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Relaxing with Alpha Waves

10th April 2021action

Alpha Waves was the ultimate relaxing experience for PC. As a platform game, Alpha Waves it's an ok game; not bad, not very good, but if you consider the whole relaxing experience, it's worth a try. Alpha Waves stands the test of time, after all these years it's still fairly ...
Delivering papers as a digital paperboy

3rd April 2021action

Paperboy was an unusual arcade hit by Atari later published by Mindscape for DOS. Paperboy gameplay is peculiar: you control a boy on a bicycle and you have to deliver newspapers to a number of houses while avoiding dogs, cars and other obstacles. A sequel called Paperboy 2 was released in 1991 ...
Supremacy: Your Will Be Done

27th March 2021strategy

Supremacy: You Will Be Done (also known simply as Overlord) is a rare example of mix between real-time strategy and science fiction themed 4X game (eXplore, eXpand, eXploid, eXterminate). Supremacy was developed by Probe Entertainment and published by Mastertronic in 1990.PC Review wrote about Supremacy in 1992: "Two huge civilisations battle ...
Zool: the ninja from the Nth dimension

20th March 2021action

Zool was to Amiga what Sonic was for Sega consoles: a cool protagonist (a ninja of the Nth dimension!) for a high adrenaline action platformer. Zool was designed by George Allen and published by Gremlin in 1992 and it was an instant success. It was ported for many platforms, DOS included, ...
Collector's info: Bureaucracy

11th March 2021adventure, big box PC games

Infocom interactive fiction games are fondly remembered by fans not only for their quality, but also for the sheer number of "feelies" (physical items) you could find in each original big box.Bureaucracy is an abandoned text-adventure game designed by Douglas Adams (yes, the writer of The Hitchhiker Guide of ...

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Graphic adventure with text parser: Leisure Suit Larry 2: Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places)

Released in 1988Graphic adventure with text parser

There's a fine line between a "text adventure" (now called interactive fiction) and a graphic adventure. Before point and click adventure games such as Monkey Island, Gabriel Knight, Day of the Tentacle, companies first attempted to create adventure games with lots of graphics, but with a text-based interface. The one company that took advantage of this kind of adventure was Sierra On-Line with it's King's Quest, Leisure Suit Larry and Space Quest series.
PvP (player VS player): Blades of steel

Released in 1990PvP (player VS player)

Of all the multiplayer modes available for a game, PvP (Player VS Player) is one of the most appreciated. The thrill of competing in some way against a human opponent is something that changes the way you're playing and is often completely different than fighting a computer opponent. In fact, the first games in history lacked a computer opponent (it needed more resources, more code, etc.), there was PvP before everything else.

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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 the passion for old games and a little bit of nostalgia.

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Supremacy: Your Will Be Done

Zool: the ninja from the Nth dimension

Collector's info: Bureaucracy

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Graphic adventure with text parser: Leisure Suit Larry 2: Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places)

PvP (player VS player): Blades of steel

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