Retro games, abandonware, freeware and classic games for PC and Mac
Author: GN Team - Published: 11 July 2018, 8:09 am
Fire & Ice: The daring adventures of Cool Coyote is a platformer created by Graftgold and published by Renegade Software in 1992. Initially released for the Amiga and Atari ST, later it was ported to MS-DOS, Acorn, and SEGA Master System.
Programmed and designed by Andrew Braybrook (Paradroid, Uridium) and Phil Williams, thanks to its cute graphics, great level design, and polished gameplay, it is recognized as one of the best platformers ever released for the Amiga. Like many jump-and-run games of the 90s, it is pretty unforgiving: difficulty level is challenging, but once you master it, it gives a lot of fun.
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Author: Tasha - Published: 9 July 2018, 8:33 am
Bad Blood is a post-apocalyptic action/role-playing game played from a top-down view. It was created for the Commodore 64 and MS-DOS by ORIGIN Systems and released in 1990. The game designer was Chris Roberts, famous for the Wing Commander saga.
The world is a barren wasteland following nuclear warfare in this Mad Max-like future. Normal humans have chosen to shun the mutants and decide to wipe them out. With war looming on the horizon, your task is finding a more desirable solution to prevent it from happening. You begin your journey by choosing between 3 characters: a human, a green mutant, and a human-looking mutant. You can openly wander the wasteland exploring, discovering, collecting, and talking to NPCs. Combat is in real time, with multiple weapons to choose from. Also, the game cycles through day and night, affecting enemies and NPCs alike. Enemies come in a wide range of options, including the standard irradiated giant bugs, snake people, and fire-breathing fliers, among other things.
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Author: Tasha - Published: 6 July 2018, 2:19 am
Dark Sun: Shattered Lands is a computer RPG set in the AD&D universe, created by Strategic Simulations Inc in 1993 for DOS only.
Being based on the AD&D campaign known as Dark Sun, it is set in the desert world of Athas. In this hot and desolate land, not much is flourishing. You and your companions are stuck in the life of gladiators, so of course, you need to get out of there. You start by creating your party of 4 either manually or have the computer generate a team randomly. There are multiple classes to choose from, including classics ones like Thief and Fighter and interesting ones like Psionicist and Preserver, among others. You can even pick Gladiator if you’re feeling ironic. There are also several exotic races to try out. The game itself plays pretty openly, and you can explore the world in any order after completing the introductory sections.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 30 June 2018, 12:00 pm
Command & Conquer: Red Alert is a real-time strategy game developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive in 1996 for MS-DOS and Windows 95. It was later ported to PlayStation.
Red Alert is set in an alternate history where Albert Einstein travels back in time and erases Adolf Hitler from the timeline — only for Joseph Stalin to fill the power vacuum and launch a Soviet invasion of Europe. It's a bold, imaginative premise that gives the game a very different tone from the original Command & Conquer, trading the Tiberium science-fiction setting for a Cold War aesthetic full of Tesla coils, attack dogs, and nuclear weapons.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 24 June 2018, 9:53 pm
Fish! is a text adventure created by the British game studio Magnetic Scrolls. It was published in 1988 for the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS and other platforms by Rainbird.
Written by Pete Kemp, John Molloy, Phil South and Robert Steggles, Fish is rich in humor and a bit surreal. You are Agent 10, a goldfish, and you have to defeat an inter-dimensional terrorist group called Seven Deadly Fins.
Fish is one of the latest classic titles released by Magnetic Scrolls, after the successes of The Pawn and The Guild of Thieves. In 1990 the studio would release another adventure, Wonderland, that featured an enhanced user interface making use of the powerful graphics and memory of the Amiga and Atari ST. Fish would be later re-released on the Amiga with this new interface. This is the version we are presenting here.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 19 June 2018, 8:48 pm
Mega lo Mania is a real-time strategy game created by Sensible Software in 1991 for the Amiga and Atari ST. In 1992 and 1993 it was ported to DOS, Genesis and other platforms.
Designed by Jon Hare and Chris Yates (the founders of Sensible Software) it is a pretty unique game, an early example of god-game and RTS - in fact, it was released before the great success of Dune II: The Battle For Arrakis. It is also one of the earliest examples of strategy games with technology tree. All of this keeping the typical look & feel, and sense of humor, of the games created by the people behind Cannon Fodder and Sensible Soccer.
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