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Its likely you'll run into issues running a game like this on Windows 10 as a good chunk of what this game probably relies on is obsolete or otherwise incompatible with modern windows.

That said, PCGaming wiki seems to have a guide made up that might be able to steer you in the right direction. Best of luck to you! It can be really frustrating getting old software going sometimes, so be patient and get creative and hopefully you find something that gets it going!

https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Frogger_(1997)

I thought it might be Sid Meiers pirates, released in 1988ish. Only thing is, on the PC it was top-down combat. Maybe it was changed for the Mac release, which was a year later.

here's some pics

I think there was another one around the same time. I was playing Ancient Art of War around then on PC, and remember another sailing game that I played as well.

I was thinking of Pirates of the Barbary Coast, released around the same time.

Abandonmania had the best screenshots. The combat still doesn't look right though.

I just remembered Transylvania and Castle Wolfenstein for the Mac IIe that I played at school.

oh my god I had forgotten those! maybe there is one for android! :o edit: there is! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gleroy.esheepandroid&referrer=utm_source%3Dgoogle%26utm_medium%3Dorganic%26utm_term%3Desheep&pcampaignid=APPU_1_xW09V_mmKcSVsgHh-ZvAAQ

Simtower

No idea on the wishbone one.

You may need to run it in DOSBox. There are some other emulators that might be able to run it.

Try http://www.myabandonware.com/ i´ve found a lot of obscure adventures there: Tequila & Boom Boom, Black Star agent of justice, In the dead of the night, Heaven's Dawn (Kyrandia 1 engine ripoff?)

its here on amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/EDMARK-llthisczaj-Thinkin-Science-ZAP/dp/B0007XWBBQ no sellers, none available, no reviews.

I see a couple copies of the CD for sale on Ebay.

https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=manhunt+2&cat=401

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have fun and always use a solid antivirus software. Windows Defender should be good enough.

There's a lot of good stuff on archive.org. eg, they have an equivalent for mame/mess - https://archive.org/details/internetarcade

But my personal favourite is https://archive.org/details/tosec

If you're careful enough browsing the categories, you'll notice that yes, it will quite happily provide you with , eg, a 31GB zip of their entire amiga category.

The games themselves are still owned IP by Activision even if they didn't renew the licenses for the Transformers in them. These games usually fall under the term of "delisted" (for me at least) meaning they are removed from sale for one reason or another. In this case it's due to Activision not renewing the Transformers license. This happens with a lot of licenses content games, so if you ever have a minor interest in something like Warhammer, Marvel, Transformers, or any other licenses content games, you are probably better off getting it sooner than later (fairly big issue with Activision since they seem to never announce the delisting while smaller publishers usually give a heads up and one last hurrah sale before they can't sell something anymore).

At least with Devastation since it is newer, you can find console versions of the game relatively easily if you look around (I also think it was on PS+ at one point, so if you ever maintained a PS+ subscription you might have it if you renew). Unfortunately War For Cybertron is a PS3/360 era licensed game so it is harder to find cheap.

If you are deadset on finding PC versions, you are limited to torrent sites for the most part. A lot of random websites seem to have fake pages for various things, and you either download a virus, or it makes you jump through referral hoops for the site to make money and you end up with nothing anyways.

A direct download for War for Cybertron appears to be available on Amazon for some reason (not a steam key, so probably some older activation system). YMMV on this since I don't entirely know what it is beyond what people are saying on the product page, but I do know for myself that I have been able to get a refund from Amazon for a digital game when it didn't work before. I do recommend reading the one long review someone left concerning how to install and activate it, though.

It's available on Android? and iOS? But not on pc/consoles?

I don't what to say...

Silent Hill 1 was never ported to PC. Your only option would be to emulate it on PS1. I recommend finding a ROM in the r/roms megathread and using DuckStation to play it.

Sooo, I spent a good amount of time searching for clues online and finally found it. If anyone wonders: Chicago 90.. http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/379163-chicago-90-dos-screenshot-starting-in-ferrari-cga-s.png Isometric, Top-Down and 1st Person. All bases covered.

I found this and I can't verify if it's the right one nor can I tell if it's loaded with malware. http://download.cnet.com/Lightspeed/3000-2111_4-10259500.html#editorsreview Wine seems to have trouble opening this. All I can tell is that the file size is 215.5kb So I recommend you sandbox this before downloading or opening.

is that the cover of the Kids Win Too! you remember ? http://www.cnet.com/products/kids-win-too-pack/specs/ by Aztech New Media

I guess it might eventually end up on archive.org

you can try this library http://www.worldcat.org/title/kids-win-too-cube-cool-stuff-for-active-minds/oclc/40989875

Definitely Dune 2000. Real-time strategy for Windows that supports LAN play. I'm not sure about compatibility on modern systems, though.

Hey Teeklok, you can download Lucky Luke here. To play, you have to configure LUCKYW.EXE to run in compatibility mode in 256 colors.

You can check if a game is "abandoned" or not here: Abandonia oldwarez search

or even here: AbandonwareDOS, just search for a game and look at the flags.

https://www.origin.com/en-us/store/buy/simcity-catalog/pc-download/base-game/special-edition

Just made a post about this, but you can get it origin, without having to play it in the emulator thing on the site.

Reminds me of EGATrek. I played that a LOT back in the day.

http://www.myabandonware.com/game/ega-trek-1km

Tribbles, raw dilithium, DO NOT warp with your shields up, use gravity effect to whip a torpedo, destroy entire sectors!

Fun!

Is this what you were looking for?

http://www.myabandonware.com/game/sink-or-swim-202

*Disclaimer: Copyright law has been changed so many times in the past 100 years that copyright protection doesn't actually expire on these things until something like an insane 95 years after the publish date. Therefore, this link is being provided for informational purposes only, not to aid you in the still illegal downloading of software that is so old it literally cannot be found anywhere else.

If that's not the game you were looking for, perhaps you meant this game: Hide and Sink http://www.myabandonware.com/game/hide-sink-2my

That is more like Battleship than the other one.

So you have the ISO file.

If you are on windows 10 it should mount on its own if you double click it.

If you are on an earlier version you will need something like magic disk- http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-magicdisc-overview.htm

Once it has attached like a cd, you should be able to run the setup and install it like a regular cd game.

Theres a patch on the website as well that i assume maybe a no CD patch.

Give it a try but if you get stuck there's tutorials on youtube

If you're on Windows 10 they should mount automatically when you open the ISOs. If you're still on Win7 I've used MagicDisc in the past.

Took a peek at the downloads for Deluxe & Complete and the latter is on a single disc rather than split in two. Not only would it give more in-game content, it'd also be easier to install.

It's probably not really what you're looking for, but you might want to check out this project. It's a Flash game/animation preservation project that has both a Flash player, and optionally, thousands of old Flash games and animations at the ready. There are instructions in their FAQ on adding your own files if the game you want is not included.

https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/downloads/

Flashpoint is a preservation archive of a ton of old flash games.

Per their wiki page (second link) The Sandbox is included.

https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/

https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Game_Master_List

Literacy game. They had Step 1 and Step 2.

I haven't seen them on any abandoned sites. Almost 50 bucks from amazon, seems kind of steep from a 20 year old learning game.

I think the below link is one of the games you are looking for, with the name you can scout around and see if its playable or available online.

https://www.amazon.com/Earobics-Step-Home-Version-Foundations-Windows/dp/0669524115

im pretty sure this was a mobile game (at least i had it on my phone), i think its this one https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pixowl.thesandbox.android&hl=en

Most of the s60v3 games are in a Java .jar format.

A good emulator on android is J2ME Loader for example. Link

For the game itself Link