Abandonware games

[DerangedKnite]

Does anyone else collect abandonware games these days? Cause I do! Their sort of like hidden games, And I have like a big a ol collection of them on my windows xp vm, I am sort of missing some few gamehouse ones, I already have the 150 gamehouse games pack, But there like also other game house games that got lost of time like aztec ball or damn beavers, Some don't even have unlock keys on them.

But yeah, I like just got into that again, And I got some few games up on my sleeve like, The crystal skull, Ben there Dan That, Cesar Dog whisperer, And some few crazy chicken games.

Yeah been building up the collection again! Do you guys also like collect abandonware games? If so, Any do you recommend playing?

[DerangedKnite]

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/happy-tree-friends-false-alarm-f8m

Woop woop look what I found

[aapiarts]

What was abandonware again?

[MondoBilby]

At 8/28/23 04:31 AM, aapiarts wrote:What was abandonware again?

According to Wikipedia:

"Abandonware is a product, typically software, ignored by its owner and manufacturer, and for which no official support is available".

[aapiarts]

At 8/28/23 07:27 AM, MondoBilby wrote:

At 8/28/23 04:31 AM, aapiarts wrote:What was abandonware again?

According to Wikipedia:
"Abandonware is a product, typically software, ignored by its owner and manufacturer, and for which no official support is available".

So in other words: most old games

[OhHeyJude]

At 8/27/23 08:12 AM, DerangedKnite wrote:Does anyone else collect abandonware games these days? Cause I do! Their sort of like hidden games, And I have like a big a ol collection of them on my windows xp vm, I am sort of missing some few gamehouse ones, I already have the 150 gamehouse games pack, But there like also other game house games that got lost of time like aztec ball or damn beavers, Some don't even have unlock keys on them.

But yeah, I like just got into that again, And I got some few games up on my sleeve like, The crystal skull, Ben there Dan That, Cesar Dog whisperer, And some few crazy chicken games.

Yeah been building up the collection again! Do you guys also like collect abandonware games? If so, Any do you recommend playing?

Asterix and Obelix XXL. While the game was remastered recently, in my opinion it's kinda shit compared to the old pc version of it. So I suggest you find an old version of that game and give it a go. It's a really fun action adventure beat em up. I mean you play as a bunch of barbaric french dudes beating the shit out of romans, what's not to love?

[Painbringer]

Operation Body Count used to be abandonware, until recently.

[DerangedKnite]

At 8/28/23 10:29 AM, DorfdeDoesStuff wrote:

At 8/27/23 08:12 AM, DerangedKnite wrote:Does anyone else collect abandonware games these days? Cause I do! Their sort of like hidden games, And I have like a big a ol collection of them on my windows xp vm, I am sort of missing some few gamehouse ones, I already have the 150 gamehouse games pack, But there like also other game house games that got lost of time like aztec ball or damn beavers, Some don't even have unlock keys on them.

But yeah, I like just got into that again, And I got some few games up on my sleeve like, The crystal skull, Ben there Dan That, Cesar Dog whisperer, And some few crazy chicken games.

Yeah been building up the collection again! Do you guys also like collect abandonware games? If so, Any do you recommend playing?

Asterix and Obelix XXL. While the game was remastered recently, in my opinion it's kinda shit compared to the old pc version of it. So I suggest you find an old version of that game and give it a go. It's a really fun action adventure beat em up. I mean you play as a bunch of barbaric french dudes beating the shit out of romans, what's not to love?

Nice Might give it a try! Usually when it comes to games where they are already released as remasters, I think the best shot at finding them is at archive.org And not even a second I Already found it! Going to give it a shot someday! Game looks neat!

[DerangedKnite]

At 8/28/23 07:48 AM, aapiarts wrote:

At 8/28/23 07:27 AM, MondoBilby wrote:

At 8/28/23 04:31 AM, aapiarts wrote:What was abandonware again?

According to Wikipedia:
"Abandonware is a product, typically software, ignored by its owner and manufacturer, and for which no official support is available".

