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Description: Al Lowe is my name back in the early 80s, I worked on some great games for Sierra that haven’t been available in over a decade. Back then, they were huge projects; now they’re a short download. While the graphics really show the age of these games, I think the game play still holds up.
All are adventure game format, with the exception of “Donald Duck’s,” which is more skill-based, and none requires typing, use any controllers other than a few keys and perhaps an optional joystick.
To download any of these games, just click its title. But remember: I don’t do “customer service” on these. You’re on your own about making them work with your computer, OS, video, sound, etc.
URL: http://www.allowe.com/More/download.htm
Description: Alien Arena is a free, stand-alone deathmatch game based on source code released by id Software. Begun by COR Entertainment in 2004, the game combines a 1950s-era sci-fi atmosphere with gameplay similar to the Quake, Doom, and Unreal Tournament series. Alien Arena focuses mainly on online multiplayer action, although it does contain single-player campaigns against bots.
Alien Arena has been released for Microsoft Windows, Linux and FreeBSD. The game has been free to play since its inception, and there are currently no plans to change it to a pay-to-play format. However, as of version 7.20, it features in-game advertising, in the main menu and in some maps.[1] While the game’s content is proprietary, the CRX engine is open source.
URL: http://icculus.org/alienarena/rpa/index.html
Description: Yo Frankie! (code-named Apricot) is an open video game made by the Blender Institute, part of the Blender Foundation, originally scheduled for release in August 2008[1]. It is based on the universe and characters of the free film produced earlier in 2008 by the Blender Institute, Big Buck Bunny[2]. Like the Blender Institute’s previous open film projects, the game is made using free software. Yo Frankie! runs on any platform which runs Blender and Crystal Space, including GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.
URL: http://www.yofrankie.org/
Description: Automanic is a vehicular deathmatch game, hopefully becoming the best of Twisted Metal, Interstate ’76, the Burnout Games, and Carmageddeon, focussing on cross-country carnage. It uses Crystal Space, CEL, and ODE.
URL: http://automanic.sourceforge.net/
Description: Broken Sword 2.5 based upon previous versions of this great adventure game, a community section got together and released this great addition, there is still ongoing work which includes voice acting in different languages. Otherwise the game is complete and very fun for those who played the earlier versions of it.
URL: http://www.brokensword25.com/
Description: The Battle for Wesnoth, or simply Wesnoth, is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy setting, designed by David White and first released in June 2003. In Wesnoth, the player attempts to build a powerful army by controlling villages and defeating enemies for experience. White based Wesnoth loosely on the Sega Genesis games Master of Monsters and Warsong. He wanted to create a freely-available, open source strategy game with very simple rules, but one that had strong artificial intelligence and that was challenging and fun and most of all free.
URL: http://www.wesnoth.org/
Description: Dwarf Fortress is a single-player fantasy game. You can control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated, persistent world. This is truly a game that will have some older gamers going i remember when games were about the game not the gfx or the other additions that are added these days to make ppl go wow.
URL: http://www.bay12games.com/
Description: Way before Lara Croft, back in the 1980′s and early 1990′s, Rick Dangerous was the Indiana Jones of computer games, running away from rolling rocks, avoiding traps, from South America to a futuristic missile base via Egypt and the Schwarzendumpf castle.
xrick is a clone of Rick Dangerous, known to run on Linux, Windows, BeOs, Amiga, QNX… download and install the game, learn how to play, and enjoy!
URL: http://www.bigorno.net/xrick/
Description: Arcade, oldschool multiplayer and bloodshed.That’s what the game Bloodmasters is about. Play with friends on your LAN or online and experience this oldschool top-down shooter. The game supports Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture The Flag and Scavenger game modes. The game is completely freeware and without ads, spyware or other unwanted garbage.
URL: http://www.bloodmasters.com/
Description: Bos Wars is a futuristic real time strategy game (RTS). In a RTS game, the player has to combat his enemies while developing his war economy. Everything runs in real-time, as opposed to turn-based games where the player always has to wait for his turn. The trick is to balance the effort put into building his economy and building an army to defend and attack the enemies.
Bos Wars has a dynamic rate based economy. Energy is produced by power plants and magma gets pumped from hot spots. Buildings and mobile units are also built at a continuous rate. Control of larger parts of the map creates the potential to increase your economy throughput. Holding key points like roads and passages allow for different strategies.
