Released in 1998, this is a promotional shareware game.
Released in 1999, this is a shareware game to promote The Secret Files.
It was the first shareware game to feature support for the AdLib sound card.
Commander Keen has the largest fan club of any other shareware game available.
Where modern demos are often a single level or less, shareware games usually had many hours of play with a beginning, middle, and end.
Some shareware games made good use of the Osborne's limited character-mode graphics.
Although originally a shareware game, the latest version of Space Combat - 1.40 - is now freeware.
Miller suggested that they develop shareware games that he would distribute.
"BreakQuest is what a shareware game should be: Simple, fast, and fun while bringing something surprising to its genre."
Doom is a shareware game of three episodes of eight levels and one secret level.
