Commercial video games released as freeware are games that, in their original license, were not considered freeware

Freeware

Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee, but usually with one or more restricted usage rights. Freeware is in contrast to commercial software, which is typically sold for profit, but might be distributed for a business or commercial purpose in the...

, but were re-released at a later date with a freeware license, sometimes as publicity for a forthcoming sequel or compilation release.

Some of the following games are not freely redistributable software

Freely redistributable software

Freely redistributable software is software that anyone is free to redistribute. The term has been used to mean two types of free to redistribute software, distinguished by the legal modifiability and limitations on purpose of use of the software. FRS which can be legally modified and used for any...

, as they have only been made available as a free download as freeware, but may only be downloaded from certain websites and with the explicit permission of the copyright owner. Consult the software license agreement

Software license agreement

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For games that were originally released as freeware, see List of freeware video games. For FLOSS

Floss

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 games, and proprietary games re-released as FLOSS, see List of open source video games.

Available games

The following formerly paid games have been made available as freeware, and are still in that status:

Title	First Release	Freeware release	Genre	Platform(s)	Publisher	Additional Information
3 in Three 3 in Three 3 in Three is a 1989 computer game by Cliff Johnson.While bearing some similarities to his previous game, The Fool's Errand, 3 in Three brought the meta-puzzle to a new environment: inside the computer. The tale this time is of a wayward number 3, lost in the innards of the computer by a power surge...	1989		Puzzle	Mac OS Mac OS Mac OS is a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh line of computer systems. The Macintosh user experience is credited with popularizing the graphical user interface...	Cliff Johnson Cliff Johnson (game designer) Cliff Johnson is an American game designer, best known for the early computer puzzle games The Fool's Errand and 3 in Three . Both games were notable for unique visual puzzles and a metapuzzle structure.- Biography :...
Abuse Abuse (computer game) Abuse is a run and gun video game developed by Crack dot Com and published by Origin Systems/Electronic Arts. It was released in , and originally ran on MS-DOS and Linux operating systems. An improved port of the game was released for Mac OS by Bungie Studios and for the Acorn Archimedes by R-Comp...	1996		Side-scrolling Side-scrolling video game A side-scrolling game or side-scroller is a video game in which the gameplay action is viewed from a side-view camera angle, and the onscreen characters generally move from the left side of the screen to the right. These games make use of scrolling computer display technology...  shoot 'em up Shoot 'em up Shoot 'em up is a subgenre of shooter video games. In a shoot 'em up, the player controls a lone character, often in a spacecraft or aircraft, shooting large numbers of enemies while dodging their attacks. The genre in turn encompasses various types or subgenres and critics differ on exactly what...	DOS DOS DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is an acronym for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions 95, 98, and Millennium Edition.Related... , Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... , Mac OS, Acorn Archimedes Acorn Archimedes The Acorn Archimedes was Acorn Computers Ltd's first general purpose home computer to be based on their own ARM architecture.Using a RISC design with a 32-bit CPU, at its launch in June 1987, the Archimedes was stated as running at 4 MIPS, with a claim of 18 MIPS during tests.The name is commonly... , AmigaOS 4 AmigaOS 4 AmigaOS 4, , is a line of Amiga operating systems which runs on PowerPC microprocessors. It is mainly based on AmigaOS 3.1 source code, and partially on version 3.9 developed by Haage & Partner... , GP2X Wiz GP2X Wiz The GP2X Wiz is an open-source, Linux-based handheld video game console and portable media player developed by South Korean company GamePark Holdings. It was released on May 12, 2009, and was also the first console from both Game Park and Game Park Holdings to be also released outside South Korea...	Electronic Arts Electronic Arts Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers... , Red Hat Red Hat Red Hat, Inc. is an S&P 500 company in the free and open source software sector, and a major Linux distribution vendor. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina with satellite offices worldwide.... , Bungie Bungie Bungie, Inc is an American video game developer currently located in Bellevue, Washington, USA. The company was established in May 1991 by University of Chicago undergraduate student Alex Seropian, who later brought in programmer Jason Jones after publishing Jones' game Minotaur: The Labyrinths of...
Adventureland	1978		Adventure Adventure game An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenge. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film,... , Interactive Fiction Interactive fiction Interactive fiction, often abbreviated IF, describes software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment. Works in this form can be understood as literary narratives and as video games. In common usage, the term refers to text...	TRS-80 TRS-80 TRS-80 was Tandy Corporation's desktop microcomputer model line, sold through Tandy's Radio Shack stores in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The first units, ordered unseen, were delivered in November 1977, and rolled out to the stores the third week of December. The line won popularity with... , Apple II series Apple II series The Apple II series is a set of 8-bit home computers, one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products, designed primarily by Steve Wozniak, manufactured by Apple Computer and introduced in 1977 with the original Apple II... , Atari 8-bit, TI-99/4A, Commodore PET Commodore PET The Commodore PET was a home/personal computer produced from 1977 by Commodore International... , Commodore 64 Commodore 64 The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by Commodore International in January 1982.Volume production started in the spring of 1982, with machines being released on to the market in August at a price of US$595... , IBM-PC, Commodore VIC-20 Commodore VIC-20 The VIC-20 is an 8-bit home computer which was sold by Commodore Business Machines. The VIC-20 was announced in 1980, roughly three years after Commodore's first personal computer, the PET... , ZX Spectrum ZX Spectrum The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd... , BBC Micro BBC Micro The BBC Microcomputer System, or BBC Micro, was a series of microcomputers and associated peripherals designed and built by Acorn Computers for the BBC Computer Literacy Project, operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation... /Electron Acorn Electron The Acorn Electron is a budget version of the BBC Micro educational/home computer made by Acorn Computers Ltd. It has 32 kilobytes of RAM, and its ROM includes BBC BASIC along with its operating system....	Scott Adams Scott Adams (game designer) Scott Adams is the co-founder, with ex-wife Alexis, of Adventure International, an early publisher of games for home computers....
Adventures of Maddog Williams in the Dungeons of Duridian, The The Adventures of Maddog Williams in the Dungeons of Duridian The Adventures of Maddog Williams in the Dungeons of Duridian was released by Game Crafters in 1992. The game is a cross between a text adventure and a role-playing game whereby the player took the role of Maddog Williams, a shopkeeper from the seaside town of Marinor.Maddog Williams was released...	1992		Adventure Adventure game An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenge. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film,...	Amiga, Atari ST Atari ST The Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was released by Atari Corporation in 1985 and commercially available from that summer into the early 1990s. The "ST" officially stands for "Sixteen/Thirty-two", which referred to the Motorola 68000's 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals... , DOS	Game Crafters
Adventures of Robby Roto!, The Robby Roto The Adventures of Robby Roto! is a 1981 arcade game produced by Bally/Midway. It is no longer available in most arcades....	1981		Maze (Puzzle)	Arcade Arcade game An arcade game is a coin-operated entertainment machine, usually installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars, and amusement arcades. Most arcade games are video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games, and merchandisers...	Bally Midway
Adventures of Robbo	1994	2006	Puzzle	DOS	Epic Megagames Epic Games Epic Games, Inc., also known as Epic and formerly Epic MegaGames, is an American video game development company based in Cary, North Carolina. Its most recent success has been the Gears of War series of games, although it is also known for its Unreal Engine technology. It is the parent company of...
Akalabeth: World of Doom, a.k.a "Ultima 0"	1979		Role-Playing Game	Apple II Apple II The Apple II is an 8-bit home computer, one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products, designed primarily by Steve Wozniak, manufactured by Apple Computer and introduced in 1977... , DOS	California Pacific Computer Company California Pacific Computer Company California Pacific Computer Company is a defunct software design company that published games and related software for the Apple II family of computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s...
Alien Carnage Alien Carnage Alien Carnage, originally called Halloween Harry, is a side-scrolling platform game written by SubZero Software and distributed by Apogee Software. The game features 256 colour VGA graphics and background music in MOD format. Alien Carnage is composed of four episodes... , a.k.a Halloween Harry	1994	2007	Side-scrolling Side-scrolling video game A side-scrolling game or side-scroller is a video game in which the gameplay action is viewed from a side-view camera angle, and the onscreen characters generally move from the left side of the screen to the right. These games make use of scrolling computer display technology...  platformer Platform game A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...	DOS	Apogee Software 3D Realms 3D Realms is a current video game publisher and former video game developer based in Garland, Texas, United States, established in 1987...
Allegiance Allegiance (computer game) Allegiance is a multiplayer online game providing a mix of real-time strategy and player piloted space combat gameplay. Initially developed by Microsoft Research, the game was later released under a shared source license in 2004 and is now maintained and developed by volunteers.The story in which...	2000		Space simulation Space simulation A space simulator is a system that tries to replicate or simulate outer space and/or the experience of space flight in a spacecraft as closely and realistically as possible... /Real-time strategy Real-time strategy Real-time strategy is a sub-genre of strategy video game which does not progress incrementally in turns. Brett Sperry is credited with coining the term to market Dune II.... /Action Action game Action game is a video game genre that emphasizes physical challenges, including hand–eye coordination and reaction-time. The genre includes diverse subgenres such as fighting games, shooter games, and platform games, which are widely considered the most important action games, though some...	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...	Microsoft Research Microsoft Research Microsoft Research is the research division of Microsoft created in 1991 for developing various computer science ideas and integrating them into Microsoft products. It currently employs Turing Award winners C.A.R. Hoare, Butler Lampson, and Charles P...
Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021	1987		Strategy Strategy video game Strategy video games is a video game genre that emphasizes skillful thinking and planning to achieve victory. They emphasize strategic, tactical, and sometimes logistical challenges. Many games also offer economic challenges and exploration...	DOS	Thinking Machine Associates	Updated in 2004 by George Moromisato to run natively on Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... .
Antheads: It Came from the Desert 2	1990		Adventure Adventure game An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenge. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film,...	Amiga, DOS, Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, Turbo Grafx 16	Cinemaware Cinemaware Cinemaware was a computer game developer and publisher that released several popular titles in the 1980s based on various movie themes. The company was resurrected in 2000, before being acquired by eGames in 2005.-Cinemaware Corp...	Expansion pack to It Came from the Desert It Came From the Desert It Came from the Desert is a 1989 computer game by Cinemaware. It was originally released for the Amiga, but later ported to other systems, as well as released in distinctly different forms to consoles.... .
