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I remember a torrent site for old games. You had tremendous community efforts documenting and cataloging games. Gathering every thing from the different release
by Vaskivo 8y ago
I remember a torrent site for old games.
You had tremendous community efforts documenting and cataloging games. Gathering every thing from the different releases, patches, music, art, etc.
It was a gaming historian's wet dream. They were even beginning to record the releases from different warez scene groups.
But everything went away because, form what I gathered, someone in EA noticed you could download FIFA 96 for the Mega Drive/Genesis.
Unfortunately, I don't remember the name of the site. RIP
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- orbital-decay 8y agoIt was Underground Gamer. The quality of the collection was astonishing, many games were impossible to get or purchase anywhere else due to abandonment. And everything just disappeared overnight. People still have all this on their drives. I'm sure the community can be revived someday.
- Vaskivo 8y agoIt WAS! Thank you. I sure hope the community can be revived. There's a lot more bandwidth and cheap storage today than 10 years ago. I'd love to be able to contribute and share to it.
- vanderZwan 8y ago> People still have all this on their drives. I'm sure the community can be revived someday. I so dearly hope this is true for other sites like What.CD
- tapoxi 8y agoI imagine EA doesn't care about sales of FIFA 96, but they sure as shit worry about losing their FIFA license.
- Vaskivo 8y agoPlaying devil's advocate, I think some lawyer got nervous about the licensed stuff in those games. The FIFA games usually have licenses to use the teams and player names. and lots of licensed music.
- vanderZwan 8y agoIANAL so I'm genuinely asking: isn't that the responsibility of the licensed teams/player names/musicians and not of EA?
- billfruit 8y agoPerhaps it was "Home of the Underdogs", http://homeoftheunderdogs.net http://homeoftheunderdogs.net