The retro games below are considered abandonware because they are not currently for sale on GOG, Steam, or other game stores.
Retro games, abandonware, freeware and classic games for PC and Mac
The retro games below are considered abandonware because they are not currently for sale on GOG, Steam, or other game stores.
Golden Axe is a side-scrolling hack and slash fantasy game created by Sega and released for arcade machines in 1989. The game was ported the same year to the SEGA Mega Drive/Genesi...
2 players arcade brawler co-op coin-op conversion fantasy hack and slash progressive beat-em-up sword and sorcery
Bubble Bobble is one of the most famous arcades ever created and a personal favorite of GamesNostalgia. This 2D cartoon action platformer designed by Fukio Mitsuji (aka MTJ) was released by Taito initially in 1986.
Year: 1987 Genre: Platformer
2 players arcade clear screen co-op coin-op conversion platformer
MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat is a 3D vehicle combat sim game created by Activision and released in 1995 for MS-DOS. It was ported later to Windows and Mac, in addition to the console versions released in 1997.
Year: 1995 Genre: Simulation
3d 3d acceleration battlemech mecha science fiction simulation war
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
action-adventure action-rpg cyberpunk cyborgs rpg science fiction stealth unreal engine
TV Sports: Football is the first game of the TV Sports series created by Cinemaware initially for the Amiga. It was published in 1988, while the C64 and DOS versions followed later.
2 players american football amiga original game multiplayer sports top-down
EF2000 is a combat flight simulator developed by Digital Image Design and published by Ocean Software for PC in 1995. The game, which is the sequel to TFX, puts the player in the...
Year: 1995 Genre: Simulation
aviation combat flight simulation flight sim simulation vehicular combat simulator
Fish! is a text adventure created by the British game studio Magnetic Scrolls. It was published in 1988 for the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS and other platforms by Rainbird.
adventure comedy detective interactive fiction mystery text adventure with pictures text parser
Chrono Trigger, released in 1995 for the SNES, is often regarded as one of the greatest role-playing games of all time. Developed by Square (now Square Enix), the game was the resu...
Year: 1995 Genre: Role Playing
anime jrpg rpg turn-based rpg
Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance is the sequel to the popular action adventure The Last Ninja. Released initally for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC in 1988, it wa...
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Elite is a famous space flight and trading sim created by David Braben and Ian Bell for the BBC Micro. The game was published by Acornsoft and Firebird and released for several home computers starting in 1984.
Year: 1985 Genre: Simulation
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The Pawn is a text adventure created by Magnetic Scrolls initially for the Sinclair QL and published by Sinclair Research in 1985. The game wasn't very successful and one year late...
adventure fantasy sinclair ql text adventure with pictures text parser
Softporn Adventure is a text adventure created by Chuck Benton for the Apple II in 1981. The game was programmed in AppleSoft BASIC. Initially released by Benton with his own compa...
adult adventure apple 2 original game comedy interactive fiction text adventure text-only
Battle Squadron: The Destruction Of The Barrax Empire is the successor of one of the most popular vertical scrolling shooters for Amiga, Hybris. It was developed by Cope-com and pu...
2 players amiga original game co-op shooter v-scrolling shoot-em up vertical-scrolling