I am making them available here because they contain interesting material that is very hard to find nowadays:. Powered by Trac 1. Login Preferences. For Linux binaries, I recommend using the packages shipped by your distribution. Source The latest official version is 0. A stripped down source tarball is available here: abuse-free In it was ported to AmigaOS 4. The game's source code, along with some of the Shareware content, has been in the public domain since the late s.
It has also been ported to Linux as a freeware. The protagonist of the game, Nick Vrenna, has been unjustly incarcerated in a prison where the staff are performing unethical medical experiments upon the inmates. A prison riot occurs and an experiment goes horribly wrong. The people inside the prison - except for Nick, who seems to be immune - get infected with a substance called Abuse that transforms them into monsters. With the water supply in danger of being infected, Nick arms himself and fights through the horde to prevent this, and then escapes from the prison complex.
Abuse resembles a side-scrolling platform game. The game is notable for its at the time unusual control scheme: The keyboard is used to move Nick, while the mouse is used for aiming the weapons. The basic gameplay consists of fighting various enemies mostly the various forms of mutants, who prefer to attack in huge swarms and solving some simple puzzles, usually involving switches.
To improve the performance of Abuse's graphics engine, the code only allows objects within a certain radius of the visible game window to be active during play. This means that free-roaming enemies and always-on mechanical devices outside the radius cannot attack the player, nor will projectiles fired from weapons that ostensibly have an 'infinite range' continue their journey much beyond the edge of the screen. More details about this game can be found on Wikipedia.
Find digital download of this game on GOG or Steam. Available online emulators: 5 different online emulators are available for Abuse. Abuse for Windows Item Preview. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Developer's description: "Abuse is a 2d side-scrolling platform shooter originally developed by Crack dot Com and published by Origin Systems right before their merger with Electronic Arts.
It was released in for DOS and Linux, and the source code and shareware assets were released to the public domain two years later. The protagonist of the game, Nick Vrenna, has been falsely incarcerated in a prison where illegal experiments are taking place. A prison riot occurs and the experiment goes horribly wrong.
The people inside the prison - except for Nick, who seems to be immune - get infected with substance called Abuse that transforms them into monsters.
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