Retro games, abandonware, freeware and classic games for PC and Mac
Xenomorph is a sci-fi RPG set in space, developed by Pandora and published in 1990 for the Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, and - strangely - Commodore 64. The title is clearly inspired by the movie Alien.
Year: 1990 Genre: Role Playing
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Moonbase: Lunar Colony Simulator is a strategy/simulation game created by Wesson International in 1990 for MS-DOS. It was later ported to Amiga and Macintosh. As you can imagine fr...
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Thunder Force III is a space shooter developed by Technosoft for the SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive and published by SEGA in 1990. The title was adapted for the arcade in 1991 under Thunder Force AC and for SNES as Thunder Spirits.
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Total Recall is the adaptation of the science-fiction movie directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The game was released in 1990, the same year of the film, and Ocean published it.
Year: 1990 Genre: Platformer
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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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Koronis Rift is one of the earliest games created by LucasArts (aka Lucasfilm Games). It was designed and produced by Noah Falstein, and it was released initially, in 1985, for the Atari 8-bit computers.
Year: 1985 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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Star Command is a 1988 space role-playing game released by Strategic Simulations Inc initially for MS-DOS, then Amiga and Atari ST. One of the things I learned from the world of v...
Year: 1988 Genre: Role Playing
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The Killing Game Show is a 2D shooter/platformer developed by the small studio Raising Hell Software. It was released by Psygnosis for the Amiga and Atari ST in 1990. This shoot'em...
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Frederik Pohl's Gateway is an interactive fiction with graphics created by Legend Entertainment and published in 1992 for MS-DOS. The game is based on the famous Frederik Pohl's sci-fi novels.
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Blastar is a space shoot-em-up developed by Core Design exclusively for the Amiga and released in 1993. The game features impressive graphics, with more than 3MB of images and animated backgrounds.
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Vyper is a sci-fi shoot 'em up, clearly inspired to Galaga, created by TopDown Development for the Amiga and released in 1988..
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Xevious is a vertical scrolling shooter arcade released by Namco in 1982 and ported to multiple platforms. There were releases for MSX, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and Apple II.
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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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