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The Magnetic Scrolls Collection: interactive fiction at its best

19th January 2020retro game spotlight

Magnetic Scrolls was one of the finest developer companies dedicated to Interactive Fiction. The Magnetic Scrolls Collection is a trilogy of Magnenic Scrolls adventures remade using the Wonderland engine: Fish!, Corruption, The Guild of Thieves. The new window-based interface made text-adventuring easy even for gamers not used to a text-only interface and the three games included are more than enough for many hours of reading and playing.
CODiE Awards 1995: Doom 2, Nascar, Under a Killing Moon

12th January 2020top games and awards

In 1995 America Online granted access to the internet. The Oklahoma City bombing and the nervine gas attack in Japan happened. In 1995 Microsoft presented its own operating system Windows 1995 to the world.Some CODiE Awards winners made the history of video gaming. Doom 2 was an excellent sequel to one of the ...
The best abandonware games of 2019

4th January 2020top games and awards

2019 has ended. Each game in the "top abandonware games" chart of Abandonware DOS received many votes. This means that you, dear visitor, care about these games, you loved them when they were released and they left something in you... a pleasant memory, a warm feeling of nostalgia maybe?This ...
Abandonware DOS in 2019: what's changed and what's new

1st January 2020Abandonware DOS updates

First of all, I would like to thank everyone who donated a few bucks to help me keep working on Abandonware DOS. THANK YOU, THANK YOU and again THANK YOU! In 2019 I changed the way that I usually add content on Abandonware DOS. This means that it takes me less ...
Old school: first-person party-based CRPGs

28th December 2019keywords and genres

Party-based role-playing games with a first person perspective became popular after the release of Dungeon Master in 1989. Before Dungeon Master only a handful RPGs used first person, the Bard's Tale and Wizardry series among others. Dungeon Master managed to create a very neat user interface without sacrificing the gameplay.Some ...

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Crime and mystery: 221B Baker Street

Released in 1986Crime and mystery

A murder to solve! A criminal to apprehend! Crime and mistery games have the recipe for a perfect crime story. Police investigations, organized crime, mysterious killings, a noir atmosphere are all ingredients that makes a good crime and mystery game worth playing. The Police Quest series, the Tex Murphy series, games based on Sherlock Holmes are just some of the most popular crime and mystery games.
Engine: ICOM MacVenture: Shadowgate

Released in 1988Engine: ICOM MacVenture

The MacVenture adventure games are a series of peculiar adventure games developed by ICOM Simulations. MacVenture games were notable for introducing a menu-based point-and-click interface that allowed the player to manipulate items dragging and dropping them directly from the environment to the inventory. Deja Vu and Shadowgame were perhaps two of the most popular ICOM adventures.
Space simulation: Tau Ceti

Released in 1987Space simulation

Space simulation games, as the name suggests, are all about flying a starship in the vastness of space. The gameplay usually involves one or more of the following activities: space combat, space exploration, trading commodities, taking missions, piracy, crafting, mining asteroids, etc. Some of the most popular space sim series are Wing Commander, Elite and X-Wing / Tie Fighter.

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To abandonware or not?

Where does the love for old abandoned games comes from? Our childhood, perhaps. What's left of that age? What do we miss so much? The long afternoons spent walking in the worlds of Ultima or the hours passed impersonating Duke Nukem. Here we are now, slightly aged, eager to pay homage to all those wonderful DOS games.

After all, it's about passion and remembering.

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