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[deadmeat1471]

Old games make us laugh and cry and imagine and create and smile and frown and be inspired and think and scheme and backstab and die and die and die and die and sometimes win.

New games just make us cry.

-DM

[DuncmanG]

Why I Love abandonia (with sound effects!):

*silence*

Hear that? That's the sound of a DOS game without a home.

*beep* *boop*

That's the sound of a DOS game being played. It's an impossible sound without your help. They don't have DOSBox, but you do. Use it. Download a game from Abandonia - become a hero.

[Eleima512]

I've been gaming since I was a wee lass back in 1987. As you grow up, disks get lost, CD get scratched, and your beloved childhood friends fade away with each and every move, lost in the mayhem of cardboard boxes.
But that fate is no longer inescapable, thanks to Abandonia! Thank you for being one of the best sources for classic DOS games on the Internet.

[MV75]

I like abandonia for the daily quiz.

I like retro games because they are what I grew up with gaming with. Oh how I fell in love with SSI, Sierra and Origin.

Plus the competition ends on the 5th, my birthday is on the 6th.

[hiraghm]

I like abandonia because it exposes me to games I never had the opportunity to experience, either because I couldn't afford all of them at the time, or because I didn't have the time to play them all, or because they wouldn't run on my Amiga.

Abandonia also educates me on the history of computer video games and the people who created them.

I look forward to the daily screenshot quiz, because it provides a lot of entertainment in trying to figure out which game from which it was taken, and making me aware of some games I might not otherwise have considered.
I almost always look up the game in the quiz after I get the solution.

Abandonia has been a fixture of my day, every day.

[saibot216]

I love Abandonia and retro gaming because let's face it, current generation gaming just sucks. Abandonia is great for when I’m bored or looking for inspiration and just want to try something nice and old. Retro gaming is the best gaming.

[MortalDemon]

For those of us who long for games from many years ago.
For games of space and tigers, or games of spells and swords.
For games we know, and games we don’t, and games we thought were only dreams.
We need look no further than Abandonia.
And that is Awesome.

(Sorry it sounds so pretentious, but you get the gist.
I like abandonia! Happy 12th birthday!)

[Capo]

Why i love Abandonia ?
For the same reason i love the dawn and the sunset.
For the same reason i love the laugh of a child
For the same reason i love the scent of flowers in springtime
For the same reason i love the gentle voice of my beloved
For the same reason i love life

Ok, that was probably too much

[Aramazon]

It's like when people say, "I liked Twilight before the movies came out!" well I played old games before GOG started, and it's all thanks to Abandonia. At a time in my life when new games no longer worked on my PC, this site saved me!

[Jironobou]

I like Abandonia because it has brought (and is still bringing) me back to the games that redefined my childhood, and the games I haven’t played that are defining my life now. I originally found this site for ONE game, but it’s the community that made me want to stay.