Retro games, abandonware, freeware and classic games for PC and Mac
Author: GN Team - Published: 31 December 2020, 3:57 pm
Risky Woods is a platformer created by the Spanish studio Zeus and published by Electronic Arts and Dinamic Software in 1992. It was released for the Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, and Mega Drive/Genesis.
The game designed by Ricardo Puerto and Raúl López represents an excellent entry into the platform shooter genre. Controls are similar to Turrican, but the most similar match is probably Ghosts 'N Goblins. However, the Capcom coin-op conversion suffered many problems, while Risky Woods's quality is fantastic. With responsive controls, fluid animations, detailed graphics, and a very dark tone, the game is a real surprise: it also features impressive parallax scrolling. This is one of the few titles where we can observe parallax scrolling with 16-color backgrounds, which the Amiga did not support, at least not with standard solutions. The developers programmed a routine using one of the Amiga's custom chips to show continuously recycled sprites to create the illusion of a moving background. You won't find this technique very often. You can also add excellent intro music and good sound effects.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 30 December 2020, 3:51 pm
Lorna is an action game based on the Spanish comic book character created by Alfonso Azpiri. The game was developed by Topo Soft and released in 1990 for the Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, MSX, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum.
The gameplay is the typical side-scrolling platformer/beat-em-up, somehow resembling Lionheart, whose jungle/sci-fi graphics are also similar. I will avoid easy comments on the sexy heroine, which was, alone, enough for many people to try this title. But the truth is the development team did a great job with all the game art in general—perfect choice of colors and many details. The monsters and the backgrounds are great, especially the underground ones.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 26 December 2020, 9:35 pm
RoboCop 3 is the official videogame based on the third chapter of the Robocop movie saga, where the protagonist is a cyborg-policeman. This version of the game was created by Digital Image Design for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS and was released in 1992.
RoboCop 3 was a quite different game compared to the previous 2 titles. The others were side-scrolling run and gun platformers/shooters, but for this release, Digital Image Design decided to use the 3D engine they developed for F29 Retaliator. So RoboCop 3 is a 3D polygon graphics game. The development started in September 1990 and required more than one year. The title was completed at the end of 1991, even before the movie was out. But considering that the game creators didn't have access to exclusive movie info and had to work with some sketches and rumors, the game didn't contain any spoiler.
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Author: Gustavo - Published: 21 December 2020, 12:39 am
Z (or Zed) is a sci-fi real-time strategy game developed by The Bitmap Brothers and published in 1996 for PC-MSDOS.
The world of video games is really very intricate. We can notice a growing complexity in the theoretical framework of each adventure's narrative and a clear sophistication of its development. With this scenario strongly focused on emphasizing the cautious player's reading and concentration, a new adventure title decided to leave a clear statement concerning this: SCREW THAT NERDY CRAP! In Z: The Game, you will find what you really need: unnecessarily big words, robots drinking soda, swearing and screaming like cowboys and METAL! (the music genre, not the robots).
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Author: GN Team - Published: 19 December 2020, 1:27 pm
Alien Breed II: The Horror Continues is a sci-fi top-down shooter created by Team17 exclusively for the Amiga and released in 1993.
It's the sequel to Alien Breed and Alien Breed: Special Edition 92. Like the predecessor, the game supports 2 simultaneous players in co-op. The series resembles the iconic Gauntlet arcade in gameplay, but the scenario is completely different. In fact, Alien Breed is set in a universe similar to the film Aliens, where terrible and mortal species of aliens can infect and exterminate entire colonies on distant planets. In this world, you are interplanetary soldiers in charge of cleaning remote colonies from the scary aliens.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 18 December 2020, 9:00 pm
Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O' Fun is a circus mini-game collection created by Christopher Gray for Mindscape. It was originally published in 1989 for Atari ST, Amiga, and MS-DOS and later ported to ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and Commodore 64.
In this title, you must test your skills in different disciplines, including diving, juggling, trapeze, knife throwing, tightrope, and human cannonball. To make things worse, the evil clown Fiendish Freddy will try to sabotage you.
Despite the atmosphere being innovative, Fiendish Freddy will remind you of multi-type sports games such as California Games, Summer Games, and Winter Games. Some practice will be required to master these different events. Sometimes, they are a bit frustrating because they need attention to the single pixels. Apart from this, Fiendish Freddy is an addictive title with excellent graphics and some good ideas. Maybe you won't play for days, but you can have a lot of fun, especially if you play with friends.
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