Good idea.

They will probably trash or recycle them than sell them. They are that petty.

Also the companies have grown so big that they can afford to eat a loss if it means telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Much longer. When I discovered abandonware I became a massive collector. I lost a lot in 2009 due to a crash, but recovered and I ocassionally go on download binges.

Fuck you, Sweeney.

I remember back in the early-mid 90s I said to a friend ‘wouldn’t it be cool if we had every video game ever made?’ To which he replied, ‘true, but what’s the point if we cannot play them all? I mean you’ll never have the time’.

Since then the number of games have exploded, but even if you froze the clock in 1995 there were already so many games that you spend all your life playing them and not be finished.

I am glad it was saved. I didn’t hear about it before and I discovered things I never thought I would see and began downloading furiously the stuff I wanted (mostly MS-DOS material). I hate it when things like this get lost.

IFNKOVHGROGHPRM! It was IFNKOVHGROGHPRM in the original AGI version!

Yep. That’s how I played Maniac Mansion!

Roberta liked fairy tales and the first KQ game was just as many of them crammed into one place as possible. Did she not think that the Rumpelstiltskin puzzle was not crazy? There was one hint in the game of ‘sometimes it is best to think backwards’ but who the fuck would get it?

Also Rumpelstiltskin’s name had to be spelled with the alphabet backwards! That made no damn sense!

Lucasarts was much cleaner. We finished DOTT as kids without hints.

But ye can’t get ye flaske!

The puzzle were often moon logic or ‘oh shit! You mean THAT is what I must do?’

Sierra online had great games with great stories and characters but their puzzles were… Yeah…

A very common thing even back then. Finishing a game was not a given. It was an achievement.

I briefly played it. It was fun.

Would this work with a grapheneOS phone?

I just heard that, too.

Which is why they are going to war against it.

I hope that they just fail in their half-assed attempts and the prices fall again.

Mame and pre-2001 gaming FTW!

They don’t care. They will literally throw people under buses at this point.