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It's been a couple months since last update. Right now we can't yet fully disclose "whats", "whys" and "whos" - suffice to say we had a few technical and organisational problems.

Those have  now been resolved for the most part, and we're back on the track. Nail down your internet connection and get ready to rock!

For this occasion, I chose to add a game that - altough not exceptional - fits the event very well (and makes for a nice "Ah'll be back" pun too).

WWASD: What Would Ahhnuld Schwahhzaneggahh Do? Boot up his local Skynet node and got ready to terminate, that's what! 

As Abandonia is a site dedicated to bringing back to life the great computer gaming legacy of the ancient times of DOS and sometimes also early Windows games, I thought it would be apropriate to share with you this little piece of gaming history:

Legacy of the Ancients

MrDeadly, the member who presented the Last Half of Darkness II has been kind enough to make a walkthrough for the game, so that you will not get stuck in the maze once you start playing, nor anywhere else in the game!

 Big thanks for this big job well done!

Behind this iron gate there is a secret, guarded by this though looking dog. Do you dare enter and see what Ermuli prepared for you?

 I'll give you a hint, it looks very nice and it is connected to the game.

Could it be new extras from Ermuli? :)

... or perhaps just the manual for Fable?

Whichever way you call it, it's now on the site - thanks to our long-time contributor Frodo.

Seems like at some point in the past something nasty bit Chip and ate the screenshots from the review of his game!

Well, good news - the screenshots have been replaced. Props to AlumiuN for taking the new ones!

Good Old Games - GOG for short - is a company that decided to do what most publishers out there don't give a rat's arse about: republish the classics. And - which I just can't stress out enough...

Make. Sure. They. Work. On. Modern. OS.

On today's market, where games just over a year old are often deemed "inferior" due to not using the latest graphical *bling*, where more and more "gamers" are kiddies whose first operating system was Windows XP and who never heard PC's used to be slower than 1 gHz, old games don't get a fraction of the respect they deserve.

With this kind of market, it takes balls of stainless steel to do what they're doing. Hats off, gentlemen. 

PS. Naturally, we're removing any games we had up for download that are sold on the GOG site. (but will add new ones - that aren't - to compensate for it soon)  

PS2. If only the site displayed the buylinks as it's supposed to... well, it doesn't, and our webteam doesn't seem in any hurry to fix it. So instead of properly linking to GOG's online store, the review pages will only show the ESA: NO GO icon, like they do with all other sold titles. :/ 

I see AlumiuN
and AlumiuN sees me
AlumiuN sees the boxshots I'd like to see.
God bless AlumiuN
and God bless me
God bless the boxshots I'd like to see!

Have a look at the boxshots by AlumiuN,
the man with the mixed up metal name I practised to write above