Retro games, abandonware, freeware and classic games for PC and Mac
The Ur-Quan Masters is a free project started in August 2002, when Toys For Bob released the partially ported sources of Star Control II for 3DO. This has been used to re-create ...
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Ultima (later renamed Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness), is the first game in the series of role-playing games created by Richard Garriott. The original Ultima was created for t...
Year: 1983 Genre: Role Playing
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Wing Commander: The Secret Missions is the first add-on to Wing Commander, the popular 3D space simulator developed by ORIGIN Systems. It was released the same year of the origin...
Year: 1990 Genre: Simulation
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Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is the sequel to the famous arcade developed by Atari in 1983. The cabinet of The Empire Strikes Back was released in 1985 as an upgrade to the first one.
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Space Hulk is a squad-management tactical videogame, released in 1993 for MS-DOS and Amiga. It is based on the popular board game by Games Workshop with the same title. In this hor...
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EGATrek is one of the best remakes of the original Star Trek game developed on mainframes in the '70s. Nels Anderson created EGATrek originally in 1988 for MS-DOS and released it as shareware, but continued working on it until 1994.
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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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The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble is an adventure game created by Pierre Gilhodes of Coktel Vision. It was published by Sierra On-Line for Windows in 1995. Woo...
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Battlezone is an arcade game created by Atari and released in 1980. It's the precursor of modern 3D first-person shooters (FPS), using wireframe vector graphics rather than raster graphics.
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Return to Ringworld is a science-fiction point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Tsunami Media in 1994. The title that came out for the DOS is based on the novels...
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Contra: Hard Corps, also known as Probotector, is a shoot 'em-up created by Konami and published in 1994 for the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive. The Contra series started as an arcade w...
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Commander Keen 3: Keen Must Die is the third episode in the Invasion of the Vorticons series and was developed by id Software. It was published by Apogee in 1990 for DOS. Commander...
Year: 1990 Genre: Platformer
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Electro Man (aka Electroman) is a sci-fi platformer-shooter created by xLand Games and released initially as shareware in 1992. It was later re-released as freeware in 2006..
Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer
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Space Ace is the second laserdisc game created by Don Bluth, published at the end of 1983, less than 1 year after Dragon's Lair's huge success. The home computers conversions, for ...
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