Abandonware? points of views.

A couple of days ago I stumbled up on a very interesting article written some years ago about abandonware phenomenon. I know it's a bit annoying speaking about this topic because we did so many times in the past. I tried to recover some old discussions we had when Squakenet had a forum, and instead I found this Gamespot article by Marc Saltzman:

http://www.gamespot.com/gamespot/features/pc/abandonware/p2_04.html

I am posting just the page I would like to comment that does contain some interesting points of view of the persons that most should give opinions about abandonware: the game creators. Well, I do post that link also because unfortunately the whole document has some broken link from the first page.

Ten years of Squakenet

2011 just came, we are still drunk from the parties. First of all, happy new year to everybody. Today is another day off (thanks God!) and I am just realizing that this year we are going to celebrate 10 years of Squakenet! Time passed so fast indeed and our little portal survived along all these years. I would never imagine all this time spent togheter when first discover the word "abandonware".

I leave you having a look at Squakenet history, I published that memory some months ago, remembering the different steps we've followed in the last years. The first day the site went on as squakenet.com was November 1st 2001 and thanks to the great support all the game lovers (you guys!!) gave us since that first day we're still here.

Xmas Special

Quick blog to wish everybody good Christmas holidays. We selected a list of games you can play during these cold (or warm, for our austral emisphere friends) holidays.

• Special Christmas Lemmings 1992
• Jetpack Christmas Edition ('93)
  
• Skyroad Christmas Edition ('94)
• Jazz Jackrabbit Christmas Edition ('94)

Then, as a little gift we forward you the promotion GOG is offering. Enter here to find out sales games at Gog.

We wish you all the best for this Christmas.

Squakenet Team.

No happy ending

I am back to my house for Christmas holidays. Moving back and forth for Europe during this period is not so nice, but fortunately I had no problem with flight. Then, back home I was speaking to my brother about the blog started here at Squakenet, and we did end up with nice old memories.

In particular we've been discussing about those videogames that we played togheter, where we spent plenty of consecutive hours to see how it finish, and then, remaining like a dumb in front of it.

I remind the first one was one we used to play to Commodore 64, it's name was Dribbling. It was a soccer simulation of italian Serie A, with teams and player of first 90s. Quite nice play, same style as Kick Off 2. At the end of each game (around 15 minutes) there was the newspaper with the result:

Videogames and movies

It passed a couple of weeks since the last time I wrote a blog. Holiday time came also for me and a week of full relax forgetting about everything but food, alcohol and sun was deserved (it really was!). "Las playas mejicanas" help a lot in this purpose during this period of the year.

The only drawback is the long fly time, so, nothing else than watching all the movies that went on the screen. At that moment I took the idea of this post, because it went on Prince of Persia: the Sands of Time.