Arctic Adventure	1991	2009	Platformer Platform game A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...	DOS	Apogee Software 3D Realms 3D Realms is a current video game publisher and former video game developer based in Garland, Texas, United States, established in 1987...
At the Carnival At the Carnival At The Carnival is a 1989 computer puzzle game by Cliff Johnson.It was intended to be the first of a series of games called Puzzle Gallery; however, publisher Miles Computing went out of business before any further games could be made....	1989		Puzzle	Mac OS, DOS	Cliff Johnson Cliff Johnson (game designer) Cliff Johnson is an American game designer, best known for the early computer puzzle games The Fool's Errand and 3 in Three . Both games were notable for unique visual puzzles and a metapuzzle structure.- Biography :...
Battle Chess Battle Chess Battle Chess is a computer game version of chess in which the chess pieces come to life and battle one another when capturing. It was released for the Commodore Amiga and subsequently on the 3DO, MS-DOS, Apple IIGS, Apple IIe, Commodore 64, Amiga CDTV, CD32, Atari ST, Apple Macintosh, Acorn...	1988	1994				declared freeware to celebrate the success of its successor, Battle Chess II
Battlecruiser 3000AD Battlecruiser 3000AD Battlecruiser 3000AD is a science fiction computer game, noted for its long, troubled development history.-Story:...	1996		space simulator	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...	Derek Smart Derek Smart Derek K. Smart is the president and lead developer of 3000AD, Inc., a video game developer based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In addition he is president of Quest Online involved in the MMO Alganon. He is an independent video game designer and software developer, and the creator of the...
Battlecruiser Millennium	2003		space simulator	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...	Derek Smart Derek Smart Derek K. Smart is the president and lead developer of 3000AD, Inc., a video game developer based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In addition he is president of Quest Online involved in the MMO Alganon. He is an independent video game designer and software developer, and the creator of the...
BC Kid	1992		platform game Platform game A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...	Amiga	Factor 5 Factor 5 Factor 5 GmbH is an independent software and video game developer. The company was originally co-founded by five former Rainbow Arts employees in 1987 in Cologne, Germany, which served as the inspiration behind the studio's name....
BC Racers BC Racers BC Racers is a racing video game released by Core Design in 1994 in Mega-CD, in 1995 in Sega 32X and 3DO, and also released by the company in PC as freeware in 1995. It was the third game released in the Chuck Rock series...	1993		racing game Racing game A racing video game is a genre of video games, either in the first-person or third-person perspective, in which the player partakes in a racing competition with any type of land, air, or sea vehicles. They may be based on anything from real-world racing leagues to entirely fantastical settings...	DOS DOS DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is an acronym for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions 95, 98, and Millennium Edition.Related...	Core Design Core Design Core Design was a British video game studio best known today for creating the popular Tomb Raider series.-History:Based in the city of Derby, England, Core Design was set up in 1988 by Chris Shrigley, Andy Green, Rob Toone, Terry Lloyd, Simon Phipps, Dave Pridmore, Jeremy Heath-Smith and Greg Holmes...
Beneath a Steel Sky Beneath a Steel Sky Beneath a Steel Sky is a 1994 science-fiction point-and-click adventure game in the cyberpunk genre. Like many point-and-click adventure games, it features comedy elements, and was developed by Revolution Software, a British developer, and published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment. It was...	1994	2003	adventure		Revolution Software Revolution Software Revolution Software Ltd. is a British adventure game company, based in York in northern England.The company was founded in 1990 by Charles Cecil, Tony Warriner, David Sykes and Noirin Carmody...	released to support the ScummVM ScummVM ScummVM is a collection of game engine recreations. Originally designed to play LucasArts adventure games that use the SCUMM system , it now also supports a variety of non-SCUMM games by companies like Revolution Software and Adventure Soft. It was originally written by Ludvig Strigeus...  Project
Beyond the Titanic	1986	1998	text adventure game		Apogee Software 3D Realms 3D Realms is a current video game publisher and former video game developer based in Garland, Texas, United States, established in 1987...
Beyond Castle Wolfenstein Beyond Castle Wolfenstein Beyond Castle Wolfenstein is a 1984 computer game by Muse Software. It is the sequel to the innovative and successful Castle Wolfenstein, a prototypical stealth game...	1984		stealth game		Muse Software Muse Software Muse Software was a software and computer game publisher and developer for the first generation of home computers. They first published for the Apple II, and later expanded to the Commodore 64, Atari, and the IBM PC....
Bio Menace Bio Menace Bio Menace is a 2D, side-scrolling, platform game both developed and published by Apogee Software in 1993 for DOS. It was built on a licensed version of id Software's Commander Keen game engine, and was known as Bio Hazard during production...	1993	2005	side-scrolling platform game Platform game A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...		Apogee Software 3D Realms 3D Realms is a current video game publisher and former video game developer based in Garland, Texas, United States, established in 1987...
Blades of Exile	1997		Role-Playing Game	Macintosh Macintosh The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...  and Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...	Jeff Vogel of Spiderweb Software Spiderweb Software Spiderweb Software is a small indie video game developer founded in 1994 by Jeff Vogel in Seattle, Washington. Its primary focus is on creating demoware games for the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows operating systems. The company is unusual in that it first develops games for Macintosh...
Boppin' Boppin' Boppin is a puzzle game developed by Accursed Toys , originally published for the Amiga by KarmaSoft. The Amiga version only sold 284 copies, according to the developers, and so it was ported to DOS and released as shareware, published by Apogee Software.The primary differences between the Amiga...	1994	2005	Puzzle	Amiga, DOS	Apogee Software 3D Realms 3D Realms is a current video game publisher and former video game developer based in Garland, Texas, United States, established in 1987...
Castle of the Winds Castle of the Winds Castle of the Winds is a tile-based roguelike computer game for Windows 3.x. It was developed by SaadaSoft and published by Epic MegaGames in 1989.-Release history:...	1989	1998	Role-Playing Game	Windows 3.x Windows 3.x Windows 3.x can refer to either an individual or all of the following versions of Microsoft Windows:*Windows 3.0*Windows 3.1x*Windows 3.2...	Epic Megagames
Castle Infinity Castle Infinity Castle Infinity is a freeware MMOG for Microsoft Windows developed by Castle Infinity, LLC, an American non-profit organization.The official language of the characters in Castle Infinity is a modification of Esperanto....	1996	2000	MMOG	Windows	Starwave Starwave Starwave was a Seattle, Washington based software and website company, founded in 1993 by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft. The company produced many original CD-ROM titles, including disks for Clint Eastwood, Sting, and Peter Gabriel...
Caves of Thor	1989	2005	Adventure	DOS	Apogee Software Apogee Software Apogee Software, LLC is a video game publisher based in Garland, Texas, established in 2008 as a spin-off of 3D Realms .- History :The original Apogee Software was established in 1987 as Apogee Software Ltd. In 1994, Apogee established its 3D Realms brand for publishing 3D video games distributed...
Championship Manager: Season 01/02	2001	2008	Sports Management	Windows, Mac OS and Xbox	Eidos Interactive Eidos Interactive Eidos Interactive Ltd. is a British video game publisher and is a label of Square Enix Europe. As an independent company Eidos plc was headquartered in the Wimbledon Bridge House in Wimbledon, London Borough of Merton....
Clonk Endeavour	2004	2008	Platform Game Platform game A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps... /Real-time strategy Real-time strategy Real-time strategy is a sub-genre of strategy video game which does not progress incrementally in turns. Brett Sperry is credited with coining the term to market Dune II....	Windows, Mac OS X, Linux	RedWolf Design
Clyde's Adventure Clyde's Adventure Clyde's Adventure is a platform computer game released by Moonlite Software in 1992. The objective of the game is to explore castles, collect gems, and find the exit. Clyde, the main character, has a supply of energy that depletes whenever he walks, jumps, or falls from a great height. If his...	1992	2005	Platform Game Platform game A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...	DOS	Moonlite Software
Clyde's Revenge Clyde's Revenge Clyde's Revenge is a platform computer game released by Moonlite Software in 1995. It is the sequel to Clyde's Adventure. The objective is to explore castles and collect all the stones. With no "enemies," Clyde's Revenge is predominantly a puzzle game. The challenge comes from avoiding traps and...	1995	2005	Platform Game Platform game A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...	DOS	Moonlite Software
Codename Gordon	2004		Sidescroller/Shooter Shooter game Shooter games are a sub-genre of action game, which often test the player's speed and reaction time. It includes many subgenres that have the commonality of focusing "on the actions of the avatar using some sort of weapon. Usually this weapon is a gun, or some other long-range weapon". A common...	Windows	Nuclear Vision
Command & Conquer	1995	2007	Real-time strategy Real-time strategy Real-time strategy is a sub-genre of strategy video game which does not progress incrementally in turns. Brett Sperry is credited with coining the term to market Dune II....	Windows, Mac OS	Virgin Interactive Virgin Interactive Virgin Interactive was a British video game publisher. It was formed as Virgin Games Ltd. in 1981. The company became much larger after purchasing the budget label, Mastertronic in 1987. It was part of the Virgin Group...
Command & Conquer: Red Alert Command & Conquer: Red Alert Command & Conquer: Red Alert is a real-time strategy computer game of the Command & Conquer franchise, produced by Westwood Studios and released by Virgin Interactive in...	1996	2008	Real-time strategy Real-time strategy Real-time strategy is a sub-genre of strategy video game which does not progress incrementally in turns. Brett Sperry is credited with coining the term to market Dune II....	Windows, Mac OS	Virgin Interactive Virgin Interactive Virgin Interactive was a British video game publisher. It was formed as Virgin Games Ltd. in 1981. The company became much larger after purchasing the budget label, Mastertronic in 1987. It was part of the Virgin Group...	Made freeware in 2008 to promote the release of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 is a 2008 real-time strategy video game developed by EA Los Angeles and published by Electronic Arts. Announced on February 14, 2008, it was released on October 28, 2008 in the United States for Microsoft Windows-based PCs and three days later in Europe. A version for... .
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun is a real-time strategy video game developed by Westwood Studios and released in . The main storyline follows the second major war between the Global Defense Initiative of the United Nations, and the global terrorist organization known as the Brotherhood of Nod who...	1999	2010	Real-time strategy Real-time strategy Real-time strategy is a sub-genre of strategy video game which does not progress incrementally in turns. Brett Sperry is credited with coining the term to market Dune II....	Windows	Electronic Arts Electronic Arts Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers...	Made freeware (along with its expansion pack Firestorm) on February 12, 2010 to promote the release of Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight is a real-time tactics video game and the latest installment of the popular Command & Conquer franchise, released March 16, 2010. It constitutes the final chapter in the Kane saga... .
