Retro games, abandonware, freeware and classic games for PC and Mac
Author: Tasha - Published: 15 February 2017, 5:18 pm
Pirates! Gold is the remake of Sid Meier's award-winning Pirates! and was developed by MPS Labs and published by MicroProse in 1993. After the initial release for PC and SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive, the game was also ported to Amiga CD32 and Macintosh.
As the first remake of the original Sid Meier's Pirates!, it included some minor enhancements to sound, the graphics, and a few other features. For those unfamiliar with Pirates! The gameplay incorporates three different genres, strategy, action, and adventure. Playing in a large, open world gives you almost ultimate freedom with no linear storyline to adhere to.
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Author: Tasha - Published: 15 February 2017, 5:14 pm
Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon is the third game, and one of the most appreciated, in the Space Quest series. It was developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1989 for Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS.
This was the first game in the series where you could not choose your character’s name, it is just set to the default “Roger Wilco.” This was also the first installment to utilize digitized speech, though only for one sentence during the intro. The game uses the mouse for movement and interaction with the inventory, but the majority of actions are done through text commands.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 12 February 2017, 8:42 pm
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar is a fantasy roleplaying game and one of the most important video games of all time.
The fourth game in the series was created by the legendary Richard Garriot, who considers Ultima IV his favorite chapter of the Ultima series.
The game was created for the Apple II in 1985, then ported to Commodore 64, MS-DOS (1987), Amiga (1988), and many other platforms, including MSX, Atari ST, NES, and many more.
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Author: Tasha - Published: 12 February 2017, 8:34 pm
Pitfall: the Mayan Adventure is a side-scrolling action platformer. It's the forth game in the Pitfall series. It was developed by Activision in partnership with Redline games and published by Activision in 1994. It was released for the Sega CD, Sega Genesis and SNES. One year later for Windows and Jaguar.
You play as Pitfall Harry jr, the son of the character from the original Pitfall! game. Through 13 levels, you must use your bungee jump and boomerang your way through jungles, waterfalls, and mines to find safety.
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Author: Tasha - Published: 11 February 2017, 5:12 pm
Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty is a real-time strategy game created by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Games in 1992.
The game, also known as Dune II: Battle for Arrakis, is the second entry in the Dune series and it's one of the most influential video games of all time. Dune II is thought of by many as the first real-time strategy game, since for the first time a player was able to control and micromanage several units and resources without a turn-based time structure.
Despite the name, Dune II is not the sequel of the first Dune. The two games were developed independently by two different studios. In fact the adventure game by Cryo Interactive was planned to be canceled by Virgin, to release Westwood Studio's strategy game instead. But in the end they decided to keep both games and one of them was renamed Dune II: The Battle For Arrakis.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 10 February 2017, 7:51 pm
Katakis is a sci-fi shooter inspired to R-Type, developed by Factor 5 and released in 1988 for the Commodore 64 and Amiga. The C64 version was created by Manfred Trenz and Andreas Escher, the two friends that will become famous for Turrican.
Katakis was so similar to R-Type that Activision, that had acquired from Irem the rights to port R-Type to home computers, sued Factor 5 and forced them to stop selling the game. Ironically, Activision was so impressed by the quality of Katakis that decided to ask Factor 5 to develop R-Type for them, in exchange for the permission to restart selling their game. Therefore Factor 5 created R-Type and one year later Katakis was re-released with a new name (Denaris) and a few modified levels.
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