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The site is completely free where to download more you have to contribute more. They also maintains list of popular downloads, search engine, blog, forum, request form, etc. Large number of softwares and on top of it they are well organized by… This site claims to be the biggest free abandonware downloads collection in the universe.

So lets find out where to find out abandonwares…

This time its about abandoned softwares, games, tools, etc collectively called abandonware.Īs per wikipedia, " Abandonware refers to computer software that is no longer current…." In fact, even Mech Warrior 3 is about a year shy of being 10-years old.Few months back I wrote about how to find old version of your favorite softwares.

That’s before both Abuse (1996) and Fallout (1997) which made your list without such a comment. I mean, is a 10-seconds peek at something like Wikipedia too much to ask? And Mech Warrior and Mech Warrior 2 being too new to be abandonware? The second installment came out in 1995. The story you attempted to cite occurred in the first game. Doom 2, aptly named “Hell on Earth,” is exactly that: Hell on Earth. Or something.” Do you even WANT to be writing about these games? You could have gone sans-commentary if you were going to be so uninspired. On the story of Blackthorne: “I’m not sure, something about you being a prince and having to save your people from Sarlac. However, I’m a little miffed by some of your commentary. I tend to love abandonware games-having spent my youth in the late eighties and early nineties-so I have a soft spot in my heart for people who provoke nostalgia in me through their mention. Its all privately made games (or mods) in the spirit of abandonware. If you dig this list, Reloaded is also worth checking out. The Home of the Underdogs is another good abandonware site

Mechwarior series (so damn good, but a little to new to be real abandonware).

Fallout series (Great games, but so buggy I could never finish them).

X-Com series: (I know these games are amazing, I just never played them as a kid).

Nostalgic bit: Losing the manual and memorizing the copy protection questions by trial and error.Īlso check out: Civ 2, Pirates, Pirates Gold, Colonization, Defender of the Crown (the Atari ST version looked alot better…).

My favorite computer game of all time, bar none. Writing a game that barely needs any changes aside from graphical refreshes over a decade and a half is pretty damn amazing. Although this game is from ’91, Civilization 4, published in 2005 is not that different (just additions of religion and culture).

Gameplay: Insanely deep for the time, this is the real beginning of Sid Meier’s legendary career, as well as the Civilization series, which is still in progress.

Basic story: Build a civilization from the dawn of man, competing against rival civlizations.

Prepare to worship your new lords and masters.