Retro games, abandonware, freeware and classic games for PC and Mac
Author: Tasha - Published: 25 January 2017, 7:27 pm
Descent is a 3D sci-fi first-person shooter notable for the "six-axis" movement, developed by Parallax Software and released by Interplay in 1995. Initially released to MS-DOS, the game was ported to Mac OS and Playstation.
The game is set out in the Solar System. You play a mercenary called the "Material Defender," who has been hired to destroy mining robots who have been infected with a virus. The "Material Defender" works for the Post-Terran Mining Corporation. It's your job to rescue captives and destroy the infected mines. The game is notable for giving you 720 degrees of movement in which to do so. To finish each level, you must destroy the mine's reactor. After you've done so, you have only 45 seconds to find the escape hatch and leave the mine before it explodes – with you in it.
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Author: Tasha - Published: 25 January 2017, 1:27 am
Populous is regarded by many as the first 'god' game, developed by Bullfrog and published by Electronic Arts in 1989. The game was designed by Peter Molyneux, with Bullfrog creating a gameplay prototype by making a board game out of Lego pieces. Initially released for the Amiga, it made its way onto many other platforms in the years following its release.
Populous is set on a 'tabletop' and seen from an isometric perspective. In the game, you play as a deity who competes with his fellow gods to show who is the best. The object is to lead your followers in conquest to destroy the followers of your fellow gods. You can use your divine powers to influence your followers and lead them to victory. You can move the ground up and down to allow your followers to trek across the land to reach new goals or make space to build upon. You can also cause natural disasters and endow specific followers with powerful upgrades. Your godly powers are not without their limits and are at the mercy of your mana level. To build up mana, you need to have your followers build dwellings to increase the population, thus increasing your mana. Once you have made your village leader strong enough, they will engage the enemy's followers in violent holy combat until they are victorious or dead. Your villagers don't get to have all the fun, though; you can use your godly powers to drown enemies by moving the land or burn them by making a volcano appear in the center of town. Featuring 500 levels to conquer, you can show those other gods who's boss!
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Author: Tasha - Published: 23 January 2017, 6:27 pm
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure was released in 1989 at the same time as the film. It was developed and published by Lucasfilm games (now LucasArts). It's a point and click adventure game designed by Ron Gilbert, Noah Falstein, and David Fox. It was released on Amiga, Atari ST, DOS, Macintosh and FM Towns.
Last Crusade is the 3rd game to run on the SCUMM engine. The gameplay is point and click adventure, that included a point system called IQ or “Indy Quotient”. To reach the maximum of 800 IQ, the player would have to find alternate solutions to puzzles. This gave the game additional replay value.
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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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