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A bunch of adventure games arrived on Abandonware DOS; some classic interactive fiction and a lesser known point & click adventure game set on a tropical island. Starcross Maupiti Island Lancelot Silicon Dreams

There was a time when brawlers on PC weren't that common. Not that today it's different, but finding a good brawler "versus" fighting game was really difficult. One Must Fall was one of those games: a perfect blend of everything a brawler needs to be. I finished One Must Fall ...

More games on Abandonware DOS: one RPG classic, a good managerial space race game, an awful conversion and more Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space Secret of the Silver Blades Freddy Hardest Jane's Combat Simulations: Advanced Tactical Fighters Framed

Here's the last Abandonware DOS update: enter Double Dragon 2 and 3, Command HQ and a few simulators Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone Double Dragon II: The Revenge Command HQ Advanced Tactical Fighter 2 (a.k.a. Airstrike USA) A Line in the Sand

Often overlooked, Simon The Sorcerer is one of the finest point & click adventure games ever designed. In an era dominated by LucasFilm Games (later renamed LucasArts) and Sierra, Adventure Soft (Waxworks, The Feeble Files) managed to produce a really enjoyable adventure.

Today's update includes a bunch of semi-unknown games as well as some popular ones... well... if you count Yie Ar Kung Fu as popular... Legend of Faerghail Monopoly (Adam Stevens) Bad Blood Jump 'n Bump D-Zone Yie Ar Kung Fu 2: The Emperor Yie-Gah Yie Ar Kung Fu

What happened in 1992? Quite a lot! Bosnia Herzegovina declares independence, starting the war we all know about. The Maastricht treaty is signed and the European Union is officially born. Microsoft releases Windows 3.1: the DOS era is slowly coming to an end. 1992 also gave us some video game classics such as ...

Cisco Heat is an old action racing game released in 1991 by Image Works and developed by Jaleco. Guess where the action takes place?

Broderbund released The Ancient Art of War in 1984 (it's a long time ago!). The Ancient Art of War is an historical strategy game part of the series bearing the same name.

Point and click adventures is a genre firmly tied with the past. For a long time, publishers didn't believe in adventure games anymore. Thanks to indie developers, we have seen a resurgence of the genre with games like Resonance, Gemini Rue, The Samaritan Paradox, Heroine Quest and many more.

Ultima cloth maps were some of the finest feelies (i.e. items you could find in old video game boxes) ever produced for a videogame, back when digital gaming was literally non-existent. The one you see here is a scan of the Ultima 6 cloth map of Britannia. Can you read ...

Tides of Numenera is out! It took only 18 years from the release of the cult classic Planescape: Torment for us to finally be able to enjoy the sequel. I already took some steps into the game and wrote about my first hour in the world of Tides of Numenera. But ...

There are a few games that, in fact, are a collection of many video games. There's no better way to put it. The Fool's Errand, for example, is a collection of brain teasers with little or no relation between games. Many casino games are just a collection of card and ...

Yes, you can play (some) DOS games online on Abandonware DOS. Arkanoid 2: The Revenge of Doh is one of them. Just don't let your boss catch you while breaking walls and shooting balls...

Lalallala, lalallala, la la la la la lallala. Well, that's how I remember the music of Defender of the Crown, one of the most peculiar games developed by Cinemaware (also their first one!). Set in medieval England, Defender of the Crown was a mix of strategy and action. You ...

Play the classic RPG that started the popular Ultima series. Ultima I (later renamed The First Age of Darkness) is not as good as some of the sequels, but it's worth an hour or two, just to see what Lord British was doing in his garage many years ago.

The Dizzy games were a series of action adventures developed by the Oliver Twins (Codemasters) in the 80s and in the 90s. The early ones were available for 8-bit computers only and later ported to 16-bits machines. Some of them are available for DOS.

The Spotlight Awards was a video game awards event hosted in the 1990s at the now popular GDC (Games Developers Conference). The Spotlight awards took a lot of gaming platforms into consideration, but 1999 awarded many PC games.The best video games for 1999 according to the Spotlight awards were:1999Baldur's Gate ...

Year after year, Abandonware DOS grows, changes, becomes better and better. Lately I fixed a lot of bugs and tweaked a few "invisible" parts of html and php code. I also changed how some pages appear to the public, in order to make Abandonware DOS easier to navigate. Here are ...

Blade Runner is one of those point & click adventure games that somewhat manages to fully capture the spirit of a cult movie without copying the original plot. Fans of the Blade Runner movie will enjoy this game, even without Harrison Ford.