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Electronic Games was a magazine published in the 1980s and the 1990s, entirely focused on video games. Every year, the magazine held the Game of the Year "Arcade Awards".These are the best games of 1979 according to Electronig Games.1979Air-Sea Battle Best Target GameAtari VCSBally Best Audio and Visual EffectsArcade/...

Leather Goddesses of Phobos is a text adventure (interactive fiction) game developed by the well-known Infocom and designed by Steve Eric Meretzky. It was one of the best-selling adventures published by Infocom.

Another year has passed and Abandonware DOS is still here. So, what's new? I worked behind the curtains and fixed a lot of crappy code. I dropped a font used to write the site name and replaced it with a jpg; the result is an increase in speed load of ...

Lemmings was one of the most iconic puzzle games of all time. It was also one of the most inventive, the idea behind those tiny furred punk suicidal rodents is truly a stroke of genius. Not surprisingly, after the huge success of the first Lemmings, a lot of sequels followed. ...

In Satellite Reign you control a team of four agents and roam in the neon-lit alleys of a big cyberpunk city. Sounds familiar? That's because Satellite Reign was developed by the creator of Syindicate Wars (NOT the original Syndicate).The objectives can be completed in different ways and Satellite Reign ...

Star Wars is a coin-op conversion that, in all its vector graphics glory, made Star Wars fans dream of being Luke Skywalker. I remember using every drop of force I had left, in a local arcade, just to get past the AT-ATs.

Before Tomb Raider, not many games involved main female characters. Carmen Sandiego, Laura Bow, Elvira and Jill of the Jungle were exceptions to the "male" rule followed by early video games.

Ultima IV is one of the best Ultima games made by Richard Garriott. It took the Ultima series to a whole new level by introducing the four virtues.

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Angband is a classic roguelike still under active developement that spawned a plethora of variants (more than sixty!). If you like dungeon crawling and you don't mind complex ASCII games, try it now!

The Elder Scrolls is a well known series of video games. It started with Arena, now released as freeware by Bethesda. Soon Arena was followed by Daggerfall, one of he most bug ridden games of the series. And then it was the turn of Morrowind. That's when, in my opinion, ...

Pioneers is a unique game. It reminds me of Colonization and Oregon Trail, but it's something quite different. To quote the official website "Pioneers is a turn-based exploration/adventure RPG where you lead a party of travellers in search of treasure-rich temples, new tribes and ways to go down in ...

UnReal World is a roguelike rpg game released in 1992. It's currently freeware and runs on Windows. UnReal World can be described by the keywords: auto mapping, open world, procedural generation, turn based, fantasy.

The very popular magazine TIME compiled a comprehensive list of the 100 best video games of all time, for every platform that ever existed. Take a look and judge for yourself. There's even a poll that no user ever voted...

Today, we're used to high quality TV series such as Game of Thrones, Daredevil, Madmen. This level of writing wasn't always the top priority of the producers of TV series aired a few decades ago. Anyway, lot of us old guys remember fondly series like The A-Team, Miami Vice and, ...

Aleshar World of Ice is an old top-down perspective RPG game released for DOS in 1997, designed by Ossi Honkanen. Aleshar is an open world (sort of), fantasy RPG set in a world covered with ice and snow.

Starglider is a first person combat sci-fi simulator rendered in wireframe vector graphics and inspired by the coin-op Star Wars. Starglider was conceived initially for the Amiga and the Atari ST, and later ported on many systems, including MSDOS. A sequel, Starglider 2, was published in 1988. Play Starglider online on AbandonwareDOS! ...

Not many people know that the first games created by Sid Meier were flight simulations. Solo Flight was published by MicroProse in 1983 for Commodore 64, Apple II, Atari, and a year later, in 1984, for PC. The game takes place in the United States. As a fliying mailmain, the goal of the ...

System Shock 2 is a old cyberpunk science fiction shooter game for Windows, part of the System Shock series. Electronic Arts released System Shock 2 in 1999. It is NOT available for download.

Dr. Doom's Revenge is not a very good game and it has a very very long title. It feels clunky, too linear, and the gameplay progression was too slow. I played it on my old Commodore 64 back in 1989 (or was it 1990?) and it captured my interest for a very short ...