It is possible to play against human opponents over LAN, internet, or against the computer. Bos Wars successfully runs under Linux, MS Windows, BSD, and Mac OS X.
URL: http://www.boswars.org/index.shtml
Description: Command & Conquer Classics, Tiberian Sun + Firestorm, Tiberian Dawn GDI and NOD and also Red Alert are now freeware.
URL: http://www.commandandconquer.com/classic?sourceid=eag1321
Description: Control Monger, Game Play Choice: Bored of playing online FPS games where the gameplay is always the same? Try our multiple gameplay settings and never be bored! Every map supports multiple game play setings.
URL: http://www.controlmonger.com/index.php
Description: De Blob PC The player—Blob—starts out as a ball of clear “water”. de Blob is free to roll around and collect paint from Paintbots in the three colors of red, yellow and blue, which can be combined into orange, green, purple, and brown. de Blob then merely has to touch a building, lamppost, billboard, or other object for the entire surface of said object to be smeared in his current color. As he colors the city, the game’s soundtrack, featuring live bands which recorded slow and fast versions of each “lick” (each hit), gradually adds more instrumentation as well as an additional “layer” of sound corresponding to de Blob’s current colour—being red usually adds a saxophone solo to the music, for example.[6] As de Blob collects paint, his size increases to a maximum of 100; each object he paints costs a paint point, as does attacking enemies. de Blob can get rid of his colour with water.
URL: http://binnenstad.hku.nl/ (Game runs fine and is in english even though website is netherlands)
Description: Dead Wake is a survival zombie game for PC which brings barricades, blood, and weapons to zombie fans. Headshots and physics play a major role when player attempts to survive against the zombie hordes.
URL: http://www.deadwakegame.com/
Description: Spelunky is an action adventure game centered around the exploration of a series of caves while collecting treasure, saving damsels in distress, and dodging traps. Spelunky draws heavily from La Mulana and Spelunker for its visual styling, character design, gameplay elements and general mechanics, and adds elements from the roguelike genre, using randomly-generated levels, being a dungeon crawl, lacking any savepoints, having frequent and easy deaths, and having discovery mechanics. It draws equally from the 2D platformer genre,[1] including real-time interactions with enemies.
URL: http://www.spelunkyworld.com/
Description: MiniRacingOnline was designed by Vicente Mas Morant, a.k.a “Kotai”, in 2003, mainly for a Formula One racing game. There are several vehicles you can drive, varying from F1 to NASCAR, plus you can create your own vehicles using an external image editing program (Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, etc.)
There are 6 ranks that organize all the tracks. They are General, F1, Micro, Karting, NASCAR, and Rally. Each rank explains itself, but there has been previous issues to what general and micro tracks are. The General rank is the rank that has all the tracks that don’t fit with the other ranks. Micro tracks are tracks that most people use for local mutiplayer plays. Tracks can also be created with external image editing programs, and you use the in-game “Track Editor” to apply different land physics, like mud, sand, and of course, tarmac.
There are two multiplayer modes: Local and Global Global Multiplayer mode is the most popular mode in the game, as said by many players. There can be 2-32 drivers, or pilots, at once at a race. You can also set up championships using this mode. Local mode you can create more than one profile so you can play locally with a friend on one computer. Micro tracks have been said to be best for this mode, but there is an option you can set called “Extended Resolution” to see the bit larger tracks better.
URL: http://www.miniracingonline.com/inicio.php (Make sure you change the language preference in the top right corner to english if you don’t read spanish.)
Description: Urban Brawl is a 2008 computer game which runs on the ZDoom engine. It was mainly developed by Stephen Browning, with ACS scripting by Mike Watson and James Bauer. It is the prequel to the total conversion Action Doom, but has a different style of gameplay. Whereas the first Action Doom was a sidescrolling shoot ‘em up using Doom’s first-person perspective, Action Doom 2 instead simulates a beat ‘em up.
URL: http://action.mancubus.net/ad2free.htm (Thanks to Alko for the Link and information.)
Description: FreeOrion is a free, open source, turn-based space empire and galactic conquest computer game being designed and built by the FreeOrion project. FreeOrion is inspired by the tradition of the Master of Orion games, but is not a clone or remake of that series or any other game. Windows, statically-linked Linux, and Intel Mac OSX installers are available.
