Amazon Download on Squakenet!

Almost 10 years passed since the idea of this portal came out. Squakenet mission has always been to bring you all the opportunities the Internet offers to play again old games. At the beginning the only possibility was in the abandonware, something that is also becoming quite obsolete itself. Yes, the passion and the interest that was moving this first steps of this phenomenon are themselves a past memory.

Do not take this as negative. On the contrary a lot of interesting proposals have born in the last years and we are witness of them and trying to bring to your attention every time we can. The possibility Internet is giving nowadays opened a wide market for nostalgic players, and the possibility to have a full original version of a game with few dollars (that's the real winning point!) without recurring grey-areas workaround.

Who Dares Wins 2 - Do you?

If you're visiting Squakenet you're a nostalgic. Yes, this is not psychoanalysis, it's a fact! Abandonware games lovers are all nostalgic and some days ago, I do not know how (maybe I was looking for it... but sshhhh don't say that!), I stumbled upon some article speaking about "Who Dares Wins 2". Well, this game is a great game! If you had the opportunity to play it, you know what I am talking about. Based on Commando (yes another great one!) it is the story of another Rambo-hero rushed in a world war scenario.

There are 8 levels, quite difficult to reach the end. Guess what? I did! on my C64 something like 20 years ago (now you can understand why I was speaking about being nostalgic). I manage to find a longplay so you can enjoy again the game, living again the adrenaline you need to get to kill all enemies (dare to count the number!).

August Winner

We know, last month we've been completely out of the scene with no intervention in the blog. I want to let you know we're working on some changes in Squakenet to make it better (at least we try!). However, we did not forget the contest that I remind you will finish at the end of the year. Each month we will give away one free game, kindly offered by GOG. The guys at GOG are working hard to include new games that we will publish every time to make your gaming experience the best.

Then, let's announce the winner... they call him HeXiGON! Congratulation!! Directly from Australia he decided to choose Interstate '76, indeed a nice chose, I like it very much as well.

July winner

Here a quick post to announce the winner for July review. Keep writing reviews of our beloved abandonware games, the contest will continue all along 2011. It seems Duke Nukem mania is continuing, probably thanks to the new Duke Nukem forever release.

The winner of the prize is Jacob from Ohio with the review written on July 9th for Duke Nukem 3D Atomic Edition. Jacob told us that his best games ever are Duke Nukem 3D, Destruction Derby and Test Drive. Why does he like them so much? because they are really awesome and he has been playing a lot.

He chose another Duke Nukem episode, Duke Nukem Manhattan Project, he never played to this episode and he would like trying it out, here a demo:

Hey dude, bring respect!

Today I want to dedicate a post about games born by movies, gangster movies in particular. The idea to write this post has born after looking at my poster of "The Untouchables" on my room's wall. "The Untouchables" movie release in 1987 and is a cult of his genre. After two years OCEAN produced the game for Commodore 64 and DOS version for pc. I remember when I played The Untouchables
I was about eight years old and I will not forget the hours spent in front of my C64 because of the difficulty of some levels.