Classic Personal Computer (PC) Games

This game is widely acclaimed as one of the if not THE greatest Boxing Game ever made for the Personal Computer. It featured motion captured graphics albeit the boxers were, well, boxes. In between bouts, you can train your player in improving speed, power or stamina. The game also feature quite advanced 3D capability [...]

So real it . . . sweats!
Lace up you hightops and get psyched for a fast breaking, in-your-face, full court, 5-on-5 pro basketball simulation that looks exactly like a network broadcast. TV Sports: Basketball gives you total control over an entire squad, including player substitutions and strategic double teaming. Your skills as player and coach [...]

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GAME DESIGNER:Simon Read
GAME DEVELOPER:New Star Games
GAME PUBLISHER:New Star Games
Copyright 2005, Simon Read
New Star Soccer 3 is a superb sequel to New Star Soccer 2, a unique soccer simulation/RPG title that breaks the mold by putting you in control of *one* soccer player as he builds up his career [...]

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GAME DEVELOPER:Intelligent Games
GAME PUBLISHER:Electronic Arts
Copyright 2000, Intelligent Games
F1 Manager 2000 from Intelligent Games is a decent F1 manager game that unfortunately was too bug-riddled in the first release to pose any real challenge to the superb Grand Prix Manager 2 game from Edcom/MicroProse. The game lets you [...]

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GAME DESIGNER:Laurent Lavaur
GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2005, Unknown
Formula D is an excellent fanmade PC version of a great tabletop F1 racing game from EuroGames. Coded in Java, the game looks and plays even better than FormulaPC, an older (2002) freeware title reviewed earlier on this site. Like the board [...]

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GAME DEVELOPER:Data Becker
GAME PUBLISHER:Data Becker
Copyright 1999, Data Becker
Billed as an “ultra-realistic boxing game,” unfortunately Data Becker’s KO is anything but. Although it does look like a decent boxing game at first glance, it doesn’t take long before the shallow execution and inaccurate controls rear their ugly heads [...]

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GAME DEVELOPER:Elite Systems
GAME PUBLISHER:SEGA
Copyright 1991, Elite Systems
Probably the rarest PC game from SEGA, World Championship Soccer is an okay PC port of one of the first soccer games on the SEGA Genesis. This overhead soccer game lets you choose from 24 national teams to compete in the [...]

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GAME DESIGNER:Danny Boyd
GAME DEVELOPER:Danjo Software
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2005, Danny Boyd
Minigolf 1 Shot is a great entry in Retro Remakes’ One Switch Competition. It finished a respectable third from over 40 entries in the competition, and deservedly so. Like all other entries, the game can be played from the start [...]

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GAME DEVELOPER:Digital Lobster Company
GAME PUBLISHER:Starhill Productions
Copyright 1995, Digital Lobster Company
Total Knockout Boxing is an ambitious boxing game that uses the same cartoon style as the classic SNES game Super Punch-Out!, but falls flat on its face due to awkward controls, ridiculously easy gameplay, and blocky graphics that [...]

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GAME DEVELOPER:Dolphin Marine Systems
GAME PUBLISHER:Dolphin Marine Systems
Copyright 1994, Dolphin Marine Systems
Dolphin Powerboating Simulator III is the last and best game in an obscure line of sailing simulations developed and published by Dolphin Marine Systems as shareware in the early 1990s. The game, like its predecessor in this [...]

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GAME DEVELOPER:Krisalis
GAME PUBLISHER:Krisalis
Copyright 1990, Krisalis
One of the most obscure football (soccer) games ever made, Manchester United is the world’s first PC game based on the famous British club of the same name. The squad’s exploits are depicted quite faithfully in the PC version, and while the game [...]

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GAME DESIGNER:Young Chung
GAME DEVELOPER:Ninano Software
GAME PUBLISHER:Ninano Software
Copyright 1994, Ninano Software
1994pool is a very innovative pool/billiard underdog from a now-defunct Korean developer called Ninano Software. Apart from featuring very accurate ball physics that allow spins and curves to behave realistically, this obscure underdog offers many cool features that make [...]

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GAME DEVELOPER:Interactive Magic
GAME PUBLISHER:Interactive Magic
Copyright 1995, Interactive Magic
Bruce Jenner’s Decathlon is a decent sports game from Interactive Magic that will probably be a love-hate affair for most gamers. I was infuriated by the button-mashing (or mouse-mashing, to be more accurate) requirements of the game, but liked the [...]

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GAME DEVELOPER:Accolade
GAME PUBLISHER:Accolade
Copyright 1996, Accolade
Unnecessary Roughness ‘96 is the final – and definitely best – entry in Accolade’s underrated series of American football games that began in 1993. From game description at MobyGames: “Updates in this version attempt to correct the “arcadish” feel the previous had with [...]

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GAME DEVELOPER:SEGA
GAME PUBLISHER:Activision
Copyright 2002, SEGA
Virtua Tennis is a good PC conversion of a reasonably popular tennis game for the Dreamcast console. The game features a new multiplayer mode for up to four players, but the gameplay remains intact.
Like the Dreamcast version, one of the best things about [...]

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GAME DESIGNER:Danny Boyd
GAME DEVELOPER:Acoders
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2004, Acoders
Ski Xtreme is a superb skiing game by Danny “danjo” Boyd of Apocalyptic Coders. Circy’s concise review for Klik-me.com says it all about this modern “klik” classic:
“Summer is drawing to a close, and winter seems to be quite a long way off [...]

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GAME DESIGNER:Andy LeBeis
GAME DEVELOPER:Destiny Software Productions
GAME PUBLISHER:Micro League
Copyright 1994, Micro League
A nice entry in Micro League’s short-lived “Time Out Sports” series, designed to provide bite-sized sporting entertainment for short coffee breaks between your spreadsheet or word processing. TOS Baseball is a simple and fun look at baseball via [...]

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GAME DEVELOPER:Microforum
GAME PUBLISHER:Microforum
Copyright 1997, Microforum
Adrenaline Vault’s critical review says it all about this missed opportunity that could have been so much more:
“Gooch Grundy’s X-Decathlon takes the whole olympic theme and turns it on its ear. [You compete] in ten wacky events like Hippo Push, Crazy Climbing, Nice [...]

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GAME DESIGNER:Neil Holmes
GAME DEVELOPER:Clockwork Games
GAME PUBLISHER:Psygnosis
Copyright 1997, Clockwork Games
Rush Hour is a decent top-down arcade racing game that is much better known on the PlayStation than the PC. Like most arcade racers, driving in Rush Hour is very simple: just use the arrow keys to steer; no gear-shifting [...]

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GAME DEVELOPER:Audiogenic
GAME PUBLISHER:Audiogenic
Copyright 1997, Audiogenic
Arguably the best cricket game ever made, Shane Warne Cricket is the last cricket game from Audiogenic, makers of classic games including Allan Broder’s Cricket and Brian Lara Cricket. This 1997 version of their popular game engine sees all-new SVGA graphics and many [...]