Retro games, abandonware, freeware and classic games for PC and Mac
Author: GN Team - Published: 18 May 2019, 7:30 pm
Space Hulk is a squad-management tactical videogame, released in 1993 for MS-DOS and Amiga. It is based on the popular board game by Games Workshop with the same title.
In this horror/sci-fi title, with some elements of RPGs and dungeon crawling, you control a team of genetically enhanced Space Marines whose goal is to destroy an evil alien race called the Genestealers.
Gremlin Graphics developed the two previous adaptations of Games Workshop's games: HeroQuest and Space Crusade. But in the case of Space Hulk, the development was granted to Electronic Arts. The American studio didn't try to port all the rules, but rather create a game with the same atmosphere, but maybe different gameplay - something that could use the new hardware capabilities of the computers of the '90s. In fact, Space Hulk is a real-time game, not a turn-based one, as you might have expected from a board game adaptation.
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Author: Tasha - Published: 9 May 2019, 6:27 pm
Little Big Adventure is an adventure game developed by Adeline Software and published by Electronic Arts in Europe. It was released by Activision under a different name in North America and Asia.
The North American release is called Relentless: Twinsen’s Adventure. Whatever you call it, the game is the same. It has received multiple ports and remasters for several platforms up to 2014. It also received a sequel in 1997 called Little Big Adventure 2 or Twinsen’s Odyssey.
Playing as Twinsen, whose world has now become a totalitarian nightmare, you find yourself in prison due to your clairvoyant dreams. Now, Twinsen must make a jailbreak and follow his prophetic dreams to save his world.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 7 May 2019, 1:39 am
Microsoft Flight Simulator 4 is the fourth edition of the popular flight simulation game created by Bruce A. Artwick and later acquired by Microsoft.
This version, released in 1989, was the last one to be ported to other platforms (Macintosh), after that, the brand would become a PC exclusive.
FS4 was one of the most successful in terms of reviews, with extremely high ratings received by many magazines. It introduced several improvements, including new and updated airplanes models, improved scenery, random weather, dynamic scenery, and a new experimental aircraft, the Schweitzer 2-32 sailplane, that players could modify.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 1 May 2019, 1:05 am
Ports of Call is a business/strategy game created by Rolf-Dieter Klein and Martin Ulrich in 1987 for the Amiga. The game was ported a few years later to MS-DOS.
This title is an absolute classic. For many, it represented the first game played on an Amiga since it was included in the Amiga500 Deluxe pack. Compared to the titles of the '90s, the graphics seem to be a bit rough but still very detailed and pleasant. The gameplay is brilliant and immersive, with several options and actions available for players to compete in "hot seat" mode. This made this game the best trading sim available on the Amiga then.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 27 April 2019, 12:56 pm
Bundesliga Manager Hattrick is the third game in the Bundesliga Manager series created by Kron Simulation Software. It was released in 1994 for PC and Amiga AGA machines.
Designed by Werner Krahe and Jens Onnen, this football (soccer) management sim is the sequel to Bundesliga Manager Professional, that was released with the title The Manager outside Germany.
Manager Hattrick allows you to control every aspect of the team management: the training of the individual players, define your tactics and formations, invest on the stadium, sign advertising contracts, and much more. Unlike the predecessors, you can now see a graphical representation of the matches in real time and decide accordingly.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 23 April 2019, 7:17 pm
Oil Imperium (Black Gold in the US) is a business sim created and published in 1989 by reLINE Software for Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, and Amiga.
The game was designed by a group of people that include P. Börner, Thomas Kruza, Tobias Richter and A. Graf von der Schulenburg. In this original simulation, you will have to manage your oil company, competing with up to 3 other players (controlled by humans or the computer). You can choose the mission at the beginning of the game, for example, reaching 80% of the market share, becoming the best in 3 years, or ruining all other players.
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