Cybersphere Cybersphere Cybersphere is a "ball and paddle" game similar to Arkanoid. The game and its sequel have recently been released as freeware by the designer.It was designed by Clay Hellman and published by Psycon Software....	1996	2006	Arkanoid Arkanoid is an arcade game developed by Taito in 1986. It is based upon Atari's Breakout games of the 1970s. The title refers to a doomed "mothership" from which the player's ship, the Vaus, escapes.-Overview:... -style game	DOS	Psycon Software
Cybersphere Plus Cybersphere Cybersphere is a "ball and paddle" game similar to Arkanoid. The game and its sequel have recently been released as freeware by the designer.It was designed by Clay Hellman and published by Psycon Software....	1997	2006	Arkanoid Arkanoid is an arcade game developed by Taito in 1986. It is based upon Atari's Breakout games of the 1970s. The title refers to a doomed "mothership" from which the player's ship, the Vaus, escapes.-Overview:... -style game	DOS	Psycon Software
Dark Ages	1991	2009	Platform Game Platform game A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...	DOS	Apogee Software Apogee Software Apogee Software, LLC is a video game publisher based in Garland, Texas, established in 2008 as a spin-off of 3D Realms .- History :The original Apogee Software was established in 1987 as Apogee Software Ltd. In 1994, Apogee established its 3D Realms brand for publishing 3D video games distributed...
Dark Horizons Lore: Invasion Dark Horizons Lore: Invasion Dark Horizons Lore: Invasion is a Mech simulation computer game developed by independent game studio Max Gaming Technologies and published by GarageGames. Built using the Torque Game Engine, the game is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux...	2005		Mech simulation	Linux, Windows, Mac OS	GarageGames GarageGames GarageGames is located in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, where it was moved after being acquired by IAC in 2007. As the makers of Torque game development technology, they have provided cross-platform technology and tools since 2000...
Dark Sun: Shattered Lands Dark Sun: Shattered Lands Dark Sun: Shattered Lands is a turn-based computer role-playing game that takes place in the Dungeons and Dragons campaign setting of Dark Sun...	1993		Role-Playing Game	DOS DOS DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is an acronym for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions 95, 98, and Millennium Edition.Related...	Strategic Simulations, Inc
Dark Sun: Wake of the Ravager Dark Sun: Wake of the Ravager Dark Sun: Wake of the Ravager is a computer role-playing game developed and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. in 1994 for the MS-DOS operating system. It is the sequel to Dark Sun: Shattered Lands. Wake of the Ravager was initially released in two boxed versions: on floppy disk and on...	1994		Role-Playing Game	DOS DOS DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is an acronym for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions 95, 98, and Millennium Edition.Related...	Strategic Simulations, Inc
Death Rally Death Rally Death Rally is a top-down perspective racing video game developed by Remedy, published by Apogee and distributed by GT Interactive. It was released on September 6, 1996...	1996	2009	Racing Game Racing game A racing video game is a genre of video games, either in the first-person or third-person perspective, in which the player partakes in a racing competition with any type of land, air, or sea vehicles. They may be based on anything from real-world racing leagues to entirely fantastical settings...	DOS DOS DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is an acronym for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions 95, 98, and Millennium Edition.Related... , Windows	Apogee Software Apogee Software Apogee Software, LLC is a video game publisher based in Garland, Texas, established in 2008 as a spin-off of 3D Realms .- History :The original Apogee Software was established in 1987 as Apogee Software Ltd. In 1994, Apogee established its 3D Realms brand for publishing 3D video games distributed...
Defender of the Crown Defender of the Crown Defender of the Crown is a strategy computer game designed by Kellyn Beck. It was Cinemaware's first game, and was originally released for the Commodore Amiga in 1986, setting a new standard for graphic quality in home computer games....	1986		Strategy Game Strategy game A strategy game or strategic game is a game in which the players' uncoerced, and often autonomous decision-making skills have a high significance in determining the outcome...	DOS	Cinemaware Cinemaware Cinemaware was a computer game developer and publisher that released several popular titles in the 1980s based on various movie themes. The company was resurrected in 2000, before being acquired by eGames in 2005.-Cinemaware Corp...
Dink Smallwood Dink Smallwood While compared to other role playing games, Dink Smallwood was praised for its humour, being described as “a spoonful of Zelda,…a dash of Monkey Island and a pinch of Diablo.” The humour was described as the one good aspect of the game and was found quite entertaining...	1997	1999	Role-Playing Game	Windows, Linux, Mac OS	Iridon Interactive
The Elder Scrolls: Arena The Elder Scrolls: Arena The Elder Scrolls: Arena is the first game in the Elder Scrolls series. It is a first-person computer role-playing game for MS-DOS, developed by Bethesda Softworks and released in 1994...	1994	2004	Role-Playing Game	DOS	Bethesda Softworks Bethesda Softworks Bethesda Softworks, LLC, is an American video game company. A subsidiary of ZeniMax Media, the company was originally based in Bethesda, Maryland and eventually moved to their current location in Rockville, Maryland...	Floppy disk version released as freeware in 2004 to mark the 10th anniversary of the TES The Elder Scrolls The Elder Scrolls is a role-playing video game series developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.-History:... series, and as publicity release prior to the 4th installment, Oblivion The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is a single-player action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks and the Take-Two Interactive subsidiary 2K Games... .
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall is a first-person, traditional role-playing video game for MS-DOS developed by Bethesda Softworks and released in 1996. It is a sequel to the RPG The Elder Scrolls: Arena and the second installment in The Elder Scrolls series. On July 9, 2009, it was made available...	1996	2009	Role-Playing Game	DOS	Bethesda Softworks Bethesda Softworks Bethesda Softworks, LLC, is an American video game company. A subsidiary of ZeniMax Media, the company was originally based in Bethesda, Maryland and eventually moved to their current location in Rockville, Maryland...	Sequel to the aforementioned Arena The Elder Scrolls: Arena The Elder Scrolls: Arena is the first game in the Elder Scrolls series. It is a first-person computer role-playing game for MS-DOS, developed by Bethesda Softworks and released in 1994... . Released as freeware on July 9, 2009, to mark the 15th anniversary of the TES The Elder Scrolls The Elder Scrolls is a role-playing video game series developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.-History:... series.
Electro Man Electro Man Electro Man is a VGA sidescrolling DOS computer game developed by xLand Games and published by Epic Megagames in . It was initially released in Poland without the involvement of Epic as "Electro Body" complete with some changed graphics and CGA, EGA and composite monitor display modes...	1993	2006	Sidescroller	DOS	Created by xLand Games and published by Epic Megagames Epic Games Epic Games, Inc., also known as Epic and formerly Epic MegaGames, is an American video game development company based in Cary, North Carolina. Its most recent success has been the Gears of War series of games, although it is also known for its Unreal Engine technology. It is the parent company of...
Elite/Elite +	1984/1991	1999	Space trading and combat simulator	BBC Micro BBC Micro The BBC Microcomputer System, or BBC Micro, was a series of microcomputers and associated peripherals designed and built by Acorn Computers for the BBC Computer Literacy Project, operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation... , Acorn Electron Acorn Electron The Acorn Electron is a budget version of the BBC Micro educational/home computer made by Acorn Computers Ltd. It has 32 kilobytes of RAM, and its ROM includes BBC BASIC along with its operating system.... , Apple II Apple II The Apple II is an 8-bit home computer, one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products, designed primarily by Steve Wozniak, manufactured by Apple Computer and introduced in 1977... , Amstrad CPC Amstrad CPC The Amstrad CPC is a series of 8-bit home computers produced by Amstrad between 1984 and 1990. It was designed to compete in the mid-1980s home computer market dominated by the Commodore 64 and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, where it successfully established itself primarily in the United Kingdom,... , Commodore 64 Commodore 64 The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by Commodore International in January 1982.Volume production started in the spring of 1982, with machines being released on to the market in August at a price of US$595... , ZX Spectrum ZX Spectrum The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd... , MSX MSX MSX was the name of a standardized home computer architecture in the 1980s conceived by Kazuhiko Nishi, then Vice-president at Microsoft Japan and Director at ASCII Corporation... , Tatung Einstein Tatung Einstein The Tatung Einstein was an eight-bit home/personal computer produced by Taiwanese corporation Tatung, designed in Bradford, England at Tatung's research laboratories and assembled in Bridgnorth and Telford, England. It was aimed primarily at small businesses.... , IBM PC compatible IBM PC compatible IBM PC compatible computers are those generally similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT. Such computers used to be referred to as PC clones, or IBM clones since they almost exactly duplicated all the significant features of the PC architecture, facilitated by various manufacturers' ability to... , Acorn Archimedes Acorn Archimedes The Acorn Archimedes was Acorn Computers Ltd's first general purpose home computer to be based on their own ARM architecture.Using a RISC design with a 32-bit CPU, at its launch in June 1987, the Archimedes was stated as running at 4 MIPS, with a claim of 18 MIPS during tests.The name is commonly... , Amiga, Atari ST Atari ST The Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was released by Atari Corporation in 1985 and commercially available from that summer into the early 1990s. The "ST" officially stands for "Sixteen/Thirty-two", which referred to the Motorola 68000's 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals... , Nintendo Entertainment System Nintendo Entertainment System The Nintendo Entertainment System is an 8-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America during 1985, in Europe during 1986 and Australia in 1987...	Acornsoft Acornsoft Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...	Freeware release in 1999 courtesy of game developer Ian Bell Ian Bell (programmer) Ian Colin Graham Bell is a game programmer, game designer and game producer. He is most famous for co-authoring the computer game Elite .He attended the independent St Albans School... .
Enemy Nations Enemy Nations Enemy Nations is a real-time strategy game, created by Windward Studios. The game received very high rankings in video game magazines, but the publisher went out of business shortly after the game's release, forcing developer Windward Studios to sell the game exclusively from its website...	1997	2001	Real-Time Strategy Real-time strategy Real-time strategy is a sub-genre of strategy video game which does not progress incrementally in turns. Brett Sperry is credited with coining the term to market Dune II....	Windows	Windward Studios Windward Studios Windward Studios is a software development company based in Boulder, Colorado. The company began in 1994 with the release of Enemy Nations, a popular Real-Time strategy game, before focusing on its reporting software program Windward Reports.-Enemy Nations:...
Executioners	1992		Sidescroller/Fighting game Fighting game Fighting game is a video game genre where the player controls an on-screen character and engages in close combat with an opponent. These characters tend to be of equal power and fight matches consisting of several rounds, which take place in an arena. Players must master techniques such as...	DOS	Bloodlust Software Bloodlust Software Bloodlust Software is a developer of humorous PC computer games. It was originally formed in 1992 by two high school students who were angry at the rise of movements against computer game violence...
F.E.A.R. Combat	2005	2006	First-person shooter, Horror	Windows	Monolith Productions Monolith Productions Monolith Productions is a Kirkland, Washington-based computer game developer. Monolith is also known for the development of the graphical game engine Lithtech, which has been used for most of their games...	Originally released as the multiplayer portion of F.E.A.R.