URL: http://www.freeorion.org/index.php/Main_Page
Description: Driving Speed 2 is a free high quality racing game for your PC. Choose from four high powered V8 muscle cars and race against up to 11 computer controlled opponents on two touring car circuits. This game has realistic graphics, realistic car physics and performance, high quality sound and AI. Play against your friends over a LAN or internet with 8 player Multiplayer. Send your fastest lap records to the online lap records where you can see your times against players from all around the world.
URL: http://www.wheelspinstudios.com/drivingspeed2/index.html
Description: Wormux is a free and open-source game getting its initial inspiration from the Worms game. The project was started in December 2002 by Lawrence Azzoug Moy. Using at a time the ClanLib library, it now uses SDL; the game is multiplatform, available for Windows and Unix-like systems (including Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X). The latest version is 0.9.2.1, released on the 20th of April 2010. The game became quite popular, and has reviews and interviews in specialized magazines in that area. In addition, it is now packaged by several Linux distributions.
The game is being actively developed and numerous weapons are already available such as dynamite, RPG, baseball bats, teleportation, etc. The teams are styled after the mascots of various free software projects, such as GNU, Linux, FreeBSD, KDE, GIMP, OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Thunderbird, Suse, Workrave, NuFW, SPIP, and Bugzilla. Wormux, both code and data, is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Several players can play together, typically each one using a team. The game can be played online if every player uses the same version of the game. There are 2 modes: private mode (one must provide opponents one’s address and port) and public mode (an index server will publish your game)
URL: http://www.wormux.org/phpboost/news/news.php
Description: Façade is an artificial intelligence-based art/research experiment in electronic narrative – an attempt to move beyond traditional branching or hyper-linked narrative to create a fully-realized, one-act interactive drama. Integrating an interdisciplinary set of artistic practices and artificial intelligence technologies, we have completed a five year collaboration to engineer a novel architecture for supporting emotional, interactive character behavior and drama-managed plot. Within this architecture we have built a dramatically interesting, real-time 3D virtual world inhabited by computer-controlled characters, in which the player experiences a story from a first-person perspective.
URL: http://www.interactivestory.net/download/
Description: FlightGear Flight Simulator (often shortened to FlightGear or FGFS) is a free, open-source multi-platform flight simulator developed by the FlightGear project since 1997.[3] FlightGear is mostly written in the C++ programming language.
David Murr started the project on April 8, 1996. The project had its first release in 1997 and continued in development, the most recent release being version 2.0.0 in February 2010. It has specific builds for a variety of operating systems including Microsoft Windows (Win 32), Mac OS X, Linux, IRIX, and Solaris. FlightGear code is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, thus being free software.
Several networking options allow FlightGear to communicate with other instances of FlightGear. A multiplayer protocol is available for using FlightGear on a local network in a multi aircraft environment. This could be used for formation flight or control tower simulation. Multiplayer was soon expanded to allow playing over the internet. Other features include a Google maps based moving map that allows users to observe where other players are.
URL: http://www.flightgear.org/
Description: Galactic Magnate is a game that merges several gaming concepts. Game basics are very similar to classic board monopoly game. It is very similar to board games in general – the players move on the game board, where movement is determined by rolling the dice. But, we have created game rules such that they minimize the impact of luck, and the game outcome is almost totally dependent on players choices. This makes it very similar to strategy games, especially turn-based sub type since players do actions in turns. A small part of the game, auctions, are real-time, where players do actions simultaneously. A good short description of the game would be: board online multiplayer strategy.
URL: http://www.galacticmag.com/
Description: Pixel Force: Left 4 Dead is a retro de-make of Valve’s hit zombie killing masterpiece. Lovingly recreated in a fashion that would have been acceptable in 1986 for the Nintendo Entertainment System, this de-make stands as the flagship title of the upcoming Pixel Force series from Eric Ruth Games. Go alone, or invite a friend for 2 player co-op against the zombie apocalypse in all 4 of the original game campaigns. 2 difficulties and all 4 of the survivors make a glorious 8-bit appearence, complete with first and second tier weapons scattered along your path to escape. So, grab your controller of choice and kick back with an award-winning retro take on the end of the world with Pixel Force: Left 4 Dead.
