CZ Česko (111)

The Czech (then Czechoslovak) game scene started in the 1980s on 8-bit home computers. The most widespread machine was the ZX Spectrum and its local clones; games were written by hobbyists at home and spread mostly by copying cassette tapes. Our catalog holds over 50 games from that decade and almost all of them run right in your browser — for example Mad Load by František Fuka, Exoter and Galactic Gunners by Miroslav Fídler, or The Strip (1989).

In the 1990s the scene moved to the PC and the first Czech game studios appeared. Classics from that era include Tajemství Oslího ostrova and 7 dní a 7 nocí (Pterodon, 1994), Dračí historie (1995), Brány Skeldalu (Napoleon Games, 1998), Berušky (AnakreoN, 1999) and Mravenci (Gemtree Software, 2000). The most played Czech game on oldgame.cz is the puzzle classic Vlak by Miroslav Němeček (1993).

Around 2000 came games for the whole world — Hidden & Dangerous (Illusion Softworks, 1999), Mafia (2002) and Vietcong (Pterodon, 2003). They are still sold, so on oldgame.cz they only have information pages.

In total the catalog holds 322 Czech games, 111 of them playable in the browser — free and without sign-up. Many of them were only ever released in Czech.