If I would start a DOS abandonware site, I would begin with the oldest known games and work through time (getting alphabetically in case of same release date/year). That has some advantages.

• It's systematic.
• It's counteracting the principle of: the older the easier to forget completely (and the more difficult to gather materials).
• No requests except highly wanted ones for noticing about the slipped games.
• Very little risk to get in the line of fire from game companies.
• No doubt about the museum/preservation ideal.
• Equal treatment for all games. Not: presenting a famous game from 20xx, and burying an unknown oldie in oblivion.
• Adequate growth of the filesizes/costs.

But that's only an idea, I'm not the man to stem such projects. That's what Kosta is for.

Thanks for the interesting responses, guys. I didn't know CGA (and I guess text) was the criteria for inclusion into the crypt. Very interesting.

I agree that there are a lot of CGA and text games that are much better than some of the EGA/VGA ones, and I did find it funny that they were thrown into the crypt.

Perhaps Kosta, the "big guy on campus" will take note and make some changes. And I do like Luchsen's idea of being able to sort games by year. But it's Kosta's site, and his choice as to what he wants to do with it. So far, though, I think he's done a magnificent job. :)

They are in Text based (yet another genre that's not a genre).


You can sort them by year via the game filters. Just click on featured games or a game category and look top right (Sort by:).


That's what I meant with: That's what Kosta is for. :OK: