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    Occasionally I find myself going to the legendary Home of the Underdogs website to take a look at some of the freeware games that had been released since last time I visited. Usually these trips result in my finding one or two gems that had slipped my eyes last time. I thought I'd share a few in this thread, and hopefully some other people will post freeware games that THEY think are increadible too.

    First up is a little game called "Blip Blop". This game is a metal slug clone (if you are unfamiliar perhaps Contra will ring a bell) but with a very humerous twist. Your character looks like this: . The level design and gameplay mechanics are on-par with the hilarious antics of the gaming enviornment.


    Another neat little find comes from Japan. This game is called "Vsys" or "TechnoSylph". It is a shooter that takes place over the expanse of a beautifully rendered ocean with white fluffy clouds. The sceneary never changes but evolving your plane from a Baby into a full grown Slyph takes on an almost hypnotic effect. You can find this game here, just click on the "Soft 02" button in the frame.
    無料,ゲーム,フリーソフト,フリーゲーム,RPG,シューティング,スコアランキング,Freesoft,GAME,どきポヤ,ポヤッチオ,ダイソ−


    The last game which I'll mention is a little time killer called "Orbital Sniper". This appears to be a computer adaptation of the game "Silent Scope", but it instead of sniping you are direct a sattilte laser to kill enemy assassins. Zoom down from a large map of a city to individual blocks and pick off nasty assassins attempting to kill VIPs.


    If you search, all of these are also availible at the Home of the Underdogs. Let's hear about some other freeware gems some of you have found.... besides nethack

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    Haven't played any of these yet, but Blip Blop and Orbital Sniper sound pretty cool.

    TechnoSylph looks like one of those 1943 style flight shoot em up games. I never really got into them, but they're fun for some random acts of blowing things up.
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    • #3
      Scorched Earth - everyone likes a good nuclear war Especially with Jesus, Hitler, Caesar, etc as "leaderheads" each with hilarious comments. Same location - the "not-to-be-mentioned-because-they're-not-quite-legal-dogs-of-overness"

      FreeCiv, of course - need I say more?

      And a fabulous shareware RPG is Avernum 3 - even looks fantastic, and has the most superb character design system.

      And Nethack I play nearly every day...

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      • #4
        Originally posted by War of Art
        And a fabulous shareware RPG is Avernum 3 - even looks fantastic, and has the most superb character design system.
        Sounds very interesting .. can you tell me more?
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        • #5
          Its viewed in isometric, turnbased, move around in town in a group, in fights individually, and outside in a "smaller" group. The characters gain skillpoints through experience and these can be allocated to the many various statistics. There are no character classes as such. The statistics you can change affect the statistics you can't change, like to-hit-rolls, spell casting, health, speed, resistance, recognition of objects, how much people like you etc. Each game statistic is affected in a formula by more than one character stat, so you have to think a bit, and make trade-offs. You can also pick up a number of special skills which give you a penalty (if a good skill) or a bonus (if a "bad" skill) to the rate at which you acquire new skill points for your stats. Clear ? Do a search, and I'm sure you'll find a link.

          There's also a "fame" mechanism which has a big effect on the game. Not bad for Shareware, eh?

          -Jam
          1) The crappy metaspam is an affront to the true manner of the artform. - Dauphin
          That's like trying to overninja a ninja when you aren't a mammal. CAN'T BE DONE. - Kassi on doublecrossing Ljube-ljcvetko
          Check out the ALL NEW Galactic Overlord Website for v2.0 and the Napoleonic Overlord Website or even the Galactic Captians Website Thanks Geocities!
          Taht 'ventisular link be woo to clyck.

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          • #6
            Sounds awesome. I was sold on it after the first sentence.

            I'll definitely give this one a try.
            If I'm posting here then Counterglow must be down.

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            • #7
              If you liked the "feel" of the old Gold box games you'll love this. It's close to Pool of Darkness in its scope (but isometric instead of the pesudo-3D corridors) Go for it!

              -Jam
              1) The crappy metaspam is an affront to the true manner of the artform. - Dauphin
              That's like trying to overninja a ninja when you aren't a mammal. CAN'T BE DONE. - Kassi on doublecrossing Ljube-ljcvetko
              Check out the ALL NEW Galactic Overlord Website for v2.0 and the Napoleonic Overlord Website or even the Galactic Captians Website Thanks Geocities!
              Taht 'ventisular link be woo to clyck.

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              • #8
                Wow, they have MicroProse's Axis and Allies as abandonware. It should be a nice little time killer.
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                • #9
                  Re: Freeware Gaming

                  Originally posted by CygnusZ

                  If you search, all of these are also availible at the Home of the Underdogs. Let's hear about some other freeware gems some of you have found.... besides nethack
                  Home of the Underdogs is an abandonware site, not freeware site, so try to watch your tongue and stay to the right terminology. There's a difference between these two words too.
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                  • #10
                    They do have freeware and Free Software however.
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                    • #11
                      Re: Re: Freeware Gaming

                      Originally posted by Rasbelin


                      Home of the Underdogs is an abandonware site, not freeware site, so try to watch your tongue and stay to the right terminology. There's a difference between these two words too.
                      I never called it a freeware site. I simply indicated that I go there to check out the new freeware releases, which they do carry. What's the point of starting up a semantical fight like this anyway?

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                      • #12
                        I know I have a link to a site with freeware games made by the owner of the site, but since the pages is written in nynorsk(one of the two official written languages in Norway, almost similar to "normal" Norwegian), I guess it isn't worth much for you...

                        I do like the Commander Keen games, but is that freeware yet, or is it still abadonware?
                        Then we have Civ...
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                        • #13
                          Commander Keen = abandonware
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                          • #14
                            Free software = software released for free (libre) by the author including source code with specific licence
                            Freeware = software that's released by the author for free (gratis). It's still copyrighted however
                            Abandonware = commercial games no longer sold or distributed through standard retail channels. The copyright still stands so it's illegal to distribute them (abandon ware tries to keep a low profile for a reason ) Some old commercial titles have been released however as freeware or even as Free software including source code (this doesn't always include the data files like graphics, music etc...).
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                            • #15
                              Some of my recent favourites are "grabber"-games where you have to take over the control of other droids like Paradroid and Quazatron.

                              Here's a nice Freeware remake of Quazatron
                              Quazatron


                              And
                              Freedroid a remake of the original Paradroid. Ver 1.0 is just out!
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