Site Remembers Forgotten Games For You, Wholesale

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.

Comments

Need Some Traffic

[elijahao]

The top game guesser has 25 points when you get 10 for a correct game guess, so I'd say they need a ton more people visiting the site with that nostalgic feeling. Sounds like a cool idea, but I suppose this story didn't get posted to the front page.

Get out there and help them solve their unknown games all you who lurk in the gamers hall of memories :)

another great site for oldies

[Dreadlord]

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 ;)

Email Policy

[ghostis]

The FAQ doesn't say anything about what happens to your email address. He sounds like a good chap the wouldn't take advantage of the tons of addresses he's gonna get, but it would reassure me if he put a few lines in his FAQ about email address privacy.

-ghostis

Re:Email Policy

[Gazunta]

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!

Also known as

[dirtmerchant]

Google

Slashdotting

[MadocGwyn]

I find it funny half the posts are wondering if it'll go down, or if its down yet. Some poor new service comes around and everyone sits on the main page hitting 'refresh' screaming "WHY WON'T IT DIE" as the poor victums bandwidth costs go threw the roof.

More on topic, kickass site, I actually came upon it doing a search on /. for enders game looking for a particular story, ended up posting something about an obscure sega game i've been searching for for years.

Kinda off topic but /. should really start posting the google caches of links in the stories or something to take the edge off.

Re:Slashdotting

[ConceptJunkie]

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.

Nice Philip K Dick reference

[quantax]

That has to be one of the only clever Philip K Dick references I've seen in a while...

is Pacman an obscure game?

[Baikala]

Does really someone ask about Pacman not knowing it's name?

And to run it...

[Rayonic]

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