| An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire | 📌 ┃ Year ‣ 1997 ┃ Genre ‣ Role-playing ┃ Platform ‣ DOS ┃ License ‣ Proprietary ┃ Media ‣ CD-ROM ┃ Patched ‣ 1.5 |
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❝ The Imperial Battle College has lost contact with the Battlespire, an elite training centre hidden in a pocket realm of Oblivion. An agent sent to investigate discovers the Battlespire's staff dead. The gate back to Tamriel is blocked. The facility is under siege by vile Daedra. The only way out is to go deep into the darkness of the Daedric Realms. ❞ ❝ This game is not abandonware 🚫 and is still for sale on GOG 💰. ❞ |
| Anvil of Dawn | 📌 ┃ Year ‣ 1995 ┃ Genre ‣ Role-playing ┃ Platform ‣ DOS ┃ License ‣ Proprietary ┃ Media ‣ CD-ROM ┃ Patched ‣ 1.1b95 |
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❝ You embark on a noble journey across the Tempest in the ultimate fantasy adventure. Your mission is to rescue humanity from an evil fate with battle, skill, magic, and wits. Explore a massive terrain in 3D while solving puzzles, overcoming traps, and enjoying the beauty and scope of the outdoor scenes. Quest through dungeons where 3D walls add realism, and creatures all but lunge out at you in the attack. You have more than 25 spells and magical objects at your disposal, each drawing upon one of the elemental forces such as fire, water, wind, and lightning. ❞ ❝ This game is not abandonware 🚫 and is still for sale on GOG 💰. ❞ |
| Diablo + Hellfire | 📌 ┃ Year (Diablo) ‣ 1996 ┃ Year (Hellfire) ‣ 1997 ┃ Genre ‣ Role-playing ┃ Platform ‣ Windows 9x ┃ License ‣ Proprietary ┃ Media ‣ CD-ROM ┃ Patched ‣ 1.09 (Diablo) ┃ Patched ‣ 1.01 (Hellfire) ┃ Add-on |
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❝ Vengeance, power, intellect and magic are the tools you will need to battle the Lord of All Evil, Diablo. Embark, if you dare, upon a dark and sinister quest that will pull you into the very depths of Hell itself and beyond. ❞ — Diablo ❝ Hellfire introduces players to new quests revolving around a powerful demon known as Na-Krul. A creature who once served as Diablo's chief minion and ally, Na-Krul and his cohorts rebelled against Diablo and, after a failed attempt to overthrow their master, were banished to the Void. Freed by an evil sorcerer, Na-Krul has set up command in the ancient Demon Crypts and has once again started his plans to destroy Diablo and spread the evils of Hell throughout the world. Gathering together a small army of never-before-seen monsters, Na-Krul poses an even more threat than Diablo. ❞ — Hellfire ❝ This game is not abandonware 🚫 and is still for sale on GOG 💰. ❞ |
| Fallout | 📌 ┃ Year ‣ 1997 ┃ Genre ‣ Role-playing ┃ Platform ‣ DOS ┃ License ‣ Proprietary ┃ Media ‣ CD-ROM ┃ Patched ‣ 1.1 |
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❝ Our home is in an underground Fallout shelter modified to house 1,000 people indefinitely after a nuclear holocaust. It has been nearly 80 years. We still don't know what's out there. Sure, we've sent out volunteer scouts, but none returned. Now our water recycler has failed. Rationing has begun, but someone needs to leave the vault to get a replacement microchip for the water recycler and look for other survivors. We drew straws. You got the short one. ❞ ❝ This game is not abandonware 🚫 and is still for sale on GOG 💰 and Steam 💰. ❞ |
| Jagged Alliance | 📌 ┃ Year ‣ 1995 ┃ Genre ‣ Role-playing • Strategy ┃ Platform ‣ DOS ┃ License ‣ Proprietary ┃ Media ‣ CD-ROM ┃ Patched ‣ 1.13b |
