Retro games, abandonware, freeware and classic games for PC and Mac
Zork is one of the earliest interactive fiction/text-adventure and the most popular computer games ever created. ​Released in 1977 for the PDP-10 mainframe, Zork is a seminal tex...
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Softporn Adventure is a text adventure created by Chuck Benton for the Apple II in 1981. The game was programmed in AppleSoft BASIC. Initially released by Benton with his own compa...
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Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor is a text-based adventure game developed and published by Infocom in 1987. It was released for MS-DOS, Amiga, Apple II, Apple IIGS, Atari ST, Commodore 128, and Macintosh.
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Virus-Farm is a brilliant shareware simulation game released in 1992. Players are viruses trying to infect the computer, entering commands in the console of a DOS-like operative system.
Year: 1992 Genre: Simulation
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Super Star Trek is an old text-only game, an early example of a turn-based space strategy sim/wargame created by Robert Leedom e David Ahl. The game code was published in the 1978 book BASIC Computer Games - Microcomputer Edition.
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A Journey Into Xanth is an fantasy Adventure game developed by Neil Sorenson and published by Neil Sorenson in 1993 for DOS.
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Druglord is a Simulation game developed by Phil Erwin and published by FantasyWare in 1991 for DOS.
Year: 1991 Genre: Simulation
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Another Lifeless Planet and Me With No Beer is a rare interactive fiction/text adventure game that was released in 1989 for DOS. The game written by Dennis Drew takes place on a hostile alien planet where you have crashed your ship.
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Temple of Apshai, the first game of the Dunjonquest series, is a dungeon crawler RPG developed by Automated Simulations (now Epyx) initially in 1979. It was then ported to DOS and Commodore 64 in 1982.
Year: 1982 Genre: Role Playing
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