So in other words: most old games

Yes a niche of a genre of old pc games, Something like diner dash or cake mania, Or uhhh idk 7 wonder-Wait that thing is on steam

At 8/28/23 04:42 PM, Painbringer wrote:Operation Body Count used to be abandonware, until recently.

I'll get the gog version instead

[Zyo]

At 8/27/23 08:21 AM, DerangedKnite wrote:https://www.myabandonware.com/game/happy-tree-friends-false-alarm-f8m
Woop woop look what I found

Hey! Beware of My Abandonware. Some games come with viruses. In fact, some time ago there was a little controversy about it, so... Be careful :D

[DerangedKnite]

At 8/28/23 05:41 PM, Zyo wrote:

At 8/27/23 08:21 AM, DerangedKnite wrote:https://www.myabandonware.com/game/happy-tree-friends-false-alarm-f8m
Woop woop look what I found

Hey! Beware of My Abandon. Some games come with viruses. In fact, some time ago there was a little controversy about it, so... Be careful :D

Oh yeah, I am aware of that! Just noticed that too with the happy tree fiends copy since one of them was claiming it had trojan in it, Archive.org is honestly a way better source in my opinion, Compared to myabandonware, Think at best its for copies of think like fulltilt pinball And the yu gi oh games.

I remember there was a whole stash page of gamehouse games in archive.org, It downloaded games from the website but like, There are like several blogspot lists that had like gamehouse game codes in them, That allowed you to unlock them.

I have still yet to find that. Its also where I found that one game, That I was searching for long called mini robot wars

[MondoBilby]

At 8/28/23 05:16 PM, DerangedKnite wrote:

At 8/28/23 07:48 AM, aapiarts wrote:

At 8/28/23 07:27 AM, MondoBilby wrote:

At 8/28/23 04:31 AM, aapiarts wrote:What was abandonware again?

According to Wikipedia:
"Abandonware is a product, typically software, ignored by its owner and manufacturer, and for which no official support is available".

So in other words: most old games

Yes a niche of a genre of old pc games, Something like diner dash or cake mania, Or uhhh idk 7 wonder-Wait that thing is on steam

Oh man, I remember playing Diner Dash through Wildtangent. That was a fun game.

[DerangedKnite]

At 8/28/23 08:40 PM, MondoBilby wrote:

At 8/28/23 05:16 PM, DerangedKnite wrote:

At 8/28/23 07:48 AM, aapiarts wrote:

At 8/28/23 07:27 AM, MondoBilby wrote:

At 8/28/23 04:31 AM, aapiarts wrote:What was abandonware again?

According to Wikipedia:
"Abandonware is a product, typically software, ignored by its owner and manufacturer, and for which no official support is available".

So in other words: most old games

Yes a niche of a genre of old pc games, Something like diner dash or cake mania, Or uhhh idk 7 wonder-Wait that thing is on steam

Oh man, I remember playing Diner Dash through Wildtangent. That was a fun game.

Yes, We are talking like wild tangent games and crap, I have like a collection of em but gamehouse, But diner dash was one of those games, And it was pretty darn good, Fio my girl, She is underrated, But if there is one wild tangent/gamehouse that I love so much, For me, I gotta say, Alien sky.

What a fucking game, I loved it sooo much, Its like this bullet hell/shoot em up type of game thats like increasingly hard, And its bosses look bad ass as fuck

Theres also Atomaders which I also really loved

And also astrobatics that was kick ass

I like the 3 of them alot but I love alien sky the most, Not to mention I actually met the Ceo of the company that made the games, His name is vadim khrulev, And I was like trying to get him into the gaming industry, And the dude just stopped responding to me, But we had a fun conversation

[MondoBilby]

At 8/28/23 08:59 PM, DerangedKnite wrote:

At 8/28/23 08:40 PM, MondoBilby wrote:

At 8/28/23 05:16 PM, DerangedKnite wrote:

At 8/28/23 07:48 AM, aapiarts wrote:

At 8/28/23 07:27 AM, MondoBilby wrote:

At 8/28/23 04:31 AM, aapiarts wrote:What was abandonware again?

