{"id":839,"date":"2012-01-24T10:58:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T15:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=839"},"modified":"2013-03-18T14:18:33","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T19:18:33","slug":"the-12-greatest-pc-shareware-games-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/839\/the-12-greatest-pc-shareware-games-of-all-time","title":{"rendered":"The 12 Greatest PC Shareware Games of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’ve read this blog for some time, you’ll know that I’m a big fan of shareware games<\/a>. Specifically, I love shareware from the “golden age of PC shareware,” an era I just made up that roughly spanned 1988-1996.<\/p>\n

And by “PC shareware,” in this case, I mean IBM PC compatible. I was not involved in shareware or BBS scenes for non-IBM computers, so I am not nearly as familiar with them.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, take a gander at this new slideshow over at PC World in which I attempt to pick the The 12 Greatest PC Shareware Games of All Time<\/a>. Whether I have succeeded or failed is not exactly the point, because as I always say, you can never objectively rank greatness. But even if you don’t agree with my picks, it should provide a fun journey down memory lane.<\/p>\n

When you’re done reading it, I’d love to hear from you guys — what are your favorite shareware games of all time? Feel free to bring other platforms into it if you want.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

If you love shareware games, check out my 2009 interviews with the twin titans of PC shareware, Scott Miller<\/a> of Apogee and Tim Sweeney<\/a> of Epic MegaGames.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’ve read this blog for some time, you’ll know that I’m a big fan of shareware games. Specifically, I love shareware from the “golden age of PC shareware,” an era I just made up that roughly spanned 1988-1996. And by “PC shareware,” in this case, I mean IBM PC compatible. I was not involved […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,37,7,13,35,9,10],"tags":[88,132,133,90,426,158],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbs-history","category-computer-games","category-computer-info-and-history","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-internet-history","category-retrogaming","category-computers","tag-freelance-work","tag-ibm","tag-ibm-pc","tag-pc-world","tag-shareware","tag-slideshow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}