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After the end of WW2, all the Great Powers in the world were engaged in a technological race, that, if won would've given a major advantage, both from an ideological and economical perspective. Thus, after dividing the world in 1946, USA and USSR declared the start of the race into space. Conquering the last bastion unspoiled by the human activity was harder than expected.

The first to accomplish this task were the Soviets, who sent their first man to meet the void, Iuri Gagarin, on 12 April 1961. The Americans, thought that the only way to make up for this defeat was to be the first to set foot on the lunar soil. And so they did... On 21 July 1969, Neil Armstrong made the step that "changed" humanity.

In this game you're the director of the Space Program. Want to relive these historical moments? Want to be the first? Make it happen!

You return home from a space flight to find your entire race brutally slaughtered by an alien race. Do you:

A. Huddle in a corner and sob

B. Find the alien race and wipe them out

In Overkill - The Six Planet Mega-Blast, you choose B, and proceed to blow up everything that moves, as well as everything that doesn't. Get your revenge!

The colony on the remote asteroid Theta-2 has been wiped out. The United Earth Space Alliance has selected you as the pilot to eliminate the aliens who did this before they pose a threat to Earth. The Radix fighter is the pinnacle of human technology, so if you cannot defeat them, then God help us.

It's Radix: Beyond The Void, a game where you destroy, on average, one enemy every three seconds. Usually more.

The Crypt was a game category where all the "ugly" games went to, for example CGA and ASCII games. This was a compromise on the controversy if such games are "good" enough for Abandonia. Much happened since then, and Abandonia became more liberal over the years. So we decided to finally raise the dead and brick up the oldgamer's "shame". No longer you will miss these games in their respective genres, but that doesn't prevent you from viewing them as groups, since we have added a CGA-only and an ASCII tag to the Perspectives.

To make an abrupt transition to wishing you Happy Easter, I want to use the analogy that we won't hide the really old games like Easter eggs anymore (see the colourful square one top left? - amazing, isn't it?...).

So, Happy Easter!, and may you find one or another Easter egg in one of our games.

What is happening in the house of The Legacy?

It is not a nightmare...you can't simply wake up this time! The infested mansion will challenge you with hard puzzles, misteries and creatures of darkness!

Can you beat the evil forces?

Thank you Geezer for boxshots and manuals!

Whichever way you look at it, you can't tell apart what's the front and what's the back of the box of Michael Jordan in Flight. You will twist and turn it till you went insane, and then go on twisting and turning.

So, have an everlasting incredulous look at the mind-boggling boxshots by great illusionist Ermuli

... through Sierra's classic adventure games thanks to a big walkthrough update. There's updates for Leisure Suit Larry, King's Quest, Space Quest and many many more! And we all know these games can sure use a proper walkthrough ;)

Big thanks to Tom Hayes for letting us use his dozens of very high-quality walkthroughs!

Today Silent Service II takes us into the depths of the Pacific Ocean. You are in command of an U.S. submarine during WWII, right after the events at Pearl Harbor. So, if you like to run on creep speed through shallow waters, lurking for the next convoy, this is your Catch of the Day!

Special thanks go to Saccade, who supplied us with the German Manual as a nice addition to the English Extras!

The Questprobe Series is not only a piece of gaming-, but also of comic-history. Now, our long time contributor Frodo has provided us lots of material as extras for these games, incl. the Questprobe Comic Books, which originally came with them!

As a thank-you, a big bag of Halfling's Leaf goes out to our freaky little Hobbit lover. Just do not smoke it all at once, Frodo.