Retro games, abandonware, freeware and classic games for PC and Mac
Author: GN Team - Published: 6 December 2019, 2:20 am
Disney's Tarzan (also known as Tarzan Action Game) is a platformer created by Eurocom Developments and published by Disney in 1999. Released for PlayStation and Windows, later, it was also ported to Nintendo 64.
Following the tradition of Disney's Aladdin, The Lion King, and (partially) Disney's Hercules, the studio converted the popular animation film, released the same year, into a side-scrolling platformer. In this case, the novelty is that the graphics are in 3D, with filled polygons. But the 3D is purely aesthetic because the movement happens only in one direction (horizontal). Technically speaking, it is known as 2.5D graphics. If, on one side, the third dimension doesn't help the gameplay, it is helpful to create a more realistic environment and beautiful parallax scrolling.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 3 December 2019, 4:17 pm
Gold of the Americas: The Conquest of the New World is a historical strategy/simulation game created by SSG in 1989 for MS-DOS, Atari ST, and Amiga.
Ian Trout, founder of Strategic Studies Group, and author of Reach for the Stars: The Conquest of the Galaxy, designed the game together with Stephen Hart.
The game allows up to 4 players, in a hot-seat mode, to control the powers that colonized America in the 16th century: Spain, England, France, and Portugal. If you don't have three friends with you, the computer will care for the other factions. Beware because the AI is quite clever! You have 30 10-years turns to win the game by earning the highest number of colony points.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 1 December 2019, 2:43 pm
James Pond 3: Operation Starfish is a platformer created by Vectordean and released in 1993. Unlike the previous two games of the series, James Pond 3 was created for the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive and only later ported to Amiga - but only AGA machines: Amiga 1200 and CD32. It was also released for the SNES and other platforms.
The gameplay is similar to the predecessors, and of course, the influence of Sonic or Super Mario is still visible. Anyway, there is quite a significant change: our hero James Pond can no longer stretch his body. Instead, he can use special boots to walk on the ceilings. This third chapter also emphasizes more than ever puzzle solving. There are plenty of power-ups: dynamites, jetpacks, cheese and gateaux guns, and plenty of enemies. The game is massive: over a hundred levels (plus some secret ones), and it's not easy. If James Pond 2: RoboCod was criticized for being too easy, this is not the case anymore.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 29 November 2019, 2:53 am
Dungeon & Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun is an RPG created for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive by Westwood Associated and released in 1992.
The game designed by Louis J. Castle is based on the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) game rules, and it's set in the Mystara Hollow World. You can control a party of 4 characters, either pre-made or generated. The classes are the ones of the first edition of D&D: cleric, fighter, magic-user, thief, dwarf, elf, and halfling. The choice of basic D&D is quite unusual. Most of the RPGs of the '90s were based on AD&D 2nd edition, with many more races and classes and settings like Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance. I wonder if SSI got the exclusivity regarding AD&D 2nd edition from TSR. This could be the reason.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 28 November 2019, 8:12 pm
Troddlers is a puzzle game developed by ATOD Design and published initially for the Amiga in 1992. It was also ported to MS-DOS and SNES.
In this cute and colorful game, your task is to create a path for all the small creatures so that they can exit the level. You create the way by placing blocks on the screen, with a mechanic similar to one of the popular 8-bit title Solomon's Key.
Considering that Troddlers was released one year after Lemmings and that it features small creatures, it's normal that the ATOD's puzzler was often considered a kind of clone of - or at least a game inspired to - Lemmings. But the reality is there are many differences between the 2 games. First, the block mechanics, but also because the levels occupy just 1 screen, without scrolling. It's also controlled with joysticks, not with a mouse, making Troddlers much more "arcade".
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Author: GN Team - Published: 27 November 2019, 8:04 pm
Contra: Hard Corps, also known as Probotector, is a shoot 'em-up created by Konami and published in 1994 for the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive.
The Contra series started as an arcade with the first game Contra, a success that was also ported to several 8-bit platforms, including NES, MSX, and Commodore 64. The sequel, Super Contra, also got an Amiga and an MS-DOS version. Contra III was the first game released for 16-bit consoles, specifically the SNES. Hard Corps is the sequel to Contra III, and it's the first (and only) game of the series to be released for the Sega Genesis.
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