Mac Bowl-A-Rama is a super crude 2D top down view bowling simulation.  The ball goes back and forth from a side of the alley to the other and back.  You simply press the space bar to launch the ball straight ahead and hope to hit the...

Bugglings is a life kind of simulator.  5 types of living organisms (identified by a different color) are competing in a test tube where there is food and optional radiation.  The cells move around, eat food, reproduce and kill other...

Is it a game? Is it adult-themed? Is it nonsensical? It's certainly a piece of interesting shareware history. It's Underwear Girl, a dressup game with no endgame other than your own desires. Speaking of which, the secret code is...

Underwear Girl 2, sequel to the original but now with more animation, dancing, music, and more. This time, the "secret" isn't a code you input, but was a special version of the file you received from the author, who provided the...

Terminal RADAR Approach Control. An air traffic control simulator, and sequel to TRACON.

Theme Park is an amusement park management simulation game.  You place attractions, shops, stalls, roads, trees, etc... in a top down isometric view.  You have to cope with employee negociations, customer problems and maintenance...

Darwin is a life simulator type of game.  Altough it is in B&W, it features pattern filled rectangles to account for up to 8 different "species" competing to survive in the arena.  

I came back from vacation to a note that read “So sorry about your fishies ... I think they missed you an awful lot.” Disease had wiped out the pets in my little live aquarium. A couple of days later, a coworker placed a copy of Aquazone...

Tower of Brahma simulation puzzle game.  You can play or let the computer solve it for you.  It animates the disk transfers from a column to another.  

Capitalism bills itself as the strategy game of money, power, and wealth. We'll buy that. More business than game, Capitalism lets you run a corporation by managing sales, purchasing, manufacturing, inventory, private labeling, and advertising....

A cellular automaton simulating predator/prey relations. User input is limited to defining the rules and initial conditions. See also: Core Wars

The protagonist of the game sees a strange dream: a black jaguar appears and introduces himself as a servant of the Inca king. He explains that the Inca people are dying of malaria and endangered by the European explorers. The jaguar is willing to...

GodGame is a simulation environment shareware.  It's simple yet more complex than the traditional "life" simulation. The GodGame allows 1 - 4 players to create a small planet and to populate it with their chosen peoples. ...

Gotcha is a simulation game where you can design an arena and then run the simulation.  The goal is to have your robots tag the other player's robots without getting tagged by them or by the overall ennemy "bugs".  

Microshaft Winblows 98 is a parody program by Parroty software that attempts to make jokes about Windows 98, Microsoft's business, and nerd culture in general. It was generally positively received. Describing itself as "rated for...