Retro games, abandonware, freeware and classic games for PC and Mac
Author: GN Team - Published: 11 July 2025, 6:00 pm
Football Manager: World Cup Edition 1990 is a football management simulation developed by Addictive Games and released in 1990. The game was released for various home computers including the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. This specialized edition represents the third entry in the groundbreaking Football Manager series, positioned between Football Manager 2 (1988) and Football Manager 3 (1992), and coincided with the 1990 FIFA World Cup held in Italy.
The original Football Manager, released by Addictive Games in 1982 for the ZX Spectrum, holds the distinction of virtually creating the football management genre from scratch. Kevin Toms' pioneering design established the fundamental template that would influence countless successors, introducing concepts like player statistics, tactical formations, transfer markets, and match simulations that became industry standards. This inaugural title's success on platforms like the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 proved that players were hungry for the strategic depth and long-term engagement that football management games could provide.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 10 July 2025, 7:54 pm
Final Match Tennis is a tennis simulation developed and published by Human Entertainment exclusively for the PC Engine in 1991. This title stands as the most sophisticated tennis game available on NEC's 16-bit system, offering a level of gameplay depth that rivals even modern tennis simulations and surpasses contemporary competitors like World Court Tennis and Tennis Cup.
The game's deceptively simple visual presentation masks an incredibly complex control system that captures the nuances of real tennis with remarkable precision. Human Entertainment has implemented a control scheme that allows players to execute the full spectrum of tennis techniques - powerful smashes, delicate drop shots, aggressive volleys, and precisely placed lobs with varying degrees of topspin and backspin. The sophistication extends to shot placement, where subtle joystick movements determine whether a forehand drives down the line or cuts across court with devastating angle.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 8 July 2025, 11:47 pm
Pinkie is a platform game developed by Millennium Interactive and designed by Scott Williams for the Amiga in 1994. The game features a pink elephant protagonist navigating through various colorful environments in what represents one of the later entries in the Amiga's platformer catalog.
Unlike many Amiga platformers that received multi-platform releases, Pinkie remained largely exclusive to Commodore's machine, limiting its exposure compared to more widely distributed titles like Superfrog or the James Pond series. This exclusivity, combined with its distinctly child-oriented approach, meant that Pinkie occupied a specific niche within the Amiga's software library.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 8 July 2025, 2:16 pm
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars is an adventure game created by Revolution Software and released in 1996 for PC and Macintosh. The game, known in the US as Circle of Blood, was directed by Charles Cecil and designed by Charles Cecil, Dave Cummins, and Jonathan Howard.
Following the cyberpunk dystopia of Beneath A Steel Sky, Revolution Software shifted gears dramatically with Circle of Blood, delivering a globe-trotting conspiracy thriller that feels like a Dan Brown novel years before The Da Vinci Code was released. The game opens with American tourist George Stobbart witnessing a café bombing in Paris, immediately establishing the international intrigue that will drive the entire experience. What begins as a simple case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time evolves into an elaborate mystery involving the Knights Templar, ancient artifacts, and a secret society's modern machinations.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 7 July 2025, 6:20 pm
Championship Manager 2: The Italian Leagues Season 96/97 is a football management simulation developed by Sports Interactive and released for MS-DOS. This specialized edition builds upon the foundation established by the original Championship Manager 2, the groundbreaking managerial simulation created by Oliver Collyer and released in 1995 for Amiga and MS-DOS.
This new edition was released in 1996 for MS-DOS only. The original Championship Manager 2 had revolutionized the football management genre by introducing unprecedented depth in player statistics, tactical options, and database complexity. Collyer's vision transformed what had been relatively simple management games into sophisticated simulations that captured the intricate details of running a professional football club. The game's success spawned numerous expansions and regional variants, of which The Italian Leagues represents one of the most compelling offerings.
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Author: Maddie - Published: 7 July 2025, 4:25 pm
Goblins 3 is a puzzle adventure game developed by Cocktel Vision and released in 1993 for MS-DOS and Amiga. Created by Pierre Gilhodes, this third installment in the Goblins series represents the pinnacle of the franchise's unique blend of slapstick humor and fiendishly clever puzzle design.
The game was later ported to Macintosh, maintaining the series' tradition of multi-platform availability that had made the earlier Goblins and Gobliins 2 accessible to a wide audience of adventure game enthusiasts. Unlike many adventure games of the era that focused on inventory management and dialogue trees, the Goblins series carved out its own niche with cartoon-like visuals and physics-based puzzle solving.
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