Retro games, abandonware, freeware and classic games for PC and Mac
MDK is a science fiction shooter developed by Shiny Entertainment and published by Playmates Interactive Entertainment for DOS and Windows in 1997. In order to keep players from ne...
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Grand Theft Auto, popularly known as GTA, is a 2D open-world action game developed by DMA Design and published by BMG in 1997 for PC. At the end of that same year, it would see the light in the Playstation 1.
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Redneck Rampage is a comedy/sci-fi first-person shooter created by Xatrix Entertainment and published by Interplay for MS-DOS in 1997. The game uses the Build game engine, usually considered a 2.
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Need for Speed 2 is the second game in the popular series of racing games created by Electronic Arts starting with The Need for Speed. It was released in 1997 for PlayStation. An...
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The Settlers II: Veni, Vidi, Vici is a real-time strategy and city-building game developed by Blue Byte Software and released in 1996 for PC. The game was programmed and led by Tho...
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Quake II doesn't need any introduction. The first-person shooter created by id Software was released in December 1997. The legendary John Carmack worked personally on coding this gem, that was not planned to be a sequel to Quake.
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Carmageddon is a violent and destructive racing game developed by Stainless Software and published by SCi and Interplay in 1997. It was released for DOS and Mac (ported to other platforms in later years).
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Claw is a 2D platformer developed and published by Monolith Productions as a PC exclusive in 1997. Despite the fanmade adaptations and the repeated attempts to continue the story officially, it did not receive any sequel.
Year: 1997 Genre: Platformer
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Theme Hospital is a business simulator developed by Bullfrog Productions and published by Electronic Arts for the PC in 1997. It's the second game in Bullfrog Productions' Theme series, and was proceeded by Theme Park.
Year: 1997 Genre: Simulation
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Disney's Hercules is an action platformer game for Windows 95 and Playstation published in 1997 by Disney Interactive. It is based on the animated movie of the same name. During th...
Year: 1997 Genre: Platformer
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Age of Empires is a historical real-time strategy game created by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft on October 15, 1997, for Windows. Later it was also published for Mac OS on August 22, 1998.
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