As a new year has abandoned us, it is time to look back and see what more is considered abandoned in the new year.
Just as many of you are aware of, we here on Abandonia follows strict rules regarding what is and what is not considered abandonware. For games protected by ESA, age is an important factor, and for the first time we are delighted to share with you a list of games that are now considered to fall outside ESA's active protection period.
This will be a New Year's tradition from now on, and we hope that you are just as thrilled about this as we are. All in all Abandonia has, once again, become the proud hoster of 25 "new" games.
The following games are now considered abandonware:
- 4-D Boxing (aka 4D Sports Boxing)
- 7 Colors
- Advantage Tennis
- Adventures of Willy Beamish, The
- Albion
- Alone in the Dark
- Altered Beast
- Angel Devoid: Face of the Enemy
- Angst: Rahz's Revenge
- Are We There Yet?
- Azrael's Tear
- Big Red Racing
- Castle of Dr. Brain
- Castlevania
- Celtic Legends
- Chuck Yeager's Air Combat
- Commander Keen 6: Aliens Ate My Baby Sitter!
- Crusader: No Regret
- Discworld II: Mortality Bytes!
- EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus
- EF2000
- EF2000 Special Edition
- First Samurai, The
- Gobliiins
- Great Courts 2
- Heart of China
- Hovertank
- Hoyle Official Book of Games: Volume 3
- Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure
- Immortal, The
- Imperium Romanum
- J.R.R. Tolkien's Riders of Rohan
- John Madden Football II
- Jones in the Fast Lane (aka Keeping Up With Jones)
(Not the AB game)
- Killing Cloud, The
- Kingdom 2: Shadoan
- Kingdom O' Magic
- Laura Bow in: The Dagger of Amon Ra
- Loom
- M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault and Exploration
- Magic Candle II: The Four and Forty, The
- Masterblazer
- Mega lo Mania
- MegaRace 2
- Mixed Up Fairy Tales
- Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
- Normality
- Nova 9: Return of Gir Draxon
- P-38 Lightning Tour Of Duty
- P-80 Shooting Star Tour Of Duty
- Perfect General, The
- Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and The Flame
- Privateer 2: The Darkening
- Quest for Glory II: Trial By Fire
- Rescue Rover
- Rescue Rover 2 (aka Dognapped!)
- Rocketeer, The
- Sand Warriors
- Sargon 5: World Class Chess
- Secret of Monkey Island, The
- Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
- Settlers II: Veni, Vidi, Vici, The
(Not the AB game)
- Shattered Steel
- Shelia Rae the Brave
- Simpsons Arcade Game, The
- Simpsons: Bart's House of Weirdness, The
- Spacewrecked: 14 Billion Light Years From Earth
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game
- UEFA Euro 96 England
- Unnecessary Roughness '96
- Unreal (1991)
No. Not the FPS! This is a 1991 game, thus the "(1991)" at the end.
- Virtual Snooker
- Wargame Construction Set III: Age of Rifles 1846-1905
- World Championship Soccer (aka World Cup Italia 90)
As always, please note that the status of the above games can change later.
Now, go out there, and enjoy the new year and all it brings!
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