Abandonia is a multi-award winning games portal for abandonware, which mainly focus on showcasing computer games made for the MS-DOS system. Abandonia is one of the best abandonware sites on the internet at present, the site is powered by community reviews and downloads which are approved by the staff - for the most part these reviews are very high quality and have many screenshots.
Abandonia also features a music section and an Abandonware List, a continuously expanded database of over 4600 games including information about their publishers, release dates and whether according to the staff’s knowledge the software is sold, protected or abandoned. Yes, they are free. Some of the games you can find there are Alone in the Dark(1992), Les Manley: In Search for the King(1990), and Champions of Krynn(1990), and enough games that will get your retro gaming juices flowing. Again, Abandonia also redistributes forgotten classics games. Their collection boasts such classics as Every game showcased is accompanied by a set of screenshots, and reviews written and proof-read by members. As non-profit sites, both Abandonia and Abandonia Reloaded are community-driven projects.  Some of the games require using a DOS emulator. You can get one from Abandonia too. They have a great tutorial on installing and using the DOS emulator to play the games.

Sunday, August 17th, 2008 at 4:31 am | by Kur-nia-one |