Retro games, abandonware, freeware and classic games for PC and Mac
The Reap is a futuristic shoot 'em-up created by Housemarque in 1997 for Microsoft Windows. The scrolling is isometric, like the famous arcade Zaxxon, but the game features 3D modeled levels with high-quality rendered graphics.
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Alien Terminator is a sci-fi side-scrolling shooter created by Flair Software and published by Golden Zone for PC in 1997. One year before, the game was released on the SNES with the name Realm.
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NY Warriors (aka New York Warriors) is a top-down shooter for 2 players developed by Synergistic and published by Virgin Games in 1990. The game was released for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, DOS, and ZX Spectrum.
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Sid Meier’s Alien Crossfire, released in 1999 as an expansion to Alpha Centauri, is a turn-based strategy game developed by Firaxis Games. While it carries Sid Meier's name, the ...
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Captive is a sci-fi RPG created by Antony Crowther and published by Mindscape in 1990 for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. The game uses a first-person perspective, with movements in the four directions in a pseudo-3D environment.
Year: 1990 Genre: Role Playing
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Robotron: 2084 (also known as Robotron) is one of the arcades that made the history of video games. Developed by Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar of Vid Kidz and released by Williams Electronics in 1982, it was a huge commercial success.
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Steel Empire is an action-strategy game created by Silicon Knights for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS, released in 1992. Denis Dyack and Rick Goertz designed this title. It's the ...
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Assassin is a sci fi action platform game developed by Psionic Systems and published by Team17 Software in 1992 for Amiga. It was followed 2 years later by Assassin: Special Edition, with quite a few changes.
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Shadowfire, released in 1985 for the Commodore 64 and other 8-bit platforms, is a unique blend of tactical strategy and sci-fi adventure. It stood out sharply from the crowd in its era.
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Special Operations 1 is the first expansion pack for Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi. The sequel to the original Wing Commander) was developed and published by Origin Systems in 1991.
Year: 1991 Genre: Simulation
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Special Operations 2 is the second expansion pack for Wing Commander II: Vengeance of The Kilrathi. The sequel to Wing Commander) was developed by and published by Origin Systems in 1992.
Year: 1992 Genre: Simulation
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Insanity Fight is a top-down vertical shooter created by Linel and published by MicroDeal in 1987 for the Amiga and Atari ST. The game stands as a peculiar anomaly in the world of retro gaming.
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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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Super Star Trek is an old text-only game, an early turn-based space strategy sim/wargame created by Robert Leedom and David Ahl. The game code was published in the 1978 book BASIC Computer Games - Microcomputer Edition.
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