URL: http://sites.google.com/site/ericdavidruth/game-left4dead
Description: GeneRally is a freeware racing game for one to six players on one computer. It is possible to create new custom tracks with the TrackEditor that comes with the game. Every month the community sets up Track of Month, where the members of the community vote for the best tracks published over the month. Users can also create new cars with the Car Editor.
URL: http://generally.rscsites.org/
Description: Do you like fast paced deathmatch? How about rich, colorful, arcadelike atmospheres? How about…retro Sci Fi? Then you’re going to love what Alien Arena has in store for you! This game combines some of the very best aspects of such games as Quake III and Unreal Tournament and wraps them up with a retro alien theme, while adding tons of original ideas to make the game quite unique.
Alien Arena is a fast paced, furious frag fest with arenas ranging from the small, to the massive. With a large built-in player base, it’s never hard to find a good match going on, at any hour of the day. The community is friendly, as well as prolific. Dozens of maps, models, and various accessories have been created by community members to add on to the game experience. The CRX engine that powers Alien Arena has received very signifigant upgrades in recent releases, resulting not only in stunning new visuals, but vastly increased performance as well.
URL: http://icculus.org/alienarena/rpa/
Description: Metal Knights is a multi player strategy game that was designed to be as intuitive and easy to play as possible. The game connects on its own to the NetMetal Server and shows you what games are started; then all you have to do is to click on a game to play in it!
Metal Knights is a turn-based game. This means that once you’ve taken your turn, it’s up to the other players do theirs before you move again. It takes between 5 and 10 minutes to play a turn, so feel free to play in more than one game at once if you want to play a bit longer! Keep in mind that at first your empire is quite small and there won’t be much to do in a turn until 4 or 5 turns into a game. And after 15 to 20 turns, your empire may get very huge and playing your turn may take you much more time to complete, as you may have to manage a very large number of cities and units. It’s a good idea to spread out when you join games as you’ll eventually have many games that will take long time to play all at once if you join them all on the same day.
Learning the game is not very difficult… but mastering it is! I suggest you start a local game and play against yourself to see what it looks like and that you follow the Tutorial to learn the basic moves and try all the features that are available. Then it’s up to you to get to the highest rank, to be the next Metal Knight in the Metal Knights Hall of Fame!
URL: http://www.metalknights.com/siteMap.html
Description: Elite is a seminal space trading computer game, originally published by Acornsoft in 1984 for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers. The game’s title derives from one of the player’s goals of raising their combat rating to the exalted heights of “Elite.” It was written and developed by David Braben and Ian Bell, who had met while they were both undergraduates at Jesus College, Cambridge. Non-Acorn versions of the game were published by Firebird, Imagineer and Hybrid Technology.
Elite was one of the first home computer games to use wireframe 3D graphics with hidden line removal. Another novelty was the inclusion of The Dark Wheel, a novella by Robert Holdstock which influenced new players with insight into the moral and legal codes to which they might aspire.
Elite’s open-ended game model, advanced game engine and revolutionary 3D graphics ensured that it was ported to virtually every contemporary home computer system, and earned it a place as a classic and a genre maker in gaming history. Elite was a hugely influential game, serving as a model for more recent games such as Space Rogue, Eve Online, Freelancer, Jumpgate, Infinity: The Quest for Earth, Wing Commander: Privateer, the Escape Velocity series and the X series of space trading games.
URL: http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/game.htm
Description: Lincity is a city and country simulation game, similar in concept to SimCity. The player can develop a city by buying appropriate buildings, services and infrastructure.
The simulation considers population, employment, basic water management and ecology, goods (availability and production), raw materials (ore, steel, coal), services (education, health, fire protection, leisures), energy (electricity and charcoal, coal with finite reserves, solar and wind power) and other constraints such as finance, pollution and transports.
URL: http://lincity-ng.berlios.de/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Description: Disasteroids 3D a great version of the historical game Asteroids.
URL: http://www.lmnopc.com/disasteroids3d/
Description: Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries is a vehicle simulation video game for the PC released in 2002. It is a standalone expansion of Mechwarrior 4, based on the Battletech Mechwarrior game universe.
