Retro games, abandonware, freeware and classic games for PC and Mac
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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Enemy: Tempest Of Violence is a platformer action-adventure created by Anachronia for the Amiga and published originally in 1997. The developer released an improved version, called...
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C-Dogs is the sequel to Cyberdogs, with an improved gameplay and the addition of a campaign editor..
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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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War Planets: Age of Chaos is a sci-fi real-time strategy game set in the War Planets universe created by the toy company Trendmasters. The game, created by Trendmasters itself, was...
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Earth 2140 is a real-time strategy game released in 1997 for MS-DOS and later Windows. It was developed by Polish studio Reality Pump (then known as TopWare’s in-house team "Trans Fiction").
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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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Halls of the Dead: Faery Tale Adventure II is the sequel to the 1987 RPG The Faery Tale Adventure created by MicroIllusions. The sequel was developed by The Dreamers Guild, a stu...
Year: 1997 Genre: Role Playing
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onEscapee is an action-adventure created by Invictus and published by Sadeness Software in 1997 exclusively for the Amiga. The decision to invest two years in developing an Amiga g...
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Arkanoid: Doh It Again, released for the SNES in 1997, is a modern reinterpretation of the classic arcade game Arkanoid. The original game, released in 1986, was itself an evolution of Atari’s legendary Breakout.
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Jane's Combat Simulations: Longbow 2 is a helicopter simulation game developed by Origin Systems and released by Electronic Arts in 1997 for PC. As you can imagine, it is the seque...
Year: 1997 Genre: Simulation
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Worms: The Director’s Cut is the sequel to the original Worms. It was developed by Team17 and published by Ocean Software in 1997. It was created exclusively for the Amiga with an AGA chipset.
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Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain was developed by Silicon Knights and published by Crystal Dynamics. It was first released for the PlayStation in 1996. The Windows port was made by Semi ...
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Sid Meier's Gettysburg! is a wargame released in 1997 for Windows by Firaxis Games. Sid Meier and Jeff Briggs founded the studio after they departed from MicroProse. It marked a si...
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