According to Wikipedia:
"Abandonware is a product, typically software, ignored by its owner and manufacturer, and for which no official support is available".

So in other words: most old games

Yes a niche of a genre of old pc games, Something like diner dash or cake mania, Or uhhh idk 7 wonder-Wait that thing is on steam

Oh man, I remember playing Diner Dash through Wildtangent. That was a fun game.

Yes, We are talking like wild tangent games and crap, I have like a collection of em but gamehouse, But diner dash was one of those games, And it was pretty darn good, Fio my girl, She is underrated, But if there is one wild tangent/gamehouse that I love so much, For me, I gotta say, Alien sky.

What a fucking game, I loved it sooo much, Its like this bullet hell/shoot em up type of game thats like increasingly hard, And its bosses look bad ass as fuck
Theres also Atomaders which I also really loved

And also astrobatics that was kick ass

I like the 3 of them alot but I love alien sky the most, Not to mention I actually met the Ceo of the company that made the games, His name is vadim khrulev, And I was like trying to get him into the gaming industry, And the dude just stopped responding to me, But we had a fun conversation

Those look like cool games!

I still have Wildtangent downloaded on my PC but I don't go on it much. Two games I loved playing on it were Purrfect Petshop and Cat Wash, which were both time-management games about pets (I now realise how much I seemed to like time-management games lol).

This is Purrfect Petshop. You'd take care of pets and then figure out which pets the customers want with the hints they give you.

And this is Cat Wash. You just wash cats. And then you roll them up in a blanket and they look like burritos (I found that really funny as a kid for some reason).

[GraywulfDaDolf]

Westwood RTS games are my go-to. I love me some Dune.

[DerangedKnite]

At 8/28/23 09:10 PM, MondoBilby wrote:

At 8/28/23 08:59 PM, DerangedKnite wrote:

At 8/28/23 08:40 PM, MondoBilby wrote:

At 8/28/23 05:16 PM, DerangedKnite wrote:

At 8/28/23 07:48 AM, aapiarts wrote:

At 8/28/23 07:27 AM, MondoBilby wrote:

At 8/28/23 04:31 AM, aapiarts wrote:What was abandonware again?

According to Wikipedia:
"Abandonware is a product, typically software, ignored by its owner and manufacturer, and for which no official support is available".

So in other words: most old games

Yes a niche of a genre of old pc games, Something like diner dash or cake mania, Or uhhh idk 7 wonder-Wait that thing is on steam

Oh man, I remember playing Diner Dash through Wildtangent. That was a fun game.

Yes, We are talking like wild tangent games and crap, I have like a collection of em but gamehouse, But diner dash was one of those games, And it was pretty darn good, Fio my girl, She is underrated, But if there is one wild tangent/gamehouse that I love so much, For me, I gotta say, Alien sky.

What a fucking game, I loved it sooo much, Its like this bullet hell/shoot em up type of game thats like increasingly hard, And its bosses look bad ass as fuck
Theres also Atomaders which I also really loved

And also astrobatics that was kick ass

I like the 3 of them alot but I love alien sky the most, Not to mention I actually met the Ceo of the company that made the games, His name is vadim khrulev, And I was like trying to get him into the gaming industry, And the dude just stopped responding to me, But we had a fun conversation

Those look like cool games!
I still have Wildtangent downloaded on my PC but I don't go on it much. Two games I loved playing on it were Purrfect Petshop and Cat Wash, which were both time-management games about pets (I now realise how much I seemed to like time-management games lol).

This is Purrfect Petshop. You'd take care of pets and then figure out which pets the customers want with the hints they give you.

And this is Cat Wash. You just wash cats. And then you roll them up in a blanket and they look like burritos (I found that really funny as a kid for some reason).

