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Hardball: digital baseball

20th February 2021new content

Hardball is a popular series of baseball video games published by Accolade from 1985 (Hardball! was the first game) to 1998 (Hardball 6). If you are a baseball fan and a video games enthusiast, you can't miss them!
Circuit's Edge: a cyberpunk adventure-RPG

13th February 2021retro game spotlight

Circuit's Edge is a single-player science fiction blend of adventure game and RPG, developed by Westwood Studios and released by Infocom in 1990. Circuit's Edge is based on George Alec Effinger's cyberpunk novel "When Gravity Fails".
Princess Maker 2: a fantasy life simulation

6th February 2021retro game spotlight

Princess Maker 2 is a life simulation anime-style game developed by Gainax in 1993. In Princess Maker 2, the player is the father of a young princess and must tutor and raise her to the age of 18 by scheduling jobs, school classes and programming other activities. The princess is defined by attributes (strength, cooking, etc.) that will change depending on the kind of tasks the player will assign her.
Asteroids: the abandoned remakes

30th January 2021remakes and sequels

The original game Asteroids was one of the most popular arcade games of the 80s; a fixed-screen shooter first published for arcade machines in 1979.Original title: Asteroids First released in: 1979 Developer: Atari Publisher: Atari, Taito Designer: Lyle Rains, Ed Logg, Dominic ...
Electronic Games Arcade Awards - 1981

23rd January 2021top games and awards

asElectronic Games was a magazine published in the United States between the 1980s and the 1990s. It was one of the first computer magazines entirely dedicated to video games, and it wasn't that common in the early 80s.The Arcade Awards was perhaps the first "game of the year" type ...

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Top-down party-based RPG: Ultima 6: The False Prophet

Released in 1990Top-down party-based RPG

Party-based role-playing games played in a top down perspective were perhaps the first CRPGs to get some attention by fans of pen & paper RPGs. After all, a top down view is the ideal way to convey the feeling of looking at a map, and it's the perfect way to show every member of the party in a turn-based combat. The most fondly remembered top-down CRPGs of the golden age of gaming were perhaps the ones designed by the immortal Richard Garriott: the Ultima series. Let's not forget classics such as The Magic Candle, Dark Sun, Wasteland.
Graphic adventure with text parser: Fuck Quest

Released in 1998Graphic 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.

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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.

The games listed on Abandonware DOS are no longer supported by their respective developers (as far as I know... I often check sites like Steam and GOG). If you find out that a game is still on sale or "protected", please let me know and I'll remove it from Abandonware DOS as soon as possible.

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Hardball: digital baseball

Circuit's Edge: a cyberpunk adventure-RPG

Princess Maker 2: a fantasy life simulation

Asteroids: the abandoned remakes

Electronic Games Arcade Awards - 1981

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Top-down party-based RPG: Ultima 6: The False Prophet

Graphic adventure with text parser: Fuck Quest

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