Retro games, abandonware, freeware and classic games for PC and Mac
Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon (or, simply, Railroad Tycoon) is a trains management and business sim created by MPS Labs. It was released by Microprose in 1990 for MS-DOS and Amiga. In 1991 it was ported to Atari ST and Macintosh.
Year: 1990 Genre: Simulation
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Centerbase is a strategy and simulation game developed by reLINE and released in 1992, exclusively for the Amiga. The game, also known as Centerbase: Science-Fiction Simulation, w...
Year: 1992 Genre: Simulation
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Ford Simulator is a driving simulator meant to advertise Ford vehicles and was developed by Beck-Tech and the SoftAd Group. It was published by Ford Motor Company in 1987 for DOS. ...
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Chris Crawford’s Eastern Front (1941) is a wargame released in 1981 for the Atari 8-bit family. It is widely recognized as one of the earliest examples of a truly sophisticated computer wargame for home systems.
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Gold of the Americas: The Conquest of the New World is a historical strategy/simulation game created by SSG in 1989 for MS-DOS, Atari ST, and Amiga. Ian Trout, founder of Strategic...
Year: 1989 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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Skyfox II: The Cygnus Conflict is a 2D sci-fi combat game developed by Dynamix and published by Electronic Arts. You can download it for free from GamesNostalgia. The game was crea...
Year: 1988 Genre: Simulation
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Napoleon vs. The Evil Monarchies: Austerlitz 1805 (or simply Austerlitz) is a tile-based wargame played in real-time. The player takes command of either French or Russo-Austrian ar...
Year: 1989 Genre: Simulation
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SimCity, one of the most popular videogames of all time, is an open-ended city-building game designed by Will Wright and developed by Maxis. Wright started to create the game in 1985 on a Commodore 64 but never completed it.
Year: 1989 Genre: Simulation
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SimCity 2000 is the city building game subsequent to SimCity, developed and published by Maxis Software and released in 1993. It made its way onto many platforms following its initial release.
Year: 1993 Genre: Simulation
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1942: The Pacific Air War, released by Microprose in 1994 for MSDOS, is one of the best World War 2 flight sims ever made.
Year: 1994 Genre: Simulation
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Operation Spruance is a naval strategy simulation developed exclusively for the Amiga by the Danish studio Parsec. The game is also known as Operation Spruance: The Naval Warfare ...
Year: 1990 Genre: Simulation
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A.G.E. (Advanced Galactic Empire) is a 3D first-person space sim created by Coktel Vision and released in 1991 for the Amiga, Atari ST, and DOS. Among retro games, the first advent...
Year: 1991 Genre: Simulation
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Koronis Rift is one of the earliest games created by LucasArts (aka Lucasfilm Games). It was designed and produced by Noah Falstein, and it was released initially, in 1985, for the Atari 8-bit computers.
Year: 1985 Genre: Simulation
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