Retro games, abandonware, freeware and classic games for PC and Mac
Chris Crawford’s Eastern Front (1941) is a wargame released in 1981 for the Atari 8-bit family. It is widely recognized as one of the earliest examples of a truly sophisticated computer wargame for home systems.
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McMurphy's Mansion is a classic text based adventure developed in 1984 by Martin-Art and released as shareware..
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Racing Destruction Set, released in 1985 for the Commodore 64 by Electronic Arts, is customizable combat racing game for 2 players. It was a remarkably advanced racing game for its...
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Napoleon vs. The Evil Monarchies: Austerlitz 1805 (or simply Austerlitz) is a tile-based wargame played in real-time. The player takes command of either French or Russo-Austrian ar...
Year: 1989 Genre: Simulation
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PC*Bert is an excellent and faithful freeware clone for the PC of Q*Bert, one of the most famous arcades ever created. Q*Bert was developed in 1982 by Gottlieb and is still one of the most famous videogames characters.
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5 Days a Stranger is a freeware horror-themed point-and-click adventure developed by Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw using AGS and released for Windows in 2003.
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2400 A.D. is a post-apocalyptic top-down role-playing game by Origin Systems. Before starting a new game, I have the (maybe bad) habit of looking at the story of searching for a review.
Year: 1988 Genre: Role Playing
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Starquake, released in 1985 and developed by Stephen Crow, is one of the most beloved and innovative platform adventures on the Commodore 64. Originally created for the ZX Spectrum...
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1830: Railroads & Robber Barons is a conversion of a very popular game with the same name created by Avalon Hill. The game was developed by SimTex and released in 1995 for MS-DOS. ...
Year: 1995 Genre: Simulation
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a graphic adventure created by Coktel Vision. It is a videogame adaptation of the famous sci-fi novel by Jules Verne, written in 1870. The game was ...
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3D Xmas Adventure: Santa's Rescue is Christmas themed, and non-violent, first person shooter created by Pie in the Sky Software in 1996 for MS-DOS. The game was developed to promot...
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Virus 2000 (a.k.a. V2000) is the remake/sequel to the 1987 David Braben game, Zarch (later Virus). It was developed by Frontier Developments and published by Grolier Interactive in 1998 for PlayStation and Windows.
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Mortimer and the Riddles of the Medallion is an educational action/puzzle game created by LucasArts and released for Windows 95 and Macintosh in 1996. The game uses the Rebel Assault engine and is designed for kids 5 and up.
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PC-Sherlock: A Game of Logic & Deduction is a Puzzler game developed by Sanjay Kanade and published by Yestersoft in 1991 for DOS.
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