Retro games, abandonware, freeware and classic games for PC and Mac
SimEarth: The Living Planet is a life simulation game created by Will Wright and published by Maxis Software. It was released for MS-DOS and Macintosh in 1990, one year after the success of SimCity.
Year: 1990 Genre: Simulation
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Scorched Earth is a turn-based artillery game developed by Wendell Hicken for DOS and released originally as shareware in 1991. The game became one of the most popular shareware ti...
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Dune is a strategy adventure developed by Cryo Interactive and published by Virgin Games in 1992 for Amiga and PC. Based on the famous Frank Herbert's sci-fi novel, the game was also ported to CD and released for the Sega CD console.
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Manic Miner is a platform game initially created for the ZX Spectrum by Matthew Smith and released by Software Projects in 1983. The game was ported to many platforms in the follow...
Year: 1990 Genre: Platformer
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Twisted Metal is a vehicular combat/racing game developed by SingleTrac and published by Sony Computer Entertainment initially for Playstation in 1995. A Windows95 version of the g...
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Banshee is an Amiga original shoot-em-up, inspired by classic vertical scrolling shooters such as 1942: The Pacific Air War and Xevious. It was developed by Core Design and rel...
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Cruise for a Corpse is a point-and-click graphic adventure from the French studio Delphine Software. The creators of other Amiga popular titles such as Future Wars: Time Traveller...
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Championship Manager Italia is an updated version of Championship Manager 93, the first generation of the famous soccer management sim. This version is updated with the players a...
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Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego was the fourth game based on the popular character Carmen Sandiego. It arrived after Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?, Where in the U.S.A.
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Zool: Ninja of the Nth Dimension is a fast-moving platformer originally produced for the Amiga in 1992 by Gremlin Graphics. The game, designed to be a competitor to Sonic the Hedgehog, supported the AGA chipset with 256 colors.
Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer
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Transylvania is the first chapter of a series of horror graphic adventure games created by Antonio Antiochia and published by Penguin Software. This first game was released in 1982 for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit, and Commodore 64.
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Millennium: Return to Earth is a sci-fi strategy/resource management sim created by Ian Bird and published by Electric Dreams. It was released for Atari ST, Amiga, and DOS in 1989.
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Metal Gear is a stealth action-adventure designed by Hideo Kojima and originally released in 1987 by Konami for the MSX2. It was later ported to the NES, Commodore 64, and DOS. Not...
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Dungeon Master II: Skullkeep, also known as The Legend of Skullkeep, is the sequel to the famous fantasy dungeon crawler RPG Dungeon Master. The game was initially released for t...
Year: 1995 Genre: Role Playing
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