Retro games, abandonware, freeware and classic games for PC and Mac
Author: GN Team - Published: 15 January 2016, 2:07 am
The Legend of Kyrandia 3: Malcolm’s Revenge is the third entry into the Legend of Kyrandia series. It was developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive in 1994 for MS-DOS.
Picking up the storyline from the first game, technically, the evil jester Malcolm has been freed from his stone prison by a rogue lightning strike. Upon awakening, he vows to exact revenge on those who imprisoned him (hence the name). Like the previous two, Malcolm’s Revenge is an adventure game with a point-and-click interface and an intelligent cursor. The game is heavily puzzle-based and involves collecting and using items in certain places. However, Malcolm’s Revenge flips the script on the traditional adventure game where you fill the shoes of a ‘hero”. This time, you get to take on the role of the alleged villain, Malcolm himself, and see the story from his perspective. The game uses an interesting little feature where you can choose to be honest or lie to NPCs that you speak to. These choices color your interactions with these characters as you go along in the game. The game also offers multiple solutions to many of the puzzles, so they can be approached in different ways.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 28 November 2015, 12:59 am
Sensible World of Soccer is the enhanced version of the original Sensible Soccer, the soccer sim designed and developed by Sensible Software. "SWOS" was released in 1994 for the Amiga. In 1995 a version 1.1, with several bug fixes, was released (together with the DOS version). This is the version offered by GamesNostalgia.
The game was not only a great soccer sim, with the typical 2D view and special moves that were activated depending on the context, but also a managerial sim. All teams included had real players (names, strengths etc) and it was possible to buy and sell them.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 13 November 2015, 1:49 am
Little Computer People is an incredibly advanced life simulation game created in 1985 by David Crane. It was released by Activision for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, and Apple II. An Amiga version was released in 1987. It is considered the precursor of life simulations like The Sims.
When you start the game, a new character will be generated, and he will occupy the tiny house. Then he will start following his routine; for example, you will see him watching TV, reading newspapers, or cooking. You will be able to interact with him using the keyboard: a combination of TAB+letter will generate an event (for example, TAB+C will make the phone ring, and TAB+F will make the food arrive). Or you try typing complete sentences like "please play the piano".
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Author: GN Team - Published: 3 November 2015, 2:00 am
Golden Axe is a side-scrolling hack and slash fantasy game created by Sega and released for arcade machines in 1989. The game was ported the same year to the SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis and in 1990 to the Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS platforms. There are also versions for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum.
The player chooses one of the three characters (a barbarian known as Ax Battler, a dwarf named Gilius Thunderhead or the amazon Tyris Flare) and will try to defeat the evil Death-Adder, who has imprisoned the King and his daughter and stolen the legendary Golden Axe.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 1 November 2015, 3:04 pm
Starflight is one of the first sandbox space exploration role-playing and simulation games. It was developed by Binary Systems and published by Electronic Arts in 1986 for MS-DOS. In 1989, it was ported to the Amiga and Commodore 64, while the Atari ST and Macintosh versions were released in 1990. An improved SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive version was created in 1991. The game received excellent reviews from both contemporary and modern critics.
The game's goals include exploration, collecting lifeforms and minerals, and finding habitable colony worlds. It is entirely non-linear, and the player must begin assembling a crew and preparing the spaceship before he can leave the spacedock and start the adventure.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 18 September 2015, 3:05 am
The 350th game on GamesNostalgia is our favourite game ever: Frontier: Elite II. You can download here the PC version, which had a more advanced graphics engine, featuring texture mapping, compared to the Amiga version.
Frontier is a space trading and combat simulation published by GameTek in 1993 and released on the Amiga, Atari ST and DOS.
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