Abandonware DOS retro gaming news

The popular archeologist and adventurer created by George Lucas was the star of four movies and the protagonist some of the best point and click (almost abandoned) adventures ever created for PC. Unfortunately, Indiana Jones was also the main character of some of the worst action games.All the Indiana Jones games titles begins with "Indiana Jones and"...:the Fate ...

Menzoberranzan is an abandoned DOS fantasy first person perspective RPG developed by DreamForge Intertainment in 1994 from an original idea by John McGirk. Menzoberranzan setting is based on the Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms campaing setting. Menzoberranzan gameplay is party-based and class-based.Publisher: SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.Developer: DreamForge IntertainmentPlatform: DOSReleased in: 1994Follow this link for&...

Double Fine remastered one of the most loved old school adventure games of all time: Grim Fandango. Go to GOG.com to preorder Grim Fandango Remastered!

Mobygames is perhaps the biggest video game database on the Internet (we're not talking about abandonware), as many of you already know. What you might not know is that Mobygames has a Games Of The Year award... well... sort of. The "best games" are automatically chosen among the ones with the highest review scores. That's why the GOTY chart can ...

I'm sure I'm not the only one here to love space simulation games. I admit I didn't play the original Elite a lot... but I literally consumed Frontier and I had my share of battles in the more recent Eve Online.Someone called space sims a dead genre, with only a handful of valid titles ...

Interactive Fiction, or 'text adventures' is one of the oldest adventure genres around. The first interactive fiction game, called simply Adventure, dates back to 1975. One of the most well known series is Zork, developed by one of the most popular interactive fiction companies of all time: Infocom. Other popular developers were Magnetic Scrolls (The Pawn, Corruption) and Legend Enternainment (Gateway, ...

Magnetic Scrolls was a British video game company active between 1984 and 1990 and was one of the most acclaimed interactive fiction developers of the 1980s.

One Must Fall 2097 is a good old DOS 2D fighting game developed by Diversions Entertainment in 1994 from an original idea by Rob Elam. In One Must Fall the player can fight 10 different robot foes in 4 tournaments. One Must Fall 2097 can be described by the keywords: anime, science fiction, robots.Publisher: Epic MegaGamesDeveloper: Diversions EntertainmentPlatform: DOSStatus: liberated!Designer: ...

If you loved Transport Tycoon (Deluxe or not) back in 1994, you will be glad to know that Aleksander Guryanov ported that wonderful simulation online. You can play Transport Tycoon Deluxe here in your browser as a single player session or even multiplayer. Transport Tycoon is an isometric business simulation game in which the player controls a transport company (trains, ...

The original Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, published in 1993 by Sierra On-Line is one of my favourite point & click adventure games of all time. Praise Jane Jensen for the plot, dialogues and ideas. My compliments to the voice actors. Kudos to whoever decided to drop the chance of premature death that made the earlier Sierra games famous.And ...

Master of Magic is a turn based 4x strategy game developed by SimTex and published by the well know Microprose, very similar to Civilization, with a fantasy twist. You play as a wizard and your objective is to evolve your race from a small settlement to a bursting empire. To do so, you can produce military units to fight other ...

4x is a well known strategy genre acronym that stands for eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate. The player controls a whole empire and is tasked with managing resources and technical developments (eXploit), expanding their domains with their military (eXplore and eXpand), and fight against computer A.I. factions or other players (eXterminate). A lot of 4x games are set in ...

Cyberpunk video games are receiving a lot of attention lately. The upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 and the tactical RPG Shadowrun Returns are two of the most popular recent cyberpunk games. Some of you, retro lovers, may remember a cyberpunk game from 20 years ago. Dreamweb is an adventure game set in a dark, rainy city. You play as Ryan who has strange, violent ...

In the past, lots of home computer games (PC, C64, Speccy, etc.) used ascii characters (simple text) to represent the game world, the interface... well, everything on screen. These text-only video games may seem primitive and outdated now and, in fact, the genre almost died with the fast evolving graphics of modern games. What's left? A few genres traditionally linked ...

Leisure Suit Larry series is one the pioneers of the adventure genre. And not just that, the series broke the chains of mainstream content, dealing with themes that were considered mature and dirty for its time, although they are not anything near that by today standards. And that was the key of its success, along with the very good, ...

Transport Tycoon is one of the best tycoon games ever developed, maybe second to Railroad Tycoon or Roller Coaster Tycoon. While both Railroad and Roller Coaster cousins had a lot of sequels, Transport Tycoon was a lonely child (well, if you don't count Locomotion...). Maybe that's why a bunch of hardcore fans showed much dedication to different project: Transport Tycoon ...

Origin Systems was founded in 1983 by one of the most popular game designers of all time: Richard Garriott. The most notable games of Origin Systems are the RPGs belonging to the Ultima series: Ultima from I to IX, Ultima Online, Martian Dreams and Savage Empire. Let's not forget the entire Wing Commander series, created by Chris Roberts (they even made ...

The Elder Scrolls: Arena is the first chapter in the popular fantasy RPG series "The Elder Scrolls" developed by Bethesda Softworks. Like the other games in the series, Arena takes place in the continent of Tamriel and allows the player to roam freely in an open world scenario. The Elder Scrolls Arena was followed by Daggerfall in 1996, by the succesfull ...

Midwinter was a strange but very appealing game designed back in 1989 by Mike Singleton, who unfortunately passed away in 2012. It boasted something you didn't see often in games at the time: 1st person perspective, 3d graphics and an open world to explore. Midwinter sold well for Amiga and Atari ST and was also released for DOS. Now, some of the ...

The same guy who ported Dune II, Aleksander Guryanov, made a version of X-Com: Ufo Defense that can be played in a browser. For the few ones who doesn't know what I'm talking about... X-Com is a tactical strategy game where you battle aliens in a turn-based gameplay and manage a base in between missions. It's ...