Fish Fillets Fish Fillets NG Fish Fillets NG is a puzzle game. The goal in each level is to find a safe way out for both of the two fish. It's comparable to other sliding puzzle games such as sokoban and klotski. In Fish Fillets the play is complicated by a few additional elements and rules...	1998	2002	puzzle	Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, and others	Altar Games	The original Fish Fillets was released under the GPL in 2002. Subsequently the Fish Fillets NG project has recoded the engine to enable multi-platform release.
Flight of the Amazon Queen Flight of the Amazon Queen Flight of the Amazon Queen is a graphical point-and-click adventure game by Interactive Binary Illusions originally released in 1995 for Amiga and DOS and re-released as free software in 2004 for use with ScummVM...	1995	2004	Adventure	Amiga, DOS	Interactive Binary Illusions	Released to support the ScummVM Project.
The Fool's Errand The Fool's Errand The Fool's Errand is a 1987 computer game by Cliff Johnson. It is a meta-puzzle game with storytelling, visual puzzles and a cryptic treasure map...	1987		puzzle	Mac OS, MS-DOS, Amiga, Atari ST	Miles Computing
Full Spectrum Warrior Full Spectrum Warrior Full Spectrum Warrior is a real-time tactics videogame. It was developed by the Institute for Creative Technologies in association with Pandemic Studios and published by THQ. It was released on June 1, 2004 for the Xbox, September 21, 2004 for Windows and on March 23, 2005 for the PlayStation 2...	2004	2008	Tactical shooter	Windows	Pandemic Studios Pandemic Studios Pandemic Studios was founded as an independent developer in 1998, it became an Electronic Arts-owned developer from 2007 to 2009, when it was officially closed. It was an Australian and American video game developer with offices in Brisbane, Australia and Los Angeles, California...	Released as a free ad-supported download.
Glider
Glider PRO Glider PRO Glider PRO is an Apple Macintosh game first published by Casady & Greene in 1991. It is the final installment of the Glider series to date.When Casady & Greene went bankrupt, the rights to the series reverted to the author, John Calhoun, who opted to give a few versions of the game away for free...	1991			Mac OS, Mac OS X	Casady & Greene	When Casady & Greene went bankrupt, the rights to the series reverted to the author, John Calhoun John Calhoun (software developer) John Calhoun is an Apple Macintosh software developer. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he developed a series of shareware games for the Macintosh and Windows, under the name Soft Dorothy Software... , who opted to give a few versions of the game away for free on his website.
God of Thunder	1993		Puzzle, action	DOS	Adept Software
Grand Theft Auto Grand Theft Auto (video game) Grand Theft Auto is a 1997 action-adventure video game created by British games developer DMA Design and published by BMG Interactive. The game allows the player to take on the role of a criminal who can roam freely around a big city. Various missions are set for completion, such as bank...	1997	2004	Action	Windows	Rockstar Games Rockstar Games Rockstar Games is a major video game developer and publisher based in New York City, owned by Take-Two Interactive following its purchase of UK video game publisher BMG Interactive. The brand is mostly known for Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne, L.A...	Released as registerware freeware.
Grand Theft Auto 2 Grand Theft Auto 2 Grand Theft Auto 2 is a video game that was released worldwide on October 25, 1999, by developer DMA Design , initially for the Windows operating system and the PlayStation console. The game was later ported to the Dreamcast console and the Game Boy Color. It is the sequel to 1997 hit Grand Theft...	1999	2004	Action	Windows	Rockstar Games Rockstar Games Rockstar Games is a major video game developer and publisher based in New York City, owned by Take-Two Interactive following its purchase of UK video game publisher BMG Interactive. The brand is mostly known for Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne, L.A...	Released as registerware freeware.
Gridlee Gridlee Gridlee is a 1983 arcade game produced by Videa. Although it was never actually released, the game is playable through the emulator MAME. It is notable for being one of the few games in MAME which may be downloaded with permission from the copyright holders...	1983			Arcade	Videa
Ground Control Ground Control Ground Control is a 2000 real-time tactics video game developed by Massive Entertainment. It features 3D graphics and a free-floating camera which allows one to zoom in and out and view the action from any angle, from a bird's-eye view to the perspective of one's own assault units at ground level...	2000	2004	Real-time tactics Real-time tactics Real-time tactics or RTT is a subgenre of tactical wargames played in real-time simulating the considerations and circumstances of operational warfare and military tactics...	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...	Massive Entertainment Massive Entertainment Massive - A Ubisoft Studio is a Swedish video game company based in Malmö, Sweden. The company is fully owned by Ubisoft. They are best known for the Ground Control series of real-time tactics video games. They were acquired by Vivendi Universal Games in 2002...	Registerware freeware released on July 1, 2004 to serve as promotion for its sequel, Ground Control II: Operation Exodus Ground Control II: Operation Exodus Ground Control II: Operation Exodus is a 2004 computer game developed by Massive Entertainment and by them classified as a real-time tactics game. It is a sequel to Ground Control, the award winning game of the same genre... .
Hardwired Red Zone (video game) Red Zone is a video game developed by Zyrinx and published by Time Warner Interactive in 1994 for the Sega Genesis console.A pre-release version of this game - Hardwired - has been deemed by the developer as publicly distributable.... (a pre-release version of Red Zone Red Zone (video game) Red Zone is a video game developed by Zyrinx and published by Time Warner Interactive in 1994 for the Sega Genesis console.A pre-release version of this game - Hardwired - has been deemed by the developer as publicly distributable.... )	1994		Shooter Shooter Shooter may refer to:Films* Shooter , a 2000 short film depicting four paparazzi on a stakeout* Shooters , a 2001 UK television drama documentary film, set in Liverpool* Shooters , a 2002 theatrical film...	Sega Mega Drive/Genesis Sega Mega Drive The Sega Genesis is a fourth-generation video game console developed and produced by Sega. It was originally released in Japan in 1988 as , then in North America in 1989 as Sega Genesis, and in Europe, Australia and other PAL regions in 1990 as Mega Drive. The reason for the two names is that...	Zyrinx Zyrinx Zyrinx was a video game developer founded in 1992 in Copenhagen, Denmark.The first game developed by Zyrinx was Subterrania for the Sega Mega Drive. During the development the team relocated to Boston. Later, the team developed the games Red Zone and Scorcher. Zyrinx's 3D rendering technology was...
Heartlight PC Heartlight (game) Heartlight is a puzzle game originally developed by Janusz Pelc for 8-bit Atari. In 1994, an MS-DOS port was published by Epic Megagames along with two other games by Janusz Pelc in the Epic Puzzle Pack. The shareware version contained 20, the full version 70 levels...	1994	2006	Puzzle game	8-bit Atari Atari 8-bit family The Atari 8-bit family is a series of 8-bit home computers manufactured from 1979 to 1992. All are based on the MOS Technology 6502 CPU and were the first home computers designed with custom coprocessor chips... , DOS	Janusc Pelc (Atari), Epic Megagames Epic Games Epic Games, Inc., also known as Epic and formerly Epic MegaGames, is an American video game development company based in Cary, North Carolina. Its most recent success has been the Gears of War series of games, although it is also known for its Unreal Engine technology. It is the parent company of...  (DOS port)
Heroes of Newerth Heroes of Newerth Heroes of Newerth is a free-to-play science fantasy, action real-time strategy game developed by S2 Games for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The game was heavily inspired by the Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne custom map, Defense of the Ancients and is S2 Games' first game title in the...	2010	2011	Dota	Windows, Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... , Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...	S2 Games S2 Games S2 Games is a video game developer founded by Marc "Maliken" DeForest, based in Rohnert Park, California.They also have a development location in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Their first project , Savage: The Battle for Newerth, was released in the Summer of 2003...
Heros: The Sanguine Seven	1993	2005	Platformer Platform game A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...		Jeffrey Fullerton	Originally published in cooperation with Safari Software Safari Software Safari Software was a software developer and published founded circa 1989 in Houston, Texas. Patrick Aalto, prior to founding Safari, released a freeware game titled Line Wars in 1989 inspired by the original Elite video game engine. The first game released by Safari was Jason Storm in Space Chase...  and Epic Megagames Epic Games Epic Games, Inc., also known as Epic and formerly Epic MegaGames, is an American video game development company based in Cary, North Carolina. Its most recent success has been the Gears of War series of games, although it is also known for its Unreal Engine technology. It is the parent company of...
Hidden and Dangerous Deluxe	1999				Illusion Softworks Illusion Softworks 2K Czech is a game development company located in Brno and Prague, Czech Republic. The company focuses mostly on first-person and third-person shooter games. Since the foundation in 1997, till the sale to Kush Games ten years later, its owners and key managers were founders Petr Vochozka and Jan...	Released as freeware to serve as promotion for its sequel, Hidden & Dangerous 2 Hidden & Dangerous 2 -Audio:Music from the game was provided by the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra based in Brno, Czech Republic.-Expansion:An expansion pack titled Sabre Squadron was released during October 19, 2004, in the US, introduced nine new single player missions, seven new multiplayer maps, and a now finished,... .
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an interactive fiction computer game based on the comedic science fiction series of the same name. It was designed by series creator Douglas Adams and Infocom's Steve Meretzky, and was first released in 1984 for the Apple II, Macintosh, Commodore 64, DOS,...	1984				Infocom Infocom Infocom was a software company, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that produced numerous works of interactive fiction. They also produced one notable business application, a relational database called Cornerstone....	Made publicly available as a web-based game by the BBC BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff... .
Infantry Online	1999	2007	2D MMORPG MMORPG Massively multiplayer online role-playing game is a genre of role-playing video games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual game world....	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...	Sony Online Entertainment Sony Online Entertainment Sony Online Entertainment is a game development and game publishing division of Sony that is best known for creating massively multiplayer online games, including EverQuest, EverQuest II, The Matrix Online, PlanetSide, Star Wars Galaxies, Free Realms, and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, DC Universe...	Similar to PlanetSide PlanetSide PlanetSide is a massively-multiplayer online first-person-shooter computer game published by Sony Online Entertainment and released on May 20, 2003.... .
Iron Seed Iron Seed Iron Seed is a 1994 DOS computer game, developed and published by Channel 7. It is a real-time strategy, science fiction, space game.-Description:...	1994	2007	Real-time strategy Real-time strategy Real-time strategy is a sub-genre of strategy video game which does not progress incrementally in turns. Brett Sperry is credited with coining the term to market Dune II....	DOS	Softdisk Softdisk Softdisk is a software and Internet company based in Shreveport, Louisiana. Founded in 1981, its original products were disk magazines...	Released as freeware by the author to promote Iron Seed 2.
It Came From The Desert It Came From the Desert It Came from the Desert is a 1989 computer game by Cinemaware. It was originally released for the Amiga, but later ported to other systems, as well as released in distinctly different forms to consoles....	1989	2007	Adventure Adventure game An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenge. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film,...	Amiga, DOS, Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, Turbo Grafx 16	Cinemaware Cinemaware Cinemaware was a computer game developer and publisher that released several popular titles in the 1980s based on various movie themes. The company was resurrected in 2000, before being acquired by eGames in 2005.-Cinemaware Corp...
