Release year
1996 games
Browse games from 1996 across all supported archive platforms.
Archive entries
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3D Baller3D Baller is a simple faux-3D perspective Asteroids like game. The player controls a spacecraft, viewed from behind, which flies through an asteroid field and must either dodge the rocks or destroy them using its cann... | DOS | 1996 | Shooter | PLAY |
Aro & ElmiAro & Elmi is a German arcade action platform game that teaches kids the importance of brushing your teeth. | DOS | 1996 | Educational | PLAY |
AspetraPerhaps the most advanced shareware RPG ever released for DOS, Aspetra is a console-type RPG with an epic story. | DOS | 1996 | RPG | PLAY |
Back to the MoonBack to the Moon is a game inspired by the classic Lunar Lander. You need to safely guide a rescue module to the surface of the Moon (and later of other planets) to extract miners stranded there. | DOS | 1996 | Arcade | PLAY |
Boboli The Mighty KnightBoboli The Mighty Knight is a Gauntlet-style overhead-view fantasy dungeon crawler with some light RPG elements. | DOS | 1996 | RPG | PLAY |
Charlie the DuckCharlie the Duck (Charlie de Eend in Dutch) is a beautifully animated sidescroller designed to be appropriate for gamers of all ages. | DOS | 1996 | Platformer | PLAY |
CheckersThis is a fairly straightforward adaptation of draughts/checkers, with three difficulty levels of AI play and a two-player option. The 3D board view does not work. | DOS | 1996 | Board & Card | PLAY |
ChenardChenard is a free, open source chess programme that plays rather strongly (at least, for a novice player). | DOS | 1996 | Platformer | PLAY |
Chex QuestReady! Aim! Zorch! YOU KNOW THEY"RE IN THERE. You hear the distant cries of your cereal friends held captive by the evil slime-toting creatures--the FLEMOIDS. | DOS | 1996 | Shooter | PLAY |
Chickie EggChickie Egg is an unofficial remake of the arcade game Chuckie Egg in true 3D, created to showcase Criterion Studios' RenderWare engine. | DOS | 1996 | Platformer | PLAY |
CluelessClueless is a chess programme said to be designed for beginners, as it is very weak and uses rather basic algorithms to plan its moves. | DOS | 1996 | Board & Card | PLAY |
Cosmic AmbushCosmic Ambush is a professional quality freeware arcade space shooter game similar to Space Invaders. | DOS | 1996 | Shooter | PLAY |
CRASHCRASH is a remake of the classic Tron light-cycle racing game. The objective is to destroy opponents while avoiding the walls of the playing field, as well as the traces left by your own cycle and those of the opponents. | DOS | 1996 | Arcade | PLAY |
Crazy CowsCrazy Cows is a turn-based tactics game where you control - you guessed it - squads of anthropomorphic cows that duke it out against each other (the teams are grey cows versus brown cows) using a variety of weapons... | DOS | 1996 | Strategy | PLAY |
EGA RPGEGA RPG, as the title suggests, is a classic style fantasy dungeon-crawling role-playing game (RPG) with EGA graphics. It's fairly straightforward and may be compared to well-known titles such as Dungeon Hack. | DOS | 1996 | RPG | PLAY |
Fruit SaladFruit Salad is a bubble-matching game similar to Puzzle Bobble / Bust-A-Move 2: Arcade Edition. The objective of each level is to clear away all fruit by matching three or more of the same colour. | DOS | 1996 | Puzzle | PLAY |
FX racerFX racer is a fully 3D rendered car racing game that was developed by two members of Austrian demo group Surprise! Productions. | DOS | 1996 | Racing | PLAY |
GaiaGaia is a short maze/adventure game aimed primarily at kids that was created with Pie in the Sky Software's 3D Game Creation System (GCS). | DOS | 1996 | Adventure | PLAY |
GladiusGladius is a decent-looking graphical roguelike/dungeon crawler. The player controls an adventurer sent into the fortress of an evil witch who was defeated a long time ago, but something new is brewing down there. | DOS | 1996 | RPG | PLAY |
GUBGUB is a simple coffee break vertical scrolling shooter. Destroy as many enemy spaceships and get as much score as possible without being blown up - a single hit will suffice. | DOS | 1996 | Shooter | PLAY |
Invaders 1978This is a faithful PC conversion of the classic arcade game from 1978. | DOS | 1996 | Shooter | PLAY |
Island Conquest IIYou are the sibling of a sailor who washed ashore many years ago (Island Conquest I). Your father found twelve tribes, engaged in war. He felt it was his duty to reunite the tribes, and succeeded. | DOS | 1996 | Strategy | PLAY |
Mines SweeperMines Sweeper is a straightforward Minesweeper clone with simplistic visuals and a built-in modtracker music player. | DOS | 1996 | Puzzle | PLAY |
My Balls Have DroppedIn spite of the rather crass double entendre in the title, My Balls Have Dropped is actually a very decent Bust-a-Move/Puzzle Bobble clone for one or two players. | DOS | 1996 | Puzzle | PLAY |
No Future?No Future is a real-time strategy/simulation that offers you to try your hand at building sustainable economy on a small island. | DOS | 1996 | Educational | PLAY |
Nova ChessNova Chess is a very sleek and fast-performing freeware chess programme with a graphical mouse-driven interface. It doesn't offer many options or features, but plays rather well. | DOS | 1996 | Board & Card | PLAY |
PaddlersPaddlers is a Breakout like brick-breaking game for up to four players on the same field, with the paddles positioned at all four sides of the screen, and bricks in the centre. | DOS | 1996 | Arcade | PLAY |
QuakeQuake signified id Software's transition to true 3D graphics, but continued the original DOOM formula with very little substantial deviation. | DOS | 1996 | Shooter | PLAY |
SharikiShariki (which means "balls" or "marbles" in Russian) is a simple but very addictive tile-matching puzzle game. The 8x8 playing field is randomly filled with marbles of different colours. | DOS | 1996 | Puzzle | PLAY |
SLASHSLASH (Super Lotsa Added Stuff Hack) is a NetHack variant that adds new player archetypes, monsters and items, as well as new special dungeon levels. Some of the new features were ported from NetHack Plus and NetHack--. | DOS | 1996 | RPG | PLAY |
SplayMasterSplayMaster is a tournament style space combat game in which you must destroy your opponent before your opponent destroys you. Choose from eight ships with different flight/weapons characteristics. For 1 or 2 players. | DOS | 1996 | Shooter | PLAY |
SwapperSwapper is a deceptively simple puzzle game where you need to match tiles ("stones") of the same colour to make them disappear from the board. | DOS | 1996 | Puzzle | PLAY |
Tank Wars (AMI-93)Tank Wars is a top-down view shooter game that visually and gameplay-wise resembles the NES classic title Battle City. | DOS | 1996 | Shooter | PLAY |
Toffifee Fantasy ForestFantasy Forest is a platform game rather similar to Rayman that was made to promote the Toffifee® brand of candy popular in Germany. | DOS | 1996 | Platformer | PLAY |
Tyger SpiritThis is a side-scrolling shooter where the player controls a futuristic aircraft apparently piloted by a female humanoid tiger. According to the author, the game was never completed. | DOS | 1996 | Shooter | PLAY |
Varmint's EITtrisVarmint's EITtris (or simply Eittris for short) is a Tetris variant for up to four players, with an emphasis on the competitive aspect. | DOS | 1996 | Puzzle | PLAY |