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❝ The island of Metavira is invaluable as the only known source of the Fallow tree, whose sap is a vital ingredient in a precious medicinal sap. As the tree is seedless and cannot reproduce, the limited quantity of sap is of great concern. Jack and Brenda Richards, a father and daughter scientist team, are dedicated to researching the delicate procedure necessary to tap the trees and find a cure for infertility. Lucas Santino, a once trusted fellow researcher, now traitorous, has his agenda. Motivated by greed, Santino seeks to control the only source of the Fallow tree's sap and has nearly succeeded in taking over the island. Jack and Brenda turn to you, a person with connections to AIM (Association of International Mercenaries), their only hope of regaining control of the island. ❞ ❝ This game is not abandonware 🚫 and is still for sale on GOG 💰, Zoom 💰, and Steam 💰 (Gold Edition includes Deadly Games). ❞ |
| Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games | 📌 ┃ Year ‣ 1996 ┃ Genre ‣ Role-playing • Strategy ┃ Platform ‣ DOS ┃ License ‣ Proprietary ┃ Media ‣ CD-ROM ┃ Patched ‣ 1.13z ┃ Extra Command |
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❝ The enemy is on the run. One more mortar shell should take them out. Still, your mission is to blow up the bridge by sundown, and Postie is starting to talk to himself again. Maybe you shouldn't let him keep that dynamite. Lock and load: it's time for Deadly Games. From the makers of Jagged Alliance, 1995's Game of the Year (Power Play magazine), comes the multiplayer strategy game with more new features than you can shake a grenade launcher at. ❞ ❝ This game is not abandonware 🚫 and is still for sale on GOG 💰, Zoom 💰, and Steam 💰 (Gold Edition includes Deadly Games). ❞ |
| Superhero League of Hoboken | 📌 ┃ Year ‣ 1994 ┃ Genre ‣ Adventure • Role-playing ┃ Platform ‣ DOS ┃ License ‣ Proprietary ┃ Media ‣ CD-ROM |
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❝ The United States is a nightmare land of toxic waste, melted ice caps, and desperate shortages of oat bran. Horrible mutations roam the countryside, monsters spawned by radiation, environmental toxins, and unregulated bioengineering. But in a tiny corner of New Jersey, a small group of Superheroes has banded together. Their mission is to nurture the rebirth of a new society, to ease the suffering of the dark age, and to provide a place where Superheroes can always find a date on Saturday night. ❞ ❝ This game is not abandonware 🚫 and is still for sale on GOG 💰 and Steam 💰. ❞ |
| The Elder Scrolls: Arena | 📌 ┃ Year ‣ 1994 ┃ Genre ‣ Role-playing ┃ Platform ‣ DOS ┃ License ‣ Freeware ┃ Media ‣ CD-ROM (version 1.07) |
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❝ Emperor Uriel Septim VII is betrayed by Imperial Battlemage Jagar Tharn and imprisoned in another realm. You alone are left to travel the vast continent of Tamriel in search of the legendary Staff of Chaos that will allow you to rescue the true Emperor and restore peace to the Third Empire. ❞ ❝ In 2004, a downloadable version of the game was made available free of charge as part of the tenth anniversary of the series. ❞ — Wikipedia |
| The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall | 📌 ┃ Year ‣ 1996 ┃ Genre ‣ Role-playing ┃ Platform ‣ DOS ┃ License ‣ Freeware ┃ Media ‣ CD-ROM ┃ Patched ‣ 1.07.213 + Extra quests |
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❝ The ancient golem Numidium, a powerful weapon once used by the great Tiber Septim to unify Tamriel, has been found in Iliac Bay. The spirit of the murdered King of Daggerfall haunts the kingdom. Emperor Uriel Septim VII sends his champion to the province of High Rock to put the King's ghost to rest and ensure the golem does not fall into the wrong hands. ❞ ❝ In 2009, to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the Elder Scrolls franchise, Daggerfall was made free to download from the Bethesda website. ❞ — Wikipedia |