Jetpack	1993		Platformer Platform game A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...	DOS	Software Creations (US) Software Creations (US) Software Creations was a division of Linton Enterprises located in Clinton, Massachusetts, and run by Dan Linton. It was not connected with Software Creations , the British software development company specializing in computer games located in Manchester, England.-Software Creations BBS:Software...
Ken's Labyrinth Ken's Labyrinth Ken's Labyrinth is a first-person shooter DOS game, released in 1993 by Epic Megagames . It was mostly coded by Ken Silverman, who went on to design the Build engine that was used for rendering a first-person viewpoint in Apogee Software's Duke Nukem 3D...	1993		First-person shooter First-person shooter First-person shooter is a video game genre that centers the gameplay on gun and projectile weapon-based combat through first-person perspective; i.e., the player experiences the action through the eyes of a protagonist. Generally speaking, the first-person shooter shares common traits with other...	DOS	Epic Megagames Epic Games Epic Games, Inc., also known as Epic and formerly Epic MegaGames, is an American video game development company based in Cary, North Carolina. Its most recent success has been the Gears of War series of games, although it is also known for its Unreal Engine technology. It is the parent company of...
Kiloblaster Kiloblaster Kiloblaster is a Space Shooter Video Game Trilogy written by Allen Pilgrim and published by Epic MegaGames in the early 1990s. It is based on the classic Galaxian game, with a few differences such as allowing greater player movement , much faster enemy movement, power-ups, enemies that take more...	1992	2008	Space shooter	DOS	Epic MegaGames
Kroz	1987	2009	Adventure	DOS	Apogee Software 3D Realms 3D Realms is a current video game publisher and former video game developer based in Garland, Texas, United States, established in 1987...
Kye	1992	2008	Puzzle	Windows 3.x	Colin Garbutt
Lure of the Temptress Lure of the Temptress Lure of the Temptress is a fantasy point-and-click adventure game created by Revolution Software, published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment, and initially released in 1992 for Atari ST, DOS and Amiga systems...	1992		Graphic adventure	Amiga, Atari ST, DOS	Revolution Software Revolution Software Revolution Software Ltd. is a British adventure game company, based in York in northern England.The company was founded in 1990 by Charles Cecil, Tony Warriner, David Sykes and Noirin Carmody...
Major Stryker Major Stryker Major Stryker is a 2D vertical scrolling shooter game written for DOS, by Apogee Software .The game was originally distributed as shareware. It consists of three episodes, with only the first episode distributed as shareware, and the rest available commercially...	1993	2006	Scrolling shooter	DOS	Apogee Software 3D Realms 3D Realms is a current video game publisher and former video game developer based in Garland, Texas, United States, established in 1987...
Monuments of Mars Monuments of Mars Monuments of Mars is a third-person puzzle platform video game developed by Scenario Software and published by Apogee Software. The game consists of four 20-level episodes, the first episode being shareware, the rest being commercial software...	1990	2009	Platform	DOS	Apogee Software 3D Realms 3D Realms is a current video game publisher and former video game developer based in Garland, Texas, United States, established in 1987...
One Must Fall: 2097 One Must Fall: 2097 One Must Fall: 2097 is a combat-oriented computer game for all IBM-compatible computers, programmed by Diversions Entertainment. It has a sequel, One Must Fall: Battlegrounds.-Background:...	1994		Fighting Fighting game Fighting game is a video game genre where the player controls an on-screen character and engages in close combat with an opponent. These characters tend to be of equal power and fight matches consisting of several rounds, which take place in an arena. Players must master techniques such as...	DOS	Epic Megagames Epic Games Epic Games, Inc., also known as Epic and formerly Epic MegaGames, is an American video game development company based in Cary, North Carolina. Its most recent success has been the Gears of War series of games, although it is also known for its Unreal Engine technology. It is the parent company of...
Overkill	1992	2008	Vertical scrolling-shooter Shoot 'em up Shoot 'em up is a subgenre of shooter video games. In a shoot 'em up, the player controls a lone character, often in a spacecraft or aircraft, shooting large numbers of enemies while dodging their attacks. The genre in turn encompasses various types or subgenres and critics differ on exactly what...	DOS	Precision Software Publishing / Epic Megagames Epic Games Epic Games, Inc., also known as Epic and formerly Epic MegaGames, is an American video game development company based in Cary, North Carolina. Its most recent success has been the Gears of War series of games, although it is also known for its Unreal Engine technology. It is the parent company of...
Pharaoh's Tomb Pharaoh's Tomb Pharaoh's Tomb is a DOS platform game created by George Broussard and published by Apogee Software. The protagonist, Nevada Smith, is an archaeologist and adventurer who is exploring an Egyptian pyramid....	1990	2009	Platform	DOS	Apogee Software 3D Realms 3D Realms is a current video game publisher and former video game developer based in Garland, Texas, United States, established in 1987...
Sango Fighter Sango Fighter Sango Fighter is a fighting game for DOS made by the Taiwanese Panda Entertainment and released in 1993. Set in the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history, it is very similar to Street Fighter, but with historical context....	1993	2009	Fighting	DOS	Panda Entertainment	Released as freeware by current copyright holder Super Fighter Team Super Fighter Team Super Fighter Team is a video game development, production and publishing company whose primary focus is on producing new games for classic systems such as the Sega Genesis and Atari Lynx, among others...
SkyRoads	1993		Driving	DOS	Bluemoon Interactive
Stargunner Stargunner Stargunner is a horizontal scrolling shooter computer game developed by Apogee Software. It was released on November 19, 1996, and it has the distinction of being the last title sold under the Apogee brand name.-Overview:...	1996	2005	Side-scrolling shooter	DOS	3D Realms 3D Realms 3D Realms is a current video game publisher and former video game developer based in Garland, Texas, United States, established in 1987...
Star Fleet I: The War Begins Star Fleet I: The War Begins Starfleet I: The War Begins is a 1985 computer game designed by Trevor Sorensen and developed by Interstel . It was released for Apple II, DOS and Commodore 64. Versions for the Atari ST and Atari 8-bit were released in 1986 and versions for the Amiga and Macintosh were released in 1987...			Strategy Strategy video game Strategy video games is a video game genre that emphasizes skillful thinking and planning to achieve victory. They emphasize strategic, tactical, and sometimes logistical challenges. Many games also offer economic challenges and exploration...	DOS	Interstel
Star Fleet II: Krellan Commander			Strategy Strategy video game Strategy video games is a video game genre that emphasizes skillful thinking and planning to achieve victory. They emphasize strategic, tactical, and sometimes logistical challenges. Many games also offer economic challenges and exploration...	DOS	Interstel
Star Legions			Strategy Strategy video game Strategy video games is a video game genre that emphasizes skillful thinking and planning to achieve victory. They emphasize strategic, tactical, and sometimes logistical challenges. Many games also offer economic challenges and exploration...	DOS	Interstel
Supernova	1987	1998	Text adventure	DOS	Apogee Software 3D Realms 3D Realms is a current video game publisher and former video game developer based in Garland, Texas, United States, established in 1987...
Super Fighter Super Fighter Super Fighter is a fighting game for IBM-PC systems running MS-DOS. It was developed by C&E, Inc. of Taiwan, and first released in Taiwan on February 20, 1993...	1993	2001	Fighting	DOS	C&E, Inc.	Released as freeware by current copyright holder Super Fighter Team Super Fighter Team Super Fighter Team is a video game development, production and publishing company whose primary focus is on producing new games for classic systems such as the Sega Genesis and Atari Lynx, among others...
Super ZZT Super ZZT Super ZZT is the successor to ZZT, created by Allen Pilgrim and Tim Sweeney of Epic Games . Like its predecessor, Super ZZT was essentially a game creation system with a few games packaged with it, which included Lost Forest, Monster Zoo, and Proving Grounds...	1992		Adventure	DOS	Epic Megagames Epic Games Epic Games, Inc., also known as Epic and formerly Epic MegaGames, is an American video game development company based in Cary, North Carolina. Its most recent success has been the Gears of War series of games, although it is also known for its Unreal Engine technology. It is the parent company of...
Team Fortress 2 Team Fortress 2 Team Fortress 2 is a free-to-play team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game developed by Valve Corporation. A sequel to the original mod Team Fortress based on the Quake engine, it was first released as part of the video game compilation The Orange Box on October 10, 2007 for Windows...	2007	2011	FPS	Windows, Mac	Valve Corporation Valve Corporation Valve Corporation is an American video game development and digital distribution company based in Bellevue, Washington, United States...
Teen Agent Teen Agent (computer game) Teenagent is a 1995 point-and-click adventure game developed by Polish developer Metropolis Software House. It was released for Amiga and DOS. The player controls teenage boy Mark Hopper who wants to be a secret agent. The CD version was the first game to be released on CD-ROM in Poland.-Plot:Gold...	1995		Graphic adventure	DOS
Telengard Telengard Telengard is a computer-based video game that provides an early example of the dungeon crawl genre. The game, written in 1978 by Daniel Lawrence , was purchased by Avalon Hill in 1982 and made available on multiple computer platforms...	1982		Dungeon crawl Dungeon crawl A dungeon crawl is a type of scenario in fantasy role-playing games in which heroes navigate a labyrinthine environment, battling various monsters, and looting any treasure they may find...	DOS	Daniel Lawrence
TerraFire TerraFire TerraFire is a multidirectional shooter for MS-DOS. It was originally released on October 1, 1997 as shareware with a demo limiting the player to only the first 8 levels...	1997	2005	Space Shooter Shoot 'em up Shoot 'em up is a subgenre of shooter video games. In a shoot 'em up, the player controls a lone character, often in a spacecraft or aircraft, shooting large numbers of enemies while dodging their attacks. The genre in turn encompasses various types or subgenres and critics differ on exactly what...	DOS	ORT Software
Traffic Department 2192 Traffic Department 2192 Traffic Department 2192 is a top down shooter game for IBM PC, developed by P-Squared Productions and released in 1994 by Safari Software and distributed by Epic MegaGames. The full game contains three episodes , each with twenty missions, in which the player pilots a "hoverskid" about a war-torn...	1994	2007	Top-down shooter Shoot 'em up Shoot 'em up is a subgenre of shooter video games. In a shoot 'em up, the player controls a lone character, often in a spacecraft or aircraft, shooting large numbers of enemies while dodging their attacks. The genre in turn encompasses various types or subgenres and critics differ on exactly what...	DOS	Epic MegaGames Epic Games Epic Games, Inc., also known as Epic and formerly Epic MegaGames, is an American video game development company based in Cary, North Carolina. Its most recent success has been the Gears of War series of games, although it is also known for its Unreal Engine technology. It is the parent company of...
Tyrian	1995	2004	Scrolling shooter Shoot 'em up Shoot 'em up is a subgenre of shooter video games. In a shoot 'em up, the player controls a lone character, often in a spacecraft or aircraft, shooting large numbers of enemies while dodging their attacks. The genre in turn encompasses various types or subgenres and critics differ on exactly what...	DOS	Epic MegaGames Epic Games Epic Games, Inc., also known as Epic and formerly Epic MegaGames, is an American video game development company based in Cary, North Carolina. Its most recent success has been the Gears of War series of games, although it is also known for its Unreal Engine technology. It is the parent company of...
Word Whiz	1988	2009	Trivia	DOS	Apogee Software 3D Realms 3D Realms is a current video game publisher and former video game developer based in Garland, Texas, United States, established in 1987...
