Retro games, abandonware, freeware and classic games for PC and Mac
Author: GN Team - Published: 2 October 2021, 2:32 pm
X-Men is a videogame created by Western Technologies exclusively for the SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis console and published in 1993.
The title is based on the famous superheroes series by Marvel. The gameplay is a typical side-view beat-em-up/platformer, similar in many ways to other popular games such as Strider or Lionheart.
In this platformer, you can control four of the most famous mutants: Gambit, Nightcrawler, Wolverine, and Cyclops. Other heroes such as Storm, Rogue, Iceman, and Jean Grey, can't be played, but they occasionally appear to help you. The final boss is, as you can expect, the well-known Magneto.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 30 September 2021, 7:35 pm
Gunship is a combat flight simulator created by MicroProse Software and released initially for the Commodore 64 in 1986. Later it was ported to PC, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, and other platforms.
The Amiga version was released in 1989, while the Mega Drive version by US Gold arrived in 1993. The game, that initially was not supposed to be military combat simulator, allows you to pilot the famous helicopter AH-64A Apache. Missions include scenarios in Middle East, South-East Asia, Central America, and Europe.
The title was a success, both in terms of sales and in terms of magazines reviews. Many considered it the best combat flight sim available at that time. Gunship was followed by Gunship 2000 in 1991.
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Author: Gustavo - Published: 25 September 2021, 4:36 pm
Jill of the Jungle: Jill Goes Underground is the second chapter of the Jill of the Jungle trilogy, a series of side-scroller platformers. The games were designed to compete with Duke Nukem and Commander Keen. It was released in 1992 for MS-DOS only.
Today, it's time to review another of the first significant female figures in video games who are not just there to be rescued by the male protagonist. Will the second chapter of the franchise be as good as the first? Will it be an improvement on the original, considering how close they were released? Let's find out together.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 25 September 2021, 2:34 pm
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a text adventure by Infocom, based on the famous novel by Douglas Adams. The book, a comedy science fiction genre masterpiece, was written in 1979.
Infocom released the game at the end of 1984 for Apple II, Macintosh, PC, Atari 8-bit, and Commodore 64. The Amiga, Atari ST, and other versions were published in the following years.
Infocom acquired the rights to work on the famous novel and was lucky enough to have the collaboration of Douglas Adams himself.
So the game designer Steve Meretzky worked together with the famous writer to create this interactive fiction that takes the book's best elements without following the plot closely. Initially, the game is very linear, but once Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect leave the Earth destroyed by the Vogons, this interactive fiction gives its best, with several non-linear subplots that will make adventure games lovers happy. Ok, some of the puzzles are not strictly following the "rules" of the classic adventures, but this is one of the reasons why this game is original and fun.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 18 September 2021, 12:47 am
James Clavell's Shogun is the computer game adaptation of the famous novel Shogun by James Clavell. The game was created by Infocom and released in 1989 for Amiga. Apple II, MS-DOS, and Macintosh.
The title is known as the first Infocom text adventure that includes graphics. Infocom was, in fact, well known for the classic adventures purely based on text, also known as interactive fictions, like Deadline, Starcross, and, of course, Zork: The Great Underground Empire.
Technically speaking, the game is flawless: the images are stunning, perfectly in line with the Japanese art of the 16th century, and contribute to creating a great atmosphere; the parser, being an Infocom adventure, is highly flexible and very advanced.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 13 September 2021, 7:31 pm
Spacewrecked: 14 Billion Light Years From Earth is a computer RPG published by Gremlin Graphics in 1990 for Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. In Europe, it is known as Federation Quest 1: B.S.S. Jane Seymour.
Created by Graeme Ing and Robert Crack, the designers of Utopia: The Creation of a Nation, B.S.S. Jane Seymour is a classic sci-fi dungeon crawler set in space. You are on board a science starship directed to Orion's arm to collect alien life samples. Unfortunately, a radiation wave hits the vessel, killing part of the crew, destroying half of the ship, and setting the aliens free. Of course, as you can expect, the aliens are evil (or maybe just hungry), so they will try to kill all the remaining crew.
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