Hey, you guys know Home of the Underdogs (
http://www.theunderdogs.org ) ?
It's a site with many game downloads - But all of them are kind of
AbandonWare; ShareWare or Pay Programs that didn't sell too well and
now are forgotten by the public and the developers. They however
claims NOT to be an AbandonWare site.
But although, we can find Laser Tank there!
http://www.theunderdogs.org/game.php?name=Laser+Tank
They have a nice Review as well, and they gave the game the rating
Top Dog (the best rating, I guess) and the User Rating is 9.50 out of
10. That is damn good, and NOT overrated.
Here is what they write in their About section:
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Home of the Underdogs is a non-profit site dedicated to the
preservation and promotion of underrated PC games (and a few non-PC
games) of all ages: good games that deserve a second chance after
dismal sales or critical reviews that we feel are unwarranted. By
nature, our criteria for choosing games to be honored here are
subjective. However, we believe that our collective experience (many
of us started gaming in late 1970s) allows us to be confident of our
choices: we've played many of the best and worst games ever made.
Therefore, we believe that our "Top Dog" tag signifies a truly
remarkable classic, while at the other end of the spectrum our "Real
Dog" tag signifies marginal underdogs we think you really should
avoid (most of them are here only because a number of visitors
pleaded us for them, anyway [EG]).
Home of the Underdogs, while not an abandonware site per se (since
our aim is to pay tribute to all underdogs, both new and old),
supports the abandonware idea. We believe that providing games that
have been abandoned by their publishers, while technically illegal,
is a valuable service to the gaming community because these games are
in danger of disappearing into obscurity, and their copyright holders
no longer derive any revenues from them. For more information on our
stance on abandonware, please read this section of our FAQ.
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http://www.theunderdogs.org ) ?
It's a site with many game downloads - But all of them are kind of
AbandonWare; ShareWare or Pay Programs that didn't sell too well and
now are forgotten by the public and the developers. They however
claims NOT to be an AbandonWare site.
But although, we can find Laser Tank there!
http://www.theunderdogs.org/game.php?name=Laser+Tank
They have a nice Review as well, and they gave the game the rating
Top Dog (the best rating, I guess) and the User Rating is 9.50 out of
10. That is damn good, and NOT overrated.
Here is what they write in their About section:
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Home of the Underdogs is a non-profit site dedicated to the
preservation and promotion of underrated PC games (and a few non-PC
games) of all ages: good games that deserve a second chance after
dismal sales or critical reviews that we feel are unwarranted. By
nature, our criteria for choosing games to be honored here are
subjective. However, we believe that our collective experience (many
of us started gaming in late 1970s) allows us to be confident of our
choices: we've played many of the best and worst games ever made.
Therefore, we believe that our "Top Dog" tag signifies a truly
remarkable classic, while at the other end of the spectrum our "Real
Dog" tag signifies marginal underdogs we think you really should
avoid (most of them are here only because a number of visitors
pleaded us for them, anyway [EG]).
Home of the Underdogs, while not an abandonware site per se (since
our aim is to pay tribute to all underdogs, both new and old),
supports the abandonware idea. We believe that providing games that
have been abandoned by their publishers, while technically illegal,
is a valuable service to the gaming community because these games are
in danger of disappearing into obscurity, and their copyright holders
no longer derive any revenues from them. For more information on our
stance on abandonware, please read this section of our FAQ.
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Spug