Xargon Xargon Xargon is a 1993 video game trilogy produced by Epic MegaGames for PCs running MS-DOS. It was programmed by Allen Pilgrim. The graphics were created by Joe Hitchens, who also contributed to Epic Pinball and Jill of the Jungle. The game is a side-scrolling platform game very similar to Jill of the...	1993	2008	Platform game Platform game A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...	DOS	Epic MegaGames
Xenophage: Alien Bloodsport Xenophage: Alien Bloodsport Xenophage: Alien Bloodsport is a fighting game written for DOS, by Apogee Software . It was originally released as shareware....	1995	2006	Fighting game Fighting game Fighting game is a video game genre where the player controls an on-screen character and engages in close combat with an opponent. These characters tend to be of equal power and fight matches consisting of several rounds, which take place in an arena. Players must master techniques such as...	DOS	Apogee Software 3D Realms 3D Realms is a current video game publisher and former video game developer based in Garland, Texas, United States, established in 1987...
ZZT ZZT ZZT is an ANSI character-based computer game, created in 1991 by Tim Sweeney of Epic Games , who later designed Unreal. It remains a popular DOS game creation system. ZZT itself is not an acronym for anything; its title was simply chosen so it would always appear at the very bottom of newsgroup...	1991		Adventure	DOS	Epic Megagames Epic Games Epic Games, Inc., also known as Epic and formerly Epic MegaGames, is an American video game development company based in Cary, North Carolina. Its most recent success has been the Gears of War series of games, although it is also known for its Unreal Engine technology. It is the parent company of...
Katakis Katakis Katakis is a side scrolling shooter style arcade game developed for the Commodore 64 by Rainbow Arts in 1987, and converted to the Commodore Amiga by Factor 5 in 1988. It was re-released as Denaris in 1989.-Introductory plot:...	1987				Factor 5 Factor 5 Factor 5 GmbH is an independent software and video game developer. The company was originally co-founded by five former Rainbow Arts employees in 1987 in Cologne, Germany, which served as the inspiration behind the studio's name....	an Amiga side-scrolling shoot-em-up arcade game by .
King of Chicago King of Chicago The King of Chicago is a 1986 action adventure strategy computer game by Doug Sharp. Based on numerous Hollywood mobster movies, this game is set in the 1930s.-Description:...	1987				Cinemaware Cinemaware Cinemaware was a computer game developer and publisher that released several popular titles in the 1980s based on various movie themes. The company was resurrected in 2000, before being acquired by eGames in 2005.-Cinemaware Corp...	an action, adventure, and strategy game by .
Lode Runner Online: Mad Monks' Revenge Lode Runner Online: Mad Monks' Revenge Lode Runner Online: Mad Monks' Revenge is an enhanced version of the 1994 computer game Lode Runner: The Legend Returns. As the title suggests, the game features online functionality so that players can battle or work together from remote locations in network games.-History:In 1993, Presage...	1995			Windows and Mac OS	Sierra Entertainment Sierra Entertainment Sierra Entertainment Inc. was an American video-game developer and publisher founded in 1979 as On-Line Systems by Ken and Roberta Williams...	a side-scrolling arcade game by , based on the concept presented by the classic game Lode Runner Lode Runner Lode Runner is a 1983 platform game, first published by Brøderbund. It is one of the first games to include a level editor, a feature that allows players to create their own levels for the game. This feature bolstered the game's popularity, as magazines such as Computer Gaming World held contests...  (installer malfunctions on Win2000, WinXP and greater, and requires manual installation).
Mad TV Mad TV (computer game) Mad TV is a television station management simulation computer game produced in 1991 by Rainbow Arts. The game puts the player in the role of a new program director for a TV station...	1991				Rainbow Arts Rainbow Arts Rainbow Arts is a German game developer company founded in 1984 in Gütersloh by Marc Ulrich which was later bought by Funsoft, and eventually absorbed by THQ in 1999...	a management simulation game by
Marathon Trilogy Marathon Trilogy The Marathon Trilogy is a science fiction series of first-person shooter computer games from Bungie, originally released for the Macintosh. The name Marathon is derived from the giant interstellar colony ship that provides the setting for the first game; the ship is constructed out of what used to...		2005	First-person shooter	Mac OS, Windows and Linux	Bungie	a series of first-person shooter First-person shooter First-person shooter is a video game genre that centers the gameplay on gun and projectile weapon-based combat through first-person perspective; i.e., the player experiences the action through the eyes of a protagonist. Generally speaking, the first-person shooter shares common traits with other... s by
MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries 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....	2002	2010		Windows	FASA Interactive FASA Interactive FASA Studio was a video game developer that was founded in 1995 by the tabletop game company FASA Corporation, Spectrum HoloByte and Denny Thorley....	a robotic simulation developed by released as freeware in May 2010.
No Gravity					Realtech VR	a Space combat simulator game by
onEscapee OnEscapee onEscapee is an action/adventure video game, developed by Invictus Games, Ltd. and published by the UK-Based Sadeness Software for the Commodore Amiga 1200... '	1997	2004		Windows and Amiga	Invictus Games, Ltd.	an action-adventure game Action-adventure game An action-adventure game is a video game that combines elements of the adventure game genre with various action game elements. It is perhaps the broadest and most diverse genre in gaming, and can include many games which might better be categorized under narrow genres...  by released as freeware on January 26, 2006.
Out of the Park Baseball Out of the Park Baseball Out of the Park Baseball, abbreviated as OOTP, is a text-based baseball simulator for career, historical, and fictional play. OOTP was originally written in 1998, when lead developer Markus Heinsohn sought to combine realistic replay baseball simulation with career play to satisfy hardcore fans and...	2007			Windows, Mac OS X, Linux	Out of the Park Developments.	a baseball management simulation by OOTP2 was released as freeware in 2002, OOTP5 was released as freeware on December 14, 2005, and OOTP8 was released as freeware on September 3, 2009.
Orbiter				Windows	a scientifically accurate spaceflight simulator.
Purge (video game) Purge (video game) Purge or PurgeFinal , is a free first-person shooter computer game published by Freeform Interactive. Purge is the sequel to the Future vs. Fantasy total conversion mod for Quake, and combines futuristic and magical themes...	2003			Windows	Freeform Interactive.	a Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...  online ONLINE ONLINE is a magazine for information systems first published in 1977. The publisher Online, Inc. was founded the year before. In May 2002, Information Today, Inc. acquired the assets of Online Inc....  first-person shooter First-person shooter First-person shooter is a video game genre that centers the gameplay on gun and projectile weapon-based combat through first-person perspective; i.e., the player experiences the action through the eyes of a protagonist. Generally speaking, the first-person shooter shares common traits with other...  game
Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy is a video game developed by Midway Games for the Xbox, PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Windows PC platforms. It was also being developed for the Nintendo GameCube titled ESPionage but later cancelled. The game was released in North America on June 14, 2004; the...	2005				Midway Games Midway Games Midway Games, Inc. is an American company that was formerly a major video game publisher. Following a bankruptcy filing in 2009, it is no longer active and is in the process of liquidating all of its assets. Midway's titles included Mortal Kombat, Ms.Pac-Man, Spy Hunter, Tron, Rampage, the...	a third-person shooter Third-person shooter Third-person shooter is a genre of 3D action games in which the player character is visible on-screen, and the gameplay consists primarily of shooting.-Definition:...  game released through FilePlanet as ad-supported freeware.
Railroad Tycoon Deluxe	1993				MicroProse MicroProse MicroProse was a video game publisher and developer, founded by Wild Bill Stealey and Sid Meier in 1982 as Microprose Software. In 1993, the company became a subsidiary of Spectrum HoloByte and has remained a subsidiary or brand name under several other corporations since...	a business simulator
Riftspace RiftSpace RiftSpace is a space exploration and combat game for PC first released in 2004 by StarWraith 3D Games LLC. RiftSpace was released almost simultaneously with Star Wraith IV: Reviction. Whereas the Star Wraith series prior to the release of Riftspace in 2004 had been purely military, RiftSpace is a... '	2000				Starwraith 3D Games,	a space mercenary simulation built after the ideologies of Elite.
Rocket Ranger Rocket Ranger Rocket Ranger is a 1988 action adventure computer game developed and published by Cinemaware. The game is set in an alternate history World War II where Nazi scientists are about to make an astonishing breakthrough that will allow them to win the war...	1988				Cinemaware Cinemaware Cinemaware was a computer game developer and publisher that released several popular titles in the 1980s based on various movie themes. The company was resurrected in 2000, before being acquired by eGames in 2005.-Cinemaware Corp...	action Action genre The word action has more than one meaning in fiction. Action is one of the fiction-writing modes authors use to present fiction. The term is also used to describe an exiting event or circumstance.-Action as a fiction-writing mode:...  game by
R-Type R-Type is a side scrolling shoot-em-up arcade game produced by Irem in 1987. The player controls a space fighter named R-9a "Arrowhead" to defend humanity against a mysterious but powerful alien life-form known as "Bydo", which was later discovered to be not entirely alien in origin...	1987				Factor 5 Factor 5 Factor 5 GmbH is an independent software and video game developer. The company was originally co-founded by five former Rainbow Arts employees in 1987 in Cologne, Germany, which served as the inspiration behind the studio's name....	a side-scrolling shoot-em-up arcade game.
Savage: The Battle for Newerth Savage: The Battle for Newerth Savage: The Battle for Newerth is a science fantasy computer game that combines aspects of the real-time strategy and first-person shooter genres. It takes place in the distant future when humankind has rebuilt society following an apocalypse, but is threatened by intelligent beasts...	2004			Windows, Linux, Mac OS X	S2 Games S2 Games S2 Games is a video game developer founded by Marc "Maliken" DeForest, based in Rohnert Park, California.They also have a development location in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Their first project , Savage: The Battle for Newerth, was released in the Summer of 2003... .	a blend of FPS and RTS gameplay by
Savage 2: A Tortured Soul Savage 2: A Tortured Soul Savage 2: A Tortured Soul is a fantasy and science-fiction themed video game that combines elements of the first-person shooter, real-time strategy, and action role-playing game genres. It is developed and published by S2 Games. It is the sequel to Savage: The Battle for Newerth and was officially...	2008	2008		Windows, Linux, Mac OS X	the sequel to Savage: The Battle for Newerth, re-released as freeware December 9, 2008.
S.D.I S.D.I. (video game) S.D.I. is a 1986 action adventure computer game developed and published by Cinemaware. The game is set during the Cold War.-Plot:...	1987				Cinemaware Cinemaware Cinemaware was a computer game developer and publisher that released several popular titles in the 1980s based on various movie themes. The company was resurrected in 2000, before being acquired by eGames in 2005.-Cinemaware Corp... .	an action adventure game by
SimCity SimCity SimCity is a critically acclaimed city-building simulation video game, first released in 1989, and designed by Will Wright. SimCity was Maxis' first product, which has since been ported into various personal computers and game consoles, and spawned several sequels including SimCity 2000 in 1994,...	1989					a City-building game City-building game City-building games are a genre of strategy computer game where players act as the overall planner and leader of a city, looking down on it from above, and being responsible for its growth and management... , was released under the GPLv3 for the One Laptop per Child project, and as Micropolis Micropolis (software) Micropolis is a city-building sim game developed by Don Hopkins. It is based on the original source code of SimCity, which was donated to the One Laptop per Child project by Electronic Arts as free and open source software under the terms of the GNU General Public License in 2008.Micropolis is...  to the general public (the original title of the game).
