1980s Games

Ballerburg is a turn based artillery game. The game was released as public domain and is entirely in German. There are castles on the left ...

Core War is a two player programming game similar to Darwin. The goal is to copy a program into memory as much as possible while ...

GNU Chess is a fully functional, freeware, chess program which can play against a human player or another chess program. This program has been around ...

Moria is a roguelike RPG. It features several innovations, like a town level and dungeons levels that are bigger than one screen, and was the ...

NetHack is a roguelike role-playing game with both traditional ASCII graphics and a graphical tileset. The objective is to find the Amulet of Yendor and ...

Sopwith is a game where the player flies a Sopwith biplane, trying to shoot down enemy planes and destroy all enemy buildings. It can be ...

Worms? is based on the classic pen and paper game Dots and Boxes, but instead of drawing four lines connecting dots to make a box, ...

Xconq is a general strategy game system. It is a complete system that includes all the components: a portable engine, graphical interfaces for Unix/Linux/X11, Macintosh, ...