Retro games, abandonware, freeware and classic games for PC and Mac
Author: Tasha - Published: 22 January 2017, 7:26 pm
Doom II is Id Software's follow-up to their award winning Doom. Published by GT Interactive, it was released for DOS in 1994, just one year after its predecessor. Unlike most sequels, this one is actually good.
Playing as the same sole surviving space marine, you have escaped the horrors of mars and arrived back on Earth. Unfortunately, hell has beaten you back home and destroyed the majority of it. Good thing you saved some bullets. You’ll square off against some familiar baddies on your home turf, but this time they brought friends. These new hellspawn have more advanced attacks than their Mars brethren and will possess the bodies of human survivors. Which makes reaching your goal more difficult, but never fear, the super shotgun is here! So reload, saddle up, and save the remnants of humanity.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 21 January 2017, 5:37 am
Mortal Kombat is a side-scrolling fighting game created in 1992 by the four person company Midway Games and released initially as an arcade. Thanks to its huge success, the game was ported to many other home platforms, computers and consoles.
The game is famous for its use of digitized actors instead of bitmap graphics like Street Fighter II, and also for the violence and copious amounts of blood. It was originally planned to feature a digitized version of martial arts star Jean-Claude Van Damme. When that plan fell through, the developers decided to add Johnny Cage, a parody on Van Damme.
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Author: Tasha - Published: 19 January 2017, 8:25 pm
Doom is the legendary first-person shooter created by Id Software and released for DOS in 1993.
It was Id Software’s follow-up to their genre-defining Wolfenstein 3D. This was the first game to popularize multiplayer for this genre.
The Union Aerospace Corporation has been experimenting with teleportation on the moons of mars, when something goes wrong. Play from the perspective of a space marine sent to clean up the corporation’s mess. You watch as your friends are quickly slaughtered and you wonder how they made it out of boot camp. That aside, you soon find that the UAC has managed to open up a portal to hell and you’re about to need a lot of bullets. Don’t worry, as there is a large arsenal to choose from. With more advanced engine technology than Wolfenstein 3D, Doom’s levels are more varied and complex. The engine can simulate different heights and lighting conditions (hope you’re not afraid of the dark). With a myriad of booby traps set in indoor and outdoor environments, you better watch your step. Press switches and find key cards to advance through the episodes, all while fighting off the spawn of hell. Good luck.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 18 January 2017, 11:42 pm
Black Crypt is a fantasy single-player roleplaying game by Raven Software, published by Electronic Arts. It was released in 1992. It was initially conceived of as a pen and paper roleplaying game by Brian Raffel and Steve Raffel. The game was originally released for Amiga, but the first two levels have been released as freeware since then.
The player creates a party of four heroes, chosen from 4 different classes: fighter, cleric, magic-user, and druid. Your party will have to travel through the twenty-eight levels of the “Tomb of the Four Heroes” hidden in the Black Crypt is the evil Estoroth Paingiver, a powerful cleric. He was banished to the crypt for committing unspeakable acts but is now trying to break out.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 18 January 2017, 1:45 am
Wizball is a shooter/platformer with horizontal scrolling created by Sensible Software for the Commodore 64 in 1987. The game was designed by Jon Hare, whose name is tied to the Sensible Soccer series, and his co-founder Chris Yates.
The two not only created the game but also collaborated with the composer for the music. The success of the game made possible the porting to other platforms, including ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, and Atari ST (in 1988).
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Author: GN Team - Published: 10 January 2017, 2:42 am
Sensible Soccer is a famous football video game developed by Sensible Software. The original game was released in 1992 for Amiga and Atari ST only. Some months later, the European Champions 92/93 version (known as v1.1) was released and ported to many platforms, including SNES, Game Boy, Mega Drive, Atari Jaguar, Sega Game Gear, Sega Master System, DOS, and others.
The game was famous for introducing the bird-eye view, with players much smaller than other soccer games popular at the time, like Kick Off. Another characteristic was the "aftertouch", allowing players to apply swerves.
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