These look cute and fun! Love how we had genres of time management, And like several genres of other games that wildtangent and gamehouse had, I used to own like a game too called varmintz, Where its basically racoon frogger, And another game called Lemonade tycoon which ad you maintain a lemonade stand with like an 8bit art style, And another game where you played as a duck who would attack beavers with watermelons that have words on them

Theres also a gambling game I know of, That like, Had a character creator, and I ended up making the farmer from shaun the sheep, And I made up a lore where he is like indebt and his about to lose his farm, So he has to like gambel to hell, I forgot the game's name but I would love to play it again, And make the farmer again

[DerangedKnite]

At 8/28/23 09:23 PM, GraywulfDaDolf wrote:Westwood RTS games are my go-to. I love me some Dune.

For me its shadow president

[Thetageist]

At 8/28/23 09:10 PM, MondoBilby wrote:Those look like cool games!
I still have Wildtangent downloaded on my PC but I don't go on it much. Two games I loved playing on it were Purrfect Petshop and Cat Wash, which were both time-management games about pets (I now realise how much I seemed to like time-management games lol).

This is Purrfect Petshop. You'd take care of pets and then figure out which pets the customers want with the hints they give you.

And this is Cat Wash. You just wash cats. And then you roll them up in a blanket and they look like burritos (I found that really funny as a kid for some reason).

Wildtangent sounds familiar to me, did they make any games that ever came by default with Windows machines?

[DerangedKnite]

At 8/29/23 11:25 AM, Thetageist wrote:

At 8/28/23 09:10 PM, MondoBilby wrote:Those look like cool games!
I still have Wildtangent downloaded on my PC but I don't go on it much. Two games I loved playing on it were Purrfect Petshop and Cat Wash, which were both time-management games about pets (I now realise how much I seemed to like time-management games lol).

This is Purrfect Petshop. You'd take care of pets and then figure out which pets the customers want with the hints they give you.

And this is Cat Wash. You just wash cats. And then you roll them up in a blanket and they look like burritos (I found that really funny as a kid for some reason).

Wildtangent sounds familiar to me, did they make any games that ever came by default with Windows machines?

Remember waaay back, My sister got her laptop, Since I had my pc (Believe me it was one of my happiest days out there since I finally had the pc being all mine) And basically a bunch of wild tangent games came prepacked with her laptop, So yeah I think so, But actual default windows games? Nope not really different company.

[Thetageist]

At 8/29/23 11:38 AM, DerangedKnite wrote:

At 8/29/23 11:25 AM, Thetageist wrote:

At 8/28/23 09:10 PM, MondoBilby wrote:Those look like cool games!
I still have Wildtangent downloaded on my PC but I don't go on it much. Two games I loved playing on it were Purrfect Petshop and Cat Wash, which were both time-management games about pets (I now realise how much I seemed to like time-management games lol).

This is Purrfect Petshop. You'd take care of pets and then figure out which pets the customers want with the hints they give you.

And this is Cat Wash. You just wash cats. And then you roll them up in a blanket and they look like burritos (I found that really funny as a kid for some reason).

Wildtangent sounds familiar to me, did they make any games that ever came by default with Windows machines?

Remember waaay back, My sister got her laptop, Since I had my pc (Believe me it was one of my happiest days out there since I finally had the pc being all mine) And basically a bunch of wild tangent games came prepacked with her laptop, So yeah I think so, But actual default windows games? Nope not really different company.

So I am remembering right! I wonder which ones I'm thinking of.

[DerangedKnite]

At 8/29/23 11:44 AM, Thetageist wrote:

At 8/29/23 11:38 AM, DerangedKnite wrote:

At 8/29/23 11:25 AM, Thetageist wrote:

At 8/28/23 09:10 PM, MondoBilby wrote:Those look like cool games!
I still have Wildtangent downloaded on my PC but I don't go on it much. Two games I loved playing on it were Purrfect Petshop and Cat Wash, which were both time-management games about pets (I now realise how much I seemed to like time-management games lol).

