/vr/ - Retro Games

I remember some fag named George

>>932970
why

God bless the Random Pick button. I don't think I would have ever found Deadly Rooms of Death on my own.

Oh man, the memories.

Good memories...before the regulation.

>>932970
Yes. Oh man, I miss them.

What awesome games has HOTU introduced you to?

>>932970
forgot about it until now.
it's doing fine, right?

>>934951
Didn't they die about 4 years ago?

>>934958
http://www.homeoftheunderdogs.net/game.php?id=1787

I remember, I just hadn't been there in years. I used to go there and to other abandonware sites all the time as a teenager whenever I was feeling bored and wanted to try something new.

Without this site I would have never have found out about many favorites I sometimes play to this day: Darklands, 4D Boxing, Abuse, Emperor of the Fading Suns...

>>932970
They removed any and all files from the site. Even scans of manuals and freeware. The site has become nothing more than a catalog of old games with a search button marked "Where to get it" that leads to a Google search. It's effectively dead and gone, but no one has bothered to bury the body, so all it does now is rot and stink up the place.

>>934982
What happened to the chick that ran it? I remember she talked about server costs a lot on irc a while back

>>932970
Yeah, it was the prst abandonware portal ever.

The overview on all the titles was amazing back in the day when most Abandonware sites were a long column of direct links. I remember discovering plenty of favorites I wouldn't have otherwise known about from checking out the list of 'similar' games.

This is where I first discovered System Shock

>Forum: Site Concerns / Suggestions Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:32 pm Subject: Site reconstruction

>Any form of download is absolutely out of question. Not with this whole ACTA/SOPA/PIPA things. The danger of HotU being shut down is simply far too high.

Last post made by the site admin on the forums. I guess they got tired of dealing with the site, since this doesn't explain why even the freeware stuff like 5 Days A Stranger hasn't got proper "where to get it" links.

>>934945

3 big ones for me - wasteland, the elite sequels, and live a live on SNES. Although mostly pc, or did have a good little console section hidden in the special collections

>>935029

In spite of all of that, I still find it a good resource to find out about titles, if not find the download itself. This site still holds a special place in my heart

Nowadays there are still other abandonware pages, and projects like The Complete Dos Collection keep these games from dissapearing.

Actually, it was worse for the history of videogames the death of underground gamer than the death of HotU

I remember it and acid-play.com

It's too bad the old host shut down without warning leaving her with only database backups and not the files.

She hadn't had a lot of time to manage the site for a long time so she passed on the db to the public. This resulted in 4 or 5 clones of it with their download links pointing to a google search for the title (usually "<name> download"), most running on domain names that were variations of the old one. (I think there's only one left that's relevant but I haven't looked lately.)

>>934989
She runs (or ran) a Thai blog I believe.

There are a lot of good games I would never have heard of had it not been for this website, I was sad to see it go.

>>935856
None of them kept the files, and most of the reviews are not that great. That just did show that some people can't move on, while others try to jump into the wagon just to try taking a bit of the fame.

Anyway, all the games HotU had are kept all around the net.

>>932970
HotU ;_; NEVAR FORGET

>>934982

You are on the wrong site! Try hotud.org

>>938631
Those are not the original uploads.

>>934945
Triumph War 2099

>>938996

fuck yeah holy fuck

I dreamt about that game last night and forgot its name and now you mention it