DOS1991 rpg
The Magic Candle 2 (1991, DOS) expands the world, story, and ambition of its predecessor. With forty heroes scattered across a sprawling realm, you’ll spend as much time mana...
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Rambo 3

DOS1988 shooter
Rambo III is an action video game based on the 1988 action film of the same name, featuring the iconic character John Rambo, portrayed by Sylvester Stallone. The game was developed...
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Mario is Missing!

DOSMac OS1992 adventure
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Abrams Battle Tank

DOS1989 vehicle simulation
Get ready to drive a tank very slowly while also being very stressed. Abrams Battle Tank (1989, DOS) puts you in the commander’s seat of America’s steel behemoth, and s...
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Premier Manager 2

DOS1993 sports
Premier Manager 2 polished the formula, giving football nerds even more stats to obsess over. If you thought juggling line-ups and balancing books was fun in the first game, this s...
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QBasic Gorillas

DOS1991freeware strategy
Gorillas, also known as "Gorillas.bas," is a turn-based artillery game that was included as a sample program with Microsoft QBasic, an IDE and interpreter for a variant of the...
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Wrath of the Demon

DOS1991 action-adventure
Wrath of the Demon is a fantasy action-adventure game developed by the Canadian company Abstrax and published by ReadySoft. The game was released in 1991 for the Amiga, Atari ST, a...
uridium-2

Uridium

DOS1988 shooter
Uridium is a classic shoot 'em up video game that was originally developed by Andrew Braybrook and published by Hewson Consultants in 1986 for various home computer platforms (incl...
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Fire and Forget 2

DOS1988 racing
Doubling down on chaos, Fire and Forget 2 turns the volume up and asks questions later. The concept remains deliciously simple: speed forward, blast everything, try not to explode ...
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Pack-Man

DOS1983remake action
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CheckIt 3

DOS1990 application
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Roller Coaster Tycoon 2

Windows XP/98/952002protected simulation
Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 is a simulation game developed by Chris Sawyer Productions and published by Infogrames. It was released in 2002 as the sequel to the original  classic ...
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Borland DBase 5

DOS1994 application
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Alien Breed: Tower Assault

DOS1994protected shooter
Alien Breed: Tower Assault (1994) takes everything you loved about the original - creepy corridors, limited ammo, sudden death - and adds something revolutionary for the time: non-...
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Beetlejuice: Skeletons in the Closet

DOS1992 puzzle
Beetlejuice: Skeletons in the Closet is a video game based on the popular Beetlejuice franchise, which includes a 1988 film directed by Tim Burton and an animated television series...
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The Final Battle

DOS1991 adventure
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Space Invaders

DOS1995remake shooter