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A moment of silence
Topic Started: Feb 27 2009, 12:01 AM (106 Views)
Dimitri
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Not sure if any of you knew the site, but Home of The Underdogs went down for good, not too long ago.
It was one of the largest collections of abandon/shareware games on the net, and had extensive reviews, documentation, and cross-referencing for -every- title. It was more of a museum, than an abandonware site.

I first found some of my favorite games there... Wasteland, Burntime, NetHack, Rogue...

Pretty much the end of an era. Sad, really.

We grew up tall and proud, in the shadow of the mushroom cloud...
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Ross
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I never knew it existed :(
Bunker29 and beyond!
Foray's into the dungeons!

I'm outta paint and it sucks giant hairy monkey balls!!
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Tinker
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Yeah it is a big loss...

Have you tried The Way Back Machine? I don't believe it will work, but ya never really know.

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Dimitri
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I'll need to try that.. Never heard of it, before.

But, there are still other sites to get most of the same stuff from, like Abandonia and such... they just don't have the sheer amount of information, or the amount of labor that went into making HotU what it was.

Plus, you have to be careful with viruses. Which bites majorly.
Wanna' play Bad Blood? Sure!
*Insert horrific motherboard-melting doom*
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Tinker
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Dimitri,

Actually the Way Back Machine is a very useful tool ...

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

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Dimitri
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I do believe I'll be bookmarking that.. Now, to remember all of my favorite abandoned haunts..
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Tinker
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I have the link on my tool bar, and use it all the time. Unfortunately not everything is archived.

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