Retro games, abandonware, freeware and classic games for PC and Mac
Author: Gustavo - Published: 13 March 2021, 12:58 pm
Bloodwych is a first-person dungeon crawler role-playing game, developed for the Amiga and Atari ST in 1989 by Image Works. It was ported to MS-DOS, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum in 1990.
Bloodwych is a game that generates a lot of debate. On the one hand, there is the wing of gamers who argue that it is an underrated game, unique, special, and much better than its contemporaries. On the other hand, it is also criticized for being flat, slow, and an inferior copy of classics like Dungeon Master or Eye of the Beholder. Which of these two versions will be the right one? Stay reading the review, and maybe we'll find out.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 12 March 2021, 3:47 pm
Shadow Fighter is a fighting game created by N.A.P.S. and published by Gremlin Graphics exclusively for the Amiga, initially for ECS machines, then AGA.
Clearly inspired by popular titles such as Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter II, Shadow Fighter anyway has its own personality, with 16 unique characters, each one with its own moves. Unlike the official conversions of these famous arcades, the beat-em-up created by NAPS doesn't have gameplay problems. You almost forget that the Amiga joystick has only one button, which was the biggest limit in other fighting games. You only miss it in the most complicated combos. Graphics and backgrounds are amazing, with good use of the 256 colors of the AGA models. Music is also excellent, and it fits perfectly the different scenarios.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 10 March 2021, 1:51 pm
After the War is a post-apocalyptic action game created by the Spanish software house Dinamic Software in 1989. It was released for 8-bit platforms - ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 - and 16-bit platforms - Atari ST and Amiga.
The title is inspired by John Carpenter's movie Escape from New York.
The first part is a beat-em-up, similar to titles like Double Dragon. While in the second part of the game, the hero uses a gun, so it becomes a shooter like Contra. The gun can be rotated, as in Midnight Resistance.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 6 March 2021, 11:58 am
Killing Cloud is a sci-fi action-strategy game set in a cyberpunk San Francisco in the year 1997. It was developed by Vektor Grafix initially for Atari ST, then later ported to Amiga and MS-DOS.
In this game, conceived by Alastair Swinnerton and Ian Martin, you are a policeman, and you have to perform several missions to arrest terrorists. Since the city is covered by poison gas (the killing cloud), you have limited time to complete the missions. You won't survive more than 20 minutes outside in the city. Your hoverbike will allow flying at a certain height from the ground, but you will also have to position the forces on the ground.
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Author: Gustavo - Published: 4 March 2021, 1:54 pm
Cosmic Spacehead is a platform adventure released in 1993 for Amiga, MS-DOS, Game Gear, Sega Master System, and Genesis/Mega Drive. It's a remake of the NES title Linus Spacehead's Cosmic Crusade.
Cosmic Spacehead is a game full of contradictions. First, it sells itself as a family game, but it has names of porn industry figures, and the character searches for fake driver's licenses. It gives the impression that it is trying to be a comedy game, but it is not funny. But of all these contradictions, the one that bothers me the most is that a game as redundant and bad as this one has such good graphics and music. This, ladies and gentlemen, is Cosmic Spacehead, the game of contradictions.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 3 March 2021, 10:38 pm
Aliens: Alien 2 is a platform shooter created by Squaresoft and released exclusively in Japan for MSX computers.
As you can imagine from the title, it's the official videogame based on the 1986 James Cameron movie Aliens, the sequel to the 1979 Ridley Scott's movie Alien.
There are three different games based on this movie: in Europe, Electric Dreams published a game called Aliens: The Computer Game, for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and Amstrad CPC. It was a first-person strategy game, similar to Space Hulk, but released 6 years before. In the USA, Activision released a game with the same title but completely different since it was a mini-games collection. Still for a range of 8-bit platforms.
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