Retro games, abandonware, freeware and classic games for PC and Mac
Author: Adam - Published: 5 March 2020, 2:43 am
Gunstar Heroes is a run and gun game developed by Treasure for the Genesis/Mega Drive and published by Sega in 1993.
The side-scrolling shooter has become one of Sega Genesis's most beloved games. There isn't much to the storyline as expected of a game in its era, players take on the role of Gunstar Red and Gunstar Blue, as they battle an evil empire to gain control over a set of powerful gems. The game takes on a style similar to what is presented by the Metal Slug series and has some of the most innovative level designs a player can experience.
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Author: Adam - Published: 4 March 2020, 10:20 pm
Red Storm Rising is a submarine simulation game released and published by MicroProse in 1988. The game was based on Tom Clancy's novel, also named Red Storm Rising.
Taking the player into the age of the Cold War, the game is based on the rivalry between the US and Russian naval forces. The two superpowers of the era are taking on a battle to the death at sea, and you are the winning condition; win it and be a hero or reserve yourself a place at Davy John's locker.
An average person has seen enough war movies to recognize the Captain, who yells orders at his crewmates. From the manning the torpedos, steering the sub to the boisterous commands aimed at the engine room screaming, "engines on full throttle, men," it is all etched in our memory as the typical atmosphere in a submarine control room. However, Red Storm Rising takes a much more different perspective, where it simulates the technical aspect of a submarine rather than the theatrical sense of it.
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Author: Adam - Published: 4 March 2020, 12:02 am
Titus the Fox is a side-scrolling platform game developed by Titus for a variety of platforms, from Amiga, MS-DOS to Atari ST.
It was released in 1991 under the name Lagaf: Les Aventures de Moktar, it got renamed and retooled to fit the game's mascot and came out as Titus the Fox: To Marrakech and Back in the year 1992.
So the story goes down as follows, Titus is a fox who lives with his beloved girlfriend Suzy in their sweet two-bedroom semi in Essex. They look pretty well off considering the huge gleaming rock on Suzy's paw and the extravagant Ford Capri with furry dice. But as always, happiness is not long-lived; Suzy gets kidnapped while she was doing her job, where she works for the magazine Fox and Locks. Whisked away into the night by bandits in the Sahara Desert, it is up to Titus to save his beloved foxy chick who is enslaved in a secret room belonging to the Knights of Shah Hassan.
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Author: Adam - Published: 2 March 2020, 12:09 am
Alien Soldier is a sci-fi side-scrolling shooter created by Treasure exclusively for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and published in 1995.
Do you like boss battles? Do you like a lot of boss battles? How about a game that has more boss battles than the number of actual playable levels? Luckily for you, Alien Soldier is just about that. Alien Soldier is a side-scrolling 2D run and game with a nonexistent storyline designed purely to make you jealous of the creativity and skill of its developers.
The player is greeted with a highly detailed note at the start of the game. It describes a particular group, known as Scarlet, belonging to a race of genetically engineered A-Human. The leader of Scarlet (Epsilon-Eagle), also the game's protagonist, is gravely injured after a battle with a group of special force assassins. The height of the conflict causes a breach in the space-time continuum, and Epsilon-Eagle is cast into it. A new dictatorship is formed under the reign of Xi-Tiger, who is ruthless and unyielding; deciding to secure his throne, he chooses to hunt down Epsilon-Eagle himself. Upon tracking down his presence in a boy's body, Xi-Tiger takes a girl hostage and commands Epsilon-Eagle to reveal himself where the possessed boy attacks him. The story ends, and the game begins, with Xi-Tiger killing the girl and fleeing with Epsilon-Eagle on hot pursuit.
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Author: GN Team - Published: 1 March 2020, 7:14 pm
Empire Deluxe is a turn-based strategy game released by New World Computing in 1993 for PC.
The story of this game begins in 1977 when a first version of the game (without graphics, of course) was created by Walter Bright. The American programmer, also known for having invented the D programming language, took inspiration from Risk and several war movies. The basic mechanics are not much different from Sid Meier's Civilization. The key elements are the cities that won't be built by the players but are already spread in all the maps, ready to be conquered.
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Author: Adam - Published: 29 February 2020, 2:05 pm
Bandit Kings of Ancient China is a wargame/strategy game created by Koei. It was released in Japan in 1988 for MSX2. In 1990, it was ported to the US/European markets for MS-DOS, Amiga, and Macintosh.
Are you a fan of highly complex strategy games? When I say difficult, I mean super-complex; if so, this is the game for you. Bandit Kings (original title "Suikoden: Tenmei no Chikai") is a turn-based strategy game with so much depth that its manual is a hundred pages long! Koei was experienced in the genre, having released two installments for the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series before Bandit Kings of Ancient China.
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