Spheres of Chaos Spheres of Chaos Spheres of Chaos is a space shooter created by Iain McLeod with the basic gameplay being similar to the game Asteroids. The game uses very bright colours and patterns, with many enemies on screen at once. The audio is similar to that of Robotron: 2084 and Defender. The game was originally written...	1992				Iain McLeod,	a shooter game Shooter game Shooter games are a sub-genre of action game, which often test the player's speed and reaction time. It includes many subgenres that have the commonality of focusing "on the actions of the avatar using some sort of weapon. Usually this weapon is a gun, or some other long-range weapon". A common...  by released as freeware in October 2007.
The Spirit Engine 2 The Spirit Engine 2 The Spirit Engine 2 is a two-dimensional, side-scrolling indie RPG drawn, programmed and written by Mark Pay with music by Josh Whelchel. The title is an improved spiritual sequel to The Spirit Engine, a freeware 2D RPG released in 2003.-Gameplay:...	2008					a 2-D side-scrolling indie RPG released as freeware in 2010.
Star Control II Star Control II Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters is a critically acclaimed science fiction computer game, the second game in the Star Control trilogy. It was developed by Toys for Bob and originally published by Accolade in 1992 for PC; it was later ported to the 3DO with an enhanced multimedia presentation,...	1992				Toys For Bob Toys For Bob Toys For Bob is a small video game developer founded in 1989 by Paul Reiche III and Fred Ford. They are most known for creating Star Control and its sequel Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters, but they were not involved in the development of Star Control 3...	an adventure/action game mix released under the GPL by under its subtitle The Ur-Quan Masters ten years later.
Stargunner Stargunner Stargunner is a horizontal scrolling shooter computer game developed by Apogee Software. It was released on November 19, 1996, and it has the distinction of being the last title sold under the Apogee brand name.-Overview:...					Apogee Software 3D Realms 3D Realms is a current video game publisher and former video game developer based in Garland, Texas, United States, established in 1987... ,	is a scrolling shooter by released as freeware in 2005.
Starsiege: Tribes Starsiege: Tribes Starsiege: Tribes is a sci-fi first-person shooter video game. It is the first of the Tribes video game series and follows the story from Earthsiege and Starsiege. It was developed by Dynamix and published by the company now known as Sierra Entertainment in 1998.-History:A sequel, Tribes 2, was...	1998	2004			Dynamix Dynamix Dynamix, Inc. was an American developer of computer games from 1984 to 2001, best known for their flight simulator, Red Baron, the Front Page Sports series, Betrayal at Krondor, and their online multiplayer game, Tribes.-History:... /Sierra On-Line,	a first-person shooter First-person shooter First-person shooter is a video game genre that centers the gameplay on gun and projectile weapon-based combat through first-person perspective; i.e., the player experiences the action through the eyes of a protagonist. Generally speaking, the first-person shooter shares common traits with other...  by released as freeware in May 2004 as publicity for the release of Tribes: Vengeance Tribes: Vengeance Tribes: Vengeance is a science fiction first-person shooter computer game of the Tribes video game series. It was developed by Irrational Games and released by Sierra Entertainment in October 2004... .
Star Wraith II Star Wraith II Star Wraith II is the second game in the Starwraith 3D Games series. It expanded on Star Wraith in several ways including better graphics, a training course for beginners, and more combat modes....	2000				Starwraith 3D Games,	by a space military simulation game, released as freeware as a publicity stunt for its successor, Star Wraith III: Shadows of Orion.
Star Wraith III: Shadows of Orion	2000				Starwraith 3D Games,	a space military simulation featuring multiplayer capabilities.
Star Wraith IV: Reviction Star Wraith IV: Reviction Star Wraith IV: Reviction is the last game bearing the Star Wraith title in the Star Wraith 3D Games series. It was released together with Riftspace, a freeform mercenary game. While having many resemblances to Star Wraith: Shadows of Orion, Star Wraith IV had a linear campaign and far more...	2000				Starwraith 3D Games,	the sequel to Star Wraith III and has a similar concept.
Strange Adventures in Infinite Space Strange Adventures in Infinite Space Strange Adventures In Infinite Space is a hybrid strategy/adventure computer game. It was created by the independent game development group Digital Eel. In the game players explore a "plausibly implausible" region of the Milky Way galaxy called The Purple Void.Unlike "one time through" story...	2002	2009			by Digital Eel Digital Eel Digital Eel is a self-funded independent video game development team located in the Seattle, Washington area. The group was formed in 2001 by Rich Carlson , Iikka Keränen and Bill "Phosphorus" Sears .-Developers:*Rich Carlson - design, sound, music and art*Iikka Keränen - design, code and... ,	released as freeware on September 28, 2009.
SubSpace SubSpace (computer game) SubSpace is a two-dimensional space shooter computer game published in 1997 by Virgin Interactive Entertainment which was a finalist for the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Online Game of the Year Award in 1998. SubSpace incorporates quasi-realistic zero-friction physics into a massively...	1997				Virgin Interactive Virgin Interactive Virgin Interactive was a British video game publisher. It was formed as Virgin Games Ltd. in 1981. The company became much larger after purchasing the budget label, Mastertronic in 1987. It was part of the Virgin Group...	a 2D top-down space shooter game with massive multiplayer capabilities originally released by
Supaplex Supaplex Supaplex is a video game created by Philip Jespersen and Michael Stopp, two Swiss students, and published by Digital Integration in 1991. It is an extended clone of Boulder Dash.-History:...	1991				Michael Stopp and Philip Jespersen.	a Boulder Dash-like puzzle game by
S.W.I.N.E. S.W.I.N.E. S.W.I.N.E. is a real-time tactics game designed by FishTank Studios. The player chooses to fight as either the brutal invading pigs or the pacifist rabbits, and plays a series of missions. There are many units, including mortar, artillery, and tank units...	2001				StormRegion,	a real-time tactics Real-time tactics Real-time tactics or RTT is a subgenre of tactical wargames played in real-time simulating the considerations and circumstances of operational warfare and military tactics...  game released as freeware (S.W.I.N.E. Free Christmas Edition) in 2005.
Titans of Steel: Warring Suns Titans of Steel Titans of Steel is a freeware Battletech-style strategy game created by Vicious Byte. It was published in 1999.The game is a tactical war game. It consists of three modules: the battle module and the machinery and character improvement modules, in which the player can improve the machinery and...	2003					a Battletech BattleTech BattleTech is a wargaming and science fiction franchise launched by FASA Corporation in 1984, acquired by WizKids in 2000, and owned since 2003 by Topps. The series began with FASA's debut of the board game BattleTech by Jordan Weisman and L... -style turn based strategy game released free on February 14, 2008.
Total Extreme Wrestling 2005	2005				Greydog Software.	booking simulator computer game by Released for free on July 1, 2009.
Treasure Island Dizzy Treasure Island Dizzy Treasure Island Dizzy is a computer puzzle game published in 1987 by Codemasters for the Amstrad, Commodore 64, Spectrum, DOS, NES, Amiga and Atari ST....	1987					a puzzle game by the Oliver twins Oliver Twins The Oliver Twins are two British brothers, Philip and Andrew Oliver, who started to professionally develop computer games while they were still at school. Their first game, Super Robin Hood for the Amstrad CPC, was published in 1985 by Codemasters... .
Tribes 2 Tribes 2 -Legacy:On November 20, 2002, Sierra released an update for Tribes 2. This update contained two new game types, new maps and updates to address several issues. Sierra, which is now part of Vivendi SU, licensed the franchise to Irrational Games for a third installment; Tribes: Vengeance was...	2001			Windows and Linux	Dynamix Dynamix Dynamix, Inc. was an American developer of computer games from 1984 to 2001, best known for their flight simulator, Red Baron, the Front Page Sports series, Betrayal at Krondor, and their online multiplayer game, Tribes.-History:... /Sierra On-Line,	a first-person shooter First-person shooter First-person shooter is a video game genre that centers the gameplay on gun and projectile weapon-based combat through first-person perspective; i.e., the player experiences the action through the eyes of a protagonist. Generally speaking, the first-person shooter shares common traits with other...  by free download release in 2004 as publicity for the release of Tribes: Vengeance Tribes: Vengeance Tribes: Vengeance is a science fiction first-person shooter computer game of the Tribes video game series. It was developed by Irrational Games and released by Sierra Entertainment in October 2004... .
Trivia Whiz	1988				Apogee Software 3D Realms 3D Realms is a current video game publisher and former video game developer based in Garland, Texas, United States, established in 1987... .	a trivia game by
Turboraketti II Turboraketti II Turboraketti II is a space dog fight game for Amiga computers created by Heikki Kosola.The game is played by two people fighting each other with spaceships. The game is similar to an earlier game called Gravity Force. The ships are viewed from a side perspective and gravity pulls ships down. The...	1993				Heikki Kosola.	an Amiga cavern-flying game by
Universal Combat Universal Combat Universal Combat is the second video game series by 3000AD Inc., the successor of Battlecruiser series of games....	2004				by Derek Smart Derek Smart Derek K. Smart is the president and lead developer of 3000AD, Inc., a video game developer based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In addition he is president of Quest Online involved in the MMO Alganon. He is an independent video game designer and software developer, and the creator of the... ,	a space simulator released as freeware on January 2, 2008.
Vantage Master Online Vantage Master is a tactical RPG game developed and published by Nihon Falcom in 1997. The game was never released outside of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Falcom released a sequel, Vantage Master V2, a few months after the first game's release, featuring new maps and adjusted character balance but unchanged...	1998				by Nihon Falcom,	a tactical RPG released as freeware in 2002.
Warzone 2100 Warzone 2100 Warzone 2100 is an open source real-time strategy and real-time tactics hybrid computer game, originally developed by Pumpkin Studios and published by Eidos Interactive...	1999			Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, AmigaOS 4, PlayStation	by Pumpkin Studios,	released as freeware in 2004 and free software in 2008.
Wild Metal Country Wild Metal Country Wild Metal Country is a video game developed by DMA Design in 1999 for the Microsoft Windows and for the Dreamcast in 2000 as Wild Metal...	1999				by Rockstar Games Rockstar Games Rockstar Games is a major video game developer and publisher based in New York City, owned by Take-Two Interactive following its purchase of UK video game publisher BMG Interactive. The brand is mostly known for Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne, L.A... ,	released as registerware freeware in 2004.
Wings Wings (computer game) Wings is a World War I flying game, originally released in 1990 for the Commodore Amiga.Wings features a mixture of gameplay styles including 3D dog fights, top down bombing missions and scrolling strafing sections. It is arcade oriented, but featured the story narrative and atmospheric...	1990				Cinemaware Cinemaware Cinemaware was a computer game developer and publisher that released several popular titles in the 1980s based on various movie themes. The company was resurrected in 2000, before being acquired by eGames in 2005.-Cinemaware Corp... .	a flying game by
Wings	1996				Miika Virpioja.	a cavern-flying game by
Zero Tolerance	1994				by Technopop Technopop (developer) Technopop, Inc. was an American videogame developer, founded by Randel B. Reiss in 1990. It was the first independent American developer for the Sega Genesis, and responsible for most of the early development tools to that system.... .	a Sega Mega Drive/Genesis Sega Mega Drive The Sega Genesis is a fourth-generation video game console developed and produced by Sega. It was originally released in Japan in 1988 as , then in North America in 1989 as Sega Genesis, and in Europe, Australia and other PAL regions in 1990 as Mega Drive. The reason for the two names is that...  first person shooter game

