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Originally Posted by Siri
Decent 2: I read the Wikipedia navigation section for the original Decent. Interesting. (Ambiguous and a little worrisome, but interesting.) Care to give me a hint, or do I need to go track down a game first released in '96?  |
And that statement makes me feel old. Really old. I'm using Dosbox to run a ton of games from that era and older (MOO, MOOII, Descent, Descent II, Lost Vikings, to name a few...) on my laptop. Mostly I only play them when traveling (it's a nice way to kill a few hours on an airplane!)... but it's sad to know that i don't have to "track down"
any classic computer game - just go pull it off the top shelf where I've archived it all...
That being said, if you're going to try tracking it down in order to experience it... be careful. There are a ton of sites out there that allow free downloads of games from that era, classifying them as "abandonware", making you think it's ok... but for a vast majority of those titles, someone still holds the copyright and downloading it from those sites is copyright infringement, just like downloading music or movies illegally. The game is only abandoned in the sense that the company doesn't support it anymore.