Classic Personal Computer (PC) Games

Wing Commander is a first person flight simulation shooting game. With a science fiction story line and scenes, Galaga fanatics willbe jumping right into its cockpit and fly.
 
The intro movie of this game is quite good for its genre. It makes youfeel like watching old movies like Star Wars. Journeys into spacewith all kinds of [...]

Before Street fighter or Mortal Combat, there was Budokan! Jean Claude Van Damme wannabes will love this game for it’s sporty martial arts combat. The player can utilize four martial art types in the game:

Bo – Classic Japanese long staff.
Karate – Unarmed martial arts fighting with hand and foot.
Kendo – Japanese fencing utilizing a wooden [...]

A Fan Developed sequel to the original Prince of Persia. This freeware offers greater challenges than the original platform game. Prince of Persia is considered one of the greatest all time classic games of all time due to it’s fantastic gameplay and animation. Just watch in fascination as your Hero runs, jumps and catches the [...]

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GAME DESIGNER:Game Fortress
GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2005, Game Fortress
The Curse of Kaumana is a superb exploration-focused platformer coded with Game Maker application. The review at Game Maker Games says it all:
“The Curse of Kaumaha is a spacey, held-back style of platformer, with a great exploration aim in its core. [...]

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GAME DESIGNER:Graham Goring
GAME DEVELOPER:Hewson
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2005, Graham Goring
Exolon DX is a great remake of an old Hewson game with updated graphics and much smoother animations. Your quest is simple: as a blaster-wielding spaceman, kill as many aliens as possible with blaster or rocket-propelled grenades and get to the [...]

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GAME DEVELOPER:Sprite
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2005, Chinchilla Softhouse
ZugyA DX is a superb fanmade remake of ZugyA, a great freeware shooter from Sprite reviewed earlier on this site. From my earlier review of ZugyA: “Your goal in the game is to destroy space stations in each level within a strict [...]

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GAME DESIGNER:Chris Och
GAME DEVELOPER:Natomic Studios
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2005, Natomic Studios
Super Stun-N-Run is yet another superb “retro” 2D single-screen platformer from Natomic Studios, one of the world’s best game-coding groups. The plot: “The animals have gone wild!! You are Parker, a safari explorer armed with a stun gun, and it [...]

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GAME DESIGNER:Diefox
GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2005, Diefox
Duel Toys is a fun fanmade fighting game from Brazil that features dozens of characters from CAPCOM, SNK, Rare, and Midway classic fighters, redrawn in attractive cartoony style. Although the game’s AI is suspect and many game types woefully unbalanced (the “survival mode” [...]

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GAME DESIGNER:Miguel Perez
GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2005, Miguel Perez
Double Dragon Fists of Rage is a superb fangame starring the duo from CAPCOM’s famous Double Dragon series. The creator, Miguel “Mig2″ Perez, created all the graphics himself that look very much like the original games, as well as cool stages [...]

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GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2005, Unknown
Einstein Puzzle is a great, free cross-platform, open-sourced remake of DOS classic shareware gem Sherlock, which was in turn inspired by a puzzle devised by Albert Einstein, who supposedly claim that only 2% of people in the world can solve it. Your goal [...]

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GAME DESIGNER:Captain Pork
GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2005, Captain Pork
Overgod is a fun freeform shooter from Captain Pork, maker of Lacewing and Captain Pork’s Revenge, two solid action games reviewed earlier on this site. The (somewhat superfluous) plot: “For too long has humanity been ruled by cruel and disputatious gods! [...]

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GAME DEVELOPER:Firebird
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2005, Ovine by Design
Cholo is an excellent remake of Commodore 64 game of the same name, originally released by Firebird. The plot: “[you] are Jared, a maintenance engineer who helps to look after the bunker where everyone has lived for several hundreds of years. [...]

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GAME DESIGNER:Naramura
GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2005, Naramura
GR3 is a superb 2D horizontal shooter from Japan, coded with Java in the same 8-bit style as MSX games of yore. Like R-Type and other SHMUP classics, GR3 is insanely difficult but weirdly addictive. As a clone of Gradius, Konami’s classic shooter [...]

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GAME DESIGNER:Naramura
GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2005, Naramura
La-Mulana is an excellent 2D side-scrolling platformer/RPG that is reminiscent of 8-bit classics like Zelda, but with a much stronger focus on inventory items in adventure-genre style. The game casts you as Indiana Jones-type adventurer who explores vast complexes, looking for ancient treasure. [...]

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GAME DESIGNER:Ryan Clark
GAME DEVELOPER:Grubby Games
GAME PUBLISHER:Grubby Games
Copyright 2005, Grubby Games
One of the best and most original brainteasers I have ever come across, Professor Fizzwizzle is an ingenious game from Grubby Games that plays like the “best-of” combination between zany contraptions from Incredible Machines series, and devious puzzles from [...]

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GAME DESIGNER:Kochon
GAME DEVELOPER:Loriciel
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2005, Kochon
Crazy Bumpa is a great modern PC update of Loriciel’s decent puzzle game Bumpy’s Arcade Fantasy. The plot: “You are in the world of Bumpa, where the only reason to leave is bumping and bumping again. This require a lot of energy only [...]

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GAME DESIGNER:Derby
GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2005, Derby
Yum Yum is a fun and original shooter that fans of abstract shooters should take a look, even when it is too short and too easy. The review at Game Maker Games has the lowdown:
“Ambiance. Has a nice ring, doesn’t it? Ambiance is [...]

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GAME DESIGNER:Fuseball
GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2005, Fuseball
Zoomines is an excellent knockoff of PSP classic Lumines and Zookeeper puzzle games, designed by a freeware coder who calls himself Fuseball. You use the cursor keys to move and A and S to rotate the block. Like all Tetris variants, the goal [...]

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GAME DESIGNER:Johan Peitz
GAME DEVELOPER:Free Lunch Design
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2004, Free Lunch Design
Zombiepox is a fun coffee-break action game coded in 48 hours by Johan Peitz of Icy Tower fame. The review at Acid-Play says it well about this small-but-fun underdog:
“Your hometown has been overrun with zombies! Your friends are [...]

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GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2005, Unknown
Stackopolis is one of the most creative Tetris variants I have seen. Your goal is to match the falling blocks with a blueprint to create a building on each level before time runs out. Basically you just have to place each 1×1 tile [...]