Abandoned Well is definately not Pac*Man, just like Galaxian is definately not Space Invaders. There is a different feel to the game. That's why you shouldn't group things according to looks.

The match 3+ games aren't all the same either. For instance, Collapse is very different from the games that fill from the top (and Tetris is a match 3+ game also). Tic-tac-toe, Go, and Bingo are part of this group also. Are they the same as each other?

Arriel, I'd take your query over to the forums where you're more likely to get a response.

regards

Whiterabbit

Hey guys i love the site and ty to the two that posted the links for the around the world in 80 days game do you guys recomend any other game sites that offer free full downloadable or playable games im just curious I even like some flash games im afraid of viruses and spyware well im looking foward 2 seeing more cool games thanx

please some logic puzzle games - ones that are not time pressured; rather than the hand / eye co-ordination games which I have no ability for. but I have downloaded installed and had a look - yep pac man revisited ... not for me

I'm supporting 3. comment - please please repeat the Around the World in 80 Days offer. My hard drive died and I loved that game. the only two games i love from here are brickshooter egypt & 80days so either of them please please.

Whenever I download any of these free games and it finishes downloading it, the download box dissapears and that's it, I can never install or find it on my computer and I try to download it again but nothing happens!! What do you think it is???? -Arrielita xx : )

Like #26 Richard and #35 TacoDave, I'm having a problem with the game running impossibly fast under Vista. Running it in XP compatibility mode didn't help, though putting it in windowed mode did help a teensy-tiny bit.

It plays well on my XP system and is fun, but so far I'm not at all good at it.

the original is an old arcade called Anteater

Joe, your not alone. When I went to download this game, my virus protection kicked in and stopped this game from downloading saying that it is a high risk download. I for one will not take a risk on this game.

Cute game! Kinda reminds me of my Commodore 64 games, back in the eighties, thanks GOTD - nice to see ya back.

Come on GAOTD, why is all we get in the games that are over 15 years years old, how about some games that are easily brought today that actually requires decent computer specs than what these games require.

maybe some games like Warcraft and Starcraft, you don't have to have to $80.00 games, but you can get tose games for 19.95 as well, or maybe some actual RPG games so we can actually work at playing and learning the game instead of these child like games, they are insulting. Well to me anyway.

Thanks for the link sagirl, I checked it out and it seems like a genuine offer. You do have to register with the site before you can get the freebies and the games are add supported, but I didn't get any adds the first time I played it.......(Supermarket Mania).

You only have to give an Email and a password, which once accepted enables you to log on. Someones posted a site over in the forums that gives you disposable Emails without any need for registering and with no fuss or obligations, which may be an alternative for those loath to give up their personal Emails. The free game is situated at the top righthand corner of the home page. You can't miss it. :lol:

Regards

Whiterabbit

Another game site that gives away a free game every day is www.gamehouse.com

Thanks Mark, that game site is great. Always looking out for free games.

Hey, I've played this game before! Back when it was a magazine type-in program for 8-bit Atari computers.

http://www.atarimagazines.com/v6n4/diamonddave.html

Brings back a lot of great memories!

And, Joe, it sounds like your hard drive is starting to act up, and it just coincidentally happened while you were installing this prog. Make sure you've backed up everything you can to external media before you start trying to fix files on this drive.

whiterabbit

thanks for your comments.

i go back to Windows 3.1

I thought I had some knowledge.

I nave zero explanation for this but it did happen.

No problems before downloading.

After clicking st up I got and I/O error and everything was gone after thaqt. I mean firefox was totaly gone. So wer everything in Documents and Settings.

If this didn't happen to me I would tell whoever wrote this that it was impossible and couldn't happen.

I have no answer.

Hi Joe,

How do you know that the files you state were deleted while you were installing this peogram? It makes no sense whatsoever.

However that said all I can suggest is that you try to recover your lost data using a decent recovery program. There have been several offered via the giveaway project, so, if you didn't bother downloading one, it may be worth checking the comments sections to see if there were any freeware alternatives suggested by the community. If not it may be worth trying a demo of one; though recovery demo's only usually tell you if it's possible to recover your lost data. If you decide to go down this road, do not under any circumstances put anything else onto your hard drive until you've checked otherwise the data may be overwritten.

I had a similar situation when using CCleaner a few years ago. I lost the whole of my D: drive (around 200Gb of data, some of it irreplaceable))and for years I blamed the software, but it only ever appeared to happen to me so I eventually accepted that I must have made an error.

Good luck with your recovery

regards

Whiterabbit

This download did some major damage to my computer.
It deleted everything in my Documents and Settings folder.
Deleted Firefox as well as other stuff.
I am at a loss as to why this happened. I have many safeguards set up and was egotistical enough to think a stupid thing like this could not happen to my computer. I am still in amazement as to how it did it at all. It was definitely this because it happened as I tried to install it.
I didn't see any other complaints like this so it makes me wonder even more how this was possible.

Live and learn as they say. Well back to the computer laid waste by this program and see what I can salvage.

