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Jagged Alliance 2: squad tactics at its best

26th September 2020retro game spotlight

I'm a fan of the original X-COM. I think it's one of the best turn-based tactics games ever released for DOS. Unfortunately, games like X-COM are not many. Jagged Alliance 2 has a similar tactical component: you give turn-based orders to a team of mercenaries, mission after mission. There's no management component (at least not as extensive as in the X-COM series). The setting is quite unusual to gamers ike me, used to fantasy or science fiction: Jagged Alliance 2 takes place on a fictional south american country. I'm sure I'm not the only one that loved Jagged Alliance 2. If you didn't play it yet and you love team-based tactics, go buy it immediately.
What was your favourite fighting game?

19th September 2020retro game spotlight

Fighting games (or VS fighting), is a genre that appeals quite a wide range of gamers.Fighting games involves hand-to-hand fighting against a single opponent for the whole duration of a match. A distinctive trait of fighting games are special attacks, i.e. combinations of graphically striking moves which enhance ...
CODiE Awards 2000: Half-Life, Links, Pharaoh

12th September 2020top games and awards

The year 2000 brought one classic to the PC video gaming world, still remembered today: Half-Life. That wasn't the only game deserving an award, but it's undeniable that Half-Life was a milestone not only in first-person shooters, but also in the whole history of PC gaming.In history, we all woke ...
Italian videogames in the 90s

5th September 2020keywords and genres, retro game spotlight

Italy wasn't a prolific nation if you think about video games in the golden age of personal computers. There were a few valid software houses (Simulmondo, Milestone, Trecision, etc.) but they all disappeared leaving behind lots of mediocre games. Only a few of them are worth playing, but that doesn't ...
Retro company spotlight: Strategic Simulations Inc.

29th August 2020companies and designers

SSI (Strategic Simulations Inc.) was one of the most prolific game companies of the 80s and the 90s. SSI was founded in 1979 and developed and/or published more than one hundred games. SSI was popular among video games players for two things: wargames and RPG goldbox games.Strategy games developed ...

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Dungeon crawl: Bloodwych

Released in 1989Dungeon crawl

Dungeon crawlers are RPGs in which the player has to explore one or more dungeons, fight monsters one after another, looting treasure, advance to higher levels and so on. Usually, dungeon crawlers have simple storylines and linear progression. A lot of roguelikes can be described as dungeon crawlers.
Popular dungeon crawlers are Diablo, Legend of Grimrock, Dungeon Master, Eye of the Beholder.
Pac-Man clones: Pac-girl

Released in 1982Pac-Man clones

Pac-Man is so well-known that it barely needs any presentation at all. It is one of the most iconic games ever developed. Pac-Man spawned sequels, spin-offs, variants, cartoons, comics, and even a live-action movie. It's no wonder that there were a lot of clones even for DOS.

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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.

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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Jagged Alliance 2: squad tactics at its best

What was your favourite fighting game?

CODiE Awards 2000: Half-Life, Links, Pharaoh

Italian videogames in the 90s

Retro company spotlight: Strategic Simulations Inc.

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Dungeon crawl: Bloodwych

Pac-Man clones: Pac-girl

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