the site http://www.techtv.com/callforhelp and check out friday
july 6ths page because they had the best emulater for the old games
on the show and the place to get it from.
keith hall
--- In Lasertank@y..., "Tobias Langhoff" <spug_enigma@y...> wrote:
> 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:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> 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.
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> Spug