This is Purrfect Petshop. You'd take care of pets and then figure out which pets the customers want with the hints they give you.

And this is Cat Wash. You just wash cats. And then you roll them up in a blanket and they look like burritos (I found that really funny as a kid for some reason).

Wildtangent sounds familiar to me, did they make any games that ever came by default with Windows machines?

Remember waaay back, My sister got her laptop, Since I had my pc (Believe me it was one of my happiest days out there since I finally had the pc being all mine) And basically a bunch of wild tangent games came prepacked with her laptop, So yeah I think so, But actual default windows games? Nope not really different company.

So I am remembering right! I wonder which ones I'm thinking of.

Can be any really, Wildtangent had so much (Well not much much) games partnered with it, Its insane, I just learned the guys wildtangent do streams too of them playing games like borderland 2 and castlevania for some reason, Don't know what wildtangent is really up to these days

[Notakin]

At 8/27/23 08:21 AM, DerangedKnite wrote:https://www.myabandonware.com/game/happy-tree-friends-false-alarm-f8m
Woop woop look what I found

that game was abandonware?

[DerangedKnite]

At 8/29/23 11:42 PM, Notakin wrote:

At 8/27/23 08:21 AM, DerangedKnite wrote:https://www.myabandonware.com/game/happy-tree-friends-false-alarm-f8m
Woop woop look what I found

that game was abandonware?

Now it is, There is no where else to get it

[Notakin]

At 8/29/23 11:47 PM, DerangedKnite wrote:

At 8/29/23 11:42 PM, Notakin wrote:

At 8/27/23 08:21 AM, DerangedKnite wrote:https://www.myabandonware.com/game/happy-tree-friends-false-alarm-f8m
Woop woop look what I found

that game was abandonware?

Now it is, There is no where else to get it

dang so no legal way to play it anymore.

[DerangedKnite]

At 8/29/23 11:50 PM, Notakin wrote:

At 8/29/23 11:47 PM, DerangedKnite wrote:

At 8/29/23 11:42 PM, Notakin wrote:

At 8/27/23 08:21 AM, DerangedKnite wrote:https://www.myabandonware.com/game/happy-tree-friends-false-alarm-f8m
Woop woop look what I found

that game was abandonware?

Now it is, There is no where else to get it

dang so no legal way to play it anymore.

Hey hey now! Anything can be legal! in the digital world of course!

[Jojo]

[tydaze]

At 8/28/23 07:48 AM, aapiarts wrote:

At 8/28/23 07:27 AM, MondoBilby wrote:

At 8/28/23 04:31 AM, aapiarts wrote:What was abandonware again?

According to Wikipedia:
"Abandonware is a product, typically software, ignored by its owner and manufacturer, and for which no official support is available".

So in other words: most old games

Mostly, but including the stipulation that for a game to be abandonware, it must not have any re-releases available on current platforms (including Steam, Epic, GOG etc); in other words, there is no longer any possible way to legitimately purchase it from its copyright holder. It's also pretty much only applied to PC games; console games are generally not considered to be abandonware.

[DerangedKnite]

I already have megaman x4 as a iso for my psx emulator, But theres like a standalone pc port of megaman x4, The problem is that it comes with no video nor music, So you have to use fan patches for that. Pretty bizzare, Most psx to pc ports deal with the no audio issues and no cutscenes too, Simpsons hit and run pc port is another example of this

[LucyDucy]

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/amsterdoom-dhw

i love a goofy styled fps game

https://www.moddb.com/mods/amsterdoom-english-translated-from-dutch/downloads/amsterdoom-english-files

its not in english so use a patch

[DerangedKnite]

At 9/6/23 04:33 PM, LucyDucy wrote:https://www.myabandonware.com/game/amsterdoom-dhw
i love a goofy styled fps game
https://www.moddb.com/mods/amsterdoom-english-translated-from-dutch/downloads/amsterdoom-english-files
its not in english so use a patch

The game looks pretty nice! Going to install it on my VM