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    Old games - free!

    You may or may not know that there are many games out there that are no longer protected by any copyright or have been released for free by their publisher. The games tend to be older but there are some semi-modern games that are great fun! Plus, you can visit your old-school days for free! Here are some sites where you can download some of the great goodies from the past:

    Home of the Underdogs
    Free Oldies
    Bunnzy.com
    Legal Abandonware

    If you do a search for “abandonware” in your favourite search engine you will find many more sites that offer downloads for games that were once on the shelf but are now free to download and enjoy!

    And now, part of a screenshot of one of the enemies in one of my favourite games of all time, Wasteland. The graphics were considered amazing at the time!

    wasteland screenshot

    Posted by allen on Monday, March 14th, 2005 at 10:03 am.

    3 Responses to “Old games - free!”

    My all time favourite game is Zelda: Ocarina of Time for Nintendo 64. Ohhhh that game was great. Friends would come over to watch me play. They said it was entertaining, like watching a movie.

    Left by Guinevere on March 14th, 2005

    Cool. What you don’t see in that screenshot is that it was actually animated. The mouth would actually open and close. Amazing!

    Left by Allen on March 14th, 2005

    My favourite games were on the Odyssey 2 (Attack of the Time Lords, Pickaxe Pete, KC Munchkin) and the Commodore 64 (Winter Games, Summer Games, California Games, Wizard, Raid on Moscow).

    My favourite arcade game had to be Zaxon.

    Ya, the graphics were amazing back then…like I posted on Guin’s blog about the size of PCs, I would like to take Doom 3 back in time to show video game designers of the 80’s what we have now.

    I would also take Lord of the Rings back to the 50’s and show Tolkien and the movie makers of the time Gollum.

    Left by ArchAngel on March 14th, 2005