Good luck all!

Tried downloading once said a corruptive file... trying again.... Same thing happened when I love kittens was given away... Hope my dial up can dowload it before my time is up... Thanks gotd for the free games....

Thank you GGAOD, Realore, for aother great game. Special thank you to Stephen aka WhiteRabbit for your review. I am one among many who are thankful and look forward to reading what you have to say about the game that is being featured. Hope your health has been well, and a very Merry Christmas to you and yours, and also to all of you at GAOD. Oh yes, the game looks good, not my taste, but I don't care, it's free.

Here's a few dozen other abandonware games, all free w/o gaotd.
http://www.abandonia.com/en/game/all

Excellent. Running the program in Windows 98 mode slowed it down to a perfect speed. Here's how to do it.

Right click on the game icon on your desktop. Choose the 'Customize' option. When a new window pops up, click on 'Edit' then on the 'Compatibility' tab.

Check the box that says "Run in compatibility mode for" and choose Windows 98 from the drop-down menu. Click 'OK' then 'Close' then run the game.

Ta-da.

I'm having the same Vista problem as Richard. The game goes entirely too fast, making it impossible to play.

I'm going to try running it in XP mode and see what happens...

Está muy bueno este juego. Realmente adictivo para los que gustan del arcade. Gracias GAOTD.

Ho Hum. A nice game but yet another repeat. enough said.

thanks for another freebie. This isn't for me, but that's ok, because when you get to my genre of game play it is always super. I have several from you and my addiction level is high on the ones I have, so I can wait. Thanks for all your time and hard work.

Happy Birthday Judy...

I will try this one, but with Christmas only 12 days away, it would be nice to see something with a Christmas theme :).

Hi me again, try changing the bit rate from 32 to 16 and turning off the special effects. Or even update your graphics driver. Don't forget to do a restore point of you do it.

Another thing that may be causing the problem is a highly defragmented disc. If you haven't defragged you hard drive for ages, try it noe, then try the game.

I hope you get it to work. If not; one of the alternatives I've posted above may apease you. :)

loaded then when I went to run it, the game locked up my system.
The only way out was to turn it off.
re downloaded and tried again with same results

Voted thumbs up. It's a tough game!

Hi, I just downloaded and installed on Vista. I tried to play but it is sooooo quick. Spiders just race from everywhere and pipe goes so quick I can not control it. Cant get past level one. Tried all difficulty nothing help. Anyone know how to slow it down?

Too old for this? Come on! I am 68 and even I can play this!

And you have to add: 's_Well
to the address bar to see that page.

I went to the Wikipedia and it does look like Anteater came out first: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil's_Well

Hi William, There is a high scores table. Maybe you're just not beating the high scores that are already there by default. The lowest is 2671.

regards

Whiterabbit

I gave it a thumbs up and I'm keeping it. The easy level is as hard as the hardest level was on Oil's Well.

It doesn't save your high score but not a bad game.Thanks.

Please bring back the game " Prague". When it was offered, I could not download it properly. I kept trying, but, no luck. Thank you for offering all the great games. White rabbit...I always look for your comments. if you give something a thumbs up...I download it. Thank you.

Hi Sorrow, great minds think alike re: Oilswell, :lol: I’ve already found a link for an iso image (see above) which is the original. I later found another version of Oils Well which has much brighter and more modern graphics, which I think is better than today’s offering, though the graphics are not as polished:

http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/856/Oils+Well.html

For those who hate keyboard controls, this one also has mouse control and a two player mode, plus more difficulty settings.

Other Similar Games:

Pipe Mania:

http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/630/Pipe+Mania.html

Abandoned Well was previously given away twice before, the first time early January 2007 where it received a positive 91% of 97 votes with 25 comments; (the game giveaway was relatively new having only been in existence for about a month) and the second time it was given away in Feb 2008 it received exactly half of 358 votes with 56 comments. You can read the comments by following the links below:

http://game.giveawayoftheday.com/abandoned-well/#comments

Introduction:

After the interplanetary nuclear war, many planets laid in ruins polluted with nuclear waste. In state of total energetic crisis, people found a way to use the waste as fuel to their space ships.

Countless space ships wandered from planet to planet searching for fuel. According to a legend, there was a tremendous resource of nuclear fuel in the interior of a planet. This place was named Abandoned Well.

In search of Abandoned Well, your space ship landed on one of a suburban planet. The onboard sensors detected large beds of nuclear waste on a continent of the planet.

Your task is to consume nuclear fuel from all dungeons. Be careful, monsters-mutants are guarding the waste and can damage the pipeline. Protect the pipeline from monsters by studying mutants' habits, swallowing or avoiding them. Process mining until the whole continent is cleared from the waste be the first in the Abandoned Well.

