An archive of shareware registration nag screens.

Submissions gratefully accepted.

Curated by Jeremy Penner.

6th February 2013

Photoset with 2 notes

Love’s Fiery Imbroglio (1989), Pinnacle Software

[IFDB, HTML port]

(This game was written by Pinnacle Software proprietor Timothy Campbell under the pseudonym Natasha Mirage.)

5th February 2013

Photoset with 4 notes

Madam Fifi’s Whorehouse II - The Next Day! (1989), DavisWARE

[IFDB, Solution]

(Appears to be a fan-sequel to Madame Fifi’s Whorehouse Adventure, a widely ported and distributed BASIC IF game of murky origin.)

4th February 2013

Photoset with 1 note

Ballgame 2 (1992), The Toxic Dream

[MyAbandonware, YouTube, Mobygames]

3rd February 2013

Photoset with 3 notes

Off Road (1988), MontSoft

[Archive.org, Mobygames]

2nd February 2013

Photoset with 18 notes

Shape Shifter (1992), J. Kintz

[Bio]

1st February 2013

Photoset

Blort! (1987), HennSoft

[MyAbandonware]

31st January 2013

Photoset with 2 notes

The Adventures of Melvin Freebush (1993), Sherwood Forest Software

[Mobygames, MyAbandonware]

(Made with Gamebuilder.)

30th January 2013

Photoset with 3 notes

GameBuilder Lite, MVP Software

[Archive.org]

(Quite possibly the most confusing, least powerful game creation system ever released on any platform.)

29th January 2013

Photoset with 2 notes

Space Adventure (1988), FireBall Software

[Download]

28th January 2013

Photoset with 4 notes

Simusex (199x), Erosoft

[Mobygames (NSFW)]

(Design and original code credited to Tim Sweeney.  Pretty sure it’s not THAT Tim Sweeney, though.  PRETTY sure.)