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[Smiling Spectre]

Originally Posted by Cold

I think sites like old-games are damaging the whole retrogame and abandonware scenes

There are three such sites: old-games.com, old-games.org or old-games.ru.

Yes, 5kb/s is about .com. But OG can be about any of them. I was puzzled initially, as I used to shorten .ru as OG.

Well, they have only one good quality: they sucked out practically whole Home of the Underdogs site, and their reviews too. No one else did that. So it's almost only place in the Internet that have all this ridiculously rare games of 90s that was available at HotU only.

Otherwise I totally agree with you.

Also, try old-games.ru. They have somewhat limited assortment, but great sets of it: game+patches+manuals+scans. And good speed too.

[Scatty]

Originally Posted by Smiling Spectre

So it's almost only place in the Internet that have all this ridiculously rare games of 90s that was available at HotU only.

Not entirely true There's another, probably not entirely up to copyright rules, website which has tons of ROMs / games for every older (PS2 and down) console, arcade systems, handhelds, home computers, and also abandonware (DOS). That's one site I go to if I need to find something old where it can't be found anywhere else, but I think it's a good idea not to link it here. It doesn't have everything there is either, of course, but there's really a lot of selection, and download is fine, not up to today's speed standards but it's not artificially capped.

Reviews are another thing though, it's just more about as many as possible full games available.


It doesn't have One Must Fall Battlegrounds either, though

[Smiling Spectre]

I didn't say it have everything, Scatty. I said that it's only place that stealed whole HotU library (that no one else did), and HotU, in turn, for very long time was the only place who collected some extremely rare games.

Of course, most _popular_ games from HotU now are everywhere. But I give credit to old-games.com to have (maybe) this several unique ones that no one knows.

On the other hand, it's 15 years already, so most probably, everything was already leeched and propagated everywhere. But maybe not.

Also, PMed you.