Abandonware DOS retro gaming news

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 ...

As you probably already noticed, Abandonware DOS wears a new dress. This brand new website comes with many advantages: - it's responsive: it will gracefully adapt to any device, cellphone, tablet, desktop pc - it's faster and better: new php code, better security, things a web developer will notice - ...

SimTower is an old Windows 3.x (1994) building and business simulation game where the player is tasked with the management of a skyscraper nonetheless. Raise floors, build apartments, shops, offices and try to avoid bankrupcy if you can.SimTower spawned some similar games for mobile devices, most notably the wonderful Tiny ...

Have you ever played Ultima 7: The Black Gate? If you did, leave a comment and let us know what you think about it. Did you play for countless hours as I did?

Qix is a classic arcade games that every vintage game conoisseur should know. The original version hit the arcades in 1981 and was an instant success. The gameplay is really simple: draw squares and rectangles to captures areas of the screen without dyiing. When you manage to claim the majority of ...

Being the only one to keep AbandonwareDOS updated is not an easy task. I have many ideas but lack the time to put them into practice. Recently I managed to add new features such as:a list of important video games awardsgames that can be played online directly in your ...

Psygnosis was a quite popular developement company based in the United Kingdom. Pete Lane, a fan of AbandonwareDOS, sent me some very old ORIGINAL posters.Poster #1: just a posterPoster #2: seeing is believingPoster #3: barbarians and terrorpodsPsygnosis developed a few PC titles: here they are.

OpenTTD, as the name implies, is an open source remake of the wonderful Transport Tycoon by Chris Sawyer. Actually, OpenTTD does more than recreate the original game. The user interface got better and more user friendly; it's possible to download add-ons, custom AIs, new vehicles, etc; and, of course, OpenTTD ...

Quarantine is a first person shooter / racing game hybrid created by Imagexel and published by Gametek. Quarantine is set in a dark dystopian future, in a city where the player drives around in a sci-fi taxi cab, picking up passengers and killing everyone else.If you loved Carmageddon, you will ...

Have you ever played Maniac Mansion? I'm sure a lot of you played and finished Maniac Mansion back in the day. If you did, leave a comment and let us know what you think about it. Did you like it? Did you finish it? Was it too easy or to ...

Painters Guild is in developement and nobody knows when it will be released, but it's a really promising and interesting little game. As the official site states: "In Painters Guild you can make paintings, sell them and develop your guild into the greatest of the Renaissance.". Painters Guild is, simply ...

Earthworm Jim is one of the best platform games ever released for PC back in the 90es by Activision. What makes Earthworm Jim a great abandonware game is the perfectly balanced gameplay and the humor of titular character. Even the name "Jim", together with the science fiction ...

Have you ever played SimTower? If you did, leave a comment and let us know what you think about one of the lesser known Maxis management simulations. Did you like it?

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.