mrabandonware.bsky.social
I play and archive old games
PC, MS-DOS era to early 2000s Abandonware Enthusiast
Intermittent Linux and Indie Gaming
Occasional C64, Amiga, SEGA & SNES gamer
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We had a lot of arcade ports on tape back then, despite the downgrade in graphics etc. they were very popular. The arcades weren’t as accessible for many of us, and too expensive.
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I've been considering MX Linux for an old laptop that was struggling with Windows 10.
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I've been running Mint & Ubuntu on a couple of old computers that can't run Win 11 and the performance feels like getting a new computer again.
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If they like Zelda, The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition is worth a look.
Also, I'd recommend Star Fox Adventures and SSX 3.
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They’ve just pulled the files needed to run it in ScummVM.
I really think they should include the source image with all releases so you can choose how to run it.
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What troubles me is the constant framing of games only mattering if they generated economic activity.
It’s more important to see games as the cultural artefacts they are.
No-one playing games cares about the graphs, but we do care about the our cultural heritage, hence the response to all this.
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Is DOS retro? I hope so. @emmfoolery.bsky.social has got a list of MS-DOS peeps here: bsky.app/starter-pack...
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If they cared about games, you'd be playing the game Chris Roberts and Digital Anvil envisaged it would be (not that Freelancer is a bad game).
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None of these people or companies lost money, it was an investment they believe will benefit them in some way in the future.
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Black and White on the other hand, is a pain to install, 61645 well deserved votes...
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Would they name it "Watt he'd wanted"?
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256 colour version was one of my first PC games, I could not believe how good the graphics looked at that time.
Still holds up well today, in my opinion.
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Is that Bermuda Syndrome?
I recall something like that making me laugh when I installed it not too long ago.
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There's plenty of obviously AI written ones as well on Amazon.
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Lol, no.
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There needs to be a bigger modern embrace of it being okay to enjoy flawed media, as personal experiences factor *largely* into it. It's the experiences that matter most, so people need to be sharing those instead of doing a retro review of graphics/sound/gameplay.
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Spent many hours playing these, and agree, World Class was also my favourite.
Also enjoyed their bowling game, 10th Frame, which appears to reuse some elements of the Leaderboard games.