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Where in America's Past Is Carmen Sandiego? dos

Where in America's Past Is Carmen Sandiego is the 5th game in the Carmen Sandiego mystery educational series. It was released in 1991 for Apple II and MS-DOS. Where in America's Pa...

Year: 1991 Genre: Puzzler

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The Oregon Trail dos

The Oregon Trail was developed way back in 1971 on university mainframes then jumped over to early 8-bit home computer systems. Continuing through 4 decades it has reappeared in ma...

Year: 1990 Genre: Simulation

educational geography history simulation wild west

Castles: The Northern Campaign dos

Castles: The Northern Campaign is an expansion and an improved version of Castles, the strategy game developed by Quicksilver. The original game and the expansion were released i...

Year: 1991 Genre: Strategy

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Colorado amiga

Colorado is an action-adventure and exploration game created by French company Silmarils in 1990 for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. The game, designed by André and Louis‑Marie...

Year: 1990 Genre: Action

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Caesar amiga

Caesar is a historical city-building strategy game designed by David Lester at Impression Games and released originally for the Amiga in 1992. It was later ported to DOS, Atari ST, and Macintosh.

Year: 1992 Genre: Strategy

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The Gold of the Aztecs amiga

The Gold of the Aztecs is an action-adventure created by Kinetica and published by U.S. Gold in 1990 for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. The game is set in Mexico. The hero, a sor...

Year: 1990 Genre: Action

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Rome: Caesar's Will windows

Rome: Caesar’s Will is a lesser-known educational adventure released in 2000 by Montparnasse Multimedia. The French company is commonly associated with pure educational titles. S...

Year: 2000 Genre: Adventure

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Santa Paravia and Fiumaccio amiga

Santa Paravia and Fiumaccio is an early managerial simulation created by George Blank for the TSR-80 in 1978. The game's source code (written in BASIC) was published in SoftSide magazine.

Year: 1988 Genre: Strategy

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Gold of the Americas dos

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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Eagle Eye Mysteries in London dos

Eagle Eye Mysteries in London is the sequel to Eagle Eye Mysteries, a first-person detective educational game developed by Stormfront Studios. It was published by EA*Kids in 1994 for PC.

Year: 1994 Genre: Adventure

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D-Day: The Beginning of the End amiga

D-Day: The Beginning of the End is a turn-based wargame developed by Impressions Games and released for DOS and Amiga in 1994. As you can imagine, the game recreates the scenario o...

Year: 1994 Genre: Simulation

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Betrayal amiga

Betrayal is a medieval strategy game created by Rainbird for Amiga and released in 1990. It was also ported to Commodore 64, Atari ST and MS-DOS..

Year: 1990 Genre: Strategy

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Mystery at the Museums dos

Mystery at the Museums is a strategy/puzzle educational game sponsored by Smithsonian Institution. The game was developed by Artech Digital Entertainments and published for DOS in 1993.

Year: 1993 Genre: Puzzler

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Bandit Kings of Ancient China amigamsx

Bandit Kings of Ancient China is a wargame/strategy game created by Koei. It was released in Japan in 1988 for MSX2. In 1990, it was ported to the US/European markets for MS-DOS, Amiga, and Macintosh.

Year: 1989 Genre: Strategy

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