Retro games, abandonware, freeware and classic games for PC and Mac
Author: GN Team - Published: 19 June 2020, 6:57 pm
Rome: Pathway to Power, also known as Rome: AD92, is a game created by Firstlight and published by Millennium Interactive in 1992. It was released for the Amiga and MS-DOS.
The title, designed by Stephen Grand and Ian Saunter, maintains several elements of their previous title, The Adventures of Robin Hood, changing the settings to ancient Rome. The view is isometric, and as soon as you start playing, it will remind you of Populous. In fact, you will also see the little people freely roaming in the environment, going to the baths, talking, and doing their activities. Your hero, controlled with the mouse and the toolbar, will be free to explore and interact with them, trying to complete the missions. The final goal is not easy: starting as a slave, you will need to become the Emperor of Rome. Not bad, eh?
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Author: GN Team - Published: 16 June 2020, 8:44 pm
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? is the first game in the famous educational game series produced by Brøderbund Software. The game stars the renowned thief with a red fedora and trenchcoat.
This first edition of the game was published in 1985 for the Apple II and MS-DOS, while the Commodore 64 version was released in 1986. In 1988 there was also a TRS-80 CoCo port.
In the games, Carmen is a criminal mastermind, head of the V.I.L.E. organization. You work for the ACME Detective Agency, and your task is to find all the thieves until you can finally arrest Carmen. To catch all the thieves, you must follow their tracks worldwide. Good knowledge of geography will be necessary because the investigations will give hints about the thieves' positions. You will also have to fill out their profiles; otherwise, you won't be able to arrest them.
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Author: Gustavo - Published: 15 June 2020, 11:39 pm
Waxworks is a dungeon crawler and roleplaying adventure game with elements of terror developed by Horror Soft and published by Accolade. The title was released for the Amiga and DOS in 1992.
The British developer became famous for the production of the Elvira: Mistress of the Dark series. After the creation of Waxworks, it was renamed Adventure Soft, where it was known for creating titles like the Simon the Sorcerer saga.
The story is about a curse that fell on a family as part of the revenge of a witch named Ixona. After the death of his uncle Boris, the main character inherits a wax museum and a crystal ball. Then, he discovers a letter from his uncle in which he tells him how the family is affected by the millenary curse. This causes that every time two twins are born, one of them will be guided by the path of evil, so the brother of the main character is in danger. To save him, he must use the wax figures to travel in time and defeat the evil twins located at different moments and locations in history. If the player survives all these trips and kills the witch in the last one, the curse will be broken.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 15 June 2020, 12:04 pm
NASCAR Racing 2 is a racing sim created by Papyrus Design and published by Sierra On-Line for PC in 1996. Now available with the new wrapper of NASCAR 2 with 3Dfx nGlide!
It was the second game in the popular series of NASCAR Racing, started in 1994 and ended with NASCAR 2003.
Developed and designed by John Wheeler, the new game represented a big step ahead of its predecessor. NASCAR 2 introduced several changes and improvements, including a new game engine. It was also the first game of the series to support 3D acceleration; the DOS version was compatible with the 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics card.
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Author: Gustavo - Published: 14 June 2020, 6:12 pm
Twisted Metal is a vehicular combat/racing game developed by SingleTrac and published by Sony Computer Entertainment initially for Playstation in 1995. A Windows95 version of the game was released in 1996, it was one of the first games using the graphics acceleration provided by NVIDIA chips.
The North American developer that was located in Salta Lake City is also known for the Jet Moto series and WarHawk, although Twisted Metal was its most significant achievement.
The main idea of the Twisted Metal developers was to produce a game that would combine Michael Bay's action movies with Mad Max's combat vehicles. After the programmers at the Utah headquarters modified the entry to a pizza delivery simulator, Sony decided to revert the changes to its original concept. This way, with twelve months of development and created together with Warhawk, Twisted Metal came to light on November 5, 1995.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 14 June 2020, 2:40 pm
Knightmare is a role-playing game created by Mindscape in 1991, released for Amiga and Atari ST. It's based on the TV show with the same name.
The title was developed by Antony Crowther and designed by the same Crowther with his brother Chris. The two guys previously worked on another Amiga RPG called Captive. Knightmare, in fact, uses the same engine of Captive.
In the TV show, created by Tim Child (who also contributed to the design of the game), four kids need to complete a quest in a virtual fantasy world. It was one of the earliest examples of virtual reality. Crowther was in charge of translating the concept into a videogame. Not for the first time since there is also a "Knightmare" videogame created by Activision in 1987.
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