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(Then again, some such games have quite playable demo versions.) Oh yes, and of course there are the unfinished projects from which only a demo remains, if anything at all, but those can probably be safely left out of consideration, unless for historical purposes.There is also probably a certain percentage of complete games that never made it past a publisher, and remain unknown because of that.Such games also tend to have a very limited number of copies in print, making them even more rare. There are similarly obscure (on a worldwide scale) commercial games that have never seen an English language release and because of that are only known (if known at all) in their respective home countries.I think no one ever succeeded in counting them all. In addition, there are amateur games that have been created with various game creation software toolkits, like Recreational Software Design's Game-Maker or Pie in the Sky's Game Creation System.

Open source games like NetHack are also problematic to catalogue because of the numerous custom builds, variants and "unofficial" extensions.

There also exist unofficial, unauthorized DOS ports of commercial games, like the infamous SF2IBM port of the SNES version of Street Fighter II, or Rainer Sinsch's (semi-)unofficial port of The Great Giana Sisters.

Also there are lots of freeware games of similar origin, written at their spare time by various programmers.

There are lots of obscure self-published shareware games (usually created by a one-man team), either following the Scott Miller model or not (just browse some of the shovelware CDs at cd. and you'll get the idea).

I highly doubt that a complete collection may exist at all, for a number of reasons: I actually wonder if anybody really knows exactly how many dos games were ever released and if a complete collection of every single dos game ever released actually exists anywhere. These lists are of course incomplete and any further suggestions are more than welcome :) Shareware developers and publishers from 2000's

These can be divided into several categories:Īctive shareware developers and publishers from 90'sĪstral Entertainment (now Monkey with a Moustache Entertainment) The alternative to this are file repositories that are more or less focused on a particular time period, genre and/or platform. On the other hand, not every classic/retro gaming website has a downloads section, leaving the users to find the games that have caught their attention on their own. While there are obvious places where game demo or shareware downloads can be found, like cd., or FilePlanet, they are often tiresome to navigate, and may still lack the files needed. This is a little spin-off of the retro gaming websites list.