Retro games, abandonware, freeware and classic games for PC and Mac
Silent Hunter is submarine simulation developed by Aeon Electronic and published by Strategic Simulations in 1996 for PC MS-DOS only. This World War II submarine combat sim was created mostly by William T.
Year: 1996 Genre: Simulation
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Comanche: Maximum Overkill is the first game of a series of flight sims created by NovaLogic. Published in 1992 for DOS only, the main feature is the usage of the NovaLogic's Voxel...
Year: 1992 Genre: Simulation
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SimAnt: The Electronic Ant Colony is a simulation game inspired by ants and the ways of their life, created and published by Maxis. Released back in 1991 for the PC, it lets the player take control and run an entire colony of ants.
Year: 1992 Genre: Simulation
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Total Air War, released in 1998 by Digital Image Design and published by Infogrames, is one of the most ambitious and immersive flight simulators. Building upon the foundations of ...
Year: 1998 Genre: Simulation
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Elite is a famous space flight and trading sim created by David Braben and Ian Bell for the BBC Micro. The game was published by Acornsoft and Firebird and released for several home computers starting in 1984.
Year: 1985 Genre: Simulation
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Moonfall is a space combat and trading sim released in 1991 by 21st Century Entertainment, originally for the Commodore 64. The game was then ported to Amiga and Atari ST. The game...
Year: 1991 Genre: Simulation
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Frontier: First Encounters is a space combat and trading sim created by David Braben with his company Frontier Developments. First Encounters is the third installment of the Elite...
Year: 1995 Genre: Simulation
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Seven Cities of Gold by Ozark Softscape, is often considered one of the most groundbreaking strategy and exploration games of its era. Designed by Dan Bunten (later Danielle Bunten...
Year: 1986 Genre: Simulation
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Railroad Tycoon Deluxe is an updated version of Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon, published by Microprose in 1993, three years after the original game. While the original game was rel...
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Homeworld is a sci-fi real-time strategy/simulation game created by Relic Entertainment and published by Sierra in 1999 for Windows PC. The game concept is very straightforward: ta...
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Harpoon is a naval wargame created by Three-Sixty Pacific and published for MS-DOS in 1989, then ported to Amiga and Macintosh in 1990. Former naval officer Larry Bond took inspira...
Year: 1989 Genre: Simulation
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Little Computer People is an incredibly advanced life simulation game created in 1985 by David Crane. It was released by Activision for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, and Apple II.
Year: 1985 Genre: Simulation
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Sid Meier’s Pirates! is the original award-winning pirate life simulation game developed and published by MicroProse in 1987 for the Commodore 64. It was also released for the Apple II, Amstrad CPC, and PC Booster.
Year: 1987 Genre: Simulation
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Flying Corps is a World War I flight combat simulation developed by Rowan Software and released in 1997 for MS-DOS. Designed by Rod Hyde and Mark Shaw, the game focuses on aerial c...
Year: 1996 Genre: Simulation
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