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Download the Best Abandonware Games

The retro games below are considered abandonware because they are not currently for sale on GOG, Steam, or other game stores. Download them for free and enjoy the nostalgia for the 80s and 90s with this selection of the best titles for Amiga, MS-DOS, Commodore 64, SEGA Genesis, and more. All provided with the correct emulator. If you think some of these games should not be listed as abandonware, please contact us.

Sid Meier's Colonization amiga

Sid Meier's Colonization is often remembered as one of the most sophisticated and ambitious strategy games of the 1990s. Despite bearing Sid Meier’s name, the driving force behin...

Year: 1994 Genre: Strategy

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Frontier: Elite II dosamiga

The 350th game on GamesNostalgia is our favourite game ever: Frontier: Elite II. You can download here the PC version, which had a more advanced graphics engine, featuring texture mapping, compared to the Amiga version.

Year: 1993 Genre: Simulation

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Starcraft windowsmac-osx

StarCraft is a real-time strategy game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment, released in 1998 for Windows. It was later ported to Mac OS. The game was designed by Chr...

Year: 1998 Genre: Strategy

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Lemmings amiga

Lemming is a puzzle-platformer created by DMA Design and published by Psygnosis for the Amiga, DOS, and Atari ST in 1991. Lemmings is one of the most iconic puzzle games ever creat...

Year: 1991 Genre: Puzzler

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No One Lives Forever windows

The Operative: No One Lives Forever, also known as NOLF, is a first-person shooter/stealth game created by Monolith Productions. It was published by Fox Interactive for PC in 2000.

Year: 2000 Genre: Action

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Dune II: The Battle For Arrakis amigados

Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty is a real-time strategy game created by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Games in 1992. The game, also known as Dune II: Battle for Arrak...

Year: 1992 Genre: Strategy

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Populous dosamiga

Populous is regarded by many as the first 'god' game, developed by Bullfrog and published by Electronic Arts in 1989. The game was designed by Peter Molyneux, with Bullfrog creatin...

Year: 1989 Genre: Strategy

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Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings windows

Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings is a real-time strategy game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft in 1999 for Windows and Macintosh. It is the sequel to Ag...

Year: 1999 Genre: Strategy

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Deus Ex windows

Deus Ex is the first chapter of the popular stealth-RPG series created by Ion Storm and published by Eidos. When it was released in 2000, it wasn't just another first-person RPG —it was a revolution in game design.

Year: 2000 Genre: Role Playing

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Superfrog amiga

Superfrog is a platformer developed by Team 17 for the Amiga and released in 1993. One year later, the game was ported to MS-DOS. With a lot of colors and nice animations, the game is totally violence-free.

Year: 1993 Genre: Platformer

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The Settlers amigados

The Settlers is a medieval city-building simulation game by Blue Byte Software, first released in 1993 for Commodore Amiga and in 1995 for MS-DOS. In America, it was published as Serf City: Life Is Feudal.

Year: 1993 Genre: Strategy

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Turrican II commodore-64amiga

Turrican II: The Final Fight is a run-and-gun game developed by Factor 5 and published by Rainbow Arts in 1991. The first version, designed by Manfred Trenz and Andreas Escher, was developed by Rainbow Arts for the Commodore 64.

Year: 1991 Genre: Shooter

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Command & Conquer dos

Command & Conquer is a real-time strategy game developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive in 1995 for MS-DOS. It was later released for Windows 95 and also came to several consoles.

Year: 1995 Genre: Strategy

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Sim Theme Park windows

Sim Theme Park (also known as Theme Park World) is the sequel to Theme Park and the second game in the series. It is a theme park management game where players build their own theme park with roller coasters, rides and food stalls.

Year: 1999 Genre: Simulation

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