Games no longer distributed

The following are commercial games that were re-released as freeware but were not freely redistributable software

Freely redistributable software

Freely redistributable software is software that anyone is free to redistribute. The term has been used to mean two types of free to redistribute software, distinguished by the legal modifiability and limitations on purpose of use of the software. FRS which can be legally modified and used for any...

. They were only available as freeware for a limited time, but could not be redistributed, so they are no longer freely available.

• Airborne Ranger
  Airborne Ranger
  Airborne Ranger is a video game developed and released by MicroProse in 1987. The game is a relatively realistic action game in which a sole U.S...
  
  (1988), a stealth 2D game by Microprose
  MicroProse
  MicroProse was a video game publisher and developer, founded by Wild Bill Stealey and Sid Meier in 1982 as Microprose Software. In 1993, the company became a subsidiary of Spectrum HoloByte and has remained a subsidiary or brand name under several other corporations since...
  
  . It was released as freeware by Atari to promote Airborne Rangers. A free registration was required to download the game. After Airborne Rangers wasn't released, the Airborne Ranger
  Airborne Ranger
  Airborne Ranger is a video game developed and released by MicroProse in 1987. The game is a relatively realistic action game in which a sole U.S...
  
   page and the download link were removed. The game is still mentioned as freeware and many forums and sites have the now dead link to the game page. The legal situation now is unclear because the installer has no disclaimer.
• Area 51 (2005), a first person shooter by Midway Games
  Midway Games
  Midway Games, Inc. is an American company that was formerly a major video game publisher. Following a bankruptcy filing in 2009, it is no longer active and is in the process of liquidating all of its assets. Midway's titles included Mortal Kombat, Ms.Pac-Man, Spy Hunter, Tron, Rampage, the...
  
  . Its free release was sponsored by the US Air Force. It later changed hands and its freeware status was removed.
• B-17 Flying Fortress
  B-17 Flying Fortress (computer game)
  B-17 Flying Fortress or B-17 Flying Fortress World War II Bombers in Action is a flight simulation/role-playing video game released in 1992 for DOS on the IBM PC compatible personal computer by MicroProse. Commodore Amiga and Atari ST versions were released a year later...
  
  (1992), a flight simulator by MicroProse
  MicroProse
  MicroProse was a video game publisher and developer, founded by Wild Bill Stealey and Sid Meier in 1982 as Microprose Software. In 1993, the company became a subsidiary of Spectrum HoloByte and has remained a subsidiary or brand name under several other corporations since...
  
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• Betrayal at Krondor
  Betrayal at Krondor
  Betrayal at Krondor is a DOS-based computer role-playing game developed by Dynamix and published by Sierra On-Line in 1993. Betrayal at Krondor takes place largely in Midkemia, the fantasy world developed by Raymond E. Feist in his Riftwar novels...
  
  (1993), a role-playing game
  Role-playing game
  A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...
  
   by Dynamix
  Dynamix
  Dynamix, Inc. was an American developer of computer games from 1984 to 2001, best known for their flight simulator, Red Baron, the Front Page Sports series, Betrayal at Krondor, and their online multiplayer game, Tribes.-History:...
  
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• Caesar
  Caesar (video game)
  Caesar is a city-building computer game where the player undertakes the role of a Roman governor, building ancient Roman cities.Released in 1992 on the Amiga, ported the next year to Atari ST, PC and Macintosh, the game was similar to SimCity...
  
  (1993), a city-building game by Sierra.
• Far Cry
  Far Cry
  Far Cry is a first-person shooter video game developed by Crytek Studios from Germany and published by Ubisoft on March 23, 2004, for Microsoft Windows. Far Cry sold 730,000 units within four months of release. It received positive reviews upon release...
  
  (2004), first-person shooter computer game developed by Crytek
  Crytek
  Crytek is a German video game company founded in 1999 by three Turkish brothers: Cevat, Avni and Faruk Yerli. Crytek's main headquarters are in Frankfurt, Germany, with five other studios in Kiev, Budapest, Nottingham, Sofia and Seoul. The company is best known for developing the game Far Cry and...
  
  . Ubisoft had released the game in a four-day promotion as ad-supported freeware on FilePlanet.
• Gateway
  Gateway (computer game)
  Gateway and Gateway II , are interactive fiction games released by Legend Entertainment, and written by Glen Dahlgren and Mike Verdu. They are based on Frederik Pohl's Heechee universe....
  
  (1992), an adventure game by Legend Entertainment
  Legend Entertainment
  Legend Entertainment was an American developer of computer games, best known for their complex, distinctive adventure titles throughout the 1990s....
  
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• Portal (2007), an action/puzzle game by Valve Corporation
  Valve Corporation
  Valve Corporation is an American video game development and digital distribution company based in Bellevue, Washington, United States...
  
  , available from May 12, 2010, for two weeks to promote the Steam client's availability to Mac users.
• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
  Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
  Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a third-person action-adventure computer and video game published by Ubisoft. It was released on November 21, 2003 and is a reboot of the landmark video game series Prince of Persia, created by Jordan Mechner in 1989.The Sands of Time, developed internally at...
  
  (2003), third-person action adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal
  Ubisoft Montreal
  Ubisoft Montreal is a Canadian video game developer owned by French publisher Ubisoft.Ubisoft's North American studio is located in Montreal, Quebec...
  
  . Ubisoft released the game as ad-supported freeware on FilePlanet for a limited time.
• Rayman Raving Rabbids
  Rayman Raving Rabbids
  Rayman Raving Rabbids, known in French as , is a spinoff in the Rayman series released by the French company Ubisoft as a Wii launch title. The game consists of over 70 minigames...
  
  (2006), a video game in the popular Rayman
  Rayman
  Rayman is a platform video game published, produced and developed by Ubisoft and is the first game in the Rayman series of videogames. Originally released on the PlayStation in 1995, it was re-released for the Atari Jaguar, Sega Saturn and MS-DOS in 1996. It has also been ported to various formats,...
  
   series, developed by Ubisoft Montpellier. Ubisoft had released the PC version of the game in a four-day promotion as ad-supported freeware on FilePlanet.
• Red Baron 3D
  Red Baron 3D
  Red Baron II is a computer game for the PC, developed by Dynamix and published by Sierra Entertainment. It is the follow-up to the immensely successful flight simulation Red Baron, released in 1990. Red Baron II was released in 1997...
  
  (1998), a flight game by Sierra.
• Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War
  Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War
  Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War is a real-time strategy game developed by both Stainless Steel Studios and Midway Games; it was released on June 12, 2006. The game incorporates segments of both third-person and first-person shooter gameplay, by allowing the player to temporarily control a "hero"...
  
  (2006), a real-time strategy
  Real-time strategy
  Real-time strategy is a sub-genre of strategy video game which does not progress incrementally in turns. Brett Sperry is credited with coining the term to market Dune II....
  
  /third-person shooter
  Third-person shooter
  Third-person shooter is a genre of 3D action games in which the player character is visible on-screen, and the gameplay consists primarily of shooting.-Definition:...
  
   by Stainless Steel Studios
  Stainless Steel Studios
  Stainless Steel Studios was a computer game development company, started in 1997 by Rick Goodman and Dara-Lynn Pelechatz. The company was based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and focused on the development of real-time strategy software titles.-History:...
  
   and Midway Games
  Midway Games
  Midway Games, Inc. is an American company that was formerly a major video game publisher. Following a bankruptcy filing in 2009, it is no longer active and is in the process of liquidating all of its assets. Midway's titles included Mortal Kombat, Ms.Pac-Man, Spy Hunter, Tron, Rampage, the...
  
  . Re-released as ad-supported freeware, sponsored by the US Air Force.
• Runaway
  Runaway: A Road Adventure
  Runaway: A Road Adventure is a point and click adventure game developed by Péndulo Studios, S.L. in 2001. The game follows the long tradition of two-dimensional adventure games like the first two installments of the Broken Sword series...
  
  (1997), an adventure game by Pendulo Studios and published for Dinamic Multimedia
  Dinamic Multimedia
  Dinamic Multimedia was a Spanish software house and publisher created in 1993 which was created after the bankruptcy of Dinamic Software in 1992 by some of its former members. After having released several titles, they filed for bankruptcy in September 2001....
  
   and more later by FX Interactive. The game was released for free for 30 days to celebrate the launch of Hollywood Monsters 2, a.k.a. The Next BIG Thing.
• The Suffering
  The Suffering (video game)
  The Suffering is a video game developed by Surreal Software and published by Midway Games, released in 2004 for the Xbox, PlayStation 2 and PC. The game featured monster designs by Stan Winston.-Story:...
  
  (2004), a horror third/first person shooter developed by Surreal Software
  Surreal Software
  Surreal Software is a video game developer based in Kirkland, Washington, USA, and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Surreal Software, best known for The Suffering and Drakan series, employed over 130 designers, artists and programmers. Surreal was acquired by Warner Bros....
  
   and published by Midway Games
  Midway Games
  Midway Games, Inc. is an American company that was formerly a major video game publisher. Following a bankruptcy filing in 2009, it is no longer active and is in the process of liquidating all of its assets. Midway's titles included Mortal Kombat, Ms.Pac-Man, Spy Hunter, Tron, Rampage, the...
  
  . It was released free in September 2008, but is no longer available due to a new copyright holder.
• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
  Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
  Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon is a tactical shooter video game developed by Red Storm Entertainment, a Ubisoft subsidiary, and published by Ubisoft in 2001 for the PC. It was ported to the Mac, PlayStation 2 and Xbox in 2002 and to the GameCube in 2003...
  
  (2001), a tactical shooter
  Tactical shooter
  A tactical shooter is a subgenre of shooter game that includes both first-person shooters and third-person shooters. These games typically simulate realistic combat, thus making tactics and caution more important than quick reflexes in other action games...
  
   by Ubisoft
  Ubisoft
  Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. is a major French video game publisher and developer, with headquarters in Montreuil, France. The company has a worldwide presence with 25 studios in 17 countries and subsidiaries in 26 countries....
  
  . Released in an ad-supported free download version in 2007 for a limited time; available to US residents only.
• Zork I
  Zork I
  Zork: The Great Underground Empire - Part I, later known as Zork I, is an interactive fiction computer game written by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling, Bruce Daniels and Tim Anderson and published by Infocom in 1980. It was the first game in the popular Zork trilogy and was released for a wide range of...
  
  , Zork II
  Zork II
  Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz is an interactive fiction computer game published by Infocom in 1981. It was written by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling, Bruce Daniels and Tim Anderson. It was the second game in the popular Zork trilogy and was released for a wide range of computer systems. It begins where...
  
  , Zork III
  Zork III
  Zork III: The Dungeon Master is an interactive fiction computer game written by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling, Bruce Daniels and Tim Anderson and published by Infocom in 1982. It was the third game in the popular Zork trilogy and was released for a wide range of computer systems...
  
  , and Zork: The Undiscovered Underground
  Zork: The Undiscovered Underground
  Zork: The Undiscovered Underground is an interactive fiction computer game written by former Infocom Implementors Marc Blank and Michael Berlyn and implemented by G. Kevin Wilson using the Inform language. The game was released by Activision on August 28, 1997 for free to coincide with the release...
  
  , text adventure games by Infocom
  Infocom
  Infocom was a software company, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that produced numerous works of interactive fiction. They also produced one notable business application, a relational database called Cornerstone....
  
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External links

• Liberated Games — A site which features games which have been freed (liberated) by its copyright owners, in some form.
• Remain In Play — Features commercial games that have been released as freeware by their copyright owners.
• World of Spectrum — Large archive of legal ZX Spectrum
  ZX Spectrum
  The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd...
  
   downloads, with various permissions including some from Spectrum hardware copyright holder Amstrad
  Amstrad
  Amstrad is a British electronics company, now wholly owned by BSkyB. As of 2006, Amstrad's main business is manufacturing Sky Digital interactive boxes....
  
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