~/Mr Abandonware

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I play and archive old games PC, MS-DOS era to early 2000s Abandonware Enthusiast and Data Hoarder Occasional C64, Amiga, SEGA gamer Unionized Tech worker Left Microsoft for Linux - wasn't as hard as I thought it would be mrabandonware.wordpress.com

Cover to the 1997 game Forbes Corporate Warrior. The head and shoulders of a suited business man with a VR type headset while in the background a suited man with a briefcase looks at some small explosions, or maybe their meant to be thought-clouds or some other management BS. Big blue letters proclaim “Business is War!”
Artist! by Ubisoft. A Windows 9x/ME/XP educational CD-ROM. Cover consists of a line drawing of a woman’s face, a hand holding a pencil and small boxes showing different stages of the drawing.
The face of SHODAN, the AI from the 1994 game System Shock
My 9 games, a picture of 9 computer game covers Top row (left to right): Bubble Bobble, Gunship and Sid Meier's Pirates, all on the Commodore 64 Middle Row (left to right): It Came From the Desert, on the Commodore Amiga, Eye of the Beholder 2, Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, both on MS-DOS PC Bottom Row (left to right): Ultima VII: The Black Gate, System Shock, Crusader No Remorse, all on MS-DOS PC
A delisting notice in Steam for the original version of System Shock 2. It reads: System Shock 2 (1999) will be delisted from PC platforms on October 10, 2025. Existing owners of System Shock 2 (1999) will still be able to re-download and play it from their library, but new users will no longer be able to purchase System Shock 2 (1999) as a standalone product. At the time of delisting, System Shock 2 (1999) will be made available with the purchase of System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster. Both new and existing owners of System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster will be able to access System Shock 2 (1999) from their library at no additional cost. If you have any questions, please reach out to our support team (support@atari.com).
A man in very 90s attire holds aloft two Windows 95 boxes with an inexplicable look of joy on his face. In the background, numerous people appear to be queuing for their copies.
A screenshot from the 1983 BBC Micro game Granny’s Garden which shows a Witch saying “Ha ha! Now I’ve got you! I will send you home at once!”
The box covers for SSI's Buck Rogers games, Countdown to Doomsday and Matrix Cubed, showing Buck Rogers heroically fighting alien enemies and standing over a fallen comrade.
A screenshot from the 1990 game B.A.T. published by Ubi Soft Entertainment Software, in which a shopkeeper threatens to call the police on a customer.
The cover of the Window 3x game Total Distortion, a music video adventure game. The cover features Mr Red, a character from the game, with a red crew cut hairstyle blue eyes and a quizzical look on his face, and on the right side, a robotic Guitar Warrior, one of the enemies in the game.
A Linux Mint 22.1 (Xia) desktop showing the DOSBox-X and ScummVM emulators installed.
Text from the "End of 10" campaign, informing people that if they bought a computer after 2010 it could run Linux instead of becoming e-waste, prompted by Microsoft otherwise condemning many perfectly good PCs because they couldn't be bothered making Windows 11 work on them.
The map of level 1 of the Citadel Station, from the 1994 game System Shock
A level from the PC game Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb. Viewed from a 3rd person perspective, Indiana Jones is chased down a collapsing corridor by a tank while using his whip to swing across holes in the floor.
GOGs dream list showing 61645 votes for a re-release of the Windows game Black & White.
A screenshot of GOGs (Good Old Games) dream list, showing the Windows game Freelancer as a game people would like to see re-released. The post then points out that the game is available now to download and play, so you don't need to wait.
Steam Replay 2024 showing that I spent 87% of my time playing classic games (those released more than 8 years ago).
A scene from the 1989 British TV comedy Blackadder Goes Forth. During a training session, prior to their first flight, Captain Blackadder (played by Rowan Atkinson) explains to Lieutenant George (played by Hugh Laurie) the short life expectancy for new first world war pilots, known as "20 minuters".
1984.6 hours playing Skyrim.
The default key layout for the 1995 MS-DOS game Terminator: Future Shock, which used the awkward (at least on UK keyboards) A, Left Shift, Z, X keys for movement.
A picture from Pirates on the Commodore 64. A victorious pirate captain is pictured holding a sword.
Two HP T610 thin clients, a standard and a larger "plus" model which has extra cooling and space for a PCIe expansion slot. Inside picture shows the T610 plus with a fan above the heat sink and a SATA hard drive used for testing as they come with flash memory storage as standard.
Warhammer 40,000 Dark Crusaders (un-released) - Squad selection screen, Space Marines, Terminators and Scouts are available squad members
The cover of Origin Systems 1993 game System shock, featuring the face of a cyborg
A screenshot from Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb. Indiana Jones stands in a flooded chamber which holds a large statue of the god Poseidon posed to strike with his trident.
Screenshot from Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb - Indiana Jones punches a smuggler.
Pictures of Indiana Jones through the years as well as screenshots from several computer games