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Site Remembers Forgotten Games For You, Wholesale

Posted by simoniker on from the help-the-aged dept.

Anonymous Howard writes "Just found a new webpage called WhatWasThatGame.com - it has the potential to be very, very useful for everyone who wants to play a game from the past, but can't find it until they can remember its name. Basically, you tell the site what you remember about the game, and then readers tell you what the game was! I've been using it for a few days and it hasn't let me down yet, no matter what obscure game I've thrown at it." The site's still early in development, but help them out on their unsolved games if you can.

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  1. another great site for oldies by Dreadlord · · Score: 5, Informative

    after using that site to remember your game's name, you can visit The Underdogs, it has lots of info on old games, including downloads, reviews, and copyright info (free, shareware, ...).
    What I like the most about it is the random pick feature, I found several nice games that I never heard about before, use it when you need a time waster ;)

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  2. Re:Email Policy by Gazunta · · Score: 5, Informative

    hey guys, Gazunta here - I'm the guy that runs whatwasthatgame.com - thanks to Anonymous Howard for posting it! (as long as we don't get sent down in flames over the next 24 hours, heheh...but the server SHOULD withstand it...) Anyway, just a note about email addys - they are completely, totally 100% safe. I don't sell them. I don't even store them. I don't even use an address book so I can't send you any stupid virii. The only use for the email address is so I can let you know when your game has been found. Once that's sent the email addys are destroyed locally - and only recalled if you win the month's freebie. But it's a good point to add to the FAQ, and i'll do it asap! Thanks for the advice!

  3. Re:Slashdotting by ConceptJunkie · · Score: 2, Informative

    Were you the guy asking about "Starflight" by any chance?

    If so, I found a copy of Starflight for the Genesis a few months ago at Funcoland. That would be a good place to look for it. Of course, the PC version is better because you have a keyboard, and you can find that at The Underdogs.

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  4. And to run it... by Rayonic · · Score: 2, Informative

    And to run that PC version of Starflight, don't forget about DOSbox

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