URL: http://www.mektek.net/projects/mw4/index.html
Description: Neverball: Tilt the floor to roll a ball through an obstacle course before time runs out. Neverball is part puzzle game, part action game, and entirely a test of skill.
URL: http://neverball.org/
Description: Free Solitaire/ Patience game for Windows with games including Klondike, Freecell, Spider, Yukon and over 200 others.
URL: http://www.davidmayne.co.uk/free.htm
Description: Pingus is a free Lemmingstm-like puzzle game covered under the GNU GPL. It features currently 22 playable levels and runs under a wide variety of operating systems (Linux, Windows, MacOSX, etc.)
While Pingus is based on the idea of Lemmingstm, it however doesn’t try to be an exact clone, it has included a few ideas of its own, like the worldmap or secret levels, which might be familiar from games the Super Mario World and other Nintendo games. It has also a few new actions, like the jumper which weren’t presented in the original game.
URL: http://pingus.seul.org/welcome.html
Description: Project Stealth is a free, stand-alone UDK(tm)-powered game based on Stealth Action Multiplayer (SAM) gameplay. The defending team plays from a first person shooter viewpoint while the infiltrating team plays in a third person view to aid in increasing situational awareness. Project Stealth features intense gameplay where predicting your opponents’ movements, misdirection, deception and your knowledge of the environment are key.
The goal for the Spies is to acquire data by hacking several terminals, placing bombs or stealing disks and extracting them to a safe location. The Mercs’ purpose is to prevent that at any cost. A cat-and-mouse-game where the cats and mice can switch roles at any moment. Are you up for the challenge?
URL: http://www.projectstealthgame.com/
Description: BattleTanks II is a combination action/strategy tank combat game where you can battle against up to 3 other teams of computer-controlled tanks, in one of 5 unique battlefields. BattleTanks II features three tank types to choose from, each with their own strengths and weaknesses.
There are many ways to win a war in BattleTanks II. If you like being the commander of your army, you can sit back away from the action, directing your army’s actions strategically. However, if you prefer action, there’s nothing stopping you from helping your tanks out and join the fight. You can make sneak attacks, massive assaults, try weakening your enemy with artillery, and much more.
URL: http://www.bundysoft.com/wiki/doku.php?id=projects:johnj#johnj_s_projects
Description: Racer is a free cross-platform car simulation project (for non-commercial use), using professional car physics to achieve a realistic feeling and an excellent render engine for graphical realism. Cars, tracks and such can be created relatively easy (compared to other, more closed, driving simulations). The 3D, physics and other file formats are documented. Editors and support programs are also available to get a very customizable and expandable simulator. OpenGL is used for rendering.
URL: http://www.racer.nl/
Description: Dink Smallwood is a humorous zelda-like isometric adventure/RPG produced and published by Robinson Technologies in 1997.
One of the unique features of Dink is its abilities to run Dink Modules (DMOD’s) for unlimited adventure. Dink Edit is included with the game so you can make your own.
URL: http://www.rtsoft.com/dink/index.htm
Description: The Rockstar Classics collection is our series of complimentary full PC game downloads, provided exclusively to members of the Rockstar Games mailing list. These games, each available free of charge and optimized for play on modern PCs, offer a nostalgic trip back in time to the early days of the Rockstar legacy.
Volume 1: Grand Theft Auto – In 1997, a band of developers that would come to be known as Rockstar North and Rockstar Games released the original Grand Theft Auto on an unsuspecting public. The groundbreaking non-linear urban crime game shook up a complacent game industry with its irreverent gameplay, humor and style – and a phenomenon was born.
Volume 2: Wild Metal Country – This rare gem from early Rockstar history is a 3D strategic vehicular combat game set in a distant land, in which you command armed roving vehicles to disrupt dangerous automated units that have overtaken the Tehric planetary system. While it flew under the mainstream radar when it was originally released, it was critically acclaimed for its unique yet intuitive control schemes and its massive open world to explore.
Volume 3: Grand Theft Auto 2 – Respect is everything. In 1999, Rockstar Games and Rockstar North furthered the groundbreaking gameplay concepts established in the original Grand Theft Auto – with the release of GTA 2, which expanded on the top-down, open-ended crime world gameplay formula with a host of new features, including the advent of multiple rival gangs.
URL: http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/