Retro games, abandonware, freeware and classic games for PC and Mac
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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Author: GN Team - Published: 17 December 2020, 10:29 pm
Brutal: Paws of Fury is a competitive fighting game created by GameTek for SEGA CD and Mega Drive/Genesis in 1994. The game was also ported and released for the Amiga, SNES, and MS-DOS.
Unlike Mortal Kombat with its hyper-realistic graphics, or Street Fighter II, which had human combatants (though with fantasy powers), Paws of Fury features a cast of animal fighters. Much like a Disney movie, you will have heroes such as Ivan the Bear, Tai Cheetah, Prince Leon of Kenya, Rhei Rat, and others. All drawn like cartoons. Not to mention Kung-Fu Bunny, which makes you wonder if Pixar didn't take inspiration from this game when they created Kung Fu Panda in 2008. Maybe. Funnily, the final boss to defeat is Dali Llama - a llama, as you can imagine. Hopefully, the religious leader didn't get offended by the reference.
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