Reference: http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/downloads/Abandoned_Well_4519_p/ accessed 13th Dec

The game:

You can adjust your video settings via the options menu; there’s a color depth button where you can toggle between true color and high color video modes as well as enable or disable shadows, explosions and other effects by toggling the special effects button. As mentioned in the game features above there are several creatures that you have to either avoid damaging your pipeline while you are mining, or devour to gain points. Each creature which I’ve listed below (all have pseudo binomial Latin names) also have their own attributes and points worth. You can see what each creature looks like by checking out the info section found in the main menu. Which is also accessible in game by using the Esc key to pause the game: The following five creatures can be found in each mine.

Lycos emeraldis, an aggressive creature that moves at a medium speed and is worth 5 points

Hexafus calligatus, and aggressive and fast moving species that are worth 10points

Fyxis flana an aggressive and very fast moving species which is worth 15 points if consumed.

Acina viperis is a slow moving and non-aggressive species which is toxic, so don’t try to eat them. :lol:

Acinia vulgaris is a slow non-aggressive species that is worth 100 points when consumed

There are also several power ups that include extra lives, extra time, speed up, creature slow down, one that kills all the monsters that are visible and another that changes all monsters into harmless creatures You can use either a keyboard or game pad controller to move your pipeline through the maze. To return the pipe head to the start, press your space bar; otherwise if a creature touches the pipeline it will damage it and you have to start again with a loss of points. play the game, though if you don’t have a controller installed it will be grayed out. There are five zones to play through. You can see what these look like by clicking on the demo button, which is found in the main menu. Default keyboard keys are the arrow/cursor keys for movement up, down left and right and the space bar is for a quick backtrack. Finally there are three levels of difficulty; so all in all you have 120 levels to play through. On the harder settings creatures increase in numbers and move faster. The only problem I found with the game was that the movement of the pipe head moved to fast, so to ensure you turned in the correct direction throught the maze I had to depress two keys, one for the actual direction the pipeline was moving in and another that was the way I wanted the pipeline to turn into. You’ll see what I mean when you try the game. Though I’m sure as your skill increases, the above problem will probably melt away. :lol:

Main game features:

• 5 different climates
• 40 levels
• 5 different insects-mutants
• 8 types of bonus devices
• joystick and game pad support

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System Requirements:

• Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
• Processor Pentium II 300 or higher
• DirectX 3.0 or higher
• Video card with 4 Mb video memory
• Memory 32 Mb RAM
• 15 Mb free disk space

Images:

All on one page:

http://s109.photobucket.com/albums/n61/Whiterabbit_01/gaotd/Abandoned%20Well/?albumview=grid

As a Slideshow:

http://s109.photobucket.com/albums/n61/Whiterabbit_01/gaotd/Abandoned%20Well/?albumview=slideshow

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Conclusion:

I found this game quite challenging at first, especially when trying to remember which creatures were worth eating. It’s a lot harder to play on the hard setting, so I would suggest that you start with it set to easy. The graphics are excellent and game play though not inspiring its okay in small doses. The power ups and different creatures made the game worth playing. In my opinion, this game is ideal for those ‘in between moments’. I personally couldn’t play it for more than about 10 minutes at a time though I’d still give it 6 out of 10 for family fun.

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More info:

You can get oilswell the old DOS version of this game for free from the following link. It’s basically the same game with very retro 8 bit graphics. It comes as an iso image which means you will have to burn it onto a CD if you want to play it. Just click on the file and it will open up your default burning software. Insert a CD into your reader and start the burning process. Don’t waste a DVD on this as it’s less than 1Mb in size.

http://retrograde.trustno1.org/sierra.htm

Also there’s an online version of the game called Diamond Well:

http://www.kongregate.com/games/gamegarage/diamond-well

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Thank you very much Realore and the game giveaway team for another decent game. :)

It is pretty much Oil's Well, which I enjoyed a bit back in the day 20 years ago. There are free versions out there. I'll try it in a bit to see if I like it.

Just a heads up for those who don't like games that require you to use the arrow keys rather than a mouse. This is one of those games. I uninstalled it after only playing a few minutes. Using the arrow keys is murder on my wrist. Thanks for the game, though, GGOTD. :)

Thank you GAOTD. This game is great fun. Love it.

For #3 - Judy. You can get a free unlimited version of your game here.

http://www.mostfun.com/DetailsNeoARM.aspx?GameId=NeoDesk_AroundTheWorldIn80Da

The catch is that every 10-15 minutes you have to watch a commercial between levels but the commercials do not interrupt the game play.

Mark

All the game given are some sort of puzzle game.


I hope can have other genre like sport,RPG...

But that's a bit unlikely because it's more expensive

the original is Anteater, an old arcade...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/99/Anteater_arcade.png

I've decided to write a short review, (just can't stop myself, lol) :lol: which will be posted in an hour or so. I'm just taking screenshots and then have to write a synopsis of the game then It'll be posted; there wont be any video though :(

Play is much to fast for my old fingers. looks like fun for you younger
folks. Thanks anyway GAOTD

Judy..your game is here to play for free:

http://www.thegamehomepage.com/play/around-the-world-in-80-days/

Nice,

This was brought available a long while ago. I was totally hooked on it :)
Very nice game, simple, but addicting.