While the official promotion is long done, EA allowed third-parties to continue its free distribution. In 2008, 10 years after acquiring developer Westwood Studios in 1998, Electronic Arts made Command & Conquer: Red Alert available as a free download to promote the announcement of Red Alert 3. The new timeline allows the Soviet Union to expand its rule across Asia and Europe. The second Command & Conquer game and the first in the Red Alert series, Command & Conquer: Red Alert is set in a parallel universe where Albert Einstein - using time travel - prevents Hitler from rising to power in Nazi Germany. The first of what would eventually become one of the most popular real-time strategy franchises of all time, the original Command & Conquer went free in 2010 celebration of its 15th anniversary. You can still grab it off the official Elder Scrolls website. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of The Elder Scrolls series in 2004, Bethesda Softworks released a free, downloadable version of the classic CRPG.
Arena was known and even criticized for its starting difficulty, but there was no doubting the immense influence it had on the future of computer RPGs. The game in the ongoing Elder Scrolls saga, the DOS-based Arena first debuted in 1994.
Because EA still owned the trademark for the name SimCity, its free version was renamed Micropolis - Will Wright’s original working title for the first SimCity. In 2008, Electronic Arts donated the source code to the One Laptop Per Child Program, which opened it up for free redistribution. Beyond its critical acclaim as a city-building simulation game, it also earned awards and recognition for its success as an educational program.
The original SimCity debuted on Amiga and Macintosh computers in February 